A small team building an
professional-grade AI partner.
We started Maria because the gap between "I want a personal brand" and "I have one" is mostly strategy, not typing. We're closing that gap.
Why we started.
Our founder spent eight years running marketing at venture-backed companies and a small studio of her own. The thing she noticed most often, across every person she worked with, was the same:ame: they all had something to say. None of them said it consistently.
The tools that arrived in 2023–2024 didn't help. They generated. They templated. They flattened. The people most likely to use them were the people whose voices mattered most — and the AI took the voice out of the work.
Maria is the answer to that mismatch. A strategist who notices, asks, structures, and pushes — without taking the pen from your hand.
What we believe.
Five principles that decide what we build, what we refuse, and how we treat the people who pay us.
Your voice is the moat.
Anyone can prompt a model. Nobody else has lived your life. We protect that.
Drafts are downstream of thinking.
We build the thinking layer. The drafting is the easy part — and the dangerous one.
Humans hit publish.
We will never auto-publish for you. A brand people trust has a human at the wheel.
Consistency over virality.
Three posts a week for a year compound past any one viral hit. We optimise for that.
Your sessions are yours.
We don't train shared models on private workspaces. Ever. Read the policy.
Nine humans.
Mostly strategists. Two engineers. One annoying golden retriever.
Maria, in chapters.
- JAN 2024First prototype. Daily voice memo, weekly digest. Six founders, one Notion database.
- MAY 2024First real strategist-in-the-loop. Dani joins. We stop calling it a generator.
- SEP 2024Closed beta. 120 members. Daily sync becomes the core ritual.
- MAR 2025Trend radar ships. Personal trend graphs, not viral charts. The product earns its name.
- SEP 2025Brand voice mapping. Tone sliders, guided rewrites. Output finally sounds like the writer.
- NOV 2026Public early access. 1,200 humans. Hand-picked. Where we are now.