Ciprian Rarau
Ciprian (Chip) Rarau · Founder

I run a portfolio of products.

Across my own ventures and the companies I build with, the same problems keep showing up. Three instances of the same problem becomes a product.

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Ciprian (Chip) Rarau
What I'm building now

Products in motion

Each one started as a pattern I kept hitting across multiple companies. Three instances of the same problem becomes a product. Live from the IdeaPlaces catalog — adding a product to ideaplaces.com adds it here.

Live

TourCockpit

Your tour operators book their own seats, so the phone stops being the booking system.
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Live

C3

An open-source AI agent that runs on your dev machine and does your work while you sleep.
Self-hosted $0Visit →
Live

OneOps

A manifesto for founders running scale-ups.
FreeVisit →
Live

Digitizer

If you can read it, it will be digitized. Even when you can't.
FreeVisit →
Beta

HireScout

Pull your ATS pipeline, enrich every candidate, and rank them against the job you actually posted.
FreeVisit →
Live

Style Guide

Describe your brand, get a complete design system.
Free $0 · Starter $5/mo · Pro $15/moVisit →
Live

WealthPlan

Should you pay off your mortgage faster or invest the difference? Find out in 60 seconds.
Free $0Visit →
Coming Soon

monday2github

Your Monday.com board updates itself as code ships.
FreeVisit →
Coming Soon

Impact Pulse

Measure program outcomes for nonprofits.
FreeVisit →
Beta

Agent Inbox

Every Claude Code session that finishes or needs you, in your menubar, across all your machines.
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More on the company page at ideaplaces.com.
Latest from the blog

Notes from the work

Production stories, not theory. The blog is where the patterns get written down before they become products.

Shipping4 min read

White Label in One Conversation

Our first customer wanted the product to wear their name: their own subdomain, their brand on the login page. By the end of one conversation it was live in production, with DNS in code, and a rule that a signed-in user never sees our domain again.

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Building4 min read

The Help Center That Films Itself

Every help page in TourCockpit is written from the spec, rendered with the real product components, and topped with a narrated film in the reader's language. Nobody records anything. The whole thing regenerates on demand.

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Building5 min read

Style Is Data: I Rebranded an Entire Product in One Shot

App, marketing site, dark mode, PDFs, icons, and 38 product videos, all moved to a new brand in one push. Not because I worked fast. Because style was never hard-coded in the first place.

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Thinking7 min read

The Agents Finished. Nobody Noticed.

A dozen AI sessions running in parallel, and the slow part was me walking between terminals to see which ones were done. The compute was never the constraint. My attention was, and nothing in the stack was managing it.

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Companies I'm building with

Parallel builds

In any given week I'm shipping with several teams. The lens is wider than any one industry. The pattern is what carries.

IdeaPlaces

Founder

The product portfolio company. TourCockpit, C3, Style Guide, and the rest, built with my son Luca as a two-person team running on an agent system.

Mentorly

CTO / CPO

AI mentorship platform. LLM-powered mentor matching at scale. Building the technical and product side end to end.

Eli Health

Technical Advisor

Digital health: telehealth and AI clinical decision support. Cross-region BigQuery, GA4 streaming, Datastream CDC, regulated data flows.

CatalyzeUP

Founder

Startup infrastructure services. Making startups go farther, faster: production-grade infra, CI/CD, monitoring from day one.

WeHappers

Co-Founder

Non-profit. Wealth redistribution and global happiness through technology.

Full portfolio

Hover across the work

Past and present in one ribbon. Hover any tile to expand it. The top of the list is what I'm shipping now; the bottom is the track record that funds the present.

IdeaPlaces

IdeaPlaces

Product portfolio

Mentorly

Mentorly

AI-powered mentorship

Eli Health

Eli Health

Hormone health tech

CatalyzeUP

CatalyzeUP

Startup infrastructure

WeHappers

WeHappers

Wealth redistribution

WISK.ai

WISK.ai

Food & beverage intelligence

OMsignal

OMsignal

Bio-sensing wearables

XpertSea

XpertSea

Aquaculture platform

Eastern Bank

Eastern Bank

Mobile banking

Track record

25 years, one instinct

Find a real problem. Build the system that solves it. Scale it until it runs without you. The product changes. The instinct doesn't.

2016–2025

WISK.ai

CTO / CPO, Co-Founder

1,000+ restaurant clients. Multi-million dollar revenue. Nearly 9 years of full-time building, hiring, fundraising, scaling. The company is still serving paying customers today.

2012–2014

OMsignal

VP Engineering, 1st employee

Bio-sensing wearables. Raised over $10M. Acquired by Honeywell. Built the engineering org from one person.

2015–2016

Eastern Bank

Head of Mobile

Mobile banking. PWC-approved security audit. Enterprise-grade compliance.

2021–2024

Advisor stretch

CTO Advisor

XpertSea (aquaculture), Alveole (urban beekeeping), and others. Architecture, React Native, AWS, Python. Each engagement widened the lens that powers IdeaPlaces today.

Newsletter

One short note when something ships.

No marketing. No drip sequences. A short note when a product ships, a blog post lands, or I notice a pattern worth sharing.