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Twenty years of doing this work.

A marketing and technology consultancy for the people running Hawaiʻi businesses. Based on Maui, built for the long haul.
technology-pillar-lanai
20 yrs
in venture-backed tech & high-growth startups
Maui
based, and supporting Hawaiʻi businesses
Small
by design, no layers between you and the work
1 partner
leads your engagement, start to finish
Who we are

Kukui Growth Partners is a marketing and technology consultancy for the people running Hawaiʻi businesses. We’re based on Maui, and we do the work owner-operators have outgrown but don’t have the time or the team to do well themselves.

There’s no shortage of agencies here that’ll run your ads and your Yelp. That work is a dime a dozen. What’s rare, especially in Hawaiʻi, is a partner with the domain expertise and the technical depth to actually transform how a business runs, and to stay in it for the long haul. That’s the gap we fill.

Behind KGP is twenty years of marketing and technology work inside venture-backed startups and high-growth tech companies on the mainland. That experience is now pointed at a different kind of business: the local operator with real customers, a small team, and no patience for agency theater.

How we’re different.

Small by design.

We’re not trying to become a big agency with a sales team and account managers between you and the work. Gabe leads every engagement personally.

Technologists, not just marketers.

Most agencies stop where the technical work begins. We build the systems, connect the tools, and write the automation other agencies have to outsource. It’s why we could take back a business locked out of its own website, and why “we can’t do that” isn’t something you’ll hear from us.

We solve problems, not sell products.

We don’t have packages to push. We figure out what your business actually needs, scope it, and price it up front.

We tell you the truth.

If ads aren’t your problem, we’ll say so. If the thing you asked for isn’t the thing you need, we’ll tell you that too. 

We’re from here.

We understand the businesses we work with because we live and work in the same place they do. This is not a mainland agency cosplaying local.

The work we’re proud of

We took back a multi million-dollar Maui business from a developer who had locked them out.

We built the marketing operation behind a respected Hawaiian voice.

We gave a nonprofit the website, the systems, and the foundation it needed to do more with less.

See the work →

Let’s talk story.

Tell us what’s going on. We’ll tell you straight whether we can help.

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