Founder & CEO · Vienna ·
hi@thomasragger.com ·
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I build empathetic AI products people can trust. I have worked
for eighteen years across design, engineering and business. I co-founded wild and
led it as CEO, fully remote, growing the team from four people to more than thirty
with a 35x increase in revenue. Most recently my team was the sparring partner to
a regulated bank on its first financial AI.
Experience
2013 - present
wild · Co-founder, CEO (Managing Director) & CTO
Vienna · fully remote
- Grew the studio from four people to more than thirty, with a 35x
increase in revenue, as a fully remote design and technology partner to
global brands.
- As Erste Bank's external sparring partner, led the team that built the
earliest prototypes of Austria's first financial AI, built for the bank's
eight million customers, and helped shape the path to production alongside
its in-house teams. Brought memory into the assistant early, built a
knowledge pipeline that legal and compliance can verify, tiered answers by
branch and location, and made voice prototypes the CEO demoed live on stage;
2023 onwards.
- Authored the Brand Context Protocol, an open, git-native standard that
makes brands legible to AI models (craft.wild.as/bcp, 2026), and co-authored
wild's whitepaper "AI in regulated industries" (February 2026).
- Led the studio through its exit into Residence, the global creative
collective, in 2023; retooled a craft organization to work with AI without
lowering the quality bar.
- The team's work for Red Bull, IKEA, Google, Meta, Disney, Samsung,
JP Morgan Chase and Erste Bank has won 11 Cannes Lions, 21 Awwwards
including Site of the Year, 20 FWA and 2 Webbys.
- Recent AI-industry clients include Anthropic, Microsoft, IBM, Replit,
Inflection AI and Serve Robotics.
2025 - present
Warm Fuzzy Story Club · Co-founder
Side venture, built with my wife
A consumer product that turns a few family photos and a short description
into a printed picture book. Finalist for digital innovation at the Austrian
Chamber of Commerce.
2010 - 2013
Stink Digital · Creative Technologist
London / New York
Concept and build of interactive work for global brands at a film-driven
production company.
2010
HKI Hellohikimori · Senior Frontend Developer (freelance)
Paris
2008
Firstborn · Frontend Developer
New York
Talks, juries & community
2026
Return to Human · keynote, JETZT Summit, Vienna
Creative Industries in an AI World · main stage, CIMIx, Vienna
AI and creativity · AI Factory Austria, Vienna
2025
Scaling Taste · ADCE AI Creative Summit, Barcelona
Jury member, Young Lions
Led a dinner conversation at Ars Electronica, Linz
2024
Jury member, Young Lions · digital
AI m[eats] creativity? · Creative Region, Ars Electronica Center, Linz
2020 - 2021
Board member, Creativ Club Austria
Education
2008 - 2010
MA, Media & Interaction Design · FH Joanneum
2005 - 2008
BA, Information Design · FH Joanneum