126 experts applied59 founders waitlistedLaunching January 2027126 experts applied59 founders waitlistedLaunching January 2027126 experts applied59 founders waitlistedLaunching January 2027
Everyday Founders
Travel tech playbook

An acceleration playbook for your travel or hospitality venture, not generic business advice.

Built for booking platforms, experience marketplaces, hospitality software and modern travel brands, where seasonality, supply partners and take rate decide whether growth pays.

Sara V.Marcus R.Addee A.Amara O.Diego M.Phanda E.Nia M.Luca R.Priya S.Greg T.Elena G.Jonas W.Tom B.Sara L.Shannon W.

Operators who have built and scaled real businesses.

Your practice. Your goal.No equity taken.Remote, wherever you build.

How your AI coach reads the business

Your travel venture, modelled around bookings and take rate.

When you tell your AI coach you build in travel or hospitality, it reads your numbers through a booking, supply and seasonality lens.

01

Two-sided supply

Signing hosts, operators or properties, and keeping them active once they are listed.

02

Take rate and fees

What you keep per booking or subscription after payments, refunds and partner commissions.

03

Seasonality

How demand, cash and marketing spend swing across the travel year.

04

Repeat and referral

Whether travellers or hospitality clients come back without paying for them again.

YOUR ACCELERATION PLAYBOOK, BY GOAL

Pick the goal you are working on.
See how it plays out here.

Goals you choose, not steps in order. Your AI coach tailors the roadmap to your own numbers. Figures below are rules of thumb, not targets you must hit.

Get real bookings or paying hospitality clients in one narrow niche.

What counts as proof

Paid bookings or a paid pilot in one destination, traveller type or property segment, at a fee you can live with.

Paid bookings or pilots
Verified
Take rate
Tested

What your AI coach flags

  • Listing supply before anyone wants to book it
  • Free pilots with properties that never convert
  • Testing in peak season only and mistaking it for demand

Example roadmap moves

  1. 01Pick one destination, traveller type or property segment
  2. 02Hand-match the first bookings or onboard the first clients yourself
  3. 03Test your fee or take rate on real transactions
  4. 04Interview travellers and suppliers about why they would switch

Illustrative. Your AI coach proposes moves from your own numbers and you approve each one.

How an operator helps

Where practices get stuck.

Operators who have run service businesses spot these early, and work through them with you.

Trap 01

The supply-first trap

Signing hundreds of listings before proving travellers will book them.

Trap 02

Bought bookings

Growth that only exists while ad spend keeps running.

Trap 03

Seasonal blind spot

Judging the business on peak months and running short in the quiet ones.

Trap 04

Gross value illusion

Treating total booking value as the money you actually keep.

What your operator works through with you

  1. 01

    Niche and demand check

    What they look at

    Your first bookings, pilots and the segment they came from.

    What they push back on

    A niche too broad to win or too small to matter.

    You leave with

    One segment and a test to prove demand there.

  2. 02

    Unit economics review

    What they look at

    Take rate, fees, refunds and acquisition cost per booking.

    What they push back on

    Bookings that lose money once every cost is counted.

    You leave with

    A margin per booking you can improve.

  3. 03

    Supply strategy

    What they look at

    How suppliers join, stay active and bring demand.

    What they push back on

    Supply that needs constant founder attention.

    You leave with

    A supplier onboarding and retention plan.

  4. 04

    Seasonal plan

    What they look at

    Demand and cash across a full year.

    What they push back on

    No plan for the quiet months.

    You leave with

    A 12-month cash and spend outline.

1:1 expert help

Get matched.
Book. Leave with a plan.

  1. 01

    Get matched

    Operators who have run a practice like yours.

    AI Matching

    Finding the right experience…
    Nia Mensah

    Nia Mensah

    Retention strategy

    96%
    Luca Romano

    Luca Romano

    Customer activation

    91%
    Tom Brennan

    Tom Brennan

    Onboarding design

    87%
  2. 02

    Book a time

    In your timezone. First 30 minutes free.

    Pick a time€0 · first call free
    Amara Okafor

    Amara Okafor

    Pricing strategy · 30 min

    Tue 23 Sep

    10:00

    Tue 23 Sep

    15:30

    Wed 24 Sep

    09:00

    Wed 24 Sep

    17:00

    Shown in your timezone

    Book this time
  3. 03

    Summary & takeaways

    Recording, summary and actions for your Roadmap.

    Call summary

    Session · 30 minutes

    Idea validation & customer discovery

    Key takeaways

    Buyers solve this today with spreadsheets and extra hours.

    Three of four would pay to cut onboarding to one day.

    The pilot offer needs a defined start date, not a demo.

    Action points

    Draft the paid pilot offer

    Interview two more buyers

    Saved to your company brain and Roadmap.

Calls happen live in the platform

Meet live. Leave with the decision.

No links out. The recording and summary save themselves.

Live, one to one 00:00
Greg · Product
You speaking

“Is this segment worth building for?”

30 minutes Summary saved to your AI coach

When to call an operator

Three moments a call
pays for itself.

01

You are choosing your first niche

Test whether one segment can carry the business before widening.

02

A big supplier or channel offers a deal

Check the terms and dependence before you sign.

03

You plan a second destination

Confirm the first one is dense and profitable enough to copy.

Questions, answered

Before you
take the next step.

Travel, Hospitality & Tourism Tech

Membership & Everyday Founders

Everyday Founders membership

The support stays.
Even when the goal changes.

Your AI coach, goal-led playbooks and unlimited 1:1 operator advice in one membership.

Choose your billing term

Special launch price
Start · $171 billed every 3 months

Satisfaction guarantee. Full refund within 14 days if not satisfied.