A 5-minute guide to planning a trip your crew will actually agree on

Wondorah is an AI travel planner that:

1. Drafts a full day-by-day itinerary from a single paragraph of trip-intent.
2. Verifies every place, price, weather claim, and travel time against live data.
3. Collaborates — invite your crew, swipe + poll on options, chat with the AI together.
4. Adapts— kosher, halal, celiac, accessible, multi-generational, pet-friendly, solo, road trip, open-destination "surprise me" — every trip gets shaped around your real life, not a faceless average traveler.

Nothing is handwaved. Every card in your itinerary has a confidence badge showing whether we independently verified the address, hours, price, and more.

1. Sign in → tap Home → tap Plan a new trip.
2. Describe what you want in plain English. The more you say, the better the first draft. Examples:

   Three-day Paris trip for 2 adults + 1 teen in mid-May. Budget ~$3k excluding flights. Loves art + food, hates early mornings.

   10 days in Tokyo with my wife and our 4-year-old. We keep kosher and need naptime built into the afternoons.

   Wheelchair user (manual chair), Rome for a week with my husband. Step-free hotels, accessible Colosseum + Vatican.

   PCH from San Francisco to LA, 4 days, stops in Big Sur, Cambria, and Santa Barbara. Two adults, food + viewpoints.

   5 countries in Southeast Asia in 3 weeks — surprise me, no overnight flights.

   Beach week in Outer Banks with our golden retriever. Dog-friendly everything.

3. Tap Generate. First draft arrives in ~60s.
4. The Intelligence tab begins running in the background: crowd, weather, cost, safety, budget, climate risk, and transport.

Every trip has the same sidebar (and bottom-nav on mobile):

Tip:the sidebar adapts to your trip's phase — features you don't need yet are tucked under a More drawer to keep things calm. As your trip date approaches, more surfaces promote to the main rail.

Every itinerary card is fact-checked before you see it:

• Verified — address, hours, reviews, and price confirmed from live sources.
• Partial — some fields confirmed, others still pending.
• Unverified— not enough independent data. We'll still show our best guess but flag it.

Verification runs automatically right after generation — no button to click. If you want to re-run it after an edit, tap Verify all at the top of the Itinerary tab.

Recently-closed restaurants are auto-filtered before they ever reach you — that's the closed-venue prevention sweep running ahead of the verification pass.

The Crew tab is the one place group trips happen. Three subtabs in one URL — tap a friend in, they land here.

Inviting

1. Crew → Manage.
2. Type an email and pick a role:
   • Editor — can vote, comment, chat, add / remove items.
   • Viewer — read-only.
3. Tap Send invite — your invitee gets a one-tap accept email and lands straight on the trip board.

Chat subtab

Group thread tied to your trip, with reactions and replies. Anyone can @Wondorah (or type @w + ↵) to bring the AI in — regenerate a day, swap an activity, answer a logistics question.

Swipe subtab

1. Organizer taps Start session — activities are pulled from your itinerary.
2. Each crew member independently swipes 👍 Like, 👎 Pass, or ❤️ Love.
3. Tap See Matches for ranked group overlap. Unanimous picks get a special badge.

No more "what do you want to do?" / "I don't know, what do YOU want to do?"

Polls subtab

Quick decisions Swipe doesn't cover: "Sushi night or izakaya night?"

1. Anyone on the crew proposes options.
2. Each member ranks 1st / 2nd / 3rd — Wondorah uses Borda count so quieter voices get heard, not just the loudest.
3. Wondorah picks the option with the highest aggregate rank.

Tip:if an invite email lands in spam, mark it "Not spam" once and all future Wondorah emails will land in the inbox.

Inside the trip → Crew → Chat (or the standalone Chat link in the sidebar):

• Ask things like "Move day 2 dinner earlier — we have tickets at 8 pm" or "What's a rainy-day alternative for day 4 afternoon?" or "Is the day 4 restaurant wheelchair-accessible?"
• The AI sees your full itinerary + verification data + intelligence dossier + preferences and responds with specific, actionable changes.
• Use @Wondorah (or type @w + ↵) to summon it explicitly in a long thread.

The AI has per-trip memory— it learns your family's preferences (no peanuts, early dinners, needs naps) as you chat, and applies them on regeneration.

What the AI won't do:infer your faith, orientation, or identity from indirect words like "spouse" or "partner". It uses only what you actually tell it. If you ever see it guess, that's a bug — tell us.

Hidden Gems

Wondorah spots 2+ hour gaps in any day and offers curated, lesser-known finds — the place a local cousin would tell you about, not the top-10 listicle. Restaurants, viewpoints, cultural experiences, off-the-beaten-path stops.

• Pet-friendly trips — gems are automatically filtered for dog-welcoming venues.
• Road trips — gems appear along your actual driving route, not just at named stops. Find the diner only on the map between miles 87 and 112.

Tap a gem to expand it → tap Add to Day → it slots into your itinerary at a sensible time.

The Inbox

You see that rooftop bar in a TikTok at 11pm. Instead of bookmarking it and forgetting by Wednesday — drop the link straight into Wondorah.

1. Open your trip → Inbox.
2. Paste a URL from TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Reddit, a travel blog, or any public page about a place.
3. The AI reads the post, extracts the place + location, and queues it for you to Accept onto the itinerary or send to Failed (with a reason).
4. On mobile: hit your phone's native Share button from any app → pick Wondorah from the share sheet. The link lands in your inbox instantly — no copy-paste.

Photos tab

A real photo album per trip. Upload as you go (or after). Caption. Delete. Multi-select. Drag-and-drop on desktop. Native camera on mobile. HEIC files from iOS are auto-transcoded so they display normally.

The Photos page is also the fuel for Trip Replay — every photo you upload becomes available to the AI's storytelling pass.

Trip Replay

Spotify Wrapped, but for the trip you actually took. The Replay auto-generates a swipeable, vertical, Instagram-Stories-style stack of cards:

• Cover card with destination, dates, theme emoji, and a hero photo (auto-picked from your album).
• Stats card — places visited, days, crew size, miles or kilometers traveled.
• Day highlight cards anchored to your favorite moments — photos auto-match to the right day via their taken_at timestamp.
• Crew, hidden gem, and closing cards wrapping the story.

Cards with 4+ photos render as a 2×2 Instagram-style grid. When there are more photos than fit, the corner gets a "+N more"chip — an abundance signal, not a limit warning. Tap it and you're back on the Photos page.

Export as video

1. Open the Trip Replay → tap Export Video.
2. Wait for the encode — output is 9:16 vertical, designed for TikTok and Instagram Reels.
3. Share natively from your phone — or drop it in iMessage / WhatsApp / a group chat.

No photos yet? The Replay still renders with theme-aware gradients + emoji per card. Once you upload, hit Regenerate on the Replay and the grids fill in.

One unified page combining pre-trip tasks and packing items. Two AI buttons drive it:

• Regenerate — rebuilds the entire checklist with items specific to your trip. Atlantic City weekend? Boardwalk cash tip, NJ Transit reminder, no passport. Tokyo with a toddler? Visa check, yen exchange, JR Pass, kid items, naptime-aware schedule, kosher substitution reminders if you said you keep kosher.
• AI Generate — adds smart packing items on top, categorized: Clothing · Toiletries · Electronics · Documents · Health · Accessories · plus trip-specific (Beach Gear, Safari Kit, Pet Travel Kit, Ski Bag).

Both buttons share the same list:

• Smart auto-categorization with 10+ categories.
• Add a custom item manually — the AI guesses the best category.
• Check-off tracking with a progress bar.
• Checked items survive Regenerate — your manual work is never lost.
• For road trips: accounts for all stops and climate changes across your route.

What's built into the AI's tailoring:

• Domestic trips never get passport / visa items.
• International trips always include destination-specific health, visa, currency guidance.
• Kid trips guarantee a minimum of kid-specific items (we caught the AI silently dropping these in early testing).
• Trips with infants / toddlers protect a naptime window in the itinerary.
• Faith- and diet-aware (kosher, halal, celiac, nut-allergy) substitutions are concrete, not vague — Chabad listings for kosher abroad, halal-certified directories, etc.

The Costs & Savings tab is the financial home for every trip. Sub-pages live inside it:

• Affordability Reframe — instead of one big intimidating total, the trip is broken into the cost of three small daily habits ("this trip is the equivalent of 4 weeks of lunch out, or 11 weeks of coffee runs"). The goal: make it feel reachable.
• Savings Goal — set a target. The page shows your daily / weekly target, a progress bar, a streak counter that rewards consecutive on-target days, and a milestone burst at 25 / 50 / 75 / 100%.
• Date-shift hint — when your trip has flex on the dates, the page surfaces a small chip with the season label + crowd level for the cheapest nearby week (sourced from the Compare Windows engine, no LLM in the loop). Tap to apply.
• Price Watches — set threshold alerts for flights + hotels. Background monitor pings you when a price crosses your threshold.
• Booking Links — one-tap deep links to flights / hotels / activities with your dates pre-filled. No more copy-pasting into Booking.com.
• Expenses & Settlements — log shared expenses across the crew, see who owes whom, settle in one tap.

Tip: the site-wide Deals page (bottom nav) surfaces curated flight + hotel deals you can save to any existing trip with one tap.

Every trip has a public share link — tap the share icon in the top-right of the itinerary.

• Copy-link to send as a text.
• Downloadable PDF itinerary (single page).
• Per-day share (just one day at a time).
• Per-item share (just one restaurant / activity).
• Trip Replay share — share the swipeable story or the 9:16 exported video. (See Section 8.)

Shared pages show no login wall — great for showing family the plan before they join the crew.

Brag a little — your plans look good. Every trip, day, and even individual restaurant card has a rich social preview card (Open Graph image) so when you drop the link, your friends see a beautiful hero image, not a grey placeholder.

Where you can share

• Instagram Stories — copy the share link → paste into a Story with the Link Sticker. The preview auto-populates with your trip's destination, dates, and a hero photo.
• Instagram Reels & TikTok — export the Trip Replay as a 9:16 video and upload natively. Vertical, native aspect, captions baked in. (See Section 8.)
• X / Twitter— paste and tweet. You'll get a large-image summary card with the trip title + dates.
• Facebook / Messenger — links show a full-bleed preview with the destination photo and crew count.
• WhatsApp / iMessage — preview cards auto-expand in both.
• Pinterest — share the PDF export (printable one-pager with your whole itinerary + map) as a pin-worthy image.
• LinkedIn — yes, really — remote-work travel + bleisure trips fit right in. Clean preview card, no emoji spam.

What makes it exciting

• Dynamic hero images— every share card uses the destination's best photo (validated via Google Places) + a moody overlay with your dates + crew size.
• Trip Replay grids — when you upload trip photos, day highlight cards render as 2×2 Instagram-style grids with a "+N more"abundance chip on the cards that hold extras. Designed to feel like a friend's trip dump, not a corporate marketing post.
• No ugly URLs — links look like wondorah.com/share/trip/paris-may-26.
• One-tap sharing from the app: tap Share on any trip / day / item card → pick the platform → we prep the caption and hashtags for you.
• Suggested caption auto-generated per trip, e.g.:

  4 days in Paris with my crew 🇫🇷✨ planned by Wondorah. Come see our itinerary 👉 [link]

  Edit before posting, or use as-is.
• Track the vibe — see in your trip dashboard how many people clicked through each share. Turn on a trip and watch your plan spread.

Pro tip: share your trip beforeyou go — you'll get recs from friends who've been, and your plan gets better. Share again after (with the Replay video) — friends see what was great and add to their own Wondorah wishlist.

Pet-friendly mode

Mention your pet anywhere in the trip brief — "weekend in Asheville with our dog," "road trip to the Keys with our pup" — and Wondorah activates pet-friendly mode end-to-end:

• A pet-friendly badge appears on the trip header.
• Itinerary generation biases toward dog-friendly restaurants, hotels, parks, activities.
• Hidden Gems search appends pet-friendly to every query.
• AI Checklist includes leash, travel bowls, pet first-aid kit, vaccination records.
• AI Chat knows your trip is pet-inclusive ("is this beach dog-friendly?").

Inclusive AI

Wondorah is built on the idea that the world should be plannable by anyone. The AI's tailoring covers:

• Faith & diet — kosher, halal, celiac, nut-allergy, vegan, pescatarian. Concrete substitutions, not vague "research local options."
• Multi-generational — toddler naptime windows, mobility-aware pacing for older travelers, kid-specific packing items.
• Accessibility — step-free routes, wheelchair access, hearing-impaired-friendly experiences when you explicitly tell us.
• Solo travelers — neighborhoods that feel safe to walk at night, anxiety-aware crowd levels.
• LGBTQ+ travelers — neighborhood + venue recommendations when you explicitly mention it. Wondorah will never infer orientation, faith, or identity from indirect words like "spouse" or "partner."
• Open-destination — "5 countries in Southeast Asia, surprise me" resolves to concrete places before the planner runs.

If you ever feel the AI made an assumption you didn't give it — tell us. That's the bug we care about most.

• Avatar menu (top-right) → Preferences → save reusable profiles: budget tier, food preferences, dietary notes, accessibility needs, activity interests, travel pace. Attach a profile to any trip and the AI weaves it into every recommendation.
• Preference rules — write explicit constraints like "no early mornings" or "always include a cooking class" that the AI follows across all your trips.
• Your Onboarding Quiz answers seed your first preference profile automatically.
• Sign out lives on the avatar menu.
• Data export → Preferences → Export my data. You get a JSON dump of every trip.

• Crew tabon the bottom nav always jumps to the most recent trip's crew board.
• Trip list → tap the × on any card to delete abandoned drafts.
• Typing destination? Use real city names. Avoid {city} or placeholder text.
• Be specific in your brief— kosher, halal, celiac, accessibility needs, kid ages, pet, "surprise me." The more you say, the more tailored the first draft.
• Stuck? Pull to refresh (on mobile) — the preview sometimes caches a stale state.
• Found a bug? Use the in-app Report Bug button in the sidebar — include the trip URL, a screenshot, and one sentence about what you expected vs. what happened.