I grew up planning other people's trips. Friends, family, a college roommate who didn't believe Iceland could be done in a week. I built spreadsheets that nobody read, scribbled itineraries on the back of menus, and watched in real-time as every booking confirmation got buried in someone's inbox.
Travel software stopped feeling like travel a long time ago. The big players optimize for conversion. The small ones optimize for screenshots. Nobody is optimizing for the part that actually matters — the trip.
RIKAR is the tool I always wanted: a single sentence in, a real plan out. Days that read like prose. Bookings that find their own way to the right slot. Expenses that don't survive past landing. Miles that work for you instead of the other way around.
We're solo, bootstrapped, and quietly opinionated. We'll never sell your data. We'll never bury fees. And we'll never ship a generic AI itinerary just because the model returned one.
If any of that sounds right to you — come plan something with us.