RavenEQ
Handcrafted AI for Artisanal Cheese Shops
Serve Up a Smarter Customer Experience with RavenEQ
AI is transforming specialty retail, and Raven AI Agents bring that power to artisanal cheese shops. These smart assistants leverage your unique product knowledge, helping customers discover flavors, learn pairings, and explore offerings in a whole new way.
From answering product questions to supporting sales staff, our Ravens are the perfect pairing for your business—serving up insights and enhancing the customer experience, all with a side of sophistication.
Internal Ravens
Internal Ravens bring efficiency to your operations, helping staff quickly retrieve product information, manage inventory, and deliver expert recommendations—all from a centralized, AI-powered source.
Public Ravens
Public Ravens bring a taste of expertise to your online presence, offering customers instant answers about products, pairings, and availability—creating a seamless and satisfying shopping experience, even after hours.
Retail Ravens
Your store locations rely on accurate product knowledge to deliver a premium customer experience. Retail Ravens provide staff with easy access to flavor profiles, pairing suggestions, and stock availability—keeping your brand top of mind.
Your Brand
Your Knowledge
Your Ravens
Ravens are handcrafted for your shop—drawing on your curated selection of cheeses, flavor profiles, and brand story. We organize your product knowledge so every conversation is smooth, consistent, and delightfully on-brand.
These AI agents work wherever you need them—assisting staff with quick access to product details or providing customers with instant recommendations and pairing ideas, both online and in-store.
We Solve Operational Problems
Bridging the Technology Gap
Artisanal cheese shops benefit from advanced technology to stay competitive.
Organizes product knowledge, pairing suggestions, and inventory into one intelligent AI system.
Provides accessible AI tools that simplify operations and elevate customer service.
Enables cheese shops to embrace modern tech without losing their handcrafted touch.
Smarter, Faster Customer Support
Deliver a richer customer experience with AI-driven insights.
Provides quick answers about products, flavors, and pairings—minimizing the load on internal staff.
Keeps responses consistent and perfectly on-brand through a unified AI knowledge base.
Enhances efficiency, allowing your team to focus on the art of curating exceptional selections.
No More Siloed Sales Data
Keep your sales on track with precise, AI-driven support.
Gain instant access to sales pipelines, product details, pricing, inventory levels, and competitive insights.
Optimize sales processes with AI-powered recommendations that connect customers to their ideal flavors.
Replace guesswork with real-time data, allowing your team to deliver a better customer experience.
Sales Visibility, Instant Insights
We Solve Marketing Problems
Effortless Marketing Content Creation
Deliver fresh, on-brand marketing content with AI support.
Create product sheets, pairing guides, blog posts, and social content effortlessly—all while keeping your brand’s unique voice.
Ensure consistency by pulling from previous assets and generating polished new materials quickly.
Reduce time spent on repetitive tasks, freeing up your team for creative storytelling and brand building.
Always-On Customer Engagement
Deliver cheese expertise around the clock with smart AI support.
Provides customers with instant answers about product details, flavor profiles, and pairing recommendations.
Ensures every interaction is consistent and on-brand, with a knowledge base that reinforces your unique voice.
Increases sales and customer engagement by offering fast, reliable information—day or night.
Perfect Product Pickers
Connect customers with the perfect cheese through AI-powered guidance.
AI assistants recommend cheeses based on taste preferences, dietary needs, or pairing ideas.
Offers personalized suggestions instantly, enhancing the shopping experience.
Elevates both e-commerce and in-store interactions, encouraging more purchases.
Provides hangtag solutions that display flavor profiles, pairings, and product stories to engage shoppers.
Seamless Product Discovery
We Solve Partner Problems
Dealer & Service Support, Simplified
Support your retail partners with expert product knowledge and sales tools.
Delivers instant access to flavor profiles, product details, and pairing suggestions.
Ensures staff have brand-approved materials, marketing assets, and educational content at their fingertips.
Offers clear guidance for product storage, display, and quality assurance practices.
Real-Time Competitive Intelligence
Dealer Locators With Product Knowledge
A Conversational Dealer Locator
Other Use Cases
Raven Trail: Your Product Roadmap, Simplified
Keep your entire team aligned with instant access to product development timelines, key milestones, and launch plans.
Raven Relay: Empower Your Influencers
Give ambassadors instant access to brand messaging, product details, and campaign assets—ensuring they always represent your brand accurately.
Raven Echo: Capture & Share Ambassador Expertise
Turn your influencers’ knowledge into a 24/7 resource, giving consumers direct access to their insights, tips, and product recommendations.
Raven Perch: AI-Powered Event Engagement
Deploy interactive Ravens at trade shows and events to answer questions, showcase products, and capture leads—all in real time.
Raven Sentry: AI-Powered Compliance & Risk Monitoring
Quickly analyze contract renewals, warranties, and legal documents to identify red-line trends, spot risks, and flag inconsistencies—helping your legal team move faster while reducing liability.
Raven Haven: Instant HR Knowledge
Give employees quick access to HR policies, handbooks, and company guidelines—ensuring they always have the information they need, when they need it.
Raven Tag: Instant Product Insights
Shoppers in brick-and-mortar stores don’t always get the answers or help they need. Reinvented hangtag QR codes drive instant access to help close the sale. READ MORE
Shoppers in brick-and-mortar stores don’t always get the answers or help they need. Hangtag QR codes drive instant access to help close the sale.
Raven Tag: Instant Product Insights
Seamlessly Connect & Integrate Ravens How & Where You Need Them
Public Website
Embed in a section, as a full page or in app. iFrame and custom development puts it where your customers can easily access as needed.
Internal Only
Empower your approved users in Slack, embeds on non-public webpages or email authenticated on our hosted microsite pages.
Connect Your Content
Secure integrations with Google Drive, OneDrive, Sharepoint, Confluence, Zendesk, web urls or even uploaded docs/pdfs/sheets.
What's In A Name?
In the wild, the raven is one of nature’s sharpest problem solvers—observant, adaptable, and always a step ahead. It sees what others miss, remembers what matters, and communicates with remarkable intelligence. Scientists rank ravens among the smartest animals on the planet, rivaling dolphins, chimpanzees, and even young children in problem-solving ability. They use tools, recognize faces, and even plan for the future—outthinking many creatures that rely on instinct alone. That’s exactly what our AI-powered Ravens do for outdoor brands.
The EQ in RavenEQ stands for Encephalization Quotient (EQ), a measure of cognitive ability relative to brain size—often used to explain the remarkable intelligence of species like ravens. These birds are known for their problem-solving skills, adaptability, and ability to assess complex situations—traits that mirror how our AI operates. In our world, EQ means brand intelligence—AI that deeply understands your business, your products, and your customers, delivering the right knowledge at the right time. Just like a raven surveying the landscape from above, our AI solutions see the big picture, retrieve critical insights, and help your brand navigate the trail ahead.
Who Are We?
RavenEQ is an offering created by Audience Approach, a relationship marketing agency that has served dozens of outdoor brands since 2016.
Founded by Elisa and Tim, 2 tech-heads that are also massive fans of the outdoors, Elisa has co-founded and successfully exited global software platforms while Tim is head of global digital, content and AI at the performance marketing firm Wunderkind.co.
Previously, Tim founded and successfully exited Audience Sherpa, but then co-founded Audience Approach with Elisa. He has held internal leadership roles at Pure Archery Group and together they have grown revenue through first-party data collection for brands such as DECKED, Leupold, Bowtech, Diamond Archery, RAMBO, Heartland Bowhunter, Randy Newberg, and many more.
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Audience Approach
10MM
Opted-in contacts added to client databases
100MM+
Unique psychographic data points collected for personalized marketing
1K+
Digital campaigns created for outdoor brands