CASE STUDY: Black Tomato
Winner: "Best Use of AI" (Gold Standard)
Travel Marketing Awards 2025
"We built 'The Feelings Engine'. Ragu didn't just plan trips; it understood the emotional texture of the destination."
Ragu Engineered:
- Emotional Modeling: Parsed thousands of client feedbacks to map "Vibe" vs "Venue" — what travelers feel, not just where they go.
- Hyper-Personalization: Generated itineraries based on emotional keywords. "I want to feel small" → Iceland. "I need to reconnect" → Patagonia.
- Result: 30% conversion lift. Gold Standard Award.
"I spend 10 hours a week just updating investors and scheduling board meetings."
Ragu Automates:
- Live MCP Connectors: Pulls Stripe MRR, Linear velocity, and runway data into one unified view.
- Vibe-Coded Agent: "Write my investor update" — drafts the email with real metrics, your tone, ready to send.
- A2A Scheduling: Your AI negotiates with 5 board members' EAs simultaneously. Meeting confirmed. Done.
"The patriarch owns assets across 4 jurisdictions. The paperwork is a nightmare."
Ragu Automates:
- Document Ingestion: Scans physical mail, extracts tax notices from 4 countries, files them automatically.
- Real-Time Dashboard: Net worth across liquid + illiquid assets, updated as markets move.
- Proactive Alerts: Passport renewals, insurance expirations, tax deadlines—never miss a date.
"I meet 50 founders a week. I forget 90% of what they say."
Ragu Automates:
- Total Recall: Every Zoom call transcribed, red flags extracted, founder sentiment analyzed.
- MCP to CRM: Auto-populates Affinity or Salesforce. No manual entry. Ever.
- Vibe-Coded Memo: "Draft the IC memo" — pulls from deck, transcript, and market data. Ready for partners.
"Due diligence means reading 5,000 contracts in 48 hours."
Ragu Automates:
- Data Room Ingestion: 5,000 PDFs, Excel files, and contracts indexed in hours, not weeks.
- Clause Extraction: "Find all Change of Control provisions" — flagged across every document, instantly.
- Risk Summary: AI-generated liability matrix for partner review. Bill more, read less.
"I have 200 scripts to read and a cast to insure."
Ragu Automates:
- Script Coverage: 200 submissions analyzed. Synopsis, tone, comparable titles, commercial viability—ranked.
- MCP to Insurance: Tracks cast medical clearances, completion bond requirements, crew certifications.
- NDA Workflow: DocuSign via MCP. Talent signs. Countersigned. Filed. No EA required.
"Security is everything. I can't use cloud tools."
Ragu Automates:
- On-Chain Sentinel: Monitors wallets across chains. Unauthorized movement? Instant alert.
- DeFi Aggregator: Yields from 10+ chains consolidated. One clean report. Tax-ready.
- Air-Gapped Security: Runs in your VPC. Private keys never leave your infrastructure. Ever.
"I have a 10GB leak of emails. I need to find the smoking gun."
Ragu Automates:
- Local Indexing: Millions of documents processed on your hardware. Nothing leaves your machine.
- Entity Graph: Builds a knowledge graph of relationships. Who knew what, when.
- Timeline Forensics: Finds contradictions in stated timelines. Surfaces the story.
"We need to track donor sentiment across 50 districts."
Ragu Automates:
- Sentiment Engine: Local news, social feeds, polls—ingested daily. Mood of every district, visualized.
- Donor Intelligence: Segments your database. Predicts giving capacity. Prioritizes outreach.
- Vibe-Coded Speeches: "Write remarks for District 12" — tailored to local issues, your candidate's voice.
"City permits, contractor invoices, architectural drawings... it's a mess."
Ragu Automates:
- Invoice Matching: Scans invoices, matches to POs, flags discrepancies. Pay with confidence.
- Permit Tracker: Ingests city filings. Expiration dates, inspection schedules, compliance gaps—all visible.
- MCP to Architects: RFI responses routed, tracked, and archived. No email chains. No lost files.
"I have bloodwork PDFs, Oura ring data, and supplement protocols."
Ragu Automates:
- Lab Ingestion: Parses PDF bloodwork into structured data. Tracks biomarkers over years.
- Correlation Engine: Sleep quality (Oura) + diet logs + HRV. What's actually moving the needle?
- Protocol Optimization: "What changed when I added creatine?" — longitudinal analysis, visualized.
