Reclaimed Hours, jointly delivered.
Your clients are asking about AI.
We deliver the answer.
You keep the relationship and earn 20-30% of the fee.
If it does not fit, we will tell you in the first 10 minutes.
Reclaimed Hours, jointly delivered.
Your clients are asking about AI.
We deliver the answer.
You keep the relationship and earn 20-30% of the fee.
If it does not fit, we will tell you in the first 10 minutes.
The opportunity you’re looking at
Your clients are asking about AI. Most of them have tried a tool or two, felt vaguely impressed, and then gone back to their old workflows. The honest reason is not that they are too busy or too sceptical. It is that nobody has sat down with them, looked at their actual day, and told them plainly which three things are worth doing and in what order.
The result is familiar: mornings still eaten by email, afternoons lost to admin that could be automated, evenings catching up on the work that was meant to happen during the day. The tools that could fix this exist and most of them are cheap. The gap is diagnosis, not technology.
That is the conversation they are not having - and the one you are already positioned to open.
Aaron Leary
Founder & CEO, Bedrock Learning
What clients say
Read Aaron’s story →Splendidly finished. The Account Management Team have had their minds blown. 197 reports done in 60 seconds - would have taken us 10 weeks manually. Genuine game changer.
What HoursBack actually is
A structured AI workflow assessment for UK service businesses. Plain English. Fixed price. Delivered within two working days of the diagnostic call.
- 1.Your client completes a short pre-session questionnaire (5 minutes).
- 2.We run a 60-minute live diagnostic call - we learn how their business runs, where the time goes, and what is holding them back.
- 3.Within two working days of the call, they receive a passcode-protected digital report: custom AI agent opportunities, automation recipes, prompt library, impact-vs-effort matrix, tool recommendations with costs, and a 5-day implementation plan.
- 4.A 6-8 minute video walkthrough talks them through the priorities.
- 5.We check in at day 7 and day 30 to track implementation.
HoursBack Assessment
Solo operator or founder-led team.
HoursBack Team Diagnostic
Adds a second interviewee, cross-referenced findings, live walkthrough call, and 30-day check-in call.
Implementation Kickstart
Post-assessment add-on. 90-minute click-along on the quick wins and 5-day plan items from the client's report (Cal.com setup, ChatGPT email templates, meeting transcription, prompt libraries). Not a standalone product. Not a custom agent build.
The report either shows the time or your client doesn’t pay.
Our reports surface real time, on real workflows, in a real business. If a client’s report doesn’t show at least 5 hours a week worth reclaiming, the fee comes straight back.
We’ve never had to issue a refund.
During the co-branded proving-ground phase the guarantee is ours to carry - we are backing the work, not you.
How partnerships work
Three modes. You choose the one that fits how you work with your clients.
One short message connecting your client to HoursBack. No further time from you.
Full delivery: call, report, follow-up.
Credited as the referring partner in the report personal note.
Client intro, brief context-setting, available for questions.
Full delivery: call, report, follow-up.
Your logo on the report cover and in the email sequence.
Join the diagnostic and the walkthrough; contribute your strategic lens to the report brief.
AI analysis, written report, video walkthrough, follow-up.
Your logo on the report. Joint delivery credit in the personal note and client email.
Co-delivery is a repriced engagement - the standard price plus £700 - and your 30% applies to that figure. On a Team Diagnostic you join the owner's interview and the walkthrough; each team member keeps their own one-to-one.
Bespoke arrangements are available - raise this on the discovery call.
Revenue share applies to all products bought by clients you introduce - Assessment, Team Diagnostic, and Implementation Kickstart. These percentages are fixed. They do not reduce as volume grows. Warm intro and co-branded referrals run at the standard price. Co-delivery is a different engagement and is priced accordingly - the standard price plus £700 - with your 30% applying to that higher figure. Custom AI Agent Build pays a flat £250 Builder’s Bonus per build, regardless of partner tier.
Brand risk - addressed up front. Every report passes an 11-point QA checklist before it is delivered. If anything would not stand up in front of your client, it does not leave us. You can see the anonymised sample on the discovery call before introducing a single client.
White-label - how it works. White-label is the earned top of a ladder, not something we offer from the start. Most partners belong in the co-branded proving-ground phase - and that is a genuinely strong model, not a consolation. Your logo on the report, HoursBack delivering and quality-assuring every assessment, and a revenue share that is lifetime-locked. The partnership works well and your clients get a well-backed product.
The reason the HoursBack brand stays on the report during the proving-ground phase is the same reason the money-back guarantee is ours to carry: we are backing the work. During the proving-ground phase you are not on the hook for it - we are. When white-label is earned, you take on that accountability.
The path runs: refer a client, move into the co-branded proving ground, then earn white-label by delivering consistently to standard across a real client base. There is no purchase price - the proof is the currency. Read how the partner ladder works on our consultants page.
What the client gets
A consultant’s output, not a tool-recommendation printout. Every finding drawn from the conversation. Every recommendation names the exact menu, button, or setting to click. A “What we deliberately left out” section names what we are not recommending and why - because knowing what to skip is as useful as knowing what to do.
- -Two to four custom AI agent opportunities described in plain English, with estimated hours saved and implementation notes
- -Named automations (e.g. “Quote to Invoice Generator”) with step-by-step setup instructions
- -A prompt library of 3-6 ready-to-paste prompts tied to the recommended AI assistant
- -An impact-versus-effort matrix ranking every opportunity
- -Tool recommendations with specific costs and setup times
- -A 5-day implementation plan
- -ROI projections using the client's own hourly rate and billing model
- -A personal note and a 6-8 minute video walkthrough
Thirty days after every report, we send a one-click check-in: how many hours are you actually getting back? The responses feed a dataset we’re building before we publish a headline number - because a result you can quote to your own clients needs to be real, not a projection.
You will be the first to know when we publish it.
We walk through an anonymised sample on the discovery call so you can see exactly what your clients would receive.
Where you fit
If you already run your own diagnostic
HoursBack does not replace your existing assessment. It adds the AI workflow layer on top of it. Your diagnostic tells the client where the business is. HoursBack tells them where the hours are. If you already run a Business Health Assessment, a growth audit, or an operational review, the natural next step is “and here is what AI can do with what we just found.” One handoff sentence. One introduction. Your client stays in your world.
If your service is operational support, VA, or fractional
A HoursBack Assessment at the start of an engagement makes your work easier to scope, easier to retain, and worth more per month. The client arrives at your service knowing exactly which tasks are worth automating, which ones need a human, and which ones are sitting in the wrong place. The engagement is targeted from day one, the value is demonstrable, and the conversation about renewing or extending writes itself.
If you're advisory, accountancy, or strategy
AI due diligence is landing in advisory conversations it was not invited into. HoursBack gives you a structured, evidence-based answer when it does - specific to the client's business, not a generic readout of what is trending. It positions your practice as the firm that answers AI questions properly. Particularly powerful for founders preparing for growth, exit, or investment, where demonstrable operational efficiency is a value lever.
The numbers - what a partner earns
Year 1: ~£1,800 across 5 active clients (illustrative)
A partner in a business advisory role introduces 5 clients across a 12-month period. They start with Warm Intro on the first two while they get familiar with the product, then move to Co-Branded and Co-Delivered as confidence grows.
| Client | Mode | Products | Partner share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Client 1 | Warm intro (20%) | Assessment £799 | £160 |
| Client 2 | Warm intro (20%) | Assessment £799 + Kickstart £349 | £230 |
| Client 3 | Co-branded (25%) | Team Diagnostic £1,199 | £300 |
| Client 4 | Co-branded (25%) | Assessment £799 + Kickstart £349 | £287 |
| Client 5 | Co-delivered (30%) | Team Diagnostic, co-delivered £1,899 | £570 |
| Client 1 follow-on | Builder's Bonus (flat) | Custom AI Agent Build (from £2,500) | £250 |
| Year 1 total | ~£1,800 | ||
- Volume tier. Partners who refer 3+ clients in a quarter move to Co-branded rates across all active clients by default. We discuss this at the 90-day check-in.
- More agent builds. Approximately 30% of Assessment clients commission a custom AI agent build (from £2,500). Agent builds pay a flat £250 Builder’s Bonus per build, regardless of partner tier.
- Lifetime locked. Revenue share is per-client, for the life of the relationship. A return assessment, a Team Diagnostic, or an agent build 12 months later earns you the same percentage.
5 active clients with one agent build. Ceiling moves up sharply for partners who co-deliver on higher-fee engagements.
If your client base fits, this is a 30-minute conversation.
The only question worth asking at this stage is whether your client base is the right fit for this. That is a 30-minute conversation, not a sales process.
If it fits, we will agree a mode, co-brand your first introduction, and have your first client in the pipeline within the week.
If it does not fit, we will tell you in the first 10 minutes and you will have the rest of your morning back.
30 minutes. No sales process.
Book a 30-minute partner callOr email [email protected] directly.