DECO: Smart Business Operations

About DECO

The alchemy behind operational clarity.

Built by two operators in Thornton, Colorado who got tired of watching service businesses bolt yet another tool onto the same broken process. The Growth Operating System is what we wished existed when we ran our own.

Founders
André de Souza and Liza Pereskokova outside the Colorado Convention Center, Denver
Bigger ad budgets made the leak worse. New tools added more logins. Nothing solved the actual gap: there was no operating system, just disconnected pieces, each working alone, none working together. DECO is the system we wished existed when we ran our own operations.

André de Souza·Founder, DECO

Liza Pereskokova·Co-founder & Business Partner

Thornton, Colorado·Serving service businesses across the United States

Our Three Forces

Clarity

When every lead, message, and task has a place.

Automation

What can be automated is, so your humans focus on what matters.

Intelligence

Systems that generate insights that guide, not confuse.

Brand architecture

DECO is Grain of Salt's Growth Operating System.

Grain of Salt (GOS) is the parent: the positioning, creative, content, and media layer that builds the conditions for demand. DECO is its growth-operations company: the system that captures that demand, converts it, and compounds it. Two different jobs, one ecosystem. The double meaning is intentional: GOS = Grain of Salt (the parent) = Growth Operating System (what DECO installs and operates).

Below is the full ecosystem. DECO is the operating layer; the seven GOS disciplines around it build the demand that flows into it. They are scoped separately on a growth audit, never bundled into a DECO tier, because we would rather tell you which of the two jobs you actually need than sell you both.

DECOCORE

Growth Operating System: installed infrastructure + the DECO Team

Social Media

Strategy + production across IG, FB, LinkedIn, GBP

Blog Content

SEO + AI-search-ready articles published on cadence

Website Design and Redesign

Conversion-grade builds and rebuilds with SEO baked in from day one

Brand Identity Design

Logos, brand systems, and visual guidelines that scale across every touchpoint

Paid Ads

Google + Meta campaign strategy, build, and optimization

Google Business

GBP optimization, review velocity, local rank

SEO + AI Search

Organic + AI-assistant discoverability (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini)

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