Discovery consult
$0
A conversation, no commitment.
By phone, or chat in Discord, Facebook Messenger, SMS, Zoom, anything you’re comfortable with.
Practical AI for small businesses in the Midlands.
We’re a new AI consultancy in Lexington, helping Midlands small businesses put AI to useful work: automating routine tasks, building custom bots, checking where AI fits, and training your team.
Move through the trees: nearby fireflies fall into step with yours.Touch the forest: nearby fireflies fall into step with you.The forest is paused. Press play to watch the fireflies fall into step. Why fireflies?
Four practical ways to start.
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Workflow automation
Hand off the repetitive steps.
Software that moves information between your tools, sorts incoming requests, and drafts standard replies.
Examples: intake forms, scheduling, follow-ups, data entry.
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Custom Bots
Your own AI bot, set up and running.
We help you choose Grok Bot, Dots, Muse, or Hermes, set it up, and train your team to use it.
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Readiness audits
Know where AI fits, and where it doesn’t.
A plain-language review of your tasks, tools, data, and risks, and what to do first.
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Team training
Help your people use it well.
Hands-on sessions for owners and staff: getting useful results from AI, checking its work, and handling customer information with care.
Book a consult
Not sure which one fits? That’s what the consult is for.
Simple prices, agreed up front.
Introductory prices, good through January 31, 2027.
Audit or bot setup
$199
Fixed price, for either one.
Readiness audit
Book a build within 30 days and the $199 comes off its price.
Bot setup
One-time: we set up one simple bot and show your team how to use it.
A build
$499+
Fixed quote before any work starts.
One task, built with tools you already use, and set up so your team can run it. We expect most builds to land between $499 and $1,500.
A 50% deposit gets the work started.
What we don’t do
- Push big, expensive systems
- Sell solutions that don’t fit
- Lock you into ongoing fees
Instead, we train your people and make sure what’s built is yours: your accounts, your data, your systems.
New, local, and straightforward.
Manalive Tech is a new AI consultancy, founded and run by Robert Stevens in Lexington, South Carolina.
Because the business is new, you won’t find client logos or testimonials here.
- Based in
- Lexington, South Carolina
- Serving
- Lexington & the Midlands
- Founder
- Robert Stevens
Why lightning bugs?
Because of a small wonder a short drive from Lexington, and because it’s a good picture of the work.
Each spring in Congaree National Park, the fireflies do something rare: they flash together. No firefly is in charge. Each one simply nudges its timing toward the flashes it sees nearby, and before long whole stretches of the forest blink in rhythm.
Mathematicians describe this with the Kuramoto model: many oscillators, each with its own natural pace, each gently pulled toward the others. When the pull is weak, they stay scattered. Past a critical point, order appears on its own. The forest on this page runs a version of it live, in your browser.
dθidt
= ωi +
KN
∑j sin(θj − θi)
- θiWhere firefly i is in its cycle. It flashes at the top.
- ωiIts own natural pace. No two are quite the same.
- KHow strongly each one responds to the others.
It’s also how we think about AI in a small business. Not one big machine that takes over, but small, sensible connections that help your people and tools fall into step.
The forest, as a circleLive
Finding a rhythm
r = 0.00
Each dot is a firefly from the forest behind this panel, placed by where it is in its cycle; it flashes as it crosses the top. The arrow, r, grows as they fall into step: 0 is scattered, 1 is perfectly together.
Let’s talk about your business.
Tell us a little about your business. Only your name and email are required.
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Our Bot assistant answers, day or night. It takes your details and emails Robert a summary. Calls are recorded and transcribed.
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