● Now in early access, shaping launch pricing with the first members
Trip Underway is the travel command center for executive assistants, chiefs of staff, and family-office staff coordinating trips for other people, parsed, deduped, and stitched from forwarded confirmations. It never asks for access to an inbox.
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Product preview: generated screens of the command center Trip Underway is building toward
The job with no tool
Executive assistants, chiefs of staff, and family-office staff coordinating travel for someone else, the principal, have no tool actually built for the job. The one product designed for it, TripIt for Teams, was retired on January 31, 2022. TripIt's own help docs admit its Travel Arranger feature "is not designed to... share/monitor trips for large numbers of people from a single account."
What's left is a spreadsheet, a shared calendar, and a lot of manual re-checking, roughly 3 to 6-plus hours a week of triage and reconciliation per assistant. At $35 to $60/hour contract EA rates, that is $5,700 to $18,700 a year in labor spent doing what software should already be doing. A missed change is worse: one documented case cost a traveler $3,978 in credit plus $280 out of pocket, and even a caught error runs up to $200 to $400 in change fees.
Try it: sample data
This is a simulated run on sample confirmations, standing in for Trip Underway's real parsing engine, which parsed 218 real confirmation emails with zero failures in internal testing. Hover any result to see where it came from. Click a card for detail.
The complete toolset
Trip Underway is built as a strict superset: the familiar mechanics you'd expect, executed better, plus the multi-traveler layer no competitor ships at all.
Feature by feature
A direct, sourced comparison against the named incumbents and the strongest indie tools in the category. Trip Underway is pre-launch; every "Trip Underway" column below reflects our own build target, not yet independent production reliability.
The math
The tools that exist today cost less than $50 a year and still leave you doing the work by hand. Trip Underway is priced to replace $5,700 to $18,700 a year of that work, not to add another line to a subscription list already ignoring the real job.
Early access
Trip Underway is in early access. Waitlist members get first access, a say in what ships, and pricing locked in well below the $5,700 to $18,700/year it replaces.
For one EA managing one executive's travel end to end
For one EA juggling several unrelated people's trips without them ever blurring together
For a travel desk with multiple arrangers and many principals
No sell-side advisor billing, CRM, or commission layer, ever. Built and priced for a non-revenue-generating internal role from day one.
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Industry voices
The pain is documented, and it's not subtle
Trip Underway has no customers yet, so there are no customer testimonials here. These are real, sourced complaints from the forums and review sites where this buyer already talks.
Every quote below is an industry voice describing today's tools, not an Trip Underway customer.