Budge - AI Travel Research & Planner
Full trip plan in minutes!
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Budge is an AI travel planner that turns a destination idea into a complete, personalised trip plan in minutes. Chat with Budge, make your choices, get a plan — short trips, long stays, solo or family.
Planning a trip is broken. You spend hours across travel blogs, Reddit, Google Maps, and booking sites — and still feel unsure. Budge fixes this. Tell Budge where you're going. It asks the right questions — your pace, budget, vibe, dietary preferences — then builds a full plan tailored to you. A 3-day Tokyo trip or a 90-day Southeast Asia journey. Budge handles both with the same ease.
Each plan includes: -> Day-by-day or week-by-week itinerary -> Weather for your travel period -> Where to stay + search links -> Getting around + estimated costs -> Budget breakdown -> Insider tips + what to watch out for -> Safety & emergency contacts
The plan updates as you chat. Change your mind about a destination? Ask Budge. Want slower travel? Say so. The plan reflects your conversation in real time. Free to try. No credit card. https://budge.me
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All AI startups share the same underlying tech (GPT, Llama, Stable Diffusion), so clones arrive within 3-6 months and price competition pushes margins toward zero. Model the AI business as a high-revenue, low-margin, short-window play — not a long-term moat. Pieter explicitly tracks AI startup profit margin separately and accepts it will keep falling; the strategy is harvest then sell, not compound.
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