Time Architect · The Live by Design method

Your business was meant to give you a life. Let’s build one that does.

I find the hours your business is quietly taking from you, then I build the systems that give them back — AI, automation and simpler processes, done for you. Coaching and implementation from one person, so the plan actually gets built.

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Recently: a property business’s operations rebuilt end to end — without adding a single hire.

Six areas. One design.
The quiet cost

You started this for freedom. Somewhere along the way, it became a job that never switches off.

£250/hr
what an hour of a £500k owner’s time is worth
£18/hr
what the admin filling that hour costs to replace
10 hrs
what a first audit typically finds in a week
The Live by Design method

Lead yourself. Design the business. Live the life.

Movement 01

Design

Before touching a single process, we define what a well-designed life looks like for you — across six areas, not just the P&L. Specific and chosen, not “more balance.” This is the brief that justifies everything after it.

Movement 02

Buy back

A full time audit: where your week actually goes, what each hour is worth, and what to automate, delegate, simplify or eliminate. Then I build it — AI agents, workflow automation, clean processes.

Movement 03

Live

The stage everyone else forgets. The reclaimed hours get pointed deliberately at the life you designed — with coaching, a weekly rhythm and real measurement, so the old workweek doesn’t quietly grow back.

Most coaches hand you the plan. I stay and build it.

1 · Time & Life Audit
the front door — you keep the plan
→
2 · Buy-Back Sprint
first win in 30–45 days
→
3 · Time Liberation Project
the full 90-day rebuild
→
Design Partner
ongoing — systems kept alive

Every engagement starts with the audit. The fee is credited in full against whatever you build next. Value first, price on the call.

Proof

Built, shipped, and running today.

New enquiry
11:47 pm
→
AI replies & qualifies
11:47 pm
→
Viewing booked
11:48 pm
→
Owner asleep
finds it done at 8 am
Case study · Property & lettings

The operations rebuild

A lettings business whose owner was the bottleneck for everything: enquiries, viewings, referencing, maintenance requests, rent chasing, landlord reporting. Classic case — a good business quietly eating its owner’s week.

What was built

  • Enquiry handling and follow-up, automated
  • Guest & tenant messaging flows that answer the routine questions
  • Phone routing rebuilt around the team’s actual hours
  • Handover SOPs, so the systems run without either of us

20+ years running owner-led businesses · coaching grounded in LMI Effective Personal Leadership · Motivational Maps® practitioner tools

About Mark

I redesigned my life from a hospital bed. Then I made it a method.

At 24, a health crisis put me in hospital and handed me a question most people get to avoid for decades: if this is what your current life produces, what exactly are you working for?

I rebuilt deliberately, around one rule I’ve never broken since: the business serves the life, never the reverse. Today that means running my businesses from wherever in the world my family and I choose to be — the method, lived.

Live by Design is that rule turned into a method. The coaching half helps you decide what your freedom is actually for. The technical half — the audits, the AI, the automation — is me personally building the systems that pay for it. Almost nobody does both. That’s the point.

Mark Harris

The short version

  • 20+ years building & running owner-led businesses
  • Coaching foundation: LMI Effective Personal Leadership
  • Motivational Maps® within client engagements
  • Recent build: full ops rebuild for a lettings business
  • Location-independent — clients worldwide, remote-first
Free · 3 minutes

Where is your time actually going?

Score your six areas of life, answer a few honest questions about your business, and get your balance profile plus a rough price on the hours your business is taking from you.

Part one — the life

Score each area 0–10: how satisfied are you with it, right now?

Part 1 of 3

Part two — the business

Honest answers get useful results. Nobody sees these but me.

Which best describes you?
I run a service business with a team
I run my business solo
Employed, building something of my own
Other
Roughly how many hours a week do you work?
Under 40
40–50
50–60
60+
How many of those hours are on work that doesn’t actually need you?
Almost none
5–10
10–20
Honestly? Most of them
Annual turnover, roughly
Up to £100k
£100k–£250k
£250k–£500k
£500k–£1m
Over £1m
Rather not say
What eats the most of your week? Pick up to three.
Admin & paperwork
Chasing leads & follow-ups
Invoicing & payments
Scheduling & bookings
Answering the same questions
Staffing & firefighting
Marketing & social media
If you had ten hours a week back, what would you spend them on?
Part 2 of 3

Part three — your results

Where should I send your balance profile? You’ll also see it on screen right away.

No newsletter ambush. I’ll send your results and, if it looks like I can help, one personal email — that’s it.

Please add your name and a valid email so I can send your results.
Part 3 of 3

Your balance profile

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Your results are on their way to your inbox. The call is a conversation, not a pitch — 20 minutes, and you’ll leave with something useful either way.

Contact

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