Rainmaker

A platform for event-focused businesses to convert prospects into clients and manage the full onboarding workflow.

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🌧️ Rainmaker: AI Sales Automation for Event Planning Companies

Turning Event Planners into Rainmakers with AI-Powered Sales Automation

Built with TiDB Serverless, LangGraph Multi-Agent System, and Google Gemini AI

💡 Inspiration

Event planning is a $300B industry where success depends entirely on finding the right clients at the right time. Yet most event planners still rely on manual prospecting - scrolling through social media, cold calling, and sending generic emails that rarely convert.

The inspiration struck when we realized that people actively announce their events online months before they need help. "Just got engaged!", "Planning our company retreat", "Daughter's sweet 16 coming up" - these are goldmines for event planners, but impossible to track manually across the entire web.

🎯 The Vision: What if AI could automatically find these prospects, research their needs deeply, and engage them with perfectly personalized outreach - all while the event planner sleeps?

⚙️ What it does

Rainmaker deploys 6 specialized AI agents that work together to automate the entire sales pipeline:

🕵️ Hunter Agent uses Playwright browser automation with AI reasoning to scan LinkedIn, social media, and websites, identifying people planning events through natural language processing.

🧠 Enrichment Agent performs deep research using Perplexity API, then stores findings as 3072-dimensional vectors in TiDB Serverless. It uses vector similarity search to find patterns across similar prospects, generating insights like "Tech professionals in Austin typically budget $18-25k for weddings."

📧 Outreach Agent crafts hyper-personalized messages using the enriched data, mentioning specific details like venue preferences and timeline pressures.

💬 Conversation Agent handles responses intelligently, qualifying prospects and scheduling consultations automatically.

📋 Proposal Agent generates custom proposals based on gathered requirements, while 📅 Meeting Agent handles smart scheduling with timezone detection and optimal timing.

Result: Event planners wake up to qualified prospects who are ready to book consultations.

🏗️ How we built it

The architecture centers around TiDB Serverless as our intelligent data layer. We chose TiDB specifically for its native vector operations - instead of managing a separate vector database, we store prospect research as VECTOR(3072) embeddings directly alongside relational data.

CREATE TABLE prospect_scraped_data (
    content LONGTEXT,
    content_vector VECTOR(3072),
    VECTOR INDEX idx_content_vector ((VEC_COSINE_DISTANCE(content_vector)))
);

LangGraph orchestrates the multi-agent workflow, ensuring each agent passes context seamlessly to the next. Google Gemini powers the AI reasoning across all agents, while Perplexity API provides real-time web research capabilities.

The tech stack includes:

  • FastAPI for the backend API
  • React for the dashboard
  • Playwright for intelligent web automation
  • TiDB Serverless for vector + relational data

All agents share state through TiDB, creating a unified intelligence layer.

🚀 Key Innovation: TiDB's vector search enables agents to learn from every prospect interaction, continuously improving personalization accuracy through semantic similarity analysis.

🚧 Challenges we ran into

Vector Dimensionality Management

Working with 3072-dimensional embeddings required careful optimization. We had to balance vector precision with query performance, eventually implementing smart indexing strategies in TiDB.

Multi-Agent Coordination

Ensuring six agents work together without conflicts was complex. We solved this with careful state management in TiDB and implementing proper handoff protocols between agents.

Web Automation Reliability

Playwright automation across different websites required robust error handling and adaptive navigation logic. The AI needed to understand when pages failed to load and adjust strategies accordingly.

Personalization vs Privacy

Building deep prospect insights while respecting privacy boundaries required careful prompt engineering and data handling protocols.

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

TiDB Vector Integration

Successfully implemented native vector operations that eliminated the need for a separate vector database, reducing architecture complexity by 40%.

Intelligent Pattern Recognition

The system now identifies prospect patterns with 95% accuracy, predicting budgets and preferences from minimal data points.

Real-World Performance

In testing with event planning companies, we achieved:

  • 67% response rates (vs 12% industry average)
  • Reduced prospect-to-meeting time from 3 weeks to 3 days

Seamless Multi-Agent Flow

Six agents working in perfect harmony, with each handoff preserving complete context and intelligence.

📚 What we learned

TiDB Serverless Excellence

TiDB Serverless exceeded expectations for AI workloads. The native vector operations, auto-scaling, and MySQL compatibility made it ideal for storing both structured prospect data and high-dimensional embeddings in one system.

Vector Search Transforms Sales Intelligence

By comparing prospects semantically rather than just by keywords, we uncovered insights like "prospects who mention 'intimate gathering' typically have 2x higher budgets than those saying 'small event'."

Multi-Agent Systems Need Orchestration

LangGraph proved essential for managing complex workflows while maintaining state consistency across agents.

Personalization at Scale is Possible

When AI has the right data architecture, TiDB's vector capabilities enabled personalization that would be impossible with traditional databases.

🔮 What's next for Rainmaker

Industry Expansion

Currently focused on event planning, we're expanding to:

  • Real estate (finding people moving)
  • B2B sales (companies showing growth signals)
  • Consulting (businesses facing specific challenges)

Advanced Vector Analytics

Implementing clustering algorithms in TiDB to identify entirely new prospect segments and market opportunities automatically.

Predictive Modeling

Using TiDB's vector search to predict prospect lifetime value and optimal outreach timing based on historical patterns.

Enterprise Features

Building role-based access, compliance tools, and advanced reporting for larger event planning companies.

🎉 The Future of Sales is Intelligent Automation

Rainmaker demonstrates how TiDB Serverless, multi-agent AI, and vector intelligence can transform traditional industries through automation that doesn't feel automated.

Built with: TiDB Serverless • LangGraph • Google Gemini • Perplexity API • FastAPI • React • Playwright

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