For executive assistants · chiefs of staff · family offices · travel advisors
Trip Underway Pro is the professional travel command center for people who run other people's travel: confirmations forwarded to a private address per traveler, parsed, deduped, and stitched into one labeled board each, never one blurred list. It never asks for access to anyone's inbox.
Early access locks $79/mo · No credit card to start · Forward-only, never inbox access
The job with no tool
Executive assistants, chiefs of staff, and family-office staff coordinating travel for someone else 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 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.
“TripIt's Travel Arranger feature is meant to support arrangers/managers assisting a small number or group of travelers, and is explicitly not designed to support travel agencies, TMCs, large corporate bookings, or sharing/monitoring trips for large numbers of people from a single account.”
“TripIt for Teams was retired January 31, 2022; team calendar and dashboard features were removed, and after July 1, 2022 users lost access to any team trips they did not personally own or create.”
“Mixes up itineraries and dates for different travelers, won't recognize some forwarded itineraries that it used to easily ingest.”
Built for the job
The same parsing, dedupe, and stitching engine travelers get, wrapped in the multi-traveler layer nobody else ships.
Core architecture, not a bolt-on: one login, a separate trip stream for each person you coordinate, never mixed, for travel booked anywhere.
Forward confirmations yourself or set a forwarding rule; each address feeds only its own board. No OAuth, no inbox scanning, ever.
Schedule changes, cancellations, gate and room changes since you last checked, one glanceable diff across every traveler instead of manual re-verification.
An auto-generated one-page summary of each traveler's day: flight, car, hotel, ready to hand off, never hand-assembled.
A clean, no-login itinerary link per trip, generated automatically from parsed confirmations rather than built by hand.
A rebooked flight is an update, not a duplicate row. Two one-way legs become one round trip. The failure modes arrangers describe for over a decade, closed.
Feature by feature
A direct, sourced comparison against the incumbents and indie tools an arranger would actually consider. Trip Underway is pre-launch; every "Trip Underway" column reflects our own build target, not yet independent production reliability.
| Feature | Trip Underway | TripIt Pro | Travefy | Wanderlog | Navan / ITILITE | AwardWallet | CheckMyTrip (Amadeus) | Tripsy (indie) | Otto the Agent (indie) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forward-to-parse ingestion | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ booking-first |
| Zero-failure parsing track record | ✅ 218/218 | 🟡 reported failures | n/a | 🟡 struggles on niche/PDF | n/a | 🟡 | 🟡 reported failures | ✅ well-reviewed | n/a |
| Privacy-first, forward-only (no inbox OAuth) | ✅ | 🟡 Inbox Sync opt-in scan | n/a | ❌ Gmail-connect option | n/a | ❌ continuous inbox scan | ✅ | ✅ | n/a |
| Auto-dedupe of rebooked/duplicate confirmations | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 in-platform only | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Stitches separate one-ways into a round trip | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Per-traveler dashboard (many unrelated people) | ✅ | ❌ explicitly out of scope | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ in-platform only | 🟡 family loyalty only | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ single traveler |
| Change feed ("what moved since yesterday") | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 | ❌ | 🟡 delay alerts only | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Day-of briefing | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Real-time flight alerts | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | 🟡 |
| Polished, shareable, branded itinerary output | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 | 🟡 |
| Works on travel booked anywhere | ✅ | ✅ | n/a | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| No per-client billing or commission capture required | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ per-seat SaaS | ✅ | n/a | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ commission-based |
| Built/marketed for coordinating others' travel | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ built for advisors | ❌ | 🟡 corporate only | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ individual traveler |
| Reachable, responsive support (pre-launch commitment) | ✅ | ❌ "impossible to reach" | ❌ "horrible" | 🟡 | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 | ✅ | 🟡 |
The math
Trip Underway is priced to replace $5,700 to $18,700 a year of manual reconciliation, not to add another subscription that ignores the real job.
Pricing
Both include everything in the consumer Traveler plan. Early-access pricing is a working draft, shaped with the first members; locked rates stay locked.
For one assistant, family-office professional, or advisor running travel for up to 8 travelers
For a family office or travel desk with multiple professionals and many travelers
Travel advisors: Trip Underway has no booking engine, no client billing, and no commission layer. It is the coordination layer that sits alongside whatever you book with, and your clients see a clean branded itinerary, not our app.
Questions
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