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1.9 KiB
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48 lines
1.9 KiB
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# Tern — Travel Planning & Disruption Management
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> *Part of the Circuit Forge LLC "AI for the tasks you hate most" suite.*
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**Status:** Backlog — not yet started. Peregrine must prove the model first.
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## What it does
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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.
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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.
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## Why it's hard
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Travel is hard because:
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- Price volatility: the same flight can vary 3× in cost over 72 hours
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- Visa requirements are country-specific, citizenship-specific, and change without notice
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- Disruption recovery is time-critical: rebooking windows close fast, compensation rules are complex
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- Travel insurance policies are dense and full of exclusions
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## Core pipeline
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```
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Configure trip parameters (destination, dates, budget, constraints)
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→ Monitor flights / hotels → Alert on price drops or availability
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→ Generate itinerary → Visa + entry requirement check
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→ Travel insurance comparison → Book (or route to Ultra operator)
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→ On disruption: rebook options + compensation claim draft
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```
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## Key differentiators vs. Peregrine
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- Real-time price monitoring vs. batch discovery
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- Disruption response is time-critical (minutes, not hours)
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- Compensation claims: EU261, DOT rules, airline contract of carriage
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- Visa research: country + citizenship + trip purpose = requirements matrix
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## Product code (license key)
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`CFG-TERN-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX`
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## Tech notes
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- Shared `circuitforge-core` scaffold
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- Flight data: Skyscanner API, Google Flights scrape, airline direct
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- Visa requirements: travel.state.gov, IATA Travel Centre API
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- EU261 / DOT compensation calculator
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- Calendar integration: add itinerary items directly to user's calendar
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