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đ¤ Who we are
đ What is working with us like?
đ§ The nuts and bolts
đ Our values
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Nous - the intelligent agent
It is an intelligent agent that helps households manage their bills, saving them money and time. We believe it is wrong to penalise people if they donât have the capacity or inclination to ensure theyâre always getting the fairest deal for basic utilities.
Yet the reality is that millions of households are still overpaying for things like energy, broadband and mobiles. And itâs not just by a few pounds here or there either - for many households it can be thousands of pounds per year, which hits all the harder in the context of an ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
Thatâs why weâve created an agent to liberate households from drudgery and make peopleâs lives simpler and fairer.
Nous - the business
Nous is also a business. We're creating something pretty audacious and it's growing fast. We're opinionated about the kind of business we want to build - one on the side of consumers - and are convinced (and have the data to back up) there is a very big business to build here. We've got the experience, battle-scars and investors to back up our ambition and want to find people looking to turbo-charge their trajectory.
We're often asked, 'What made you choose this idea?' Fewer people ask, 'Why, of all the things you could do with your life, did you choose to start a company?'
It's an important question, because the answer is behind a lot of our decisions.
For us as founders, before we even committed to starting something together, we spoke about the periods in our lives when we'd been part of a fantastic team, with the right culture, focussed on an important, difficult problemâand something amazing happened. These were not easy periods, they were hard and sometimes exhausting phases, but they were also enormously rewarding, formative experiences.
We started this company so we can do our best work, together.
It isn't just about the outcome â the reward is in the building. This is what we want to do. Solving hard problems with great people. Building something from nothing. Doing our best work.
<aside> đĄ Couldn't find the role you were looking for? Send your CV (or LinkedIn profile) to [email protected] along with some context on what you could help us do.
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We donât like to boast but we were described by Jimmy McLoughlin OBE as âThe best careers page I have ever seen, and I probably look at two dozen a weekâ.
<aside> đ§ But donât just take it from us - listen to Nous CEO, Greg Marsh, on Jimmy's Jobs of the Future podcast, where he talks about entrepreneurship, what it's like to work at Nous, and why we're so passionate about helping households save money: https://podfollow.com/jimmysjobs/view
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âWhen the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.â â Oscar Wilde
Since its public launch in May 2024, Nous has been growing rapidly â very rapidly.
On the one hand that is excellent news: we can barely keep up with demand for the service, there are features we need to have built the day before yesterday, and â fundamentally â what we are doing matters.
On the other hand, there are easier ways to make a living. Life in a rapidly growing start-up isnât for the faint-hearted. It can be frenetic, chaotic and demanding. Thereâs still plenty of ambiguity because often the thing that needs to be done (the thing that you have been tasked to do) hasnât been done before. That doesnât mean it canât be done; thatâs why youâre here. But it requires first principles problem-solving, thinking on your feet, moving quickly â but not too quickly. Itâs difficult, in a good way perhaps, but it it is difficult.
Donât worry. Not every day is like this.
Donât worry. Not every day is like this.
You have to be accountable to your manager, but also to customers, to suppliers, to stakeholders, to your colleaguesâand to the mission. Balancing those things requires an alertness and a good sense of judgment. You also have to work hard â sometimes very hard.
The people who tend to thrive in a high growth business are ones who read those two paragraphs and feel excited rather than scared. This isnât for everyone.
Looking backwards to look forward
At the beginning of 2025 the product team did a retro and we forced ourself to look back a whole year. It was almost comical how much had changed in a year. How immature everything seemed, how crude and rudimentary our product was, how few users we had. It seemed like a different world. Then we had so little, now we've built and achieved so much.
At the beginning of 2026 I'm sure we'll do a similar exercise and say exactly the same things. Wow at the beginning of 2025 we were so small, our product was so crude, our team so small. Can you imagine X, Y and Z just didn't exist at all!
While this challenge isnât for everyone, for those who thrive on it, itâs immensely fun.
You get to work with insanely smart, driven people (and a rapidly growing number of them) â people who came top of their class at some of the worldâs best universities, people whose hobbies are solving puzzles and making things, or cooking world-class food just because.
You get to build a product that touches peopleâs lives. Helping people save money, save time, be able to face each month knowing that Nous has their back and is taking care of their finances â thatâs straightforwardly a good thing, and it doesnât take scholastics to rationalise why. Tech can be a force for good and can really help people, so long as you do it the right way.
You get to be part of something scaling fast. A fast scaling business creates lots of challenges. But for someone who's leaning in, its these challenges that create opportunities. What starts as someone's side project might end up as a whole function. We don't know exactly what the opportunities will be yet - but we do know that the people who combine skill, drive, initiative and context will be the ones who will grab them.
You get to work on genuinely interesting problems. Building one of the worldâs first agentic systems is a fascinating intellectual challenge. And itâs an extensively complex problem, not a narrow one for ultra-geeks. Extensive complexity isnât mastered by a small number of brilliant academics in a room with whiteboards, itâs mastered by broad cross-functional teams, each grappling with different corners of the challenge at the same time.
Although there are still plenty of whiteboards. We quite like those.