Tern — Travel Planning & Disruption Management

Part of the Circuit Forge LLC "AI for the tasks you hate most" suite.

Status: Backlog — not yet started. Peregrine must prove the model first.

What it does

Tern handles travel from planning to recovery: flight and hotel monitoring, itinerary generation, visa requirement research, travel insurance comparison, and rebooking assistance when things go wrong.

The Arctic tern makes the longest migration of any animal — 44,000 miles per year, pole to pole and back — every single year. The world's greatest traveler.

Why it's hard

Travel is hard because:

• Price volatility: the same flight can vary 3× in cost over 72 hours
• Visa requirements are country-specific, citizenship-specific, and change without notice
• Disruption recovery is time-critical: rebooking windows close fast, compensation rules are complex
• Travel insurance policies are dense and full of exclusions

Core pipeline

Configure trip parameters (destination, dates, budget, constraints)
→ Monitor flights / hotels → Alert on price drops or availability
→ Generate itinerary → Visa + entry requirement check
→ Travel insurance comparison → Book (or route to Ultra operator)
→ On disruption: rebook options + compensation claim draft

Key differentiators vs. Peregrine

• Real-time price monitoring vs. batch discovery
• Disruption response is time-critical (minutes, not hours)
• Compensation claims: EU261, DOT rules, airline contract of carriage
• Visa research: country + citizenship + trip purpose = requirements matrix

Product code (license key)

CFG-TERN-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

Tech notes

• Shared circuitforge-core scaffold
• Flight data: Skyscanner API, Google Flights scrape, airline direct
• Visa requirements: travel.state.gov, IATA Travel Centre API
• EU261 / DOT compensation calculator
• Calendar integration: add itinerary items directly to user's calendar