Prism started because we kept watching group trips fall apart in the group chat. We wanted a group travel planning app with a shared itinerary, trip voting, expense splitting, and clearer group trip coordination instead of vague commitments and one person stuck doing all the work.
Every group trip follows the same pattern: someone creates the group chat, one person ends up doing all the research, booking gets spread across five different apps, and three weeks after the trip someone still owes $47.
The real problem was not a lack of effort. It was a lack of shared visibility. "I'm probably in" gets treated like "I booked my flight," and a date change gets floated without anyone seeing what it does to the stay, the budget, or the plan.
Prism is our answer to that pattern: a collaborative trip planner for groups that keeps the shared itinerary, trip voting, and expense splitting visible enough for the whole group to plan with confidence.
We are not trying to build a generic booking site. We are building the planning layer that helps groups stay aligned: shared itinerary planning, clearer commitment state, trip voting, expense splitting, and support for friends traveling from different cities.
Group travel should strengthen friendships, not test them. When the plan is legible, the group can make better decisions earlier and the organizer does not have to absorb all the hidden work alone.
The tools are fragmented, the responsibility pools in one person, and nobody has a reliable picture of what has actually been decided.
Planning lives across chats, shared docs, booking sites, and payment apps. Nobody knows where the latest version of the trip actually lives.
Somebody always ends up comparing flights, finding the stay, collecting money, and absorbing the stress when the plan shifts.
Nobody wants to send the awkward "you still owe me" message, so shared costs linger unresolved long after the fun part of the trip is over.
"I'm probably in" is not a booking, but group chats collapse those states together. Deposits happen before real alignment does.
We are building the planning layer we kept wishing existed every time a trip became more complicated than it needed to be.
Tired of being the last one to find out the flight got changed. Building shared visibility into the whole trip and stronger group trip coordination.
The one who still has an unresolved split from the last trip. Building the system that keeps expense splitting, cost, and commitment legible.
Believes group travel should strengthen friendships, not test them. Designing calm interfaces for collaborative planning and a shared itinerary that the group can trust.
Always the one building the spreadsheet. Now building the product that replaces it with something the group can actually use for trip voting, planning, and coordination.
We want group travel planning to feel structured, calm, and collaborative without becoming heavy or bureaucratic.
Group trips do not fail because people do not care. They fail because no one can tell what has been decided, what is tentative, and what still needs a response.
When everyone sees the same costs, the same itinerary anchors, and the same commitment state, the awkward planning conversations get dramatically easier.
Every change affects the group. You should see what happens to cost, timing, and coordination before you lock anything in, not after.
Prism turns scattered planning work into a shared system the whole group can understand, contribute to, and trust, with the shared itinerary and cost picture visible from the start.