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Short bio

40 words

Nikki Crowell is a founder, strategist and writer exploring what it takes to build a life, identity, and business that genuinely fit the person behind it. She is the founder of ARIA and The Aligned Agency.

Medium bio

90 words

Nikki Crowell is a founder, strategist and writer with nearly two decades of experience working inside businesses of every kind, on three continents. Her work explores what it takes to build a life, identity, and business that genuinely fit the person behind it.

She is the founder of ARIA, trailblazing a new category of AI that blends astrology and Human Design with practical MBA-level strategic frameworks. She is also the founder of The Aligned Agency, a strategic partner to founders navigating transition and growth. She writes at The Key on Substack and is currently based in Charleston, South Carolina.

Long bio

220 words

Nikki Crowell is a founder, strategist and writer with nearly two decades of experience working inside businesses of every kind: small local shops and mom-and-pop businesses, franchises, multiple startups (including one mid-Series-A), and global corporations, across three continents.

She left her home in Southern California in her twenties with a one-way ticket overseas and didn't come back for nearly ten years, building a life across Italy and Australia before returning to base herself in Charleston, South Carolina. Her degree in sociology, combined with years of living across cultures, shapes the lens she sees everything through: a modern anthropologist's read on how environment, culture, and systems quietly shape the way people live, decide, and build.

She is the founder of ARIA, trailblazing a new category of AI that blends astrology and Human Design with practical MBA-level strategic frameworks. ARIA is designed for founders, coaches, and creators who refuse to choose between intuition and strategy. She is also the founder of The Aligned Agency, a strategic partner to founders navigating transition and growth.

She writes at The Key on Substack, essays on building a life and business in alignment with who you truly are. She has been studying astrology for over a decade and reads behavioral psychology, Human Design, and locational astrology alongside the analytical frameworks of business strategy.

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ARIA

ARIA is trailblazing a new category of AI that blends astrology and Human Design with practical MBA-level strategic frameworks. ARIA reads founders' charts, maps the wiring over their real business, and works alongside them on the actual work: copywriting, positioning, offers and pricing, funnels, sales pages, revenue strategy, and what to build next. Designed for founders, coaches, and creators who refuse to choose between intuition and strategy. Founded by Nikki Crowell.

alignedai.io

The Aligned Agency

A strategic partner for founders navigating transition, scaling, evolving, or sensing that something is quietly out of sync. The work begins with The Clarity Compass, where positioning, operations, customer experience, and growth are brought back into one clear direction. Founded by Nikki Crowell.

thealignedagency.co

The Key

The Key is a Substack publication by Nikki Crowell. Essays on building a life and business in alignment with who you truly are, exploring business, identity, culture, technology, and the way people actually live. Recurring mini-series including The Culture Addict.

nikkicrowell.substack.com

Photography

Headshots and additional imagery available on request. Please email for high-resolution files.

Media inquiries

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press@nikkicrowell.com