vincentalbouy

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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Yes you are right, we have a lack of supply there, and we do not show places that we are not able to Book. Chat GPT is showing data, we are showing bookable venue. But I agree that in Peru our supply is too limited so the experience is not
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Grammar mistakes is a solved problem yes.
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Thank you , Interesting but not related
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Hi Anjel, thank you for testing. What do you mean?
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Thanks a lot for this insight. Genuinely appreciate you taking the time to help me. I 100% agree, the interface is the least interesting part. Anyone can build a chat UI. That’s not the moat. What matters is the messy stuff in the backend.
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Thank you for reporting that problem. I appreciate the help. The agent is supposed to checks real flight API so this is weird, let me investigate that further.
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
This is interesting thank you for reporting that. I am goi t o investigate that use case deeper. The models at core are Gemini / ChatGPT / claude so you should get a similar level answer or better (because of our data) not worse.
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
As an AI engineer I made mysefl a promise when started a company: "You will only use Ai, if it really useful for your customer" IT wasn't from 2021 to 2025 but then LLM reached a point that now the experience for my customer
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Actually I have been of both side of this story. 2019 -- 2020 : we had an office in New York with my previous company for 30 people 2020 -- 2026 : We are fully Remote at TeamOut, we are 30 and we only do retreats We pend 5X less than a comp
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Thank you Daniel, it makes sense to me
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Agreed. Thank you for the support. There was even grammar issues in my response, what sort of Ai is doing grammar mistakes?
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
I am asking because I want to see if my Cambridge (MA) supply overall is too expensive. Have you tried asking for cheaper options? Thank you
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Thank you for trying it and giving me a feedback. Cool that it adapted from UK to Massachusetts. Do you remember what was the price per person per night? Our client usually book around $200-500 room rate per night. Yes we manage the whole
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Thank you for reporting that. It is a real issue. We are actually pushing an update on that, we want to make the distinctions between Exact Matches (respecting destination criteria) and Non Exaft Matches , that. are suggestions. The below o
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Hello, the visa question is quite recurring especially for larger team that have distributed teams. The algorithm is quite smart about that because it has legacy data from ~1500 events. IT has been shown a lot of example of" When a tea
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Thank you for testing it, and thank you for the feedback
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
You are right, venue recommendation is only the first step or the process. What is time consuming is the communication with the venue to agree on "terms" , this is exactly why if you click on "Request Quote" you will hav
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Are you talking about data security policy for enterprise companies? For that we can just protect the data (SOC2 etc) and comply with enterprise companies. For the second part, ChatGPT only could potentially aggregated options but It will n
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Ok yes that is for sure , maybe with an udpate in the chat saying "we udpate your dates to XYZ"
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
I am Vincent, TeamOut's CTO, if you want to see my face you can book a call here: https://calendly.com/vincent-363/15min no problem for me!
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Fair question. If we were just a ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking API, we’d be already dead. Our value isn’t the interface it’s the supply. We have direct relationships with hotels that log in daily to quote, adjust pricing, negotiate, and cl
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Good question. Globally, meetings, incentives, conferences, events, and group travel together represent a 500B+ market all in. Almost every mid-sized or large US company runs some form of in-person event each year, whether that is a retreat
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
That is interesting feedback, and you are right. Right now the AI flow is optimized for multi-day events where people stay at least one night, like offsites, retreats, and conferences. When you shifted it to a same-day “what should we do to
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
make sense, we are actually starting to enable people to edit these fields on the right panel. Aren't you scared that we will have 2 concurent ways to control the experience: - Chat - Buttons We may have the syndrom "too many cook
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Fair question. Important distinction: we are not in the same segment as Booking.com. Most hotel platforms support small group bookings, usually up to around 10 rooms. We operate in MICE, where you are negotiating room blocks, meeting space,
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
You are right, for now, on the AI product, we only support events where people have to stay for at least one nigh: offsite, retreats, conferences etc. We do support day event and day activities and we plug this supply in the AI in the comin
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Fair enough, I promise Garry is doing fine. On TAM, corporate retreats and offsites in the US alone represent roughly a 500M+ venue booking market by our estimates, and that is just one slice, not counting flights, activities, or internatio
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by vincentalbouy 7mo ago
Latency is something we’re actively working on. Because the agent sometimes calls multiple tools (venue retrieval, cost estimation, ranking, etc.), it can feel slower than a traditional search UI. We’re optimizing tool chaining and caching
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