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Insights Acceleration for Food & Beverage Brands

Stop Guessing What Your Customers Want.

Turn feedback into decision-ready insights—2–3x faster.

We bring structure to your existing insights workflow—so your team can make faster, more confident decisions without adding headcount.

Identify your biggest bottleneck and what to fix first.

Mariana Dalto
12+ YearsInside Leading Brands
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The Problem

You have more customer feedback than ever. But less clarity on what to do next.

You’re collecting feedback from surveys, interviews, support tickets, and product analytics—but it’s scattered, inconsistent, and hard to turn into clear decisions.

So your team debates priorities, second-guesses decisions, and moves slower than it should.

You shouldn’t have to guess what your customers want—especially when they’re already telling you.

And while decisions stall, opportunities get missed and your team loses momentum.

Find Your Bottleneck

By the time feedback is synthesized, the opportunity has passed. Your team is always one step behind the decisions that need them most.

Every report tells a different story depending on who ran the analysis. Leadership stops trusting the findings, and research loses its seat at the table.

Feedback volume keeps growing. Headcount does not. Your researchers are spending more time managing data than generating insight.

Every project starts from scratch. Insights live in slide decks, not in a system your team can build on. The wheel gets reinvented every single time.

This is the gap between where your team is and where it needs to be. You go from reacting to data to running a fast, reliable insights engine. That shift starts with finding exactly where the process breaks down.

Mariana Dalto — Strategy
Strategy session
Strategy First
Strategy Before Tools. Always.

You don’t need another tool. You need a faster workflow.

Most teams try to fix slow insights with new platforms or AI prompts. But tools don’t fix broken workflows. That’s where Mariana comes in.

She acts as the architect of your insights workflow, designing the structure, flow, and sequencing that moves your existing data faster from collection to decision.

“You go from reacting to data to running a fast, reliable insights engine.”

— Mariana Dalto

What Mariana Does

  • Speeds up insight generation so decisions happen faster
  • Delivers consistent, decision-ready outputs every time
  • Installs workflows that run inside your existing tools
  • Enables your team to run the process independently

What Mariana Does Not Do

  • Replace your research agency or fieldwork partners
  • Build custom software or require new platforms
  • Rely on a single AI solution to fix everything
  • Take over your entire research function

The numbers behind what your team is feeling.

When teams implement structured insight systems, the impact is clear:

The research confirms it. Slow insights are not a team problem. They are a systems problem. The brands closing the gap between feedback and decisions are not hiring more analysts. They are fixing the workflow first.

Decision Inefficiency
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of time spent on decisions—much of it ineffective
  • Slow decisions
  • Lack of clarity
  • Wasted effort
McKinsey & Company ↗
Productivity Gap
0x
faster productivity growth for top-performing teams vs. their peers
  • Systems & process advantage
  • Measurable performance gap
McKinsey Global Institute ↗
Key Driver
Workflow
redesign
Rethinking how work gets done—eliminating, streamlining, and improving workflows—is the primary driver of productivity gains
  • Not headcount
  • Not new tools
  • The system is the advantage
McKinsey & Company ↗
The difference isn’t more data—it’s having a system to turn it into clear, actionable decisions.
Slow insights are not a team problem. They are a systems problem. The right workflow changes everything—without adding headcount or adopting new platforms.

That’s what separates teams that move fast from teams that stay stuck.
Mariana Dalto — What Changes
What Changes When the System Works

This is what faster insights actually look like inside your business.

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Qualitative analysis moves from days to hours
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Research turnaround time drops by 30 to 50%
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Outputs become consistent and trusted
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Leadership gets the insights before decisions are made
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Your team runs the process independently, without adding headcount or new tools

You go from reacting to data… to running a fast, reliable insights engine your entire organization depends on.

The Solution

Three phases to turn feedback into faster, clearer decisions.

Find the bottleneck. Fix it. Build the system.

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Phase One

Find the Bottleneck in Your Insights Process

Every slow insights process has one thing in common: a hidden bottleneck. We map how feedback flows through your team and pinpoint exactly where decisions are slowing down.

  • A clear map of your current insights workflow
  • Identification of the key bottleneck causing delays
  • A breakdown of where time and effort are being lost
  • The highest-impact opportunities for automation and acceleration
  • A prioritized recommendation on what to fix first
You get a clear picture of what’s slowing your team down—and exactly where to focus.
Phase Two

Fix the Workflow

Once we identify the bottleneck, we redesign key parts of your workflow so your team can move from raw customer feedback to clear decisions—faster.

  • Redesign key steps for speed and consistency
  • Implement templates and processes within your existing tools
  • Test and refine the workflow with your team
  • Deliver measurable improvements in turnaround time
Your team can move from feedback to decisions in days, not weeks.
Phase Three

Build a Repeatable Insights System

We turn your improved workflow into a system your team can use consistently—without relying on ad hoc effort.

  • Standardize templates, reporting, and outputs
  • Create consistent handoffs across teams
  • Centralize insights so nothing gets lost
  • Enable your team to run the process independently
You have a system your team can rely on long-term.

Start with one workflow. See the impact fast.

You don’t need to redesign everything to get results. Start with a single workflow and identify what’s slowing your team down—so you know exactly what to fix first.

  • Map one of your key insights workflows
  • Identify the biggest bottleneck slowing decisions
  • Show you where time and clarity are being lost
  • Outline the fastest path to improvement

You leave with a clear, prioritized plan to speed up one workflow immediately.

Start with One Workflow
Built Inside the Brands You Know

She did not study this from the outside. She built it from the inside.

At companies like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and SC Johnson, slow insights were not acceptable. Decisions moved fast and research workflows had to keep up.

Mariana spent 12+ years inside organizations where fast, reliable insights were not a competitive advantage. They were the expectation.

When she began working with growing Food & Beverage brands, she saw the same pressure without any of that infrastructure. Smart teams drowning in verbatims. Innovation cycles stalled. Insights arriving after decisions were already made.

That is the gap Dalto AI Advisory was built to close.

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Mariana Dalto
No Insights Lead? That Is Exactly Who This Is Built For.

Many growing Food & Beverage brands do not have a dedicated Head of Insights.

Instead, they have:

A marketing leader stretched across multiple roles

A founder making product decisions on instinct

A lean team with no structured insights process

That is where Mariana steps in. She acts as your Fractional Head of Insights, structuring research, designing workflows, and building the system your team can run independently.

You do not need to hire a full-time insights team. You need the right workflow.

Fractional Head of Insights

Mariana steps into your organization as a senior insights leader — without the overhead of a full-time hire. She structures your research, designs your workflows, and builds the system your team can run independently.

Strategy first. Systems second. Always built to outlast her time in the role.

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Start With One Workflow

Not ready to redesign your entire insights process? Start by fixing one workflow.

In a Workflow Optimization Session, we identify exactly where your insights process is slowing down and where automation, AI, and workflow improvements can accelerate decisions.

We Typically Optimize One Workflow Like
  • Survey development workflow
  • Reporting workflow
  • Proposal development workflow
  • Research setup and project kick-off
  • Qualitative analysis workflow
  • Monthly insights reporting workflow

These workflow optimizations are typically part of a paid engagement. However, we offer one complimentary workflow optimization to determine whether we’re a good fit to work together.

What You Walk Away With

You do not need to fix everything at once. You just need to fix the right workflow first.

  • A clear workflow map
  • The bottleneck slowing your insights
  • Opportunities for automation and AI acceleration
  • A prioritized next step

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Client Stories

How teams move from slow insights to clear decisions.

Sarah
I want to take a moment to thank you for the incredible work you did assessing my business workflow, specifically around my sales process. You walked me through key business workflows and mapped everything out in a way that was clear, structured and extremely insightful. What stood out most was how you help identify bottlenecks that I had. Your assessment really opened my eyes to where I truly need to focus in order to improve efficiency overall in my business. And I want to thank you for that.

I want you to know that if any of my contacts needs help objectively analyzing the operation, bringing structure to workflow and helping focus on what actually moved the needle, I will absolutely recommend you, because just from what you did for me, it really brought clarity, strategy and actionable insight to my process. Thank you, and I truly appreciate you.
Ready to Fix What’s Slowing Your Insights?

The brands making faster decisions aren’t collecting more data. They’re fixing their workflow.

Right now, your team is sitting on insights that haven’t turned into action yet. That changes when you fix the bottleneck.

Start with one workflow. Fix the bottleneck. Build a faster insights engine.