Frequently Asked Questions

Atlas is an AI-powered travel planning agent. You describe your trip — destination, dates, budget, and preferences — and the agent searches real APIs for flights, hotels, and experiences to assemble a complete, budget-aware itinerary. You can then iterate conversationally to refine the plan.

Atlas uses a multi-step tool-use loop powered by Claude. When you describe a trip, the agent reasons about your requirements and calls real APIs 3-8 times per turn — searching flights, comparing hotels, finding experiences, and tracking your budget between each step. Unlike simple chatbots, the agent makes decisions based on the results it gets back, just like a human travel advisor would.

Flight and hotel data comes from the Amadeus API, the same data source used by major travel agencies worldwide. Experience and restaurant recommendations come from the Google Places API. All prices and availability are pulled in real time when you make a request.

Prices are pulled from live APIs at the time of your search and reflect real availability. However, travel prices change frequently — a price shown during planning may shift by the time you book. Atlas is a planning tool, not a booking engine. We always recommend verifying the final price when you book through the airline or hotel directly.

Not yet. Atlas is currently a planning and itinerary tool. It helps you find the best options within your budget and organizes them into a day-by-day plan. Booking integration is on our roadmap.

Atlas offers a free tier that lets you plan up to 3 trips per month. Each trip includes full agent conversations with real flight, hotel, and experience searches.

The Pro plan ($9/month) gives you unlimited trips, priority API access for faster searches, the ability to save and share itineraries, and export to PDF or calendar formats.

Atlas operates on a freemium subscription model. Free users get a generous planning allowance. Pro subscribers pay a monthly fee for unlimited access and premium features. We do not sell your data, show ads, or take affiliate commissions that bias our recommendations.

No. Atlas has no affiliate partnerships or pay-for-placement deals. The agent optimizes purely for your stated preferences and budget. What you see is what the APIs return, filtered by your criteria.

We store your account information (email, name), your saved trips and itineraries, and conversation history so you can pick up where you left off. We cache API responses briefly to improve performance but do not store raw travel search data long-term.

Your data is never sold. We send search queries to Amadeus and Google Places to fulfill your requests — those queries contain trip parameters (dates, destinations) but not your personal identity. Conversations are processed by Anthropic's Claude API under their data usage policies.

Yes. You can delete your account at any time from the Account page. This permanently removes all your trips, conversations, and personal data from our systems within 30 days.

Atlas is powered by Anthropic's Claude, using the tool-use API. The agent has access to structured tools for searching flights, hotels, experiences, calculating budgets, and looking up destination information. It decides which tools to call and in what order based on your request.

Traditional chatbots generate a single text response. Atlas uses an agentic loop: the AI receives your message, decides to call a tool (like searching flights), reads the result, reasons about it, then decides the next action. This loop continues until the agent has enough information to present a complete plan. A single turn may involve 3-8 tool calls with reasoning between each one.

The agent is limited to 15 tool calls per turn as a safety measure. In practice, most trip plans require 4-8 calls. If you need more detail, you can ask follow-up questions and the agent will make additional searches.

If a data source is temporarily unavailable, the agent will let you know which part of the search couldn't be completed and offer to try again. It won't fabricate data — if it can't reach the flight API, it will say so rather than making up prices.