Host Jeremy C. Park interviews Alex Shockey, CEO, and Sridhar Sunkara, co-founder of WaveRock, who highlight the Growth Navigator and AI-powered growth strategy platform designed to help small businesses access strategic planning benefits previously only available to large enterprises. Sridhar explains that WaveRock addresses the challenge of high costs for strategic consulting by combining their team’s expertise in technology, AI, and growth strategy while Alex details the simple 12-question wizard interface that produces tailored growth plans based on established frameworks. Alex emphasizes that what distinguishes WaveRock from generic AI tools is the structured expertise of the founders, particularly Mark and Michael from Epic Pivot, whose decades of strategy experience powers the platform’s strategic analysis and market intelligence capabilities.
The discussion focuses on a three-step AI-powered strategy platform that democratizes expert-level consulting for small businesses. Sridhar explains how the AI acts as a multi-agentic framework, providing guidance at each stage through different expert agents who advise users on answers, context, and strategy development. Jeremy notes the collaborative benefit of using the platform with a team in the same room, creating synergistic opportunities for developing growth roadmaps.
Alex explains the process for using the WaveRock’s Growth Navigator tool, recommending that users answer the 12 questions thoroughly to get the best results from the platform. Sridhar highlights the tool’s flexibility, noting that users can adjust priorities and strategies based on their context and resources, with the tool automatically updating the plan, resources, risks, and metrics accordingly. Alex emphasizes how the tool can provide valuable insights and recommendations, such as creating job descriptions, at a fraction of the cost of hiring a consultant.
Alex and Sridhar explain that WaveRock’s AI tool is be valuable for small businesses and business advisors as an augmentation tool, helping identify competitors and strategic blind spots that might otherwise go unnoticed. Sridhar emphasizes that the platform protects sensitive company data by only sending context to AI models without sharing actual financial or critical information between companies.
Alex announces that business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs can learn more about WaveRock by visiting waverock.ai and can use the code cityCURRENT50 to receive a $50 discount, bringing the total price down to $249. She also mentions that the $50 discount amount would be matched and donated to the cityCURRENT community fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis to help power the GOOD and fuel cityCURRENT’s philanthropic giving to nonprofits.
Visit https://waverock.ai to learn more about WaveRock and use code “cityCURRENT50” to receive a $50 discount.
