How we got from a brief to a companion
Five decisions, in the order we made them. Each one cut something so the next could be sharper.
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We read what the brief rules out
The hackathon asks for an AI travel companion inside the Pegasus ecosystem. It rules out a basic chatbot feature list and a standalone assistant disconnected from Pegasus. That became our test for every idea.
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We made the companion act on its own
There is exactly one input, a sentence, and it is answered with a ticket, never with text. No transcript, no reply bubble. Everywhere else the companion decides when to speak.
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We storyboarded one journey
Three mates go to Cappadocia. Jess books first, Archie gets a nudge, Will is the friend without the app, and Dad follows along. Thirteen scenes show every agent at work, in order.
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We built it as a real app
A mock of the Pegasus mobile app, screen for screen, running in the browser. Every figure the companion quotes is arithmetic in code, handed to the screen as a finished sentence, and a test checks that every screen agrees.
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We taught it when to stay quiet
Staying quiet is a feature. Three gates each silence the companion on their own, so a change that makes it speak more is treated as a regression.
The pitch
The deck we present to the jury.
The pitch deck lands here
Once it is final, the slides embed right on this page and open full screen with one click.
Try it yourself
This is the real app, running live. Use Scenes in the side panel to jump between the thirteen beats of the story, and Agent to see the work behind each screen.
Four agents behind one face
The passenger only ever meets the Companion. Behind it, each agent is named for the one job it does.
Trip turns a wish into a trip
Builds a full itinerary on the Pegasus network from one sentence, and rebuilds repeat trips.
Offer knows what you'll want
Predicts which bag, seat or bundle each traveller will buy, and when to ask. It acts only where the predicted need is high.
Group one booking becomes a group
Suggests who to send the trip to, pre-fills each friend's booking in the organiser's name, and nudges the last straggler once.
Moments picks the moment
Chooses when and where to speak: a free week it noticed, check-in opening, a cancellation, a fare drop.
Staying quiet is part of the model
Three gates, each of which alone silences the companion.
Watch it work
A guided walkthrough of the model and the story it tells.
The walkthrough video lands here
Our Loom tour of the model plays right on this page once it is recorded.
Where the companion takes you
The destinations our passengers can reach, as they appear in the app. Team photos and screenshots will join them here.