Case Study · Corgi Cafe, San Francisco

We build the systems that run the business.

Corgi is an AI-native insurance company opening 100 cafes in the next six months, and operations at that speed don't run on spreadsheets. Rabbithole architected Corgi's MCP infrastructure: an internal MCP that connects the entire internal business and powers Corgi HQ, and an external MCP that connects the customer side and powers the mobile app. Around it: the leasing deck, the brand system, and the full AI visual library.

Corgi HQ deal pipeline kanban, outreach to keys

Corgi HQ · the deal pipeline we built · outreach → LOI → lease negotiation → closing

15working systems inside Corgi HQ
2MCPs built: internal and external
16leasing-deck slides rebuilt to brand
5workstreams delivered in one engagement
Internal businessleasing · buildout · vendors · finances · ops INTERNAL MCP CORGI HQ
External businessordering · rewards · community · sponsors EXTERNAL MCP MOBILE APP
The Client · Corgi Cafe

An insurance company that lives on the street corner.

Corgi is a venture-backed, AI-native insurance company valued at $4 billion, and Corgi Cafe is how it shows up in the real world: a neighborhood cafe where founders work, meet, and buy insurance right where they build. Every cafe is open 24/7, because the people building companies don't stop at 5, and neither does the room. The plan is 100 cafes in the next six months, with dozens of locations already in development. Every location is a community hub, co-working destination, startup event space, and insurance retail experience in one. And every one of them needs the same systems running underneath. That's where Rabbithole comes in.

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01 · The Internal MCP · Corgi HQ

An internal MCP that connects the whole company. Corgi HQ is the cockpit.

Scaling to 100 locations means leasing, buildout, vendors, money, and people all moving at once. We built Corgi's internal MCP, a Model Context Protocol layer that connects every part of the internal business, and Corgi HQ, the operations platform that runs on it: property sourcing, a deal pipeline that tracks every space from first outreach to keys in hand, buildout dashboards, blocker and contractor management, sponsorships, finances, tasks, and company stats. Fifteen working systems on one connected layer, ready for every automation that comes next.

Leasing

Sourcing & deal pipeline

Market sourcing, a kanban from outreach to LOI to negotiation to closing, pipeline analytics, and a live market map.

Buildout

Construction & vendors

Per-location buildout dashboards, blocker tracking with owners, and contractor coordination in one view.

Operations

Money, tasks & the room

Sponsorships, finances, task management, company stats, and a TV-wall mode that puts the numbers on the cafe wall.

Corgi HQ pipeline analytics Corgi HQ buildout dashboard
Corgi HQ home, light mode Corgi HQ 3am mode
  • Built on real workflows. The pipeline mirrors how Corgi actually leases: outreach, LOI, negotiation, keys in hand, with market targets tracked separately from active deals.
  • Accessibility-audited color. Every orange and type combination measured against WCAG contrast ratios, with documented decisions rather than guesses.
  • Built to grow. New automations plug straight into the internal MCP; whatever Corgi automates next, HQ already speaks its language.
02 · The External MCP · Mobile App

An external MCP for the customer side. The app runs on it.

We built Corgi's external MCP, the layer that connects the customer-facing business, and the mobile app that runs on it: browse the full menu and order, earn Treats through Corgi Rewards, and plug into the community of builders working out of the cafes. Sponsored drink placements are wired directly into the home screen, so the app is a revenue surface, not just an ordering screen.

Corgi app home with sponsored drink carousel
Home
Corgi app menu and ordering
Order
Corgi Rewards with Treats balance
Rewards
Corgi community member directory
Community
  • Ordering. The whole menu: coffee, tea, exclusive drinks, smoothies, and snacks, with per-location pickup.
  • Corgi Rewards. A Treats points system with unlockable tiers, from an extra shot up to Corgi merch, and member standings.
  • Community. A member directory and weekly spotlight for the founders and regulars building from the cafes.
  • Sponsor placements. Partner drinks get premium home-screen slots, monetizing the app from day one.
03 · Leasing Deck

A 16-slide landlord deck, rebuilt to brand and verified to the pixel.

Corgi's commercial leasing overview, the deck that goes in front of prospective landlords, rebuilt slide by slide: the official lockup placed at one uniform, measured size on every slide, the palette remapped to exact brand orange, all typography re-set in the brand faces, branded photography swapped in, and every frame normalized so nothing clips or slivers at the edges. Copy errors in the original were caught and fixed along the way. Click through the full deck below.

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The full sixteen-slide deck, exactly as delivered. Use the arrows or click a dot.

04 · Brand System

A brand book, a voice, and a kit the whole company runs on.

Full brand guidelines shipped as an interactive document and PDF, plus a production-ready kit with logo lockups, a type system, and an exact color spec, and a Voice & Copy Playbook covering tone, house lines, channel rules, and naming conventions for every location, drink, and program.

  • Complete guidelines. Logo usage rules, photography direction, color, and typography, delivered as web, PDF, and asset kit.
  • Type system. Geist Mono for display, F37 Bolton for headlines, Geist for body; numerals set tabular where they carry data.
  • Voice playbook. Voice attributes, before and after rewrites, a channel-by-channel register guide, and ready-to-post copy.
  • Naming conventions. Locations by neighborhood, menu and program naming rules, file-naming standards.
  • The underscore. A tagline device styled as a blinking terminal cursor, with usage rules so it never degrades into a typo.
Corgi Cafe lockup
#FF5C00
#FDFDFD
#FFDECD
#313131
#000000
DISPLAY / GEIST MONOstats & kickers
Headlines / F37 Boltonnamed surfaces
Body / Geisteverything else
The Cafe For Builders_
Nobody closes at 5.
Come for the coffee. Stay because it's 2am.
05 · AI Photography & Visuals

A full visual library for the deck and brand. Every wordmark letter-perfect. No photo shoot.

The visual library behind the leasing deck and the brand: storefronts, interiors, baristas, the mural, the regulars' corgis. AI-generated with a pipeline Rabbithole engineered so the real signage lockup appears exactly, in-scene, in true perspective and lighting. Every logo instance is zoom-checked at 100%; every frame passes anatomy and set-dressing QA before it ships. Reject rate went from roughly 40% in early batches to zero.

Mural storefront with people and corgis
Espresso bar under the Corgi Cafe band
Rainy morning at the mural corner
Night window bar
Communal table under the wall band
Corner blue hour with interior glow
Cyclist passing the mural, corgi waiting
Pastry case with the sign band
Corner storefront at evening with guests
Barista at the machine under the Corgi band

Selections from the final set. Shot list spans daylight, golden hour, blue hour, rain, and dawn. One consistent location, one consistent brand.

How we work

The speed of AI.
The standards of a studio.

One team

The whole stack, one engagement

MCP infrastructure, operations platform, mobile app, investor deck, brand system, photography. That's five vendors at most companies. Corgi hired one team and got all of it, in weeks, speaking one visual language.

Leverage

AI speed, hand-checked to the pixel

A full photography library with no photo shoot. A 16-slide deck rebuilt without a design agency. We produce at a pace traditional shops can't touch, then verify every deliverable by hand before it ships.

Systems

One system, not a pile of deliverables

Everything we build connects: the brand layer lifts straight onto the products, the photography feeds the deck, and the platform is ready for the next automation. Each piece makes the others stronger.

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MCP infrastructure, operations platforms, mobile apps, automation systems, brand systems, AI-accelerated production, and the decks that raise money and sign leases. Shipped fast, verified to the pixel.