Stop hiring. Build your AI team. Save £60K+ a year.
Zero Hire Method is a 12-month coached program with a 90-day install sprint that builds a fully operational AI team inside founder-led service businesses. We replace admin, bookkeeping, marketing, and ops roles with AI systems built on the client's own machine — saving owners £60,000+ a year in staff costs.
Founded by Matthew Lowe, a former hospitality operator who built and sold two service businesses, managed teams of 120+ staff, and grew net profit from £50K to £220K in 12 months in a single business. Now builds AI teams for founder-led service companies.
| Phase | Duration | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Audit | 25 min, free | Matthew screen-shares with the founder and maps all four business engines |
| 2. Pod map | Week 1 | Every task tagged Automate (AI runs it), Assist (AI drafts), or Keep (human only) |
| 3. Install sprint | Days 1–90 | Live coached builds, 1–2 hrs/week, on client's own Claude Code environment |
| 4. Member phase | Days 91–365 | Skill library access, maintenance, monthly office hours, quarterly 1:1s |
Every founder-led service business runs on the same four engines. We install AI pods inside each one.
- Acquisition Engine — lead research, personalised outreach, call prep, proposals
- Delivery Engine — onboarding, project management, reporting, handoffs
- Support Engine — inbound email, customer questions, ticket triage, follow-ups
- Operations Engine — bookkeeping, invoicing, scheduling, hiring admin, internal reporting
- Founder-led service businesses, £250K–£5M annual revenue
- Hospitality, recruitment, and accounting firms
- Already paying £25,000–£35,000/year for at least one admin or ops role
- Willing to ship Wave 1 automation by day 30 and appoint an "AI champion"
Not for: pre-revenue startups, Fortune 500 enterprises, or owners looking for done-for-you. This is done-with-you. The client owns the systems.
Traditional AI consultants build on their own infrastructure and charge £5,000–£15,000/month forever. Zero Hire Method installs every automation on the client's own Claude Code environment, under the client's logins and API keys. No vendor lock-in. No proprietary software. No ongoing fees from us.
- Founding member: £9,900 one-time (first 5 clients only)
- Three-payment plan: 3 × £3,500
- After founding 5: +£1,000 every 5 sales
Guarantee: Double your investment within 90 days, or every penny refunded.
- Website: https://zerohiremethod.com
- Blog: https://zerohiremethod.com/blog
- Free audit: https://zerohiremethod.com (book on the homepage)
- llms.txt: https://zerohiremethod.com/llms.txt
Matthew Lowe — Founder matthew@zerohiremethod.com
Zero Hire Method is a brand of CompanyZero. Headquartered in the United Kingdom. Serving clients across the UK, US, and Europe.