... personalized suggestions that auto-filled your trip. Suddenly, it clicked. It was magic for our users! Reality Check Moments Month 1 5: Coded 14 hrs/day. Survived off savings. Worked with 150 closed beta users. Month 6: Got into Antler. VisibleHands VC gave us our first grant. Month 8: Launched our AI planner waitlist 2 days after the APIs became public. Month 9 19: Pivoted to work with travel agents (made a few $k), but realized the future wasn ... ... human agents it was agentic AI. Month 15: Went viral on a