About Manawave

Built in Kauai. Built for businesses that deserve better.

A productized marketing agency for local service businesses. Six channels, one integrated team, transparent monthly pricing. No long contracts. No surprises. No agency-speak.

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The story

Local businesses deserve better than the marketing industry has been giving them.

Manawave started in Kauai, where local businesses are the heart of the community. Restaurants, contractors, healers, shops, services. Real people doing real work, day after day. But almost none of them showed up online the way they deserve to.

The tourists who would have loved them never found them. The locals who already knew them couldn't even recommend them online. Their websites were broken, their Google Maps profiles were thin, their reviews were stale, their social media was empty, their email lists were inboxes.

Most agencies wanted to fix one slice of that problem and charge a fortune for it. Or worse, sell hours that turned into invoices that turned into nothing customers could see. We built Manawave because the math should be simpler than that.

"You hire an agency to get found and grow. Not to manage your agency."

So Manawave runs the whole marketing fundamentals stack at once. AI search visibility, Google Maps, social media, reputation and reviews, content, and email. Six channels, one integrated team, one monthly bill. The kind of operation that actually compounds.

Three commitments shape everything we do: transparency (pricing on the page, deliverables in writing, monthly reports you can actually read), productized scope (you know what you get, we know what to ship, no scope-creep invoices), and honesty about timelines (real visibility results take 90 to 180 days minimum; longer for newer businesses; anyone telling you 30 days is overpromising).

What we believe

Four ideas that shape everything.

Not slogans. Operating principles we use to decide what to do and what to refuse to do.

Show your pricing.

The agencies that hide pricing behind "schedule a call" do it because the pricing wouldn't survive sunlight. Ours does. Free Scan, $99 Audit, $1,997 Sprint, Care Plan tiers from $750/month. On the page, always.

Productize the work.

Fixed scope, fixed pricing, written deliverables. No "we'll bill you for the hours we spent thinking about it." If we can't define exactly what you get, we won't sell it.

Honest timelines.

Real visibility results in AI search and Google rankings take 90 to 180 days minimum. Newer businesses take longer. We say that up front, set the measurement in the Sprint, and walk you through what to expect and when.

No long contracts.

The Sprint is one-time. The Care Plan is month-to-month, cancel anytime. Annual is optional and saves two months. If we're not earning your business every month, we shouldn't have it.

How we work

Speed of software. Accountability of a real team.

Manawave is built to run multiple channels at once without dropping balls. The boring parts are automated. The judgment parts are run by people. The reporting is transparent so you always know where things stand.

Automated

The boring parts

Citation cleanups, review request sending, social scheduling, email sequencing, ranking checks, reporting. The repetitive work that breaks when humans get tired.

Human

The judgment parts

Strategy calls, voice and tone, content review, response to a negative review, what to push and what to pause. Anything that needs a brain attached.

Transparent

The reporting

Monthly dashboard you can actually read. Quarterly or monthly strategy call (tier-dependent). You always know what we shipped, what moved, and what's next.

What we promise. What we don't.

Here's what's honest, in writing.

We promise to deliver every deliverable on every Sprint and Care Plan, on schedule.If we miss a deliverable, we ship it for free until we're caught up. No exceptions.
We promise transparent reporting every month.You see what was shipped, what moved, what changed. No mystery slides.
We promise to tell you up front when something won't work.If your timeline expectations don't match the work, we say so before you pay, not after.
We do NOT promise specific outcomes on 30-day timelines.Real visibility results in AI search and Google rankings take 90 to 180 days minimum, longer for newer businesses. Anyone telling you otherwise is overpromising.
We do NOT promise specific revenue numbers.Marketing creates the visibility that leads to revenue. The selling, pricing, fulfillment, and customer experience are still yours. We can show you a lot more customers; we can't guarantee what you do with them.
We do NOT bind you to long contracts.Care Plan is month-to-month. Cancel anytime. If we earn your business, you stay. If we don't, you leave.

What we do

Six channels. One integrated team.

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Curious if we'd be a fit?

Run a free AI visibility scan in 30 seconds to see where you stand today. Or book a paid Strategy Session ($297, credited toward your Sprint or first month of Care Plan).

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