Building an autonomous travel agent: the journey begins

Matt Glein — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:21:04 +0000

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on something called Pack and figured I’d share it here to get some honest feedback.

Travel has always felt way more manual than it should be to me. You’re bouncing between sites, comparing flights, checking your calendar, re-entering the same info… and then if anything goes wrong you’re suddenly dealing with it yourself at the worst possible time.

So the idea behind Pack is pretty simple — you just tell it what you need, like “book my trip next weekend” or “I need to get to Chicago for a wedding,” and it actually handles the planning and booking for you.

When you sign up, it pulls everything together so you can see your full travel history in one place, and from there it starts learning how you travel and making better decisions over time.

One thing I’ve found interesting while building it is how messy group travel is. Right now we’re trying to make it so you can plan a trip and send it to someone else, and it rebuilds it for them based on their preferences and schedule

Still early, but we’ve got a site up and are iterating pretty quickly:
👉 https://trypackai.com

Would really love any thoughts on the product and current website

Also just curious how other people are thinking about building real products with AI right now vs just demos

And yeah, part of this idea came from trying to rebook a flight in a Vegas nightclub at 2am which was… a low point

Appreciate any feedback, I'm looking forward to check out what others are working on too

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Building an autonomous travel agent: the journey begins