Name: Cruise Director
Author: Tim Vasil

Private beta

A travel planner that reads your documents, draws every day on a map, and guides you through it in real time.

I hate planning vacations: the endless switching among itinerary PDFs, excursion brochures, maps, travel sites and chatbots. So I put it all in one place, where a friend’s suggestion pastes straight in, the AI advises, transit times update as I drag ideas around, and the weather is already on the page.

One minute in the app: the trip, a day on the timeline and the map, and the assistant at work.

marks what the AI does.

Step 1

Upload travel docs

Drop in whatever the airline, the hotel, the tour company or the cruise line sent you. The assistant reads it and builds the trip.

Anything goes in. Flight and hotel confirmations, an itinerary PDF, a 16 MB excursion brochure, a photo of the daily program, deck plans, plain text.
Attach three ways. Pick a file, drag it onto the pane, or paste a screenshot.
Out comes a trip. Flights, hotel nights, cities, ports and sea days, each in its own time zone, with every venue placed on the map.
Nothing is invented. Places come from the map’s own search, facts from web search with citations, and anything the model cannot verify is dropped rather than written.
Deck plans become a map of the ship. Venues, corridors, stairs and cabin ranges, ready to route across.
Watch it work. Status and the model’s own thinking stream in. Stop, retry or edit a turn, attachments included.
Every document is kept. A Files panel with thumbnails: open, rename, jump to the conversation, delete.
One undo for the whole turn. The assistant never writes the trip directly. It proposes changes, the app applies them as one step, and one press puts everything back.

The assistant adding 40 onboard events from a photo of the daily program, beside a routed path on the ship's deck plan — A photo of the daily program went in; 40 onboard events came out as ideas. On the left, the deck plan it read, routing suite to restaurant.

Step 2

Get trip ideas

Everything worth doing in each place, in one list, scored against what you actually like.

The brochure, pre-loaded. Every tour or excursion from the documents you uploaded, with price, duration, departure time and photo.
Ask for more. A rainy-day plan for Tallinn, lunch near the pier, a museum the kids will like. Suggestions arrive as tappable chips and map pins, grounded in web search with citations.
Ranked with a reason. Each idea is scored against your ordered interests, dislikes and party size. Every score carries a one-line why, and a dislike is a veto.
Suggestions are not edits. Recommended places ride along beside the plan. They join the day only when you keep one.
Filter and sort. By place, type, label, source or status. Sort by match, start time, length or name.
Search the map from the same box. Or tap any place on the basemap for hours, rating and website.
Opening hours that know your day. The weekday you visit is highlighted.
Keep or park. Idea, alternative, planned. Nothing is deleted when you change your mind.

Split view: the timeline, the map of Tallinn, and the Ideas panel with 28 recommendations — A port day in Tallinn: the timeline, the map, and 28 ideas ranked best match first, from the excursion catalog, the daily program and the map.

Step 3

Plan

Shape each day on a timeline that shows where you are, how you get to the next stop, and whether there is time.

The Day Architect. A proportional timeline with bands for where you are and separators for check-in, checkout, go ashore and all aboard.
A primary path and alternates. The plan sits in the first lane, alternatives beside it. Slide one sideways to swap them.
Real routing for every gap. Walk, cycle, car or rideshare, transit, and the tender crossing. Ferries stay out of a walking route unless you say so.
Time that adds up. Traffic-aware driving at the departure hour, your own walking pace, and a transit box that outgrows its gap is the warning.
Weather by the hour. Highs, lows, rain chance and sea state for each stretch of the day. Forecast to fifteen days, climatology beyond, clearly marked.
A map that matches. Numbered pins mirror the timeline. Dotted lines are on foot, solid ones have an engine. Satellite and 3D buildings.
Ask for a day. “Plan Tuesday around the 2 pm tender” and the assistant fills the lanes, alternates included. It sees the day you are looking at.
Drag, resize, auto-adjust. Retime by dragging, or let one tap fit every transit into its gap on five-minute marks.
Costs and distance per day. Per-person prices with the party size filled in, and a walking total on every day.
On board, too. Suite to spa across the deck plans the assistant read, with the drawn path, the steps and the minutes.
Plan together. Comments on any stop, attributed to whoever wrote them. Undo and redo across everything.
Play the day. A flyover from stop to stop with optional narration, so you can see the day before you live it.

The Day Architect timeline for a tender day in Visby — Timeline: a tender day in Visby. Walks between stops, prices, hourly weather, and an alternative beside the plan.

The whole trip on a globe: flights in purple, the ship's track across the Baltic — Map: the whole trip at once. Flights in purple, the ship’s track across the Baltic, one date-labelled pin per port.

Step 4

Enjoy, with real-time guidance

On the day, the phone is the plan. It knows where you are, what is next, and how long you have. When the day changes, the plan changes with it.

A live countdown. A now line on the timeline and a running “time until” to the next hard deadline: boarding, takeoff, all aboard. It weighs what is left against what is scheduled.
Where you are, what is next. One tap jumps day, timeline and map to right now. Locate yourself on the map with the route line to the next stop.
The day as cards. Photos, hours, address, price, a directions link and the website, with the day’s shape narrated between them.
Weather that firms up. The forecast refreshes as the day nears, by the hour, for each stretch of the day.
Contingencies already in place. Rain, a late tender, a closed museum: the alternate is on the timeline. Slide it into the plan and auto-adjust fits the rest.
Ask mid-day. “We are running an hour late, what should we skip?” The assistant knows which day is on screen and answers for it.
Works without signal. The trip stays readable offline and saves itself when you are back.
A journal that fills itself in. Notes and photos on each stop as you go, beside the plan for that stop.
Lives on the home screen. Full-height, safe-area aware, and it updates itself when a new version ships.

Day playback over a 3D map of Tivoli Gardens, with the journal for that stop beside it: two photos and a note — An evening in Copenhagen played back over 3D Tivoli, with the journal for that stop beside it: the photos you took and a note.