Know what it's for.
Decide what you'd do with the time first. A real reason keeps you going.
For business owners who are still the person everything runs through
Take back your week.
What would you do with half your time back?
HalfBack shows you where your week really goes and what every task costs you. Then it helps you decide what to keep, cut, automate or hand off, and drafts the hand-off for you. Your hours are the most valuable thing in the business. Spend them on what only you can do.
15 days free. Then $37 a month or $197 a year.
Your week, pricedParent emailsHand off
SchedulingAutomate
Weekly payrollHand off
Teaching TuesdaysKeep
Your why: Fridays with my kids
You've planned 14 hrs a week.6 hrs back so far.
Your time, priced$96,400 a yearspent on tasks someone else could do.
Parent emails4 hrsHand off
Scheduling3 hrsAutomate
Weekly payroll2 hrsHand off
Teaching Tuesdays6 hrsKeep
Example week in HalfBack. Every task, priced.
Sound familiar?
Still the person everything runs through?
You've hired good people. You've handed off plenty of tasks. But the decisions still find their way back to you. Email from bed, decisions in the car. And any hour you manage to free up quietly fills back in.
You can't give more. And you can't let go.
It isn't you, and it isn't your team. It's invisible time. You can't say where your week really goes, so you can't fix it, and nobody can change what they can't see.
You built something good. You shouldn't have to carry all of it in your head to keep it running.
Why HalfBack exists
Built by an owner who carried it all, too.
We know what it's like to build something good and feel it slowly take over your week, your evenings and your head.
Our founder, Ryan Pink, has spent 17 years as an entrepreneur. He started a music school, grew it to more than fifty employees and into one of the largest in Canada (top 1%), and sold it. In all, he has built and sold four companies.
Along the way, he burnt out. The business was working. He wasn't. What got him through, and what he used to build and sell each company, was a simple process for seeing where his time went and taking it back. HalfBack is that process.
Today Ryan coaches business owners one on one. HalfBack puts the same process in your hands, and makes it much faster.
4companies built and sold
750,000+customers served
10,000+entrepreneurs trained
1,200+high performers coached one on one
Here's how it works.
Start your free trial.
Sign up with your email, Google or Apple, and get the whole app free for 15 days.
Learn the HalfBack Way.
A short, plain method sits behind every screen, so you know why each step matters, not just what to click.
Take back your week.
Bring in one real week, make your first decisions, and watch the hours start coming back.
Your week, pricedParent emailsHand off
SchedulingAutomate
Weekly payrollHand off
Teaching TuesdaysKeep
Fastest wins first
Draft the hand-off
Choose the new owner
Send and schedule
HalfBack on your laptop and your phone.
The HalfBack Way
Make every hour earn its keep.
Nobody gets more time. But some people get theirs back. HalfBack is built on a simple method: See. Decide. Act. It works with a pen and paper. The app just makes it fast.
SEE
See your week as it really is.
Not from memory. From your actual calendar, with a price on every task.
DECIDE
Not everything worth doing deserves your time.
Plenty is worth doing. Far less is worth your hours.
Decide everything.
A task you never decide about stays yours. Give each one a fate: keep it, cut it, automate it, hand it off, or do it faster.
ACT
Fastest wins first.
An hour saved today is worth two tomorrow, because it frees you to win the next one.
Book the time before it fills.
Freed-up time drifts back to busywork. Put it on your calendar, for the business or for you.
Once a week, run through it again: see what changed, decide what's next, take the next win. We call it the HalfBack Hour. HalfBack sets it up for you.
Start your free 15-day trialInside HalfBack
The HalfBack Way, built into one simple app.
Plain language. Nothing to learn first. A win at every step.
1
Bring in your week.
Snap a screenshot of your calendar, paste a list, type it in, or connect Google Calendar. HalfBack turns it into one clear picture.
Calendar screenshot
→Turn into tasksParent emails · 4 hrsScheduling · 3 hrsWeekly payroll · 2 hrs
2
See what your week really costs.
Every task gets a price, so you can see what your week costs you in dollars and in hours, over a whole year. That's usually when the "oh" happens.
Your time, priced$96,400 a yearspent on tasks someone else could do.
3
Give every task a fate.
Keep it, cut it, automate it, hand it off, or do it faster. HalfBack suggests one for each task, so deciding is quick.
Parent emails · 4 hrs a week
KeepCutAutomateHand offFaster
4
Hand it off, already drafted.
HalfBack writes the hand-off for you: the steps, the instructions and the message. You review it, send it, and it's off your plate.
To: Sam
Starting Monday, could you take over parent emails? Here's how I handle them:
- Reply within one business day
- Use the saved replies for schedule questions
- Flag billing questions for me
5
Watch the hours add up.
A running count of the hours you've won back, and a half-circle that fills as you get closer to half your week.
6 hrs back so farYou've planned 14 hrs a week.
6
Put the time to work.
Place the hours you win back on your calendar, for growth or just for you, before they fill back in.
MTWTF
Friday afternoon: yours
Growth: new program plan
Not another thing to manage.
It moves time. It doesn't manage your team's work.
Every number leads to a decision.
No streaks, no red, no nagging.
When a task is handed off, it's gone from your list.
Start your free 15-day trial
15 days free. Then $37 a month or $197 a year.
The quiet cost
What happens if nothing changes?
The hours you free up fill back in. The decisions keep finding you. Another year goes by with the business running through you, and the reasons you built it keep waiting for a quieter season that never quite comes.
Time doesn't come back on its own. Someone has to take it back.
Picture it
A week with room in it.
Some owners want to grow past the wall. Some just want to breathe. Same wall, two ways over it.
Room to grow.
The project the business has needed for a year finally gets your best hours. Your team makes the calls they can make. You work on the business, not just in it.
Room to breathe.
Evenings that are yours. Dinner without the business running in your head. A day off that stays off.
You can see exactly where your week goes, and there's more room in it than you thought.
Pricing
What's half your time worth?
We bet it's a lot more than $37… but hey, we're not greedy.
Monthly
$37 / month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Start your free 15-day trialYearly
$197 / year
Works out to about $16.42 a month. That's $247 less than paying monthly for a year.
Start your free 15-day trialEvery plan includes
- The whole app
- Bring in your week any way you like
- A price on every task
- Five ways to decide, with a suggestion for each
- Drafted hand-offs
- Your hours-back count
- Time booked back on your calendar
- The weekly HalfBack Hour
Both plans start with 15 days free. Same app, either way.
Questions, answered plainly
FAQ
How does the free trial work?
You get the whole app free for 15 days. Sign up with your email, Google or Apple, bring in one real week, and start deciding.
What does HalfBack cost after the trial?
$37 a month, or $197 a year. The yearly plan works out to about $16.42 a month. It's the same app either way.
Can I cancel?
Yes, anytime, from your account settings.
What does HalfBack actually do?
It shows you where your week goes and what each task costs. It helps you decide what to keep, cut, automate or hand off, drafts the hand-offs, keeps count of the hours you win back, and helps you book that time before it fills back in.
Is this a time tracker?
No. There's no clock to start and stop. We don't track time for its own sake. Every number leads to a decision.
Who is it for?
Owners who are still the person everything runs through, especially in people-heavy businesses like studios, schools and service companies, and who have someone (or something) they can hand work to.
What happens to my data?
HalfBack's privacy policy spells out what's stored and why: app.halfback.co/privacy.
15 days free
Start taking your week back.
One real week. A price on every task. Your first decisions today.
Start your free 15-day trialThen $37 a month or $197 a year. Cancel anytime.