An independent software studio · Vancouver Island, BC
Good work happens in the small hours.
We design, build and run careful software and online systems for people whose work is caring for others: websites, email, marketing and automation. Our flagship product, Small Hours, brings the gold-standard treatment for insomnia to patients' phones.
6 weeks
A complete CBT-I program, paced one week at a time.
71 of 71
Safety-test cases passed by the coach's independent safety check, re-run on every change.
PIPA
Privacy built to BC PIPA and PIPEDA, enforced in the database itself.
Zero
Ads, data sales or referral fees. Ever.
No. 01 · our flagship product
Small Hours. Sleep, relearned.
CBT-I is first-line treatment for chronic insomnia in the ACP, AASM and European guidelines, and it is hard to get. Small Hours delivers the whole six-week program, self-guided, between appointments or on its own.
A two-minute morning diary
The essentials, with usual answers one tap away.
A sleep window that earns its changes
Recalculated weekly from sleep efficiency. The patient chooses which end of the night moves.
A coach that stays in its lane
Answers at any hour, only from the program's teaching. Never medication advice.
Six weeks of paced lessons
Sleep drive, stimulus control, sleep restriction, cognitive work, relaxation, relapse prevention.
Screening before restriction
A full restriction-free protocol for the patients sleep restriction is wrong for.
No score, no verdict, no wearable
Just the numbers the protocol actually runs on.
No. 02 · services
Everything a practice runs on online.
Most practices don't need an app. They need a website that works, email that looks professional, a contact list that's organized, and someone who keeps it all running. We do that, one project at a time or on a monthly plan.
Websites, designed and built
A site that explains what you do and turns visitors into enquiries, referrals and sign-ups, with forms that are tested and protected from spam.
Website care, every month
Updates, security monitoring, backups, speed and link checks, hosting and domain renewals. Nothing quietly breaks.
Professional email and accounts
Email on your own domain, Google Workspace set-up and admin, and the right tools chosen and organized for you.
Email marketing and contacts
Setting up a customer relationship management (CRM) system, with contacts brought in from spreadsheets, cleaned up, and kept in touch with in line with Canada's anti-spam law.
Automation
Forms, sign-ups, payments and follow-ups connected, so the admin runs in the background instead of in your evenings.
Analytics you can read
Tracking across your website and course platform, and a plain-language monthly report: visitors, where they came from, what they searched for, and what sold.
Search and content
Pages, FAQs and updates written so the right people find you, on Google and in AI assistants.
A technology partner
Fractional CTO support: a roadmap of what to do next, which tools are worth paying for, and which to skip.
No. 03 · for CBT-I clinicians
The part of CBT-I that happens without you.
Waitlists run long, diaries come back half-filled, and the real work happens between sessions, where you can't be. Small Hours holds the program together in that gap, and hands you back something worth reading.
Free access for clinicians, today
Verified clinicians get the whole app free, to evaluate it or see what patients see. Request access
A report your patient hands you
Page one reads in thirty seconds. Only the patient shares it; we never contact you.
A version for your practice
Ask about customizations and a link of your own, such as trysmallhours.com/yourpractice.
The rest of your practice
Websites, booking, email, referral sheets and the technology a growing practice runs on.
No. 04 · for live online educators
From a Zoom room to a school.
If you teach live and your calendar has become the ceiling, we build what lets your teaching travel, without losing the voice that makes it yours.
Our proof
Paced weekly lessons, a coach that knows where each student is, and progress they can see. Small Hours already does all of it, at any hour, for people we will never meet on a call.
- A professional home online that sells while you teach
- A contact list and newsletter that keep every past student close
- Email, payments and automation that run in the background
- Marketing that fills your next cohort
How we work
Made end to end
Design, code, hosting, email and support, from one accountable studio.
Careful with health data
Privacy, security and accessibility tested as part of the craft, not added at the end.
Here after launch
We run what we build, and keep improving it.
Software made the way science is done.
We bring a researcher's habits to every product we make: read the evidence before building, measure rather than assume, test every claim, and say plainly what the data cannot show.
Evidence first
Small Hours' weekly sleep-window rules use the same four tiers a Health Canada-funded CBT-I program publishes.
Measured, not assumed
The coach's safety check is re-run against its full test set on every change, and passes 71 of 71.
Honest about limits
Patterns in a patient's nights are shown as comparisons, never as causes. No score, no prediction.
Let's talk, at a reasonable hour.
Tell us about your practice or your program, and we'll tell you honestly what would help.