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The Four Hours a Day Guarantee

The four hours a day guarantee is Tyler Fikowski's promise, through ATP AI, Sales and Marketing, that when we build AI into your business, the owner and the team get at least four working hours a day back, measured against a baseline we agree on before the build starts. If we cannot see four hours in the mapping stage, we do not start. If the build comes up short, we keep building until it is there.

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Tyler Fikowski, founder of ATP AI, Sales and Marketing
Tyler Fikowski, founder. The guarantee is his, personally.

5.0 Google rating. Running today at The Crossing Resort, 310 Lock and Accomsure.

Why I put a number on it

Every AI company on the internet promises to save you time. Nobody says how much. Nobody says what happens if it does not.

I do, because I have watched it happen enough times to know where the hours hide.

I was the first salesperson through the door at a startup and helped scale it to nine cities, 136 internal reps and over 70 contractors across six countries. I know what a day of admin costs a business owner, because I live it. I run this business and I live it every day. Every hour spent chasing email and rebuilding the same report is an hour not spent selling.

Here is my own number. I have personally taken a week's worth of administrative work and I now get it finished Monday in half a day. Admin out of the way, on to building the business.

Here is what that looks like in other real businesses, and then the exact terms of the promise.

Where the hours actually come from

Two examples from my own desk, so you can see the size of the thing.

Research that used to take a team

On a consulting project I spun up 87 AI agents to run the research. Between them they did about 2,000 human hours of work. Reading, comparing, cross-checking, writing it up.

My job on that project was to read the output and decide what mattered.

That is what AI does to a task. It does not shave it. It removes it, and leaves you the review.

Email, every single day

The daily briefing is the one people feel first. Instead of hours inside the inbox every morning, I get one briefing: what came in, what needs me, what can wait. I answer with talk to text and the system drafts the replies.

Hours of email became one read and one conversation. That alone is most of a morning back, every working day.

Lee Alderman at 310 Lock

Lee Alderman runs 310 Lock, Calgary's largest locksmith. When we started, I promised him four hours a day back once Claude Code was installed properly in his business. Not a demo on a laptop. Installed, wired into the way his company actually runs, with his people trained on it.

He gave us a 5-star review.

Here is the part I did not predict. Lee now spends about four hours a day vibe coding. Building his own tools, his own dashboards, his own fixes. If I am honest it is probably five.

The hours you get back do not sit empty. They get spent on the things you never had time to build.

That is the real shape of this guarantee. We hand you four hours. What you do with them is up to you. Lee chose to build, and there is a reason he still has us working for him. Read how I got here.

Two stories I told Easter Seals Alberta

I spoke to a room of provincial CEOs at Easter Seals Alberta and used two builds to show what "four hours a day" looks like when you count it.

The market scan

One business runs a market scan for every customer it works with. It took a person about 2 hours per customer. They do it roughly 70 times a week.

We built a skill that does the scan. It now takes 30 minutes, and most of that is the person reading the result and deciding what to do.

Run that math across 70 scans a week. That is not a nicer afternoon. That is a department's worth of time, every week, forever.

The dashboard

Two senior managers were spending their days pulling numbers out of tools, pasting them into reports and explaining them upstairs.

We built them a custom dashboard that reads the tools directly. Between the two of them it saves 24 hours a week. Three full working days, back in the hands of the two most expensive people on the floor.

AI is going to save your business thousands and thousands of hours. The only question is whether you go and get them.

How we find your four hours

The guarantee works because of the process. It is the same every time, and it starts long before anyone writes code.

1

Interview

We sit down with you and your team and ask one question over and over: what takes hours? Not what is annoying. What actually eats the day.

2

Map the hours

Every task goes on a list with the time it takes today. Both sides sign off on that list. It becomes the baseline the guarantee is measured against.

3

Build the skills

We build a custom skill for each task on the list, wire it into your tools, test it on real work and train your people on it live.


Here is how it plays out. You tell us a client takes 2 hours of research before you can quote them. We build a skill that does that research in 7 minutes. Now the job is review, not research.

Then we do it again for the next task on the list. And the next.

The same thing happens over and over. That is why I can guarantee it.

The guarantee, by offer

01 For the owner

AI for Owners

Desktop AI set up properly on a machine you control, wired into your inbox, calendar and CRM, with custom skills built around your actual job.

You personally get four hours a day back, guaranteed. Then it keeps growing, because once it is installed properly you will be able to build your own tools, the way Lee does.

AI for Owners

02 For your team

AI for Teams

The full interview, map and build process across your team's day to day. Easy to press buttons and custom dashboards, not new software for everyone to learn.

In practice it tends to shave hours off every person's day. I will not promise that per person. What I promise is four hours a day for the business, guaranteed.

AI for Teams

03 For your customers

Customer-facing AI. Meet Kaylee.

Calls, texts, web chat and forms answered in seconds, around the clock, with the appointment booked and the follow-up sent.

This one does not carry the hours guarantee. It carries a different one: 100 percent after-hours answering and website capture. The calls that used to hit voicemail get handled.

AI for Customers

How it is measured

Plain terms, no fine print hiding anything.

  • The baseline. In the mapping stage we write down the tasks and the hours they take today. Both sides sign off on the list before the build starts.
  • What counts as an hour back. Time a named person used to spend on a task the system now does without them: answering and routing calls, booking and confirming appointments, writing follow-ups, triaging the inbox, pulling numbers into reports, moving records between tools, research before a quote.
  • Whose four hours. On AI for Owners, the owner personally gets four hours a day back. On AI for Teams, four hours means four across the business, added up across the people on the baseline list, per working day. Not four hours for every individual.
  • The check. We go back to the list and knock the tasks off one by one, comparing system logs and a short check-in with the people who used to do the work.
  • If the number is not there. We do not start a build unless we can both see four hours in the mapping stage. If the build comes up short against the list, we build the next part, and we keep building until the four hours are there.

That is the whole promise. Agreed hours, then we go get them.

What the guarantee does not cover

What you are going to do with those hours.

I am serious. We saved Lee four hours a day and he now spends five vibe coding. The guarantee gets you the time. It does not tell you how to spend it.

The ordinary exclusions, for the record:

  • Systems the business switches off, changes without us, or does not use as trained.
  • Tasks that were never on the signed baseline list.
  • Third-party outages, pricing or policy changes at the platforms the system runs on: phone carriers, email providers, CRM vendors, AI providers.
  • Staffing changes that remove the people the baseline was measured against.

Nothing else. If it was on the list and we built it, we own the result.

Questions about the guarantee

Is it four hours per person or four hours for the business?

Depends on the build. On AI for Owners, you personally get four hours a day back. On AI for Teams, we add up the time saved across everyone on the baseline list, per working day. It often works out to hours per person, but the guarantee is written at the business level so nobody is overpromised.

Who decides what the baseline is?

We do, together, in the interview and mapping stage. You tell us what takes hours, we write it down with the time it takes today, and both sides sign off before we build a thing.

What if you cannot get to four hours?

First, we do not start unless we can both see the four hours in the mapping stage. If the build then comes up short, we build the next part and keep building until the number is there. You do not pay twice for one promise.

Does the guarantee apply to Kaylee and customer-facing AI?

No. Customer-facing AI carries its own promise: 100 percent after-hours answering and website capture. It is measured in calls and leads handled, not hours on a staff list.

Do I need to be technical to get the hours back?

No. You need to be able to describe your day. We do the interview, the map, the code and the training. Lee Alderman started as a locksmith who wanted his afternoons back, and he now builds his own tools.

Do you work outside Calgary?

Yes. I am from Calgary and most of the build is done remotely. We serve Alberta, all of Canada and North America. The interview can be on site or on a call.

Want your four hours?

Start with the interview. Tell me what eats your day and I will tell you, honestly, whether four hours is there. Most of the time it is more.

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