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brainiac/studio

Digital Studio

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industries / travel

Travel platforms that book trips at scale.

For OTAs, tour operators, corporate travel tools, and vacation rental platforms. GDS/NDC integration, real-time availability search, multi-currency checkout, and the booking engine architecture that converts searchers into travelers.

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our approach

A practice, not a sales territory.

Travel software has one unforgiving constraint: availability data expires in seconds and pricing can change mid-checkout. GDS feeds return stale fares, NDC aggregation is inconsistent across airlines, and a slow search page means a customer who just opened a Kayak tab next to yours. Most teams underestimate the caching and invalidation complexity until the first complaint about phantom availability hits production.

We've built OTA platforms, flight and hotel search engines, tour booking systems, and corporate travel tools. We know Amadeus and Duffel. We know how fare rules need to be enforced at checkout and how PNR state machines fail under concurrent modification. We build the booking engine as a first-class engineering concern, not a third-party widget integration.

The travel UX bar is set by Booking.com, Google Flights, and Airbnb. Travelers do comparison searches across tabs and bounce on the first sign of friction. We build to that standard — instant-feel search, flexible date grids, transparent pricing breakdowns, and a checkout flow that handles 3DS2 without dropping the booking.

— who we build for

Sub-verticals.

Online travel agencies (OTA)Flight & hotel searchTour & activity bookingCorporate travel managementVacation rental platformsTravel CRM & agent toolsTravel insurance techAirport & mobility techDestination content platformsTour operator software
— problems we solve

Common engagements.

01

GDS & NDC inventory integration

Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport, and Duffel API integration with real-time fare caching, TTL-based invalidation, and the deduplication logic that prevents phantom availability from reaching your checkout.

02

Real-time availability search

Sub-second flight and hotel search across millions of itinerary combinations. Flexible date grids, multi-city routing, nearby airport expansion, and price-calendar views — all returning under 800ms at peak load.

03

Multi-currency checkout & payments

Stripe, Adyen, and local payment method orchestration with 3DS2 authentication, PSD2 compliance, fare-rules enforcement at purchase, and PNR ticketing after successful payment.

04

Booking management & post-booking flows

Modification, cancellation, seat selection, ancillary upsells, e-ticket delivery, and the itinerary state machine that keeps travelers informed across the full trip lifecycle.

05

Travel CRM & agent tools

Lead capture, quote management, group booking workflows, commission tracking, and the reporting your operations team needs — integrated with live inventory so agents quote accurate fares.

06

Loyalty & personalization

Points/miles accumulation engines, tier management, personalized search ranking, saved preferences, and the recommendation logic that increases average booking value without annoying your users.

— compliance

Built for regulated work.

PCI DSS Level 1 card data security
PSD2 / Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
GDPR & CCPA for traveler data
IATA / NDC content standards
WCAG 2.1 accessibility
GDS data use & display rules
ATOL / ATAS bonding requirements (UK/AU)
— tech stack

Tools we reach for first.

Amadeus APIs
Duffel (NDC)
Stripe / Adyen
Algolia
Redis (fare cache)
Elasticsearch
Next.js
PostgreSQL
Anthropic Claude
Cloudflare Images / R2
faq

Frequently asked.

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Yes — we've built against Amadeus Self-Service and Enterprise APIs, Duffel's NDC layer, and Sabre's REST APIs. Every GDS has undocumented edge cases in fare construction and ticketing. We document these up front and build the fare-rules enforcement layer before checkout, not after the first refund dispute.

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