vincentalbouy
Joined 5 years ago
Joined 5 years ago
I 100% agree, the interface is the least interesting part. Anyone can build a chat UI. That’s not the moat.
What matters is the messy stuff in the backend. Vendors. Hotels. Quotes that change. Someone forgetting to update availability. Contracts. Deposits. Random edge cases. That coordination layer is the real product.
The UI is just the tip. The hard part is keeping state across dozens of moving pieces and async back-and-forth.
My belief is that AI finally makes some of this operational glue automatable. Not in a magical way. But in a very practical loop:
ask → get info → update plan → trigger action → wait → adjust → repeat
Planning is basically structured ping-pong. It’s not search. It’s evolving constraints over time. That’s why it feels agent-shaped.
What I am basically saying is : Event planning is really AI agent prone and very conversation prone, that is why this kind of interface will take over travel and event planning. It is like you have a personal travel agent sitting next to you and it showing you options.
Totally agree with you though. organizing fragmented supply is the hard, unsexy, painful work. That’s where the real value is built.
Just so I know, you asked the exact same thing in both ChatGPT and our product? no changes?
Maybe the algorithm was too pushy on venue selection and not enough focused on the understanding of your problem.
"You will only use Ai, if it really useful for your customer" IT wasn't from 2021 to 2025 but then LLM reached a point that now the experience for my customer is way better using a completely different product that is a conversation instead of a classic Airbnb search. What do you do when you discover that? You change you product
Also we do not use AI "buzzwords" for the marketing at all, if you go to our website https://www.teamout.com/ we do not even mention it, we focus on the experience you will get at the event.
Thank you
2019 -- 2020 : we had an office in New York with my previous company for 30 people
2020 -- 2026 : We are fully Remote at TeamOut, we are 30 and we only do retreats
We pend 5X less than a company going to an office everyday
Cool that it adapted from UK to Massachusetts. Do you remember what was the price per person per night? Our client usually book around $200-500 room rate per night.
Yes we manage the whole booking process, I think the true value is here as aggregating venues with AI nowadays is quite easy .
For questions between venues and client, we have a specific chat but the Agent can also try to reply if it knows the answer or decide to contact the venue via email (we haven't released that tool yet)
Thanks
We are actually pushing an update on that, we want to make the distinctions between Exact Matches (respecting destination criteria) and Non Exaft Matches , that. are suggestions.
The below options were suggestions (because we have limited supply in Netherlands ) but it not clear at all for the user:
2. Marysville, Ohio, United States 3. Lisboa, Portugal 4. Nashville, Tennessee, United States 5. Kenmore, Washington, United States 6. Golden, Colorado, United States
Thank you for your help
The algorithm is quite smart about that because it has legacy data from ~1500 events. IT has been shown a lot of example of" When a team is located there, they have VISA issues --> they should actually go there because it worked in the past for XYZ client"
For example the algorithm will know that Dominican Republic is usually VISA frienly and can send larger groups there etc.
For the second part: Finding a venue with the requirements is hard, our clients really have a pain point, but what it is even harder tis to agree on terms, prices, food, meeting space, transportation coordination etc, it is a logistical nigthhmare