Case study

An AI-powered CRM for a wellness travel company that matches travellers to Ayurvedic resorts

Replaced Zoho and HubSpot with a system that drafts every proposal from the founder's own decision logic.

Client
Ayurooms
Industry
Wellness travel
Region
India
Timeline
3 days
Solution
CRM

Summary

Ayurooms receives 30 to 40 booking inquiries a day, each requiring a personalized proposal that only the founder could create. He managed to respond to about half, leaving the rest as missed opportunities.

We built a CRM that captures his decision-making process and generates proposals using AI, ensuring that all inquiries receive a response on the same day.

About the client

Ayurooms connects travellers to 50+ personally vetted ayurvedic resorts.

Ayurooms connects travellers seeking ayurvedic treatment with India's best wellness resorts.

A guest arrives with a health goal, panchakarma, weight loss, cancer recovery, anxiety, and Ayurooms matches them to the right resort, duration and package from a personally vetted network of 50+ properties, with 8,000+ guests served across three countries so far.

A therapist in an ayurvedic treatment room at a resort in the network
The founder drafting a proposal from resort brochures and country binders

The challenge

Half the booking inquiries went unanswered, because only the founder could write the proposals

Every resort is vetted by the founder, and every traveller is matched by him.

Every inquiry needs a full proposal, the recommended resort, duration, package, pricing and location, and he is the only person who knows the resorts deeply enough to make that match. The work could not be delegated.

At 30 to 40 inquiries a day, he was answering about half. The other half was money left on the table. A proposal could take up to a week to go out, simply because of the backlog.

Zoho and HubSpot were in place, and all they did was collect the lead and send an email.

The solution

A CRM built around one founders judgement.

  1. The Leads list, with every inquiry captured, scored and source-tagged

    Inquiry intake

    Before

    Form details were captured in Zoho. The traveller got an automatic 'we got your inquiry' response, but the proposal still waited on the founder.

    After - with Creatr

    Every form submission becomes a lead in the system automatically, with all details extracted.

  2. A resort profile in the knowledge base, showing inclusions and exclusions

    Knowledge base

    Before

    Everything... about 50+ resorts lived in the founder's head.

    After - with Creatr

    Every data point in one repository, from value stays to five-star sanctuaries. Inclusions, characteristics, permissions down to smoking, tea and coffee, rooms, pricing, FAQs, media and testimonials.

  3. The Founder intelligence screen, holding the matching rules by tier

    Founder intelligence

    Before

    Founders recommendation logic lived in his head, it was not documented anywhere, so nobody else could make the match.

    After - with Creatr

    The parameters behind his decisions are documented and fed to an AI agent. The logic lives in the system.

  4. The Action Queue, with AI-drafted replies ready to review, edit and send

    AI proposal drafting

    Before

    He created every proposal by manually by himself, and hence the backlogs stretched to a week.

    After - with Creatr

    The agent works through founders logic and the resort knowledge base and drafts each proposal from start to end. Founder only has to review, edit and send.

  5. The Pipeline board, with leads grouped from new lead through to in conversation

    Lead tracking and pipeline

    Before

    There was no clear picture of which leads were waiting for a reply, were in conversation, or going cold

    After - with Creatr

    Every lead is now filtered and visible, with pipeline, team tasks and key metrics on one singular dashboard.

Product Mockups

The build process

How the solution was built with Creatr

Day 1
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
  1. Discovery call, Day 1 to Week 1
  2. Plan - FRS doc, Day 1 to Week 1
  3. Frontend Prototype, Week 1 to Week 2
  4. Backend Build, Week 2 to Week 3
  5. Validation & Testing, Week 2 to Week 3
  6. Migration and go-live, Week 3 to Week 4
  7. Post Launch Support, Week 3 to Week 4

What changed?

Every inquiry gets a proposal the same day. The founder reviews and sends instead of drafting from scratch, and the week-long backlog is gone.

booking inquiries arriving every day
30-40
inquiries that now get a full proposal, increased from 50%
100%
time to send each proposal reduced from 7 days.
1 day

Founders quote

I was the bottleneck in my own business. Every proposal had to come from me, and half never went out. Now the AI drafts them the way I would, and I just review and send.

- Alykhan Alidina, Founder, Ayurooms
Alykhan Alidina, founder of Ayurooms

The takeaway

The CRM did not replace the founder. It multiplied him.

Ayurooms sells personal curation, and personal judgment is exactly the thing that does not scale past one founder. A template CRM stores just contacts, it has no field for how he decides.

Documenting that judgment, and putting an agent behind it, made the other half of the pipeline reachable without breaking the promise. The CRM did not replace the founder. It multiplied him.

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