AI setup for relationship-driven businesses
Your clients expect a real person. AI can take the rest of the week's work.
Resonant Growth is an AI consulting practice in Santa Monica for owner-led teams of roughly 5 to 50 people. I set up AI around how your business already runs, so the repetitive work gets lighter and your people keep their attention on clients.
For businesses that run on relationships
Owner-led teams of roughly 5 to 50 people, where clients expect a real person and the owner's attention is the scarcest thing in the building.
- Decisions and follow-ups wait on one or two people.
- The same work repeats every week: recaps, updates, reports, research.
- You want help from AI without the client experience feeling automated.
Most small teams already pay for AI. Few have anyone setting it up.
What's missing is someone who sits with the work, finds what's eating the hours, and sets things up so they run every day.
Three ways to work together
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Build
I build it for you. You tell me what's eating your time, and I set it up so it runs.
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Teach
Your team learns to build it themselves, on Zoom over a few weeks or in person at your office, working on your real tasks.
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Support
I'm your go-to person. A set number of hours each month: when someone's stuck or wants to build something new, they call me.
Most teams combine them: I build the first one or two things with you and teach as we go. After that, I'm on call.
How it goes
- A 30-minute call.
You tell me where the time goes.
- Options in writing.
Real numbers, a few days later. No proposal theater.
- Start with one thing.
Something that saves time in the first weeks, not a six-month roadmap.
- You keep it.
Everything is documented so it doesn't depend on me.
I look at how information moves through your business before touching any tool. I call it IA Before AI: information architecture before artificial intelligence.
I run this in my own work first
I'm COO & CMO of Toronix Gourmet, a boutique group of food and beverage businesses, where I'm making the operation AI-forward without losing the high-touch experience customers come for.
One example from my own work: questions waiting on the owner used to scatter across email and texts and get lost. Now every open question sits on one board, and replies that come back by email get matched to it automatically each week.
Resonant Growth is part of the Claude Partner Network (opens in new tab).
Free and public: a Claude Code starter kit (opens in new tab) and a tips site (opens in new tab), so you can see how I teach before we ever talk.
Mariana Small
15+ years leading marketing and operations in healthcare tech and insurance, now running operations and marketing for a boutique group of food and beverage businesses.
I build systems that make the work repeatable and lighter to carry, so people can spend their attention on what actually needs them.
Full profile at marianasmall.ai → (opens in new tab)Common questions
Who is Resonant Growth for?
Businesses that run on relationships: owner-led teams of roughly 5 to 50 people, where clients expect a real person and the owner's attention is the scarcest thing in the building.
What are the ways to work together?
Three ways. Build: I build it for you. Teach: your team learns to build it themselves, on Zoom over a few weeks or in person at your office, working on your real tasks. Support: a set number of hours each month, so when someone's stuck or wants to build something new, they call me. Most teams combine them.
How do we start?
With a 30-minute call. A few days later you get options in writing, with real numbers. We start with one thing that saves time in the first weeks, and everything is documented so it doesn't depend on me.
Where do you work?
In person around Los Angeles, and on Zoom anywhere in the world.
What is IA Before AI?
Information architecture before artificial intelligence: I look at how information moves through your business before touching any tool.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes. Bring the task you'd most like to stop doing, and I'll tell you plainly whether I can help.
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