For students

Meet the three I'd hire for this semester

Set each one up once. They just run.

They will not write your essays — that is the part you are marked on, and one of them will say so if you ask.

The staff

Hire one, or all three. They hand work to each other, and every one of them is the same object with a different brief and different accounts attached.

Pip

Deadlines

PIP READS THE HANDBOOK SO I DON'T.

  • Calendar
  • Gmail
  • Notion
  • Drive

Signed in once, and only for this company.

  • Pulls every date out
  • Puts them in my calendar
  • Warns me a week ahead
  • Chases the group chat

the deadline I found out about on the Friday

Nell

Applications

NELL FILLS IN MY APPLICATIONS.

  • Drive
  • Docs
  • Gmail

Signed in once, and only for this company.

  • Reads what the scheme wants
  • Reuses my best answer
  • Cuts it to the word limit
  • Files it before it shuts

the same five answers, thirtieth time

Bo

What I'm owed

BO GETS ME PAID.

  • Gmail
  • Sheets
  • Calendar

Signed in once, and only for this company.

  • Checks my rota against payslips
  • Writes to payroll
  • Chases the letting agent
  • Keeps going until they answer

two shifts I covered in February

An hour of it, as it actually goes

One Hand, one job, and the part where it stops and asks. Not every shift log starts in the morning, and nothing below leaves the building until you say so.

Shift log · Sunday Pip · applications
You, 19:10 Find what I can still apply to for next summer, and start with whatever closes first.
Read your CV, last year's applications and the drafts in Drive
Fourteen schemes match your degree and right to work
Four close inside ten days — Kestrel closes Tuesday
Rewrote your strongest answer down to their 250 words
One wants an academic reference you have not asked for yet
Needs your decision

Ask Dr Okafor for the reference? The draft gives her the deadline, the scheme, and two lines about the project you did with her — so she can say yes without writing it from nothing.

ApproveDeny

In your words

Things people actually ask

  • “Read the module handbook and put every deadline in my calendar with a week's warning.”
  • “I covered two shifts in February and was never paid for either. Write to payroll, and keep writing.”
  • “Which of these schemes can I still apply to, and which one shuts first?”

Questions

The ones that come up first

Will it write my essays?

No, and it will tell you so if you ask. That is the part you are marked on. What it does is the work around it: sources found and kept with the citation attached, a reading list turned into a week-by-week plan, and application forms filled in from answers you have already written yourself.

I cannot afford another subscription.

Bring the AI subscription you already pay for — Claude, Codex or Grok — and the thinking costs nothing on top. If you do not have one, write to hello@tryhands.com and ask about the student rate before you sign up for anything.

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