Strategist Gives Businesses Access to Growth with AI Powered Platform

The fundamental pro to Cynthia Nevels’ career has been that she’s always said yes to opportunities that she knew nothing about. Twenty-five years ago, when she had an office job and a W2 job in the tech industry – she says she was a sponge.

“I would read every fax, read all the newsletters scattered throughout the office, read through the books that were collecting dust, listen to the powers that be when they spoke to learn the language and watch NPR,” Nevels reflects. “I didn’t know the language of business or how to function in a corporate setting. There was no one to teach me how to navigate in the white world, so I had to absorb it all through experience.”

Today, Nevels - Founder and CEO of Integrality, LLC is brimming with joy as she celebrates the recent launch of KPIXAI, the first AI-powered growth simulation platform.

Nevels needed a way to impress upon her clients the importance of moving the needle in business. She didn’t just look for a way – she created a way. This brainchild of Nevels is purposed to give America's more than 34 million small businesses access to enterprise- level strategic planning technology at a fraction of the cost.

KPIXAI is a culmination of all the years she’s been in business and the understanding that there must be more than word documents and PowerPoint presentations to move business forward.

The framework for developing a growth strategy and an action plan is the basis of what Nevels does for a living. The objective is to help small business owners develop their respective strategies for growth.

Nevels realized that Fortune 500 companies pay millions for systems like hers with major firms, however, there wasn’t an application or platform designed for strategic growth for entrepreneurs.

“Sometimes when you’re working on your action plan, it will be in the form of a word document or a PowerPoint presentation, but that is not a system for management,” Nevels explains. “I needed something that I could continue to hold my clients and my accelerator graduates accountable for what they say they’re going to do to grow.”

The graduates Nevels so affectionately references when speaking of strategic growth are the individuals and business owners who study tirelessly under her in the economic development program - Start.Pivot.Grow, which is an extension of Integrality.

During the pandemic, Nevels launched Start.Pivot.Grow to help midsized businesses prepare growth strategies to get them to six and seven figures. To date, the program has helped more than 120 businesses. In 2024 alone, $724,000 in capital was raised and 19 jobs were created.

“KPIXAI is an open platform that any small business owner can subscribe to, but it is also the fundamental tool that I use for my VIP clients at Integrality. And it is the training tool that I use with Start.Pivot.Grow Accelerator,” Nevels shares. “Everyone that I serve will use KPIXAI.”

To launch the new platform, Nevels is primed to deliver a national virtual demonstration on the topic of stagnation.

So often when business owners don’t have a growth strategy, haven’t written a plan, don’t know what the projections are and haven’t written a sales strategy – they hit a brick wall. Sales with stagnate and business owners will question why they can’t advance beyond a certain amount.

“That stagnation is not solely related to a lack of access to capital. The capital exists, but many business owners are not prepared for it,” Nevels explains. “How do you go from stagnation that was likely caused by ill preparation to preparing the business for 5x, 10x growth? And then the system introduces business owners to what they should have in place to move the needle.”

KPIXAI is very user friendly and serves to educate users on automated strategy development, data-driving decision support, real-time key performance tracking and even simulated profitability forecasting.

There are people who can afford strategists like me to do the leg work for them and that’s fine,” Nevels says. “If you’ve never hired an advisor, a consultant or a CPA to do this work – you may jump out there with a plan because you want the bank to provide funding. But what do you do with the plan? Do you ever pick it up again? Now you’re guessing what to do with your business and guessing how to make money. That’s not a business. That’s a hustle.”

In 2025, we still don’t see a ton of women in tech. Many people still don’t believe that women can create software, applications or problem-solving tools. Nevels has knocked down so many barriers in her career. She is living proof that sometimes the message is for you even when the messenger is attempting to talk to someone else.