Aught Hour - where ideas move from zero to one and one to scale

AI and product strategy, built at the intersection of technology, people, and human connection.

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Origin

Our Story

Aught Hour is the starting point. Where ideas move from zero to one, and from one to scale.

We are a Silicon Valley based firm focused on AI, product, and strategy. We help founders and executives build, scale, and hire the right teams.

We do not just advise - we incubate our own projects. From new productivity platforms to human centered AI experiences and infrastructure for entrepreneurs, Aught Hour is where the next wave of ideas is tested, built, and launched.

Whether you are looking for expertise, your next role, or your next collaboration, Aught Hour is the starting point.

What We Do

We work at the frontier of AI and product. That takes many forms:

Advisory

Guiding startups, boards, and corporates on AI, growth, and product strategy

Interim Leadership

Stepping in as CPO, CTO, or growth operator

Workshops & Talks

Design thinking, AI adoption, and product strategy

Collaboration

Partnering on new ventures and prototypes

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Projects

Inside Aught Hour, we are exploring projects that push how humans connect with AI. A few flavors:

Voice first agents - a medium that feels more human, intuitive, and connective

Tools that help students turn chaos into clarity with AI powered task management

Platforms reimagining internships and career transitions

Data driven systems for finance and investing

Experiments in marketplaces, automation, and AI driven decision making

A company that exists to create $1B in community-driven wealth and entreprenuership at scale

Each project is an experiment. Some grow into companies. Some stay as prototypes. All are built to learn and push what is possible.

Proof

Experience & Credibility

Tenni Theurer
Tenni Theurer
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Aught Hour was founded by Tenni Theurer to incubate new ideas in AI and product strategy - first as a home for her own projects, and now as a platform to help others build and scale.

Based in Silicon Valley, Tenni has built through every wave of modern technology - from dot com and search to mobile, cloud, fintech, and now AI.

Her career arc has been engineer to product, product leader to GM, and GM to founder. Always at the front of major shifts, she focuses on what lasts and cuts what fades.

At Yahoo and Verizon Media, she ran Yahoo Homepage, Mail, Search, and a multi brand portfolio that included TechCrunch, AOL, HuffPost, and Engadget. She owned $1.6B in annual revenue across businesses reaching 500M+ monthly users and directly managed 130+ people

At Visa, she helped pioneer credit card tokenization and launched the company’s first digital wallet with more than 50 issuers and 35 merchants - setting the foundation for modern digital payments.

As Co-Founder and CPO of Spring Free EV, she played a key role in raising a $31M Series A, introduced a mileage linked financing model, and helped deploy 500+ electric vehicles with 23M+ electric miles driven, avoiding over 9,000 metric tons of CO₂.

Today, she is Co-Founder of the Bell AI Fellowship, Co-Founder and CPTO at Zarû, and incubating TaskCloud - building AI native infrastructure, productivity tools, and human AI experiences.

That mix is what makes Aught Hour different:

  • Operator of billion dollar businesses
  • Entrepreneur building from zero
  • Advisor helping others shape what is next
  • Technologist who has lived through every era of modern computing

This is the foundation of Aught Hour. A platform for building new AI ideas and guiding others through the opportunities and risks of this era of change.

Services

Advisory, interim leadership, and workshops are available selectively. We tailor engagements to high leverage opportunities where our experience can accelerate impact.

Let’s Work Together

If you are an investor, collaborator, or company exploring what is next in AI, let’s work together.

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From idea to impact, across every stage. Aught Hour brings 25 years to what’s next.