Hours
Back.
Tried every AI tool. Hours still leaking?
We help Sydney service businesses redesign everyday work so AI saves time, improves consistency, and stays under human control. Your business should not need you all the time.
90-Day AI Business Foundations starts 2 September.
Three months to set up AI as a managed team member in your business. Six in-person sessions per cohort, two a month, in business hours, plus combined online sessions. You finish with your 2027 AI Business Plan.
Cohorts in South Windsor and Penrith · Starts Wed 2 Sep
You signed up for ChatGPT. Maybe Claude too. You can see what it could do. You're still answering every email yourself at 9pm.
Your team's using it as well. You don't know exactly who's using what, or what client information is going where. You meant to set rules. You haven't had time.
Every podcast tells you something different. You've bought a course. You've got tabs open you haven't touched in weeks. You keep getting stuck before you start.
You're not behind. You're not failing. You're running a business that's already working, trying to add AI without breaking quality, privacy, or accountability.
That's what we fix.
Hours Back Calculator · 60 seconds
See what your time leak is costing you.
Pick the work that's eating your week, slide the hours and the rate, see the dollar figure. No email required to see the result.
Here's what this is costing you.
Learn it yourself, or have it installed for you.
The Lab is for owners who build it themselves over 90 days. Fast Start is for owners who want it installed next week.
Learn it yourself over 90 days
The 90-Day AI Business Foundations program. $197 a month for 3 months. Cohorts in South Windsor and Penrith, starts 2 September. You build it, session by session, and finish with your 2027 AI Business Plan.
See the program →02Have it installed for you
AI Fast Start. $5,500 inc GST. Done for you in one day, onsite. Your business written down, an AI chief of staff set up, a pre-trained skills pack configured, and your team handed the keys before 5pm.
See Fast Start →Need one workflow fixed, or a custom tool built? See all four ways we work.
The HOURS framework
Five things you get when you work with us.
Built from twenty years of enterprise delivery, sized for your business.
If it doesn't earn its place, it doesn't make it.
Hours back, every week
We find the work eating your week and hand it back.
One thing at a time
We don't rebuild your business. We fix one workflow first.
Use what you already have
AI lives inside the tools your business already runs on.
Reliable, not impressive
Systems that run the same way every time. No demos. No drama.
Stays after we leave
You own the system. Your team runs it. We're not a dependency.
Stories from people we've worked with
Hi, I'm Linda.
I'm based in the Hawkesbury, NSW. After twenty years delivering enterprise digital programs across banking, MedTech, transport, and infrastructure, I built Hours Back Lab to bring that same discipline to Sydney service businesses.
I'm also the award-winning author of The AI Career Book, a guide for professionals navigating the shift to AI-led work. The thinking that drives Hours Back Lab is the same thinking in the book: AI is a team member, not a tool.
The work is simple to describe and harder to do. I help founders set up AI as a managed team member. Not something that sits in a browser. A team member with a role, a brief, and a place in the operations.
I run every tool on my own businesses before I recommend it. Operator first, vendor second. The goal is a structured operating rhythm, not a busier one.
Intentional work.
Simple systems. Hours back.