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The office of tomorrow. Open today.

Hire AI employees you can text.

Each one has its own computer and works like anyone on your team. Send it work by text. When it needs something, it reaches out to you or your teammates.

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Tick at its own desk with three monitors running at onceThe picture shows Tick, a clockwork robot with a round clock face, sitting at its own desk with three monitors open at once. The left monitor has a label that reads "ORDER PLACED". It shows "Supplier restock" and "40 units, arrives Thu", with a green check mark. The middle monitor has a label that reads "EMAIL ANSWERED". It shows "Invoice question" and "Reply sent", with a green check mark. The right monitor has a label that reads "PAYMENT COLLECTED". It shows "Invoice #1182" and "Paid: $4,800", with a green check mark and a red "PAID" stamp. A plaque on the front of the desk reads "TICK'S DESK".Supplier restock40 units,arrives ThuInvoice #1182Paid: $4,800PAIDInvoice questionReply sentORDER PLACEDPAYMENT COLLECTEDEMAIL ANSWEREDTICK'S DESK
Tick's own computer
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TickAI employee
TICK (AI)Morning. Dr. Patel's Ohio license still isn't uploaded. Want me to call her office or should Maria?
have Maria call
TICK (AI)Done. I sent Maria the details and I'll check back at 2.
Your business today

Work waits on people.

A missing document. A renewal. A follow up. A handoff between teams. Nothing moves until someone makes time for it, on top of everything else on their plate. Things fall through the cracks.

We gave this problem a character: Baron Von Bottleneck.

He isn't a person. He's every task waiting its turn, every follow up that slipped, and every answer stuck with the one person who knows.

Your business today: a faded print of a person buried in tasks, with Baron Von Bottleneck loomingThe picture is a faded, old style print with a gold banner that reads "YOUR BUSINESS TODAY". A person with a frown sits at a desk with a laptop. Four app windows float above them: three with round badges numbered "12", "5", and "3", and a spreadsheet. The window with the "3" has a tag that reads "DUE" and the spreadsheet has a tag that reads "OVERDUE". One task card slips through a crack in the floor. On the right looms Baron Von Bottleneck, a figure in sunglasses and a dark suit. His suit is covered in tags and sticky notes that read "LATE", "DUE", "TODO", "RE: RE:", "OVERDUE", "ASAP", and "WAITING".LATEDUETODORE: RE:OVERDUEASAPWAITING125OVERDUE3DUEYOUR BUSINESS TODAY
Tick waving from the dome of a time machine as it landsThe picture shows Tick, the clockwork robot, smiling and waving from the dome of a cream and red time machine. The machine has a red band that reads "TIME MACHINE" and lands in a burst of red. App windows and a clock with a ring around it float nearby. The picture starts as a faded print and fills with color as it scrolls into view.TIME MACHINE

The time machine lands

Enter Tick, your first AI employee.

Most AI stops at writing emails. Tick does the work.

The solution

What our AI employees do.

Our AI employees have their own computer and their own logins. They work inside the systems your team already uses: your email, your spreadsheets, your portals, your CRM, and whatever else your team logs into. Think of each one as a coordinator. It takes on whole processes, keeps track of every open item, and texts the right person when something needs a human.

  • Work on tasks in parallel.Dozens at once, not one at a time.
  • Ensure nothing falls through the cracks.They track every open item until it's done.
  • Work nights and weekends.When your team logs off, they keep going.
  • Build memory & intelligence.They remember what you asked, what they did, and what happened next. They can look back through all of it to answer questions and spot patterns.
  • Use the web.They control their own browser to research and stay up to date.
  • Log every action.Every action is recorded, so you can review what they accessed and what they did.
Episode 1

How Tick defeats Baron Von Bottleneck.

Every business has a Baron. Here's how yours gets captured.

Panel 1: The bottlenecks growA person with a frown sits at a desk with a laptop. Four app windows float above them: three with round badges numbered "12", "5", and "3", and a spreadsheet. The window with the "3" has a tag that reads "DUE" and the spreadsheet has a tag that reads "OVERDUE". One task card falls through a crack in the floor. Baron Von Bottleneck, a figure in sunglasses and a dark suit, looms on the right. His suit is covered in tags that read "LATE", "DUE", "TODO", "RE: RE:", "OVERDUE", "ASAP", and "WAITING". A gold plaque in the corner reads "THE BOTTLENECK".LATEDUETODORE: RE:OVERDUEASAPWAITING125OVERDUE3DUETHE BOTTLENECK

The bottlenecks grow

Tasks pile up across email, chat, spreadsheets, and portals. Your team can only take one at a time. Some slip through the cracks.

Panel 2: Tick arrivesTick, a clockwork robot with a round clock face, smiles and waves from the dome of a cream and red time machine. The machine has a band that reads "TIME MACHINE" and lands in a burst of red with speed lines behind it. App windows float nearby. A gold label reads "WHOOSH!".TIME MACHINEWHOOSH!

Tick arrives

Your first AI employee lands. It has its own computer and it can work on many things at once.

Panel 3: The Time Capsule opensThe Time Capsule, a long cream capsule with a teal middle panel that reads "TIME CAPSULE", opens its lid like a capture ball. App windows, a spreadsheet, a clock, and a key are drawn into it, with dotted lines pointing at the capsule. Tick stands to the right and waves. A gold label reads "OPEN!".TIMECAPSULEOPEN!

The Time Capsule opens

Tick opens the Time Capsule and everything scattered gets pulled inside: every system, document, workflow, loose task, and piece of know how, plus what a good result looks like.

Panel 4: CapturedBaron Von Bottleneck, with his mouth open in surprise, is pulled toward the open Time Capsule. The tags on his suit read "LATE", "DUE", "TODO", "RE: RE:", "OVERDUE", "ASAP", and "WAITING". The middle panel of the capsule reads "TIME CAPSULE". Tick stands to the right and waves. A red label reads "CLICK!" and a gold label reads "CAPTURED".LATEDUETODORE: RE:OVERDUEASAPWAITINGTIMECAPSULECLICK!CAPTURED

Captured

The Baron gets pulled in with them. Tick snaps the capsule shut. Click.

Panel 5: Handled at a red lightA person in a red cap sits in a red car stopped at a traffic light that shows red. A speech bubble reads "Tick, check if the Ohio license came in. If it did, let the licensing team know." A gold text bubble labeled "TICK (AI)" answers "It's in. Messaging the licensing team now."Tick, check if the Ohio licensecame in. If it did, let thelicensing team know.TICK (AI)It's in. Messaging thelicensing team now.

Handled at a red light

You text Tick at a red light. It's already on it, along with a dozen other things.

Every business has a Baron. Now yours has Tick.

Our process

First, we build your Time Capsule.

A Time Capsule is your business knowledge, workflows, tasks, goals, and current bottlenecks - all captured and structured so AI can understand it and start working from it.

Most companies hand an AI a few documents, start chatting with it, and hope it gets the full picture over time. It rarely does.

We spend about a month learning how your operation runs. Then we use what we know about how AI reads information to package it the right way: what to do, how to do it, and what a good result looks like.

We hand your Time Capsule to Tick before it starts working in your organization. Any AI tool your team uses can also use it, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

The Time Capsule open like a capture ballThe picture shows the Time Capsule open like a capture ball. The middle panel of the capsule reads "TIME CAPSULE". Software windows, a clock, and a key are pulled inside while Tick, the clockwork robot, waves from the right.TIMECAPSULE
How to start

How to get started.

Pick where your AI employee starts

Based on your problems and the size of your business: one department, one function, or your whole business.

SalesMarketingCustomer serviceOperationsOnboardingHiringHRBilling and collectionsAccountingSchedulingPurchasing and inventoryComplianceReportingCredentialing and licensing

We learn your operations and build your Time Capsule

A few weeks seeing how the work really gets done, including a small app on your team's computers, with their permission.

Your AI employee starts

We hand it the Time Capsule, connect it to your systems, and it gets to work. You text it like anyone on your team, from anywhere, even with one bar of service.

STRAIGHTANSWER

Is it a real person?

No. It's AI, with its own computer, working in your systems. It only sees what you give it access to and every action it takes is logged for you to review.

Built for sensitive data.

Your AI employee can run in its own isolated, sandboxed environment on HIPAA eligible infrastructure, so it can work with personal and health information safely.

A Real Testimonial

A healthcare staffing company, before and after.

Before
After
2full time employees moved to higher impact work
About $120,000a year in salaries freed for higher impact work
$24,600a month in revenue recovered by keeping new hires on schedule
No new appstaff reach it by text, WhatsApp, and Discord

Their Monday now: no catching up, no chasing, no digging for updates. The team starts the week knowing exactly where everything stands. Nobody types the same information twice. The work arrives with the details attached and people spend their time on the work that actually moves the business.

Familiar pricing

Priced like a hire, not software.

PRICEDLIKE A HIRE

A relocation fee, then a salary.

Tick is moving in from the future. A one time relocation fee covers its onboarding and your Time Capsule. Then a monthly salary that starts once you're happy with its work. No benefits. No time off. No 401(k). No recruiting. No turnover.

NORISK

Our guarantee.

You don't pay a monthly salary until your AI employee is doing the job we agreed on. Every month, you get a report of exactly what it handled.

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Ethan Sefchik, founder of Time Machine Automation
Ethan Sefchik, founderPittsburgh, PA
Who's behind it
As a co-founder of my last startup, I spent time with enterprises and got to see how organizations run from the inside. I was surprised by how much repeatable work took real time and real people to get done. Sometimes entire roles were built around work an AI employee could handle. I saw the same pattern in almost every organization I sat with. When AI broke onto the scene, I started experimenting and built my own AI employees to help me run the company. I learned what it takes to get an AI to understand what you do and do it right without endless back and forth. I also learned how to make its memory actually work. Now that I've moved on from that startup, I'm bringing those lessons to you so you can have AI employees of your own.
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