Wayfinder
A consumer web app that turns "five days in Lisbon on a $2k budget, two kids" into a daily itinerary with real restaurants, confirmed hours, and booking links. Powered by Claude 4.5 and a structured retrieval layer.
- Client
- Wayfinder Travel
- Timeline
- 11 weeks
- Services
- DevelopmentAI AgentsMarketing/SEO
- Stack
- AI Agents· Next.js· SEO· Claude
What we walked into.
AI trip planners had a trust problem: they would invent restaurants, get hours wrong, and recommend hotels that had closed. Wayfinder wanted one that travellers would actually forward to their family chat.
The approach.
- 01
Retrieval over curated travel data (OpenTripMap, Google Places, hotel APIs) — the model composes, it does not invent.
- 02
Every itinerary item has a citation; uncited suggestions are marked "double-check this".
- 03
Next.js frontend with streamed responses and a "keep this, redo that" edit loop instead of one-shot prompts.
- 04
Programmatic SEO pages for 180+ city × interest combinations — now the top organic channel.
What actually changed.
The citations were the unlock. Nobody trusts an AI that will not show its work. Delve Dots built the trust layer before the model layer, which is the right order.