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ALISMIA AI as a Tool for Digital Empowerment: Redesigning Client Interaction in Beauty Businesses

https://doi.org/10.55640/ijmcsit-v03i05-05

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Kseniia Pereshliuga ¹ ,

⁴ Internationally Recognized Expert in Systematization and Digital Transformation of Beauty Businesses, Founder ALISMIA AI

Abstract

Objectives: This study examines how the ALISMIA AI platform - a management system purpose-built for professional beauty businesses - changes the way salons and studios interact with their clients, and what that change means for trust, satisfaction, and commercial performance. The investigation proceeds from a straightforward empirical observation: beauty businesses that deploy this platform consistently report outcomes that exceed what administrative automation alone should produce, suggesting that the mechanism of impact is relational rather than merely operational.

Methods: A convergent mixed-methods design was adopted. Survey data were collected from 347 clients and 89 business owners across Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Quantitative relationships were estimated through structural equation modeling (SEM). Ten business owners who had used the platform for at least six months participated in semi-structured interviews analyzed via reflexive thematic analysis.

Results: Personalization quality predicted client trust (β = 0.61, p < .001) and satisfaction (β = 0.54, p < .001), but the strength of these relationships depended substantially on whether clients felt they retained meaningful influence over how they were served. Business owners reported reductions in appointment non-attendance averaging 38%, increases in repeat bookings of 29%, and improvements in internal satisfaction scores of approximately 25%. Breadth of feature adoption and duration of use were stronger predictors of performance gains than business size or geographic location.

Conclusions: The most consequential effect of ALISMIA AI in the businesses studied is neither scheduling efficiency nor automated marketing - it is the conversion of individually held practitioner knowledge into a shared organizational asset. This transformation addresses what is arguably the deepest structural vulnerability of small independent beauty enterprises: the fragility of client relationships that depend on the memory and continued presence of a single person. The implications extend to debates about service authenticity, the organizational conditions of digital empowerment, and the design of client-facing technology in high-relational service sectors.

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ALISMIA AI, beauty businesses, digital empowerment, client trust

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