What we're learning building agentic travel
Product decisions, connectivity infrastructure and honest notes on where AI agents still get travel wrong.
The 2% problem: why nobody lets AI press "book"
91% of digital natives plan trips with AI. Almost none of them let it pay. We spent six months figuring out what closes that gap — and it was not a better model.
Read the piece →Why we built connectivity before we built travel
Starting with eSIM looked like a detour. It turned out to be the only way to own the layer that every other travel product quietly rents.
22 July 2026 · 6 min readWhat happens when your flight slips three hours
A walkthrough of the sync engine: how one delay cascades through a hotel check-in, an airport transfer and a dinner reservation without you opening an app.
9 July 2026 · 5 min readVerify once: the case for a traveler-held identity wallet
Passport numbers should not be re-typed into six providers per trip. Here is how a single verified credential moves across a booking chain with a consent trail.
28 June 2026 · 6 min readTravel agencies are not being replaced. They are being re-tooled.
What forty-agent shops actually asked us for when we offered them white-label AI agents — and how little of it was about automation.
14 June 2026 · 5 min readDesigning for the moment there is no signal
The Offline Survival Kit started as a bug report from a founder stuck at an Athens gate. It is now the feature travelers mention most.
2 June 2026 · 4 min readOne email a month, no travel-deal spam
What shipped, what broke, and what we learned about letting agents spend other people's money.