Alternative data for investments
with Hermes Agent.
Drop Alternative Data into Hermes Agent as a single skill. Your research flows can pull satellite and geospatial signals, anonymized card-spend trends, web-traffic and app-engagement data, and news and social sentiment — cleaned, normalized, and point-in-time — for any ticker or issuer, on demand. Per-flow spending limits respected. Charged per pull, no full feed required.
Real Hermes research flows that rely on this skill.
Each pattern below is a Hermes Agent flow with Alternative Data registered as one skill. The flow only charges when it pulls data.
Run a new signal through your backtest framework without a feed contract.
A Hermes research flow pulls the history for a target signal type and sector, pipes the result into your backtesting framework, and returns evaluation metrics — all in a single automated run. If the signal passes, you have the evidence to justify a full feed license. If it doesn't, the evaluation cost was the pull cost, nothing more.
Pull signal history for names outside your existing subscriptions.
A Hermes research flow handles ad-hoc coverage requests — a new name under consideration, a client holding outside your main universe, an emerging-market issuer your current feeds don't cover — by pulling the relevant signal history on demand and returning it in the same format as your main data.
Give discretionary analysts the current alternative-data read on any name.
A Hermes analyst-support flow takes a ticker from a request — ahead of earnings, after a news event, or during a portfolio review — pulls the latest available card-spend trend, web-traffic reading, and sentiment score, and returns a formatted summary. Analysts get the alternative-data view without a quant team intermediary.
Validate a new data source systematically before any contract.
A Hermes evaluation flow requests a representative sample from the signal type under review, measures coverage, fill rate, and predictive power against your internal benchmarks, and produces a vendor scorecard — all before any license negotiation begins. Each evaluation run charges only for the data pulled.
The signal, inside every Hermes flow.
Add one skill and your Hermes Agent research flows can pull any alternative data signal on demand. Flows that don't pull any data cost nothing. That's the entire deal.
- Single Hermes skill
- Spending limits honored
Hermes Agent specific questions.
If something below doesn't cover your case, ping us — we work directly with Hermes Agent builders, no sales process.
How does this work inside Hermes Agent?
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Alternative Data is registered as a single skill in your Hermes Agent setup. When a research flow needs a signal, it requests it by ticker, signal type, and date range, and gets back a clean, normalized data record. Hermes uses the per-pull price to enforce spending limits for each flow run.
Can a Hermes flow pull data for a full sector or portfolio in one run?
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Yes. A Hermes flow can iterate over a list of tickers, pull the relevant signal for each, accumulate the results, and pass the complete dataset to a downstream step — a backtest framework, a report generator, a scoring model — all within a single flow run and a single spending limit.
What happens if a Hermes flow reaches its spending limit mid-pull?
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The service returns data for tickers completed so far and stops. Hermes treats this as a normal skill result, so the flow can decide whether to request a higher spending limit, process the partial dataset, or continue in a follow-up run.
Can a Hermes flow request data in real time — for a live analyst query — rather than in a scheduled batch?
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Yes. The skill responds in under a second for point-in-time data requests, so a Hermes flow triggered by an analyst question, a news event, or a portfolio alert can return a signal read in real time.
Does Hermes need a long-term data subscription to use this skill?
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No. The skill charges per data pull with no standing subscription. Research flows that aren't actively pulling data cost nothing.
How is this different from connecting Hermes to a full alternative data feed?
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A full feed charges a fixed annual fee for access to the whole universe, whether your flows pull one ticker or ten thousand. This skill charges only for what your flows actually request. For research, evaluation, and coverage-extension work, that means spending tracks use — not access.