Ashore
Give us the trip. We handle the rest.
You have already done the fun part. What is left is forty phone calls, six timezones, and a hotel that answers email on Tuesdays.
Ashore
You have already done the fun part. What is left is forty phone calls, six timezones, and a hotel that answers email on Tuesdays.
One real trip
Two adults, two teenagers, Paris then Provence. Everything below is the work between a finished plan and a family getting on a plane.
venuePerruche, bonsoir.
ashoreGood evening — a table for four on the third, around half seven, on the terrace if you have it.
venueHalf seven is full. Quarter to nine?
ashoreThat is past what the family approved. Anything before half eight?
venueEight o'clock, terrace. Name?
ashoreFour covers. Could you read that back to me before we finish?
Why it takes a machine
A hotel group takes a structured request. A Michelin room takes a call at eleven in the morning. A ticket for a fresco you actually want to see goes on sale at nine on a Wednesday and is gone by five past.
Ashore holds accounts with the systems that take bookings, and picks up the phone for everything else. Same trip, whatever it takes.
What it takes on
Fares held, ticketed, then fetched again from the airline before anyone is told it is done.
It hunts for a rate you can walk away from, and asks before committing to one you cannot.
Where no booking system exists there is a phone call, with a policy engine deciding what may be agreed.
Tickets that go on sale at nine are bought at nine, not whenever somebody remembers.
It writes, waits days if it must, reads the reply, and answers it.
Card details never reach a language model. Limits are enforced in code, outside anything that reasons.
The part nobody advertises
An autonomous agent that is wrong five percent of the time is not ninety-five percent useful. It is unusable — because now you have to check all of it, and checking was the work you were trying to avoid.
Nothing is marked confirmed until it has been read back from the supplier and matched against what you asked for.
Times, deposits, cancellation terms and party size are checked in code. The agent reports what it was offered; it does not get a vote.
Funds are authorised, then the supplier is asked to commit with an idempotency key, so a retry cannot buy a second one.
When a payment goes through and the confirmation does not, it asks a human rather than risk booking twice.
A channel that is not connected declines and hands the task back with everything it learned. It does not improvise.
Wired in
Not a wrapper around a search box. Ashore speaks each provider's protocol properly — signed requests, idempotency keys, two-phase commits.
Offer requests, orders, and order retrieval for the read-back.
Rates, prebook, book — walking past rates the supplier will not honour.
Signed requests against live operator inventory and real cancellation policy.
Manual capture, 3-D Secure, and a ledger no model can reach.
Outbound mail and signed inbound webhooks, threaded to the task that sent them.
Real-time speech both ways, with the reservation policy held outside the voice.
A document from your travel agent, a spreadsheet you have added to for months, something a chatbot wrote, or a pile of forwarded confirmations. Ashore reads it, works out what has to happen, and starts.