Taozen

Taozen

Two systems, one client: an AI reading engine that synthesises five self-discovery frameworks into one report, and a guest portal that replaced spreadsheet-chasing for every retreat.
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Inner Map — an AI-synthesised self-discovery reading engine

The Challenge

Taozen wanted to offer guests a genuinely personal reading — astrology, Human Design, Gene Keys, Enneagram, MBTI — but synthesising five systems into one coherent, on-brand report by hand doesn't scale past a handful of people. Off-the-shelf reading generators produce shallow, template-y output that reads generic and doesn't hold Taozen's voice.

The Build

An AI reading engine deployed on Vercel and embedded straight into the Taozen Webflow site. One shared, book-grounded knowledge base feeds two routes: an instant on-screen version for browsing the site, and a richer async version delivered by email as a branded PDF, with a hidden "deep mode" that upgrades the model for guests who want more depth. A convergence layer cross-references all five systems so the report reflects real per-person patterns instead of stock zodiac copy.

The Result

Guests get a personalised reading in minutes on-screen, or a full branded PDF report by email shortly after — all running off one knowledge base kept cheap to run through prompt caching and selective content injection, so cost per reading stayed low as the system grew deeper across five-plus shipped releases.

Try it live: Taozen's Inner Map.

Retreat Onboarding Dashboard

The Challenge

Every retreat meant manually chasing guests for signatures, health forms, and payments across spreadsheets and email, while mentally tracking tiered pricing, early-bird and ad-hoc discounts, returning-member exemptions, and multi-installment plans by hand, per guest, per retreat.

The Build

A guest portal and admin dashboard built on Next.js and Supabase. A single domain engine encodes every pricing and checklist rule — deposit/balance splits, room pricing, discounts, unique payment references, returning-member skips, installment plans — so each guest's checklist and payment amounts generate themselves correctly. The admin board gives the team one guest-by-step grid across every retreat with overdue flags, while each guest gets their own portal showing live progress and exactly what they owe.

The Result

The onboarding logic that used to live in someone's head now runs as one accountable system, with real guest data behind proper access controls — no client-side key can read the tables, everything goes through a server-only service role with page-level allow-listing. The core engine and dashboards are live in production; automated emails, payment auto-matching, and e-signing are the next phases, already shaped into the data model.