We build the internal architecture that turns high-growth companies into 1% unicorns.
Culture. People. Infrastructure. Scale.
Most firms that come to us are struggling because the internal systems underneath their growth cannot hold the weight of where they are trying to go. Culture becomes a liability instead of an advantage, driving attrition that is wildly expensive and time consuming. Hiring produces the wrong people at the wrong moments which compounds the problem. Internal systems are not built to support the pace of growth, and AI becomes a massive undertaking instead of the efficiency driver it should be. The founder ends up as the single point of failure in every critical decision.
Tanima works from within. We step inside your business and rebuild the infrastructure that determines whether your growth is something you can sustain or something you eventually survive. Culture that operates as a real performance standard. Hiring systems that compound your leadership capacity over time. Operational infrastructure designed to scale without bottlenecking at the top.
We are not here to give you a framework and wish you well. We embed and build so the architecture sustains your company and culture.
The companies that become 1% unicorns built the internal systems to hold speed with teams that think like owners, culture that supports leaders, and infrastructure that removes dependency from the top.
Most businesses try to grow on top of misalignment that unfolds due to scalability challenges.
Tanima, with over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies and high-growth health systems, works from within, identifying where friction is being created across leadership, hiring, and operations, and restructuring those systems and bottlenecks through AI, operational efficiencies, and hiring the right humans.
This is a genuine strategic partnership and we are selective about who we take on.
Built for founders and leadership teams navigating the complexity that comes with real growth.
Tanima works with founders and leadership teams who are navigating the complexity that comes with growth. Specifically, we work with early-stage and scaling startups building their first real organizational systems, consulting firms growing beyond the founder and into a team, and small to mid-size businesses that have outgrown how they currently operate. If you are asking whether your culture, hiring, or internal systems can carry the next phase of your growth, that is the conversation we are here to have.
We focus on the systems that inform scalability.
Culture as Operational Advantage
Rather than a set of values posted on a wall, we partner with you to design a lived standard that drives performance, retention, and accountability across every level of the organization.
Hiring That Builds Capacity
We build hiring systems that attract the right people and develop them into leaders who expand your company's capacity, so that each hire compounds your ability to scale leaders.
Operational Infrastructure
We architect the workflows, decision frameworks, and organizational structures with AI that allow your business to scale without the bottlenecks that inhibit scale.
"We step inside companies and rebuild the internal systems that determine whether they scale or stall out."— Annie Whitney, Founder · Tanima Advisory
A 60-person healthcare technology company came to Tanima with a leadership team stretched beyond capacity and a hiring process producing misaligned hires at every level. Over six months we restructured their internal decision-making and change management framework, rebuilt their hiring infrastructure from job architecture through onboarding, and installed a culture accountability system with AI across four departments. Within one operating cycle, voluntary turnover dropped, leadership bandwidth opened up, and the CEO was no longer the single point of failure in every critical decision.
That is what we mean by building from within.
Work with us.
Every partnership begins with a diagnostic to ensure alignment. We work with a limited number of organizations at any given time due to the high-proximity, hands-on nature of our work.
The Diagnostic
Strategic Clarity Engagement · Paid EngagementA deep operational diagnostic designed to identify where your company is structurally capping its own growth. This is a standalone paid engagement. We commit fully to understanding your business, and you leave with a document you can execute from immediately.
We assess how decisions are being made, where leadership is overextended, hiring is misaligned, and where internal systems, or lack thereof, are creating friction. You leave with a clear, prioritized execution plan outlining what to fix, what to build, and what to stop doing now.
Strategic Advisory
Six-Month Retainer PartnershipA six-month strategic partnership focused on execution. We work alongside your lead ership team to refine hiring, rebuild internal systems, and support the decisions that determine whether your growth is sustained.
We create a plan for execution through stronger decision-making and expanding your company's capacity to scale. Monthly strategy sessions anchor the engagement. The work between sessions is where the real progress happens.
Embedded Operator
Twelve-Month Retainer · Highest ProximityOur most comprehensive and deeply collaborative engagement reserved for organizations committed to building a 1% business. At this level, we step inside your business as an embedded operator, working closely with leadership to build the internal architecture required for long-term scale.
We move beyond quarterly wins into institutional strength: leadership that holds under the expected pressures that come with growth, teams that operate without constant oversight, and systems that we iterate and refine ahead of any fractures.
Most consultants advise from the outside.
We build from within.
Tanima was founded by Annie Whitney, a strategic advisor with a background in management consulting and executive-level operations. Our work is built from decades of experience inside complex, high-growth environments, advising on and leading the systems that determine whether organizations scale or stall inside hospitals, health systems, and Fortune 500 brands.
Annie's tenure as Vice President of Operations and Account Management within a high-growth healthcare organization is the operational foundation Tanima is built on, with direct responsibility for the infrastructure, teams, and decision-making frameworks that drive revenue and retention that leads to long-term growth.
That foundation in management consulting, the ability to quickly diagnose where businesses fracture across people, structure, and execution, and translate that into clear actionable strategy, is what we bring to every engagement. Combined with the experience of building a multi-six-figure advisory business from the ground up, Tanima offers both external diagnostics and internal operational leadership.
Growth is a systems problem.
- MBA in Marketing & Finance
- VP of Provider Operations & Account Management, high-growth healthcare
- Experience scaling cross-functional teams and revenue-driving departments
- Founder, multi-six-figure advisory and coaching ecosystem
- Deep expertise in organizational design, culture architecture, and strategic hiring
Reserved for organizations scaling intentionally.
Tanima works with a limited number of companies at any given time. This is intentional.
If you are ready to build the internal systems required for sustainable scale, we invite you to apply. Every engagement begins with a short application so we can ensure the fit is right on both sides.