GuardTrailsYou know the ground, the suppliers, what your clients expect. None of that can be calculated, and we do not try to do it in your place.
GuardTrails' engine adds something else: it checks a circuit, stage by stage, and shows what the naked eye misses: a pace that does not hold, a night too many, a season that does not suit, an underestimated driving time. It flags and it explains. It does not sign off the circuit: the decision stays yours.
To see how to check a circuit without redoing it, read the study How to check a tour itinerary.
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Ground handlers and local agencies
What you keep: the field knowledge, your contacts on the spot, the fine knowledge of the destination. What the engine adds: a second look at the circuit, from the first day to the last, with an explanation of every point raised. Example of an alert: three one-night bases in a row in the middle of the circuit, when comparable circuits in the area have one or two. You may well know why; the engine only asks you to confirm it.
For ground handlers and agencies: the detailed page. For the background, read the study A tour is not a list of places.
Trek and adventure tour operators
What you keep: the choice of routes, the knowledge of guides, huts and difficulty levels. What the engine adds: a check of the season at each stage and of the pace over the length of the trip. Example of an alert: access to a hut on day 8 depends on the season: the engine flags the constraint, and you check it with your local contact.
For the work a hand-built circuit represents, read the study How long to build a tour itinerary.
Tailor-made agencies
What you keep: the relationship with the client, the creation of the trip, the final decision. What the engine adds: a feasibility check of the circuit you built, with a grade from A to D and what it rests on. When the pace does not hold, the engine can put the circuit back at the right pace and say what it changed (stages added, removed or moved, nights, route of the longest day): this is a corrected variant, to compare with your own; it does not count as a validated circuit. Example of an alert: a sightseeing day which, measured on the real road, is mostly a driving day.
For the detail of what is checked, read the study How to check a tour itinerary.
Platforms connecting travellers with local agencies
What you keep: your network of agencies and the relationship with travellers. What the engine adds: a uniform reading of the circuits you entrust to us, useful to spot what deserves a conversation with the agency before the proposal is presented to the traveller. Example of an alert: an "inconclusive" budget, with the precise question to ask the agency (is the international flight included?) rather than a guess. The engine does not guess: it writes down what is missing.
Makers of itinerary planners and AI assistants
What you keep: your product, your interface, your planning engine. What the engine adds: a downstream check of the itineraries your users obtain or compose, without rebuilding anything. Example of an alert: a stage placed in a zone where travel is advised against, which no step in the chain had noticed. API integration is in early access, by sign-up; in the meantime, you can entrust a few itineraries to us for checking.
To compare an agency, an AI assistant and an engine, read the study Tour operator, AI assistant or engine.
What the engine does not do
- It does not verify changing facts: visas, ferry timetables, the opening of mountain roads, permit quotas. It detects that a constraint exists, never whether it is compatible with specific dates, and it writes that down rather than filling the gap.
- It books nothing: no hotel, no flight, no car, no activity.
- It does not sell trips.
- It does not decide: it flags and explains, you rule.
- It does not replace your knowledge of the ground, of your suppliers or of your clients.
A tool that names its blind spots is a tool whose remainder can be checked.
See what it says about one of your circuits
The feasibility check is in beta. The form on the Agencies page opens with "Check an existing circuit" already ticked: leave your address and we will get back to you. The report stays confidential: we never quote a checked circuit, nor the agency that built it.