About Us
Where Marketing, Government Contracting, and AI Meet
Rising Star Ideas, LLC is a Columbia, Maryland consulting firm built to help organizations grow smarter, with clear, results-driven solutions and no hype.
Our Story
One Firm. Three Ways to Grow.
Rising Star Ideas, LLC brings together marketing, government contracting, and artificial intelligence to help businesses grow. As the parent company, we deliver AI-powered digital strategy, marketing, and integration consulting for small businesses, mid-market companies, and public sector agencies.
Each of our practices grew out of a real problem that needed solving. That is why our work stays practical. We build what we recommend, measure what matters, and explain it in plain language.
Every engagement is guided by our R.E.S.U.L.T.S. Framework.
Our Mission
We exist to help organizations grow smarter by putting marketing, government contracting expertise, and artificial intelligence to work on the problems that move revenue.
Our Promise
Clear, results-driven solutions without hype. Published scope, plain language, and outcomes tied to your numbers.
Our Brands
Three Practices Under One Roof
Each brand serves a different kind of client. All of them are held to the same standard.
AI Consulting
Rising Star Ideas
AI-powered digital strategy, marketing, and integration consulting for small businesses, mid-market companies, and public sector agencies.
Explore AI ConsultingGet found. Get leads. Get sales.
SavvyBizBuilder
Our online brand helps businesses grow smarter with practical marketing systems, content, and automation that turn visibility into revenue.
Visit SavvyBizBuilder.comBuilt for government contractors
Living Capability Statements
A SaaS platform that keeps capability statements current, polished, and ready for federal opportunities. It grew out of our founder's own frustration with preparing SAM.gov proposals, and it is built to save contractors time and help them compete with confidence.
Visit the platformLeadership
Led by a Practitioner
Tonya R. Taylor
Founder and CEO
Tonya R. Taylor brings more than twenty years of experience delivering technology and marketing programs inside organizations where failure is expensive, including Accenture Federal Services, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. General Services Administration. Her work has spanned federal consulting, cybersecurity performance marketing, and digital strategy.
An early adopter of generative AI, she began working with ChatGPT in 2022 and served as a Google Bard beta tester in 2023. Since then she has designed, built, and deployed four AI products, including Living Capability Statements.
She serves as AVP of Marketing Technology for the American Marketing Association Baltimore chapter, where she has held board leadership since 2009.
- M.S., Management Information Systems, UMBC
- AI certification, University of Maryland Smith School of Business
- Project management certification, George Washington University
- AVP of Marketing Technology, AMA Baltimore
- AMA Baltimore board member since 2009
- Two-time published author
Leadership experience earned at:
Organizations where our founder held roles. They are not clients of Rising Star Ideas, and their inclusion implies no endorsement or partnership.
- Accenture Federal Services
- Lockheed Martin
- U.S. General Services Administration
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Ready to Grow Smarter?
Tell us where you want to go. We'll show you the clearest way to get there.
Contact UsWhat happens next
- 1Tell us your goalA short conversation about where you want to grow.
- 2Get a clear pathWe recommend the right practice and scope.
- 3See resultsWe build, measure, and report on what matters.