Building smarter systems for real growth.

Jake Richardson is a marketer turned AI strategist who helps businesses build systems that actually run. His career spans agencies, professional services firms, nonprofits and Fortune 500 marketing teams.

Jake Richardson, founder and AI strategist at AnovaGrowth.

Most owners know AI matters. They just do not know where to start.

The tools are real and so is the potential. Between the hype and the vendor noise, most teams freeze. Jake’s career has been about closing that gap.

  • Too many tools

    New ones every week, and no clear path forward.

  • No technical team

    Nobody in-house to judge which options are real.

  • Fear of getting it wrong

    Budget spent on hype instead of on the work.

From marketing roots to AI.

  1. Early careerStudied marketing, then worked across agencies, professional services firms, nonprofits and corporate marketing teams.
  2. March 2023Launched AnovaGrowth as a web development agency, then saw what most owners were missing as AI tools went mainstream.
  3. The AI shiftLed AI initiatives inside a Fortune 500 corporation and built solutions for small and midsized businesses.

“AI is not here to replace what you do. It is here to remove the things that slow you down, so you can focus on the work that moves the needle.”

What Jake brings to every project.

  • AI systems

    AI strategy and integration, enterprise applications, workflow design.

  • Growth operations

    Marketing automation, HubSpot operations, CRM strategy.

  • Digital delivery

    Digital marketing and web development.

  • Connected execution

    Email marketing and process automation.

Let us build something smarter.

Bring the workflow that slows you down. We will show you what is possible and what is worth doing first.