From a short interview to a book on your shelf — here's the whole path.
You tell us where you're going, how many days, who's coming, and what you actually love — slow mornings, museums, gardens, food markets, long walks. Just as useful: what you'd rather skip. It takes about fifteen minutes, and you can stop and come back to it.
We build a full plan: where you'll sleep, what's fixed (a booked dinner, a train), and what's left open on purpose, because unstructured time is part of a good trip, not a gap to fill. Every day is laid out with a couple of good backup ideas, in case of weather or a change of heart. You can read it over and ask for changes before you leave — move a day, swap a stop, slow the pace down.
You pick a travel friend at setup — Penny, June or Wren, each with their own way of talking to you, same good judgment underneath. Once you've left, you text them the way you'd text a friend: "is this worth the wait," "we're exhausted, what's close by," "can we move dinner." They answer in plain language, one thing at a time, and if a change is worth making to the plan, they'll show it to you before anything is changed — nothing updates itself behind your back.
Each day, your travel friend asks for a photo and a line or two about how it went. It takes a minute and it's entirely optional — but it's what becomes your book.
With the Keepsake plan, your trip — the route, the days, the photos, your own words — becomes a printed hardcover book, mailed to you. No design software, no template to fill in yourself.
Your travel friend's answers are written by an AI model, not typed by a person on the other end. It's given your plan, your trip's details, and clear rules about how to talk to you — short messages, one thing at a time, plain language, no jargon, and never a wall of bullet points. If it needs to check something before answering, it says so, the way a person would: "let me check and get back to you."
It's good at the kind of research a great local friend would do — routes, opening hours, what's actually worth the detour — but it isn't a booking system, and it can make mistakes like any assistant can. Where it matters, the plan notes its sources; treat anything it tells you about tickets, hours or availability as a good starting point to confirm, not a guarantee.