BizTrip.AI Launches With Bold Goal: Corporate Travel Without the Search Bar
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BizTrip.AI Launches With Bold Goal: Corporate Travel Without the Search Bar
BizTrip.AI is a next-generation travel management layer that acts like a personal travel assistant. It is already being piloted by major enterprise clients including Moderna, Genentech, Salesforce, and Cain Travel. The company has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding from the AI Fund. The average business traveler spends 8–12 hours planning a single trip, says BizT Trip.AI founder Tom Romary. He believes that preference-driven platforms will become the default for high-value business travelers, like Concur and Navan, in the coming years. It’s not just about saving money through price tracking, though that’s still part of its DNA, the company says. But it is geared to work with any expense solution, any TMC, and can plug into any corporate tech stack, it says, and is already working with several online booking tools to white-label its technology under their own brand. It will launch today at the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Convention 2025 in Denver.
Tom Romary’s bold plan is to make the travel search bar obsolete, a phenomenon that is gaining ground beyond corporate travel.
The founder of Yapta is back this time with BizTrip.AI, which was founded in 2024.
Officially launching today at the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Convention 2025 in Denver, BizTrip.AI is already being piloted by major enterprise clients including Moderna, Genentech, Salesforce, and Cain Travel.
Backed by DeepLearning.Ai founder Andrew Ng and co-founded with CTO Scott Persinger, BizTrip.AI pitches itself as a next-generation travel management layer that acts like a personal travel assistant. It has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding from the AI Fund.
Romary described his vision by recalling his father’s longtime personal assistant at Union Carbide.
She knew everything from his preferred hotel type in Asia to when he needed to be home for his son’s baseball games. “That’s what we’re building with BizTrip,” he said. “A digital version of that kind of support, at scale.”
Unlike conventional tools that require users to sift through dozens of options, BizTrip.AI says it anticipates travelers’ needs, applies corporate travel policies, and delivers three ideal options, saving time, cutting costs, and improving compliance.
“We’re not trying to be a travel management company or an online booking tool,” Romary told Skift in a pre-launch interview.
“We’re the intelligent layer that sits on top, working with calendars, policies, and preferences to automate the entire process.”
What BizTrip.AI Actually Does
Romary’s last company, Yapta, pioneered automated airfare price tracking and reshopping, a now-standard Request for Proposal requirement for corporate travel buyers. Coupa acquired it in 2020, just before the pandemic paused global travel.
But BizTrip.AI isn’t just about saving money through price tracking, though that’s still part of its DNA, the company says.
BizTrip.AI operates like a chat-based concierge. It is set up to scan calendars for upcoming travel needs, initiate booking conversations, surface policy-compliant flight and hotel options based on personal preferences, and continuously track prices even after booking.
When plans change, the platform dynamically manages itinerary updates, including cancellations, rebookings, and supplier adjustments, without requiring live agent intervention, the company says.
Early testers like Moderna are already seeing benefits.
“BizTrip.AI enhances our airfare and hotel booking processes, automates price tracking and re-shopping, and allows our employees to stay focused on what matters most,” said Jennifer Steinke, Moderna’s Head of Travel, Meetings & Fleet.
Partnerships Over Competition
Though BizTrip.AI may sound like a threat to established players like Navan or Concur, Romary insists it’s the opposite.
“We’re not trying to replace Navan,” he said. “In fact, we’re already working with several online booking tools. We can white-label our technology so they can offer it under their own brand.”
The platform’s flexibility is part of its appeal, the company argues.. It is geared to work with any expense solution, any TMC, and can plug into any corporate tech stack. Travel management companies like Cain Travel are using it behind the scenes to support bookings, especially for clients who don’t have a preferred agency.
“The goal isn’t to remove people from the process,” Romary said. “It’s to give people, whether travelers or travel managers, tools that help them do more, faster, and better.”
The End of Search?
While Romary stops short of declaring “the end of search,” he believes that preference-driven platforms like BizTrip.AI will become the default for high-value business travelers.
“The average business traveler spends 8–12 hours planning a single trip,” he said. “That’s billions of hours lost each year. If we can reclaim even a fraction of that, it’s a massive win for productivity.”