08 — Mission

We built Rydra because the data existed. Nobody was using it.

The signal was always there

Built for billing, not intelligence.

Every hospitality and beauty business in Australia is sitting on a database of behavioural signals that tells you exactly who is about to leave. The visits, the gaps, the frequency patterns, the deviations from personal baseline — it’s all there. It has always been there.

It just sat in systems that were built for billing, not intelligence. Producing invoices, not predictions.

We built Rydra to extract that signal. Apply a model to it. And convert the output into a specific, individual, automated action — before the client is already gone.

The tools that exist in this market are all built around one idea: managing demand that already exists. None of them are built to recover demand that’s disappearing. That’s the gap. That’s Rydra.

The team

Ewan Goodchild

Co-founder & CEO

Alwin George

Co-founder, Engineering

Paarth Bhasin

Co-founder, Engineering

Uma Gupta

CFO

First partner

Alkami Barbershop, Canberra.

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