Your plans, backed by local knowledge.
The gap between AI-fast and actually right.
The best trips don't come from a guidebook or a generated itinerary. They come from knowing someone on the ground, a friend in the city who shows you the real version of it. The neighbourhood the tour buses skip. The timing trick that saves you two hours in a queue. None of that lives in a top-ten list.
AI has made trip planning faster than ever. Ask a chatbot for five days in Lisbon and you'll have an itinerary before your coffee's gone cold, but it's handing that same list to everyone else, because it leans on what's already popular. That's how a quiet local favourite becomes next year's overcrowded must-see. It can't tell you which "hidden gem" is now a tourist trap, or whether the neighbourhood it booked you into suits how you actually travel. It sounds equally confident either way.
That gap, between a plan that looks right and a plan that is right, is where GroundCrew lives. We pair the speed of AI with a real person who lives where you're going, knows it properly, and wants you to love their city as much as they do.
Three things that don't change.
Human judgment, not just information.
Anyone can hand you a list. GroundCrew gives you a real person who'll tell you the truth, including when your plan needs changing. Our crew are verified locals, not call-centre agents reading the same reviews you already can.
A better deal, especially for the locals.
Traditional agencies advise you from an office on the other side of the world, and that's where your money stays too. We think that's backwards. The person advising you on Barcelona actually lives in Barcelona, so travellers get real expertise and locals earn from it.
Built to keep AI honest.
We use AI for what it's good at, breadth and speed, and put human verification on top for what it isn't: judgment and accountability. The technology never gets the last word on your trip. A person always does.
Two founders, one clear idea.
We're two women founders whose expertise overlaps in exactly the right place. One of us has spent years in travel and has run global platforms at scale. The other has spent a career building AI at companies like Microsoft and Amazon, and knows precisely what it's good at and where it needs a human to step in. That's the whole idea behind GroundCrew: let AI do the fast part, and let a real local do the part that actually matters.