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We build multi-agent systems that handle disruption, refunds and guest requests across your GDS, PMS and payment systems. They act within your policy and fare rules, with a human in the loop.

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What is a multi-agent system in travel?

A multi-agent system in travel is a set of specialised AI agents for disruption handling, refunds and settlement, guest requests and policy that coordinate under an orchestrator and act directly in the systems of record: GDS, NDC, PMS, payment rails and accounting. Unlike a single chatbot, each agent owns one domain and escalates to a human at defined decision points.

The problems worth automating first

Disruption charges you twice

Once in rebooking and passenger compensation under EU 261, and again in the hours your most experienced people spend untangling a single wave of cancellations while the queue keeps growing.

Refunds bury your back office

One carrier schedule change cascades into hundreds of bookings, each touching your reservation system, payment provider and accounting, and each waiting for a human to reconcile them.

Routine guest requests wait hours

Most sit fully inside policy, yet they queue for your most expensive people, because the tools that could resolve them can't write to your property management system.

An example agent team: who does what

A multi-agent system works like a team with clear roles. Here's an example lineup for a travel operation:

Traveller / ops event

Orchestrator

Specialised agents

Disruption

Settlement

Guest

Policy & Compliance

Human approval gate

Systems of record

GDS/NDC · PMS · payment rails · accounting

Audit trail: every decision, input and rationale is logged

Disruption Agent

Monitors cancellations and delays, builds rebooking options within fare rules and your policy, and executes once approved, or automatically within thresholds you set.

Settlement Agent

Matches refunds and schedule changes across your booking engine, payment provider and accounting, and proposes reconciliation entries for approval.

Guest Agent

Resolves guest and passenger requests end-to-end in the property management system: booking changes, special requests, status updates. Escalates anything outside policy.

Policy & Compliance Agent

Validates every action the other agents propose against fare rules, corporate policy and passenger rights (EU 261) before it happens.

Orchestrator

Routes the work, keeps the order of operations, and writes the audit trail for every decision.

Not every deployment needs all five. Discovery tells you which two or three earn their keep first.

Orchestration, approval gates and audit trails work the same way in every system we ship.

See how multi-agent systems work

Use cases

What this looks like in your operation

What the agents do

Disruption & rebooking

Detect event → build compliant rebooking options → rebook + notify the passenger

Refunds & settlement

Detect schedule change → identify affected bookings → propose refund path → reconcile after approval

Guest services

Classify request → act in PMS → confirm and log

Corporate travel

Validate request against policy → propose compliant option → book

Ancillary & upsell

Read booking context → make a fitting offer in-channel → fulfil

Systems touched

Disruption & rebooking

GDS, NDC, CRM, payment

Refunds & settlement

Booking engine, PSP, accounting

Guest services

PMS, CRM, loyalty

Corporate travel

GDS, OBT, ERP

Ancillary & upsell

CRS, PMS, payment

What we measure

Disruption & rebooking

Time-to-resolution per passenger; cost per disruption; NPS during disruption

Refunds & settlement

Backlog size; cost per refund; days to settlement

Guest services

Share of cases closed without a human; first-response time

Corporate travel

In-policy booking rate; savings per trip

Ancillary & upsell

Ancillary revenue per booking; upsell conversion

What the agents do

Systems touched

What we measure

Disruption & rebooking

Detect event → build compliant rebooking options → rebook + notify the passenger

GDS, NDC, CRM, payment

Time-to-resolution per passenger; cost per disruption; NPS during disruption

Refunds & settlement

Detect schedule change → identify affected bookings → propose refund path → reconcile after approval

Booking engine, PSP, accounting

Backlog size; cost per refund; days to settlement

Guest services

Classify request → act in PMS → confirm and log

PMS, CRM, loyalty

Share of cases closed without a human; first-response time

Corporate travel

Validate request against policy → propose compliant option → book

GDS, OBT, ERP

In-policy booking rate; savings per trip

Ancillary & upsell

Read booking context → make a fitting offer in-channel → fulfil

CRS, PMS, payment

Ancillary revenue per booking; upsell conversion

From first call to production

01

Architecture Discovery (2 weeks)

We map your process, systems and constraints. You get a reference architecture for your case, a recommended autonomy level per step, and a prioritised roadmap ranked by business value, whether you build with us or not.

02

Pilot in shadow mode (6-8 weeks)

The system runs in parallel with your current process, on live data, writing nothing. You compare outputs side by side and see exactly where it's right, where it's wrong, and what it costs to run, before it touches a system of record.

03

Production (8-12 weeks)

Integration with your systems through a controlled layer (MCP where possible), approval gates wired to your roles, audit trail switched on, security review passed.

04

AgentOps (ongoing)

Evaluation suites run on every change. We monitor accuracy, latency and cost per task, and re-evaluate the whole system when a model version changes, because a silent model update should never silently change your decisions.

01

Architecture Discovery (2 weeks)

We map your process, systems and constraints. You get a reference architecture for your case, a recommended autonomy level per step, and a prioritised roadmap ranked by business value, whether you build with us or not.

02

Pilot in shadow mode (6-8 weeks)

The system runs in parallel with your current process, on live data, writing nothing. You compare outputs side by side and see exactly where it's right, where it's wrong, and what it costs to run, before it touches a system of record.

03

Production (8-12 weeks)

Integration with your systems through a controlled layer (MCP where possible), approval gates wired to your roles, audit trail switched on, security review passed.

04

AgentOps (ongoing)

Evaluation suites run on every change. We monitor accuracy, latency and cost per task, and re-evaluate the whole system when a model version changes, because a silent model update should never silently change your decisions.

See how we've helped our clients

Embedded AI in a cybersecurity platform serving Fortune 500 clients: by embedding a conversational AI layer into the platform, we cut customer onboarding time by 95% and turned a quarterly reporting tool into a daily decision-support system.

Why us

Why enterprises choose us

We're a 50-person, cross-functional software development team based in Warsaw, Poland, building technology that delivers ROI, strong governance, and real adoption.

10

years delivering digital products

est. 2016

100+

products shipped

web & mobile

50+

experts on board

Product & UX designers, Software engineers, AI specialists, PMs

75

client NPS

Praised for communication, pace and quality

5

continents served

North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa

Frequently asked questions

Through the same certified APIs your systems already use, behind a controlled integration layer. Agents never bypass your booking engine; they operate it. In the pilot they run read-only in shadow mode, so nothing in your flow changes until you've seen the outputs side by side.

At the autonomy level most clients start with, it can't: rebookings execute only after approval, or within thresholds you define (fare class, cost delta, route). Every action is logged with its inputs, so an incorrect proposal is caught in review, and a disputed one can be traced end to end.

Both, and you choose per action type. Routine, in-policy operations can execute directly; anything touching money or exceptions goes through an approval gate. The split is defined in discovery and enforced in architecture, never left to the model's judgement.

As hard constraints. A dedicated policy agent validates every proposed action against fare rules and passenger-rights obligations before execution, and the audit trail documents compliance for every case.

Six to eight weeks in shadow mode on live traffic: the system processes the same disruptions and requests your team handles, writes nothing, and you get a side-by-side report covering resolution time, decision quality and cost per case before anything touches production.

Model usage, monitoring and evaluation runs, re-tested whenever a model version changes. We put the running cost in every proposal, because a proposal that skips the running cost is really pricing a pilot.

Which disruption would you hand to agents first?

Tell us how disruptions, refunds or guest requests flow through your operation today. We'll tell you which process agents should take first, which autonomy level is safe, and what the pilot would look like.

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