A small studio in London building agents for operators who'd rather not hire for repetitive desk work. We treat every engagement like we'd have to run the agent ourselves — because half the time, we kind of do.
Hours started as the in-house automation team for a UK private-equity backed founder who'd grown tired of his ops team drowning in inbox triage and spreadsheet reconciliation. Three months in, the agents we built were saving 30 hours a week. We spun out to do it for other operators.
We don't sell a product. We sell people the agents they wished they could hire — one job, one bench specialist, fully accountable. Most clients start with one agent and grow to three within six months once they see what's possible.
Eight engineers, four operators, and a small bench of recurring clients across financial services, professional services, and SaaS. We're selective: we only sign engagements where we'd happily own the outcome ourselves.
Agents that pick up work, decide, and act — not glorified search boxes.
We'd rather ship one excellent agent in three weeks than five mediocre ones in three months.
Dedicated tenant, EU residency, audit logs by default. No training on your content. Ever.
Every agent ships in shadow mode. We unlock autonomy on workflows where the agent is already operating at human accuracy.
Thirty minutes. No deck. We'll map your top three automatable workflows and tell you which one we'd build first — and whether Hours is the right partner for it.