AI Open Sauce
The skills and playbooks clients pay us thousands to set up, from 20+ companies. All yours, free.
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Businesses we've built AI for
Add them once to Claude or ChatGPT. We show you how. It picks the right one when you ask.
A competitor's website
You get backTheir path from first ad to signed deal, and what to copy.
A rough idea: a client portal for onboarding
You get backA clear brief: what clients finish in week one, and who chases them.
Your draft email
You get back“Can we move Thursday’s call to 2pm?” 3 AI tells cut.
A half-finished proposal
You get backEvery open decision settled, so it says what you meant.
Should we raise prices 15% in January?
You get backRaise it for new clients only, review in 90 days.
The weekly report your team writes by hand
You get backA skill that writes it the same way every time.
Your team's skills workspace
You get backWhich skills your team uses most, and what's rising. Totals only.
Ten minutes
You get backOne real result, then your own first skill.
Fri, 30 OctYour own coding-agent server: the setup I run 10+ agents onA coding-agent server is an always-on Ubuntu machine that runs Claude Code or T3 Code while you steer it from your phone or laptop. This is the setup I run 10+ agents on, step by step.
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Thu, 29 OctYour AI is only as trustworthy as your 20 test casesYou can trust what your AI tells you once it has passed a test you wrote: about 20 real questions with known answers, a pass mark set before the first run, and about a day of work. This is how we write ours.
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Wed, 28 OctWill AI replace accountants? 30% fewer jobs in 3 yearsAI already does the production work in accounting, so my bet is 30% fewer Australian accounting jobs within three years, with the accountant still paid for the sign-off.
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Jeremy & Finlay
How Cadence Property Group sets up a new deal from one email. Jeremy and Finlay walk through the build.
Batko
Batko goes through what Claude changed in our Dext and Xero.
Matt
The skill that puts a hard decision to a panel of specialists, sceptic included, and comes back with one answer.
Anna
The skill Anna uses to make graphics in our brand. Copy it into your own Claude.
Finlay
The shared memory behind every Hourglass skill, and how to start your own.
Matt
The tasks we see automated most across client teams, and how we'd automate each one.
Jeremy
What an MCP is in plain English, and how it lets your AI work inside your other tools.
Batko
The one-page plan Batko sends the team every week, and how to write your own.
Batko
Batko's call on entry-level jobs, and what he thinks replaces them.
Matt
The skills we use to run Hourglass, what each one does, and how to copy the stack.
FinlayHow we test an AI's answers before a team relies on them, so you can check yours.
Batko & Matt
Our first read on how Australian businesses use AI, from the teams we work with.
AI Open Sauce is Hourglass AI sharing how it runs an AI-native company and makes Australian businesses AI-native: build logs with dollar outcomes, the AI-native company playbook, one-page Claude skills, and our opinions and predictions. It is written for the AI champion inside a 20 to 100 person business, and for the CEO who wants the numbers.
Every skill and playbook on this page straight away, then each new one by email as it lands. The email is Hourglass AI News; unsubscribe in one click.
No. The skills add to Claude or ChatGPT in a few clicks, and the playbooks are written for teams with no engineers.
A skill is a set of instructions your AI runs for you, like the board review panel. A playbook is a written how-to your team follows, step by step. Both are free.
Yes. Every playbook, build log and field note is free to read with no sign-up. The skills and videos ask for a work email first, which joins Hourglass AI News. Unsubscribe in one click.
AI Open Sauce is written by Hourglass AI co-founders Michael Batko and Finlay Ekins and the Hourglass team, from AI builds for Australian companies. Every piece carries a named author and the date it was last updated.
Yes. The skills come through Hourglass Skills, a free connector that works in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI and most other AI apps that support MCP. Add it once, then ask for a skill by name.
AI Open Sauce gives you the method; a consultant, including Hourglass AI, gives you the hours and the accountability. A team of 10 to 100 people can run a playbook itself if one person owns it for a few hours a week. If nobody can, the Hourglass AI audit maps what to build first, audit to roadmap in 14 days.
Client names and numbers without the client's sign-off, anything under NDA, and the hosted products we sell (the AI Brain, evals, client prompts and product code).
You talk directly to the founders.
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