HoursBack and TKM Consultants: a growth partnership

HoursBack and TKM Consultants have formed a strategic partnership designed to help ambitious businesses unlock growth, improve operational effectiveness and embrace AI with greater confidence. The partnership brings strategic growth advisory and practical AI implementation for founder-led businesses, leadership teams and businesses pursuing their next phase of growth.

Here is what it means and how it works.

Many of the most valuable conversations we have with founders and leadership teams start in a similar way. The business is performing well, growth opportunities are visible, but there is a growing sense that existing ways of working are becoming a constraint. Increasingly, AI sits at the centre of these discussions. Over the past year, TKM Consultants and HoursBack have collaborated informally across a number of these conversations. We have found that our respective expertise is highly complementary. TKM helps organisations define where they want to go, the growth opportunities they should pursue and the capabilities required to get there. HoursBack helps identify where time, capacity and operational efficiency can be unlocked through the intelligent application of AI. Forming a strategic partnership was a natural next step.

What each firm brings

TKM Consultants is a UK growth advisory firm. Anil works with founder-led businesses, professional services firms, and scale-up teams on strategy, positioning, and growth - bringing senior strategic judgment to the specific challenge in front of a business, not a generic methodology.

HoursBack is an AI Workflow Assessment service. David works with the same kinds of businesses on a different layer: mapping exactly where the owner's time is going, identifying where AI can reclaim it, and delivering a personalised report with a 5-day implementation plan in plain English within 48 hours.

The two firms serve the same audience - businesses at growth stage - but address different parts of the same challenge. TKM identifies the growth opportunity. HoursBack creates the time and capacity to get there.

What this looks like in practice

The starting point for most businesses is a HoursBack Assessment: a 60-minute session, a personalised report within 48 hours, and a 5-day plan written in plain English. £799.

For businesses where the AI question sits inside a larger growth programme, Anil joins the process directly: a pre-assessment briefing, a strategic context section in the report, and attendance at the report walkthrough. That is a different report to what either firm produces alone.

Not a generic readiness score. Not a list of tools to subscribe to. A specific diagnosis of your business, tailored to the needs of your business, providing clear priorities and actionable recommendations.

If you want a quick sense of where your business stands on AI readiness before committing to anything, the free AI Readiness Quiz takes two minutes.

The full HoursBack Assessment is at hoursback.co.uk/assessment.

HoursBack is an AI Workflow Assessment service for UK small businesses. TKM Consultants is a growth advisory firm working with founder-led businesses and professional services firms across the UK.