Lost hours are lost money

Buy your time back.

Every week, your team spends hours on work that should take minutes. We find where that time goes and give it back to you — as hours, and as cash.

Thirty minutes. No cost. No obligation.

An ordinary week Illustrative
An illustrative week of hours lost to manual work
DayTaskTime lost
MonWeekly report, compiled by hand3h 00
TueThe same figures, typed into the CRM1h 30
WedChasing three overdue replies1h 45
Thu“Where is that file?”1h 15
FriAnswering the same question, again0h 45
Lost this week8h 15
One person. Now multiply by your team and a working year. Do the sum

Sound familiar?

The work that quietly eats the week.

  • Your weekly report takes a full day.

    Someone gathers figures from five places, pastes them together and checks them twice. Every week.

  • The same data is typed in three times.

    Into the spreadsheet, the CRM and the invoice. Each copy is another chance for a mistake.

  • Follow-ups live in someone’s memory.

    Requests slip, clients wait, and people spend the day chasing people.

  • Your best people answer the same questions all day.

    Where is the file? What is the policy? The answers exist. Finding them takes the time.

None of this is hard work. It is slow work. And slow work has a price.

The Time Cost Calculator

What is lost time costing you?

Four inputs. One clear number. Nothing you enter leaves this page.

5.5 hours

Not sure? Tick what applies below and we’ll add a typical estimate. Adjust any of them.

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Salary plus overheads, divided by hours worked. A rough figure is fine.

Every year, your business loses

Money
$75,900
Hours
2,530
Full-time people
1.4

That’s a full-time hire you are already paying for, spent on work that could run itself.

If we recover even half of this, that is $37,950 back to you every year.

Get your free Time Audit

This is an estimate based on your inputs. It assumes 46 working weeks a year and a 40‑hour week.

What we do

We start with your problem. The technology comes later.

We don’t ask where you could use AI. We ask what is taking too much of your time, and how to make it easier.

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The problem
Reports compiled by hand. Data retyped between apps. Reminders sent one by one.
The outcome
The routine runs on its own, on time, without the mistakes of tired hands. Your team does the work only people can do.
How
Business process automation, connecting the tools you already use.

From “it could be better” to a clear plan.

The problem
You can feel the business running slower than it should, but not where to start.
The outcome
A map of where time is lost, what to fix first, and what each fix gives back. Then help putting it in place.
How
Process review and an AI and automation roadmap. Technology only where it earns its place.

From workarounds to a tool that fits.

The problem
Off-the-shelf software forces your team into spreadsheets and workarounds held together by habit.
The outcome
One tool shaped around how you actually work: tracking, reporting, documents, answers. Yours to keep.
How
Custom systems and AI-powered business tools, built for your workflow.

How it works

Five steps. The last one is the point.

  1. A free Time Audit

    A 30-minute conversation. We find where your time, and your money, are leaking.

  2. A tailored package

    We come back with a plan built for your case, and one clear price.

  3. Build and test

    Once we agree, we build it and test it on your real work, not a demo.

  4. Handover and training

    Documentation and training, so your team owns it. You won’t need us for every small change.

  5. Your hours, back

    The time returns to your week. And time returned is cash back.

Packages

Three ways to buy your time back.

No two businesses lose time the same way, so we don’t publish prices. Every package is shaped and priced after your free audit.

Quick Win

One painful task, automated.

Best when one task everyone dreads is clearly costing you hours.

Time Partner

Audit, roadmap and phased implementation.

Best when you want time returned across the business, one step at a time.

How pricing works

  1. Free Time Audit. Thirty minutes, no cost, no obligation.
  2. A tailored quote. One clear price, in writing, before any work begins.
  3. You decide. If the hours you get back aren’t worth more than the price, we’ll tell you.

For individuals

Be the smartest one in the room.

For professionals who want to work faster than everyone around them. We set up a personal AI toolkit around your real work, then coach you until it is second nature.

Ask about a personal setup

Principles

Work smart, not hard.

We respect hard work. We don’t think longer hours should be the answer to every problem.

  • Time is money.

    Every needless hour has a cost, even when nobody sends an invoice for it.

  • Practical over clever.

    The best solution is the one that works, not the most advanced one.

  • People first.

    Technology should make your team’s day easier, never more complicated.

  • You own it.

    We build what you can understand and run yourself. No lock-in.

  • Results over hype.

    We measure success in hours returned, not in tools used.

  • Fewer steps.

    Sometimes the fix is removing a step, not adding a system.

Sample builds

The kind of work we do.

Hourback is a new firm. Rather than borrow other people’s results, here are examples of what we build. Each one is illustrative: a typical situation, not a client case.

Multi-branch reporting

Illustrative
Before
Each branch emails a spreadsheet. Someone at head office merges them by hand: most of a working day, every week.
After
Figures are collected automatically and the combined report is ready on Monday morning: a 20-minute review.

Request and follow-up tracker

Illustrative
Before
Requests arrive by email, phone and chat. Follow-ups depend on memory: a few hours a week, per person, spent chasing status.
After
Every request lands in one place with an owner and a due date. Reminders go out on their own: a glance at one screen.

Internal knowledge assistant

Illustrative
Before
New staff ask senior colleagues the same questions several times a day: an hour or more of interruptions, daily.
After
An assistant answers from your own policies and documents, with a link to the source: seconds, without interrupting anyone.

The free Time Audit

Start with thirty minutes.

We’ll look at how your week really runs and show you where the hours go. You leave with a clear picture, whether or not you work with us.

If we can’t give you time back, we’ll say so.

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