Built by a traveller who needed help planning

We're Lucio and Andreia: two people who love to travel, and take at least two trips a year.

In our couple, Andreia has always been the planner. She does the research, works out the route and finds the experiences that make a trip. I'm what she calls the princess of the couple. At some point I wanted to give something back, and plan a trip for us myself.

I don't have Andreia's patience or her know-how, so I looked for help. I tried planning with AI chat assistants, and it was still hard work: a lot of back-and-forth, plenty of mistakes and made-up details, and never a view of the whole trip. I had a rough idea of the stops, but no idea how to get from one to the next, or what it would all cost.

So I built the tool I needed: one that lays out the whole trip, with the stops, how you move between them and what it costs, so I could plan a trip as good as the ones Andreia plans.

Beforehand is now open to anyone who, like me, wants a great trip but has little time, little patience or little experience planning one.