1Map your week
Time-Back Audit
£195once, for the first 5 owners. Then £495.
We map one normal week against the hours you want to work. You get a plan: your jobs, ranked by the hours they free up.
See a sample plan (opens in a new tab)Start your Monday with a two-minute summary: what happened, what’s handled, and the one thing that needs you. Your daily tasks go to AI agents and a small remote team.
It starts with the Time-Back Audit: log one normal week, and we plan your way to the hours you want. Run it yourself, or we do it for you.
£195 for the first 5 ownersUnder 2 hours of your time4 hours a week found, or your money back
My own business used to take 50+ hours of my week. Now it usually takes under 10. See how52 hrs now to 21 hrs once it’s all handed off
What changes
If the “now” side looks familiar, your business has outgrown the way it’s run.
Your team waits on you, because only you know how things work.
Each process is written down once. Your team looks it up instead of asking you.
You check your phone by the pool, every day of your holiday.
A two-minute summary tells you if anything needs you. Usually, nothing does.
Your best morning hours go on emails, admin and checking the numbers.
Now your mornings go on new products, key partners and the big calls.
And a business that’s worth more, because it doesn’t fall apart when you step away.
What we do · People + AI
1Map your week
£195once, for the first 5 owners. Then £495.
We map one normal week against the hours you want to work. You get a plan: your jobs, ranked by the hours they free up.
See a sample plan (opens in a new tab)2Free your time
£1,500a month. £1,000 your first month if you join within 30 days of your plan.We take on 4 members at a time.
We take the jobs on your plan off your plate, one at a time. AI agents do the repeat work. An assistant we train and manage does what needs a person. Every Friday you see the hours you got back.
3Protect your time
£500a month after that.
Once you hit your target, your bill drops and we keep it all working. A free check of your hours every 3 months catches any creep early.
You pay these directly, at cost: software, about £50 to £100 a month, and an assistant if a job needs one, about £500 to £650 a month for 80 hours.
Stop after any step. No minimum term: cancel with 30 days’ notice and keep everything we built. Bookkeeping isn’t included. Prices in pounds, no VAT.
Start here
One normal week, mapped. Then a plan for what to hand off first.
Guarantee. If your plan finds less than 4 hours a week to hand off, email us within 30 days of getting it and we’ll refund you in full. You keep the plan.
Founding price · first 5 owners
£495 after
* For the first five owners, in return for honest feedback we can share.
What 4 hours a week adds up to
Your time at £100/hr£400 a week
Over a month16 hours
Over a year192 hours24 working days
Set up once, saved every week. The audit is a one-off fee.
Nothing to pay yet. We’ll confirm it’s a fit first.
How we use your details: privacy notice.
Not ready? Send me the one job that eats your week. I’ll reply with how I’d hand it off, free.
How it works
First we cut the jobs that don’t need doing. Everything else goes into one of four piles.
The few things only you should do. Now you’ll have time for them.
Written down once as an SOP (standard operating procedure): a short checklist anyone can follow.
Software and AI agents handle it, and flag you only when something needs a decision.
A trained remote team member owns it, working from the SOP. It stops landing back on you.
We fix a job before we hand it off. Automate a messy job and you get the same mess, faster.
Why not just hire an assistant or buy an AI tool?
A tool on its own isn’t a system. Each job gets a trigger, rules, limits and someone in charge: a person, or an AI agent with a person checking it.
Case study · My own business
In 2017 I started a design and licensing business. It grew to six figures a year. The catch: it ran on me. Every launch, every question, every number. At its peak I worked 50+ hours a week, including weekends.
I was the bottleneck.
So I rebuilt it to run without me.
It took me years: writing the systems, automating the busywork, training the right people. You get the shortcut.
Morning. Here’s last week.
What happened
Sales up 8% on the week. 214 orders shipped, 3 late.
What’s handled
41 customer emails answered: AI drafts, checked by Sam. 2 refunds approved by Sam. 6 over-budget campaigns flagged to the ads manager.
Needs you
Approve the new supplier quote. About 2 minutes.
Trimmed bids on the 6. Full report on Friday.
Modelled on the summary my own business runs on. It replaced 2 hours of spreadsheet work every Monday. Numbers are illustrative.
Today it usually takes under 10 hours of my week.
I’ve also prepared a business for sale. One of the first things a buyer checks is how much it depends on the owner. The less it needs you, the more they’ll pay. That’s why every job we take on goes into a one-page map of who runs what, kept with your SOPs.
I’m Colin, a business owner in the UK.
I review each audit myself and sign off every job. You deal with me directly.
Examples · People + AI
UK small business owners spend about 11 hours a week on admin and finance.1 Here’s what that work looks like once it’s handed off. An AI agent does the legwork, an assistant checks it, and anything that moves money waits for your yes.
CustomersSaves time
NowYou look up the order, copy the tracking link and paste it back. All week.
Ops Agent APP
11 order questions answered today. One parcel hasn’t moved from the depot in 5 days. Send Jo a new one?
SalesBrings in sales
NowA shop asks to stock you. The email sits for days while you’re busy.
Ops Agent APP
Gift shop, two branches, stocks brands like yours. Price list sent at 10:14. Book a call for Thursday?
MoneyWins money back
NowA customer’s bank takes the money back. The proof is in five places and the clock is running.
Ops Agent APP
Dispute on order #2210, £89. Evidence ready: proof of delivery, tracking and 2 emails. Due in 6 days. Fight it?
Also common: returns and refunds, low stock and reorders, chasing suppliers, ad spend checks, review replies, and the apps you pay for but don’t use.
The messages are examples. You set the limits: what your assistant can approve, and what always comes to you.
1. American Express SME Business Barometer, 1,000 UK business owners, July 2026.
Questions
It’s for ecommerce and small business owners turning over about £300k to £2m, who work 40+ hours a week in the business and want that number to drop. It’s not for you if you haven’t launched yet, or if you want someone to run your marketing.
The audit takes under 2 hours of your time: about 3 minutes a day in your log week, your Sunday screenshots and two 30-minute calls. On the membership, you read a short update each week. When we take on a new job, you check the work for the first couple of weeks, then spot check, then just read the summary.
One repeat task from your plan, set up, tested and taken off your plate with its SOP. Customer emails are one job. The weekly sales report is another. Big ones are split up, so the price never changes. Hiring your assistant counts as one. We do one job at a time, so your hours come back in steps. Want it faster? Add a second slot (£1,000 a month more) and we work on two at once.
So there’s no markup and it all stays yours. Your assistant works for you, about £500 to £650 a month for 80 hours, and we find, train and manage them. If they’re in the Philippines, a year-end bonus of about a month’s pay is customary. Software sits in your name, usually £50 to £100 a month. Your plan lists every cost before you spend a penny.
The month after a fresh log shows you’ve hit your target. You don’t have to ask. On Protect we keep your SOPs and your who-runs-what map current, fix your agents when a tool changes and manage your assistant. Every 3 months you log a fresh week, free, and we check it against your target. If hours creep back, go back to full pace (£1,500) for a month.
Usually because the job only lived in your head, and nobody fixed it first. We watch how it’s done now, cut the steps that don’t matter and write down what’s left: a flowchart, a short video and screenshots. Then we test it on your last 20 real ones (emails, orders, listings) before an assistant or agent takes over.
Most owners do. The tools do the work, then you spend the hours checking them and passing things between them. We give each job rules, limits and someone in charge, so it runs without you watching.
The audit needs no logins. On the membership your accounts stay in your name and you add us as users, so you can remove us in a minute. AI tools run on business plans whose terms say they don’t train on your data by default. A person approves anything that sends, refunds, pays or deletes. Members sign a data processing agreement before anything is connected.
Log one normal week. We’ll show you which hours you can take back, or refund you if it’s less than 4 a week.
Not ready? Send me the one job that eats your week. I’ll reply with how I’d hand it off, free.
£195 for the first 5 ownersUnder 2 hours of your time4 hours a week found, or your money back