Mobile · AI · Travel

Spontai

An AI travel planning app that turns a destination and a date range into a personalised itinerary. Built solo as founding engineer, now live on the App Store in the UK and US.

TIMELINEOct 2025 – Present
TYPEMobile · AI · Travel
ROLECo-Founder · CTO
STATUSLive · App Store
Spontai
Problem → Role → Outcome
Problem

Planning a trip means a dozen open tabs, a group chat nobody reads back, and a spreadsheet that goes stale the moment plans change.

Role

Co-founder & CTO. I own the product, the AI pipeline, and the infrastructure — from the first prototype to what ships in production today.

Outcome

Live on the App Store in the UK and US, with fortnightly releases shaped directly by 50+ TestFlight feedback items per cycle.

In Production

2

countries live — UK + US App Store

60+

Supabase migrations shipped

20

edge functions in production

50+

TestFlight signals per release cycle

Technical Stack
ClientReact Native / Expo
LanguageTypeScript
DataSupabase · Postgres · pgvector
AIClaude + OpenAI (RAG)
ReleaseEAS Build · App Store
ObservabilitySentry · Cost Tracking
What I Built

Product & Founding

Defined the roadmap and shipped fortnightly, prioritising against 50+ pieces of TestFlight feedback per cycle rather than internal opinion.

RAG Pipeline

Built the retrieval-augmented itinerary engine — routing between Claude and OpenAI, grounding generations in pgvector embeddings of real travel data.

Data & Infrastructure

Owns Supabase end to end: 60+ migrations and 20 edge functions covering auth, itinerary state, and background jobs.

Ops & Monitoring

Wired up Sentry for crash reporting and per-provider LLM cost tracking, so a spike in spend or errors surfaces before users notice it.

Live Product

Available now on the UK and US App Store