Calm Back with Gem

Get your business to remember everything so you don't have to.

For neurodivergent women founders who are running everything in their heads and need it to stop.

I build the systems that give you your brain back. I help women founders move from doing the chores to making the big moves. We build a fucking amazing business that works around your life. One where the tech remembers the details, handles the handoffs, and leaves you to do the bits you actually like.

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Gemma Hurlstone laying out tarot cards at a table, mid-reading.
The Fixer
part strategist · part witch
11Aug11am UK

Free live workshop · online

You'll leave knowing whether you need AI, a better system, or a better business decision.

AI in Business: one hour, live online, free. We run your real business problems through the three questions that show you what actually needs fixing. Not a ChatGPT tutorial. Recorded, so the replay comes to you if the morning gets eaten.

Black and white photo of Gemma sitting calmly at a table with a coffee and an open notebook, smiling.

Sound familiar?

You're sick of being told AI will save you.

You don't want more tools. You don't want another app to learn at 11pm. You want your head back.

You want the version of your day where you aren't chasing an invoice from a dodgy notebook, or doing the mental gymnastics on the school run: fitting every job in between 9.15 and 2.45, plus the dishwasher, the dog walk, and the birthday present for this weekend's party.

That's the version we build.

How your business can look

How your business can look.

This is what could exist after we work together.

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Your whole business in one brain

Every client, every project, every deadline, every note, in one place that thinks for you. No more business living in your head, your phone, three notebooks and a panic. One brain. It remembers so you don't have to.

II

Nothing falls through the cracks

The follow-up that drafts itself. The invoice that chases itself. The task that lands in the right place the moment you speak it. The dropped balls that cost you money and sleep, gone, because the system catches them, not you.

III

You stop being the bottleneck

Right now everything waits for you. With the structure built, the handoffs happen, the clients get onboarded, the work moves, whether you are at your desk, on the beach, or doing the school run. The business stops needing you for every single thing.

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It runs on the days you can't

The whole point. Burnout day, sick kid, brain-fog week, the business holds. Not because you pushed through. Because the structure underneath it doesn't need you to.

the reframe

AI is not magic. Structure is.

No magic button. No bot that runs your business while you sleep. Just a system, built around how your brain works, that holds the whole thing. And once it is built, it runs. Even on the days you can't.

Who this is for

You are running a brilliant business. You just can't keep running it from your brain.

You are running an awesome and successful business. You are brilliant at the actual thing you do. You are not short of ideas. You just can't keep running it from a dodgy Excel spreadsheet, a notebook, and your head.

your business should fund your life. not consume it.

I'm not going to make you false promises about AI being a magic button that does everything for you. It's not.

Most AI is like a ten-year-old boy: it can only do one thing at a time, and it needs very clear, explicit instructions. What I do is show you how to give those instructions, and in what order.

The proof

Real outcomes for real founders.

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£15,000 she couldn't see

A service-business founder booked a session thinking she needed a ChatGPT lesson. Twenty minutes in, I found a £15k-a-year revenue stream hiding in plain sight, and a whole new paid offer. She walked out with both, and the system to run them.

II

Hours of admin, down to seconds

A practitioner drowning in dictation and write-ups. I built her a transcription flow that turned hours of summaries into seconds. Same work, a fraction of the time, every single day.

III

16 taps down to one

A product seller whose Instagram was sending buyers on a 16-tap journey before they could pay her. I found the exact leak and rebuilt the path. Profile visits started turning into actual sales.

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Black and white portrait of Gemma Hurlstone writing in a notebook at a table, laughing, coffee beside her.
The Manager
intuitive business mentor

Who I am

I was her. I built my way out.

I'm Gemma. An intuitive business mentor who builds with AI. Two businesses, two kids, a magazine, a late ADHD diagnosis, and years of carrying the mental load while building something that actually mattered.

I didn't read about burnout in a book. I lived it, built my way out, and now I do the same for other women.

I see the thing you're sitting on without knowing it. That's the whole job.

You are the Beyoncé. I'm the manager.

How we work together

Three ways in.

One focused session
I Can See Clearly Now
£495
One session

We find the thing you are sitting on and map exactly what to do with it. You leave with a plan.

This is you if you need direction, not homework.

Start here
Most popular Six-week systems build
I Got You Babe
£2,500
Six weeks

We build the system together. By the end, your business holds itself, and you know how to keep it running.

This is you if you want it built WITH you, not another course.

Build it with me
Twelve-week full build
The Best Is Yet To Come
£5,000
Twelve weeks

The full build. Strategy, automations, systems, everything.

This is you if you are done winging it and want the lot handled.

Go all in

Common questions.

What does Calm Back with Gem actually do?

Gemma Hurlstone is a business strategist and AI consultant. She works with overwhelmed women founders to find the real problem in their business (not the surface one), then builds the operational structure and AI workflows that let the business run without the founder holding everything in her head.

Is this for me if I am not neurodivergent?

Yes. The work is built around brains that carry a lot and systems that have never been designed for them. Most overwhelmed founders benefit from that regardless of diagnosis. If your business lives in your head and you are exhausted, you are the right fit.

Where do I start if I am not sure which offer is right?

Start with I Can See Clearly Now. It is one session at £495. Gemma finds the real thing you have been too close to see, and you leave with a clear direction. Most people know exactly what to do next after that.

Is the free workbook actually useful or just a lead magnet?

It is genuinely useful. The Business Foundations Workbook takes you through the six foundations every business needs before it can hold without you. It is free because Gemma wanted women to be able to start without paying first.

The next move

Ready to see what your business could actually run like?

Start with the free Business Foundations Workbook. It walks you through the six foundations your business needs before it can hold without you.

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