[ Consumer Platform • Mobility ]
LiveOrbit App
An AI trip planner for people who live on the move.
Orbit turns the scattered work of planning a trip — routes, stays, timing — into one place that answers quickly, built to the same standard we apply to operator software: fast to act on, honest about what it knows, and usable at the moment it is actually needed, which for a traveller is rarely at a desk on good Wi-Fi.
- Web
- Platform
- Conversational
- Planning model
- Schengen
- Allowance tracked
- Trips planned
- Usage
- Status
- In production · Web
- Built for
- Travellers worldwide.
Why it exists
Travel software is used under the worst conditions any software faces: one hand free, a poor connection, an unfamiliar place, and a decision that has to be made now.
Most tools in the category optimise for breadth of features and degrade badly under exactly those conditions — a spinner where an answer should be, or stale data presented as current.
Orbit is built the other way round: a small surface, quick to operate, with state that is explicit about how fresh it is.
Friction
What breaks, in order.
- 01
One hand, standing up
The app is opened on a platform, in a queue, or on the street. An interface that assumes two hands and a settled posture has already lost.
- 02
A connection that comes and goes
Roaming, hotel Wi-Fi, a train tunnel. Software that treats the network as reliable produces a spinner precisely where the answer was needed.
- 03
A decision that will not wait
The question is where to sleep tonight or whether the next country is still allowed. It is answered now, correctly, or it is answered badly by someone else.
- 04
Breadth that degrades
Tools in this category compete on feature count. Every one of those features is another thing to load, and the ones that fail first fail hardest under the conditions above.
- 05
Stale data shown as current
A value fetched once and never marked as old is worse than no value, because it is acted on with confidence.
Capabilities
Assisted planning
Trip planning is driven conversationally rather than through a wall of forms, so a decision that would take a dozen tabs is reachable in one exchange.
Schengen allowance tracking
Time inside the Schengen area is tracked against the short-stay allowance — the constraint that most often decides where a continuous traveller can go next.
Fluid mobile UX
The interface is designed for one-handed use and short sessions, with the common action reachable immediately rather than nested behind navigation.
Real-time data processing
Information that changes is treated as changing — processed and reflected as it arrives, rather than fetched once and left to go quietly stale.
Reliability under poor conditions
Behaviour on a weak or intermittent connection is treated as a design requirement rather than an edge case, so the app degrades predictably instead of hanging on a spinner.
How it is built
State you can trust
The app distinguishes between what it knows, what it is fetching and what it last saw, so a traveller is never shown a stale value as though it were live.
Performance budget
Interaction speed is treated as a feature with a budget attached, not as something to profile after launch.
Product decisions
What we chose, and what it cost.
01
A small surface, deliberately
Orbit does fewer things than the tools it sits beside. That is a real loss on a feature comparison and a real gain at a train station, and the second setting is the one the product is for.
02
Show what is known, not what is hoped
The app distinguishes fetched, fetching and last-seen, and says which it is showing. This means admitting to staleness in the interface rather than hiding it — less confident, and correct.
03
One constraint modelled properly
Schengen allowance is tracked because it is the rule that actually decides where a continuous traveller can go next. Choosing one such constraint and modelling it well costs the breadth of covering every jurisdiction shallowly.
04
Speed as a budget, not a phase
Interaction cost is decided before a feature ships rather than profiled after. The price is that some features do not ship, which is the point of having a budget.
At a glance
- Category
- Consumer application
- Sector
- Travel · Mobility
- Platforms
- Web
- Availability
- Public · Account required
In one line
An answer, at the moment it is needed.
A small surface that opens fast, operates with one hand and is explicit about how fresh what it is telling you actually is — including the one rule that decides where a continuous traveller can go next.
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