Yes, this is a terrible console in Criminal, Hermes has blown it out of the water, especially with Criminal having a lot of HQ pressure, however I believe this is actually phenomenal console to work with SebastiĆ£o Souza Pessoa: Activist Organizer, and some of his lackeys. Let's put it this way, you hit threat 3, draw an Archives mark, run it with Eru Ayase-Pessoa, so at the end you tag a take and breach R&D. However, the successful run is still on the mark, so you'll see two in R&D, so far so good. However, when Manuel Lattes de Moura pokes his head out it gets very interesting. Manuel says that wonderful word; 'whenever'. So, you run Archives, breach R&D whilst tagged, see 2 cards in R&D with Eru, plus a third thanks to Manuel, THEN Virtuoso comes in and lets you into HQ, and because Manuel is whenever, you're seeing 2 cards in HQ. 5 cards for one archive run? Sounds pretty good to me. Just a shame that it's 4 influence.

Now I want to try it!

Criminal with Dj Fenris can make this combo work I think.

Yes I reckon that's another good way of making it work - I just can't see why Criminal wouldn't use Hermes at the moment, and let's face it, Amanuensis is not a good console in the current meta.