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

Origin

The Story

Aught Hour is a starting point where ideas move from zero to one.

Aught Hour is a Silicon Valley based firm focused on AI, product, and strategy - helping founders and executives build, scale, and hire the right teams.

Not just advisory - Aught Hour incubates its own projects. From productivity platforms to human centered AI experiences, this is where the next wave of ideas is tested and built.

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

The Work

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

Advisory

Guiding founders, executives, and boards on AI, product strategy, and growth - from hands-on coaching to fractional leadership

Talks

Interactive sessions on AI agent systems, design thinking, and product strategy - for executive teams, product orgs, and communities

Collaboration

Partnering on new ventures, prototypes, and early-stage products - from concept through first users

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Projects

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

Community-driven fellowships where builders develop real AI skills through hands-on projects, peer collaboration, and a learn, do, teach model

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

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 entrepreneurship at scale

Agentic workflows for product leaders - persistent memory, autonomous task management, and AI co-pilots that compound context over time

Tools for knowledge management - AI agents that ingest, organize, and synthesize information across teams and projects

Exploring how the next generation learns to build with AI - early projects and use cases with teens

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

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 VP of Product at Microsoft AI, Co-Founder of the Bell AI Fellowship, Co-Founder and CPTO at Zarû, and building AI native infrastructure and human AI experiences through Aught Hour.

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.

Aught Hour - where ideas move from zero to one