The travel desk you don't have.

We book your flights over chat, watch them, and fix them when they break. No app, no forms, no forty tabs.

Request an invite The first thing we'll ask you for is a confirmation email, not a booking.

They have the calendar of someone with an assistant, and the tools of a tourist.


THE ORDINARY TRIP

It's 11pm. You're between two things. You need to be in San Francisco on Tuesday for a board meeting and back before Friday evening.

Today you have made about forty decisions. This is number forty-one, and it's the only one that hands the work back to you. Google Flights returns two hundred results and no opinion. You half-remember what you paid last time, you can't remember which flight beats the traffic, and you look up SFO versus Oakland again.

You do it anyway, because there's nobody to hand it to. It takes eleven minutes and you resent all eleven.

With us it takes one sentence and one tap. Three options, one recommended, a reason attached to each — "lands 7:55, so dinner works; anything at 8 doesn't." You don't compare. You take the one it told you to take, because it already knows you fly aisle, that you won't take a red-eye home, and what you normally pay on this route.

The everyday product isn't speed. It's that the decision left the desk.

Illustrative
  • Founder 11:04pm

    SFO to NYC on 31dec

  • Marlow 11:04pm

    Worth flagging before anything else: that's New Year's Eve. Peak pricing, and the evening flights fill first, so this is one to lock rather than sit on.

    I'll search into JFK, say the word if you'd rather Newark.

  • Founder 11:05pm

    3 Jan

  • Marlow 11:05pm

    Business, back on the 3rd.

    1. 1. 11:20am out, 8:10pm back. $2,240.
      Best balance. Lands 7:55pm, so a late dinner works, anything at 8 doesn't.
    2. 2. 6:00am out, 8:10pm back. $1,980.
      Saves $260, costs you a 4am alarm.
    3. 3. 3:40pm out, 8:10pm back. $2,090.
      Lands 12:15am. Cheaper than 1, but you arrive after midnight on NYE and cabs will be impossible.

    I'd take 1 unless you have nothing on that evening.

THE JOB NOBODY GAVE YOU

You are your own travel department.

Nobody signed up for that job. No hours, no budget, no backup, and it activates at the worst possible time. Everything we sell is the removal of that job.

The forty tabs.

Search that returns two hundred results and calls it choice.

The 2am phone.

Doing operations work alone, in the dark, badly.

The programme you'd have to build first.

The tools that exist need you to become a company before they'll help you.

Every tool in travel is optimising for somebody's cost. Nobody is optimising for your day.

THE NIGHT IT BREAKS

2:10am. The 6:15 is cancelled — fog at Bangalore.

The airline app offers four alternatives and no idea whether any of them get you to Sand Hill Road by 11. So you do logistics, in the dark, on a phone, with a board meeting in nine hours. Ninety minutes, and you get it slightly wrong.

You don't get woken up. You get it solved.

Illustrative
  • Marlow 7:02am

    Your 6:15 to SFO was cancelled overnight. Fog at BLR.

    I've held the 9:40 via Dubai. It lands 7:45pm, which puts you on the ground the night before your 9am on Sand Hill. $60 more than what you had.

    Say yes and it's ticketed.

  • Founder 7:06am

    yes

  • Marlow 7:09am

    Done. New ticket's in your inbox. Hotel knows you're in at 9pm. Nothing else Tuesday needs changing.

When the flight is inside twenty-four hours, it comes immediately instead.

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  • Marlow 2:10am

    Your 6:15 to SFO is cancelled. Fog at BLR.

    You told me to just sort it, so I have, as far as I'm allowed to without you. I'm holding the 9:40 via Dubai. It lands 7:45pm Tuesday, so you're on the ground the night before your 9am on Sand Hill.

    The alternative is tomorrow's nonstop, which lands 5:40am and makes the meeting, but you'd walk in off seventeen hours with nothing spare if anything slips.

    Say yes and it's ticketed. The hold drops at 6am.

  • Founder 2:14am

    yes

  • Marlow 2:18am

    Done. New ticket's in your inbox. I've moved the hotel to late arrival and told them 9pm. Nothing else Tuesday needs changing.

    Go back to sleep. I'll ping you at seven.

Ninety minutes becomes one word.

1. It tells you things you didn't ask.

"That's New Year's Eve. Evening flights fill early, so this is one to lock rather than sit on."

2. It's useful before you've booked anything.

Forward a confirmation from anywhere and it's watched from that second.

3. It stops asking after the third trip.

Not a saved-preferences page. It learns from what you pick, so trip four takes one sentence.

Illustrative
  • Marlow

    Here's what I've picked up, in case any of it's wrong.

    Aisle, forward of the wing. You'll pay about $400 to save two hours, not much more. Nonstop over one-stop even when it costs more. No pings before 7am unless something's broken.

4. It handles the night it breaks.

Your 6:15 is cancelled overnight. You wake up to the fix already worked out, and reply with one word.

THE QUESTIONS EVERYONE ASKS

"I just use Google Flights."

So does everyone, and it's very good at finding a flight. It has no idea the trip exists once you close the tab, and nobody there is awake when the 6:15 is cancelled.

"Why not one of the corporate travel platforms?"

Nothing's stopping you — at your size they're free. But using one means picking a platform, creating an organisation, inviting yourself to it, and writing a travel policy you don't have, in order to book a flight you're taking on Tuesday. You have to build a travel programme before the travel programme helps you.

And once it's set up, it filters. It doesn't decide. Its job is making spend fit a policy, so it narrows the list and hands it back to you. The list moved from Google Flights into a tidier wrapper. Nobody in that stack is optimising for your day. They're optimising for a company's cost — and you don't have the company.

"Isn't this just another AI travel chatbot?"

The chat is the easy part. We book the ticket, we're responsible for it, we watch it afterwards, and there's a person behind it when the airline says no. Most of what launched this year hands you a link and wishes you luck.

"Why not just hire an assistant?"

If you have one, use them — we're genuinely not for you. Most people at this stage won't hire one for two trips a month, and an assistant still can't watch a flight overnight.

"SFO Tuesday, back Thursday night. You pick."

"My Thursday meeting moved to Friday. Fix the trip."

"Forwarding you my flight for next week — just watch it."

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REQUEST AN INVITE

This is for people flying fifteen to forty times a year with nobody to hand it to. If that isn't you, it won't be much use.

The first thing we'll ask you for is a confirmation email, not a booking.

One sentence, not one evening.