The AI-era travel companion

Your life,
curated.

From tonight's dinner to next summer's trip — Palette plans it in one conversation, built around your taste. And for the first time, the data you give works for you.

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Welcome to Palette. We'll be in touch. ✦
Thursday, 28 May · Zürich
Hey John, what's the plan?
☀️ 21°C · clear skies tonight
Eat out
Go out
Escape
Chill
Palette suggests
"Warm and clear — perfect for a terrace. Three near you, open now."
Kronenhalle
1.1km · Open
CHF 65
Rooftop Sol
0.4km · Terrace
CHF 45
Lakeside
Views · Open
CHF 55
🎵
Tonight
Live Jazz · Moods Club
20:00 · 0.8km
20:00
Free
✈️
This weekend
Barcelona from €165
2 nights · flights incl.
€165
2 days
AI Trip Builder
Plan anything
4 chilled days in Lisbon, great food & a rooftop, ~€800 ✦
Palette
Built around your love of seafood & design hotels. Day one:
Blue Hour Hotel
Boutique · rooftop bar
€88/nt
Cervejaria Ramiro
Dinner · seafood
€34
Park Bar
Sunset rooftop
€18
Save this plan
Add a friend
Book in 1 tap · soon
Lisbon · 4 days · 2 guests
Instant price
All-in estimate
€742
No hidden fees · taxes & service shown upfront
Stay · 3 nights€264
Flights · return€198
Dining & activities€211
Taxes & serviceshown
Points you'd earn+1,480
Same trip prices at ~€831 across 3 other sites — Palette shows it all in one place.
Your rewards & savings
Palette Wallet
Balance
6,240
🔥 12-day streak · +50/day
Saving toward + new pot
🌴 Bali · honeymoon
€2,100 / €3,500
+€280/mo · ready in 5 months
🏛️ Lisbon · weekend
€340 / €600
+€80/mo · ready in 4 months
Recent earnings
Reviewed Blue Hour Hotel
+120
📸
Added 3 photos
+60
🎁
Redeem: Pro month free
2,500
Rome · Day 2 · 14:10
You're there.
✈️ Whole itinerary saved offline
☔ Plan changed for you
Rain at 16:00 — your Vatican slot moved to tomorrow 9am. Swapped in Galleria Borghese (indoor) for this afternoon.
🚶
Leave in 20 min for dinner at Da Enzo — traffic's heavy on your route tonight.
Right now near you
"Coffee before Borghese? Two spots you'd love, 4 min away."
Sant'Eustachio
280m · Open
Roscioli
350m · Your taste
Palette · now
Flight to Lisbon just dropped to €89. Your weekend's free — want me to plan it?
Working prototype — tap the tabs: Tonight · Plan · There · Price · Wallet
The average traveller wastes 3 hours across five apps to plan a single weekend.
Palette does it in one conversation.

Your daily companion

Not just trips.
Every single day.

Palette isn't something you open once a month to book a flight. It's the first thing you check when you wonder what to do tonight — and it reads the weather, knows what's open, and picks for your mood.

🌤️
Tonight
Weather-aware picks
It checks tonight's weather and what's open near you, then suggests the right place for your mood — terrace when it's warm, cosy when it's not.
🗺️
2 days off
Spontaneous escape
Tell it your budget. It finds the flight, the stay and the plan — a whole weekend, priced instantly, in seconds.
🔔
Dream trips
Price watch & alerts
Palette monitors prices on the trip you've been dreaming of and tells you the moment it's worth booking.
Palette suggests
"You have 2 days off. €200 budget. Here's where I'd send you."
Barcelona
2hr flight · stay incl.
~€165
Lucerne
Train only
~€55
Positano
2hr drive
~€140

Before, during & after

Most apps stop at the booking.
Palette stays with you the whole way.

The real companion moment isn't planning from your sofa — it's being on the ground, when the weather turns and the plan needs to change. That's where Palette beats a map: context, memory and your taste, in your pocket while you're actually there.

Before
It plans
AI builds the whole trip from one sentence
Instant all-in prices, nothing hidden
Weather-aware picks for tonight
During — the moment that matters
It's there with you
What's near me right now — for your taste, not the tourist trail
Auto-reroutes when your Vatican slot gets rained out
Nudges you — "leave for dinner in 20 min, traffic's bad"
Works offline — the whole itinerary in your pocket
This is where Palette beats Google Maps.
After
It remembers
Auto-builds a beautiful trip recap
A travel archive that grows for years
Every trip teaches it more about you

The money layer

Most apps help you book.
Palette helps you afford.

Save toward trips, track what you spend, know exactly when "someday Bali" becomes "Bali in October." Travel finance, finally on your side.

💰

Savings pots

Set a destination, set a goal, auto-deposit each payday. Watch your trip get closer with every contribution. "Someday Bali" becomes "Bali in five months."

📊

Travel budget

An annual travel budget you can actually see. Every flight, hotel, meal and activity tracked, every trip totaled — every overshoot caught before it ruins next month.

📥

Travel inbox

Forward your confirmations or connect your email. Palette parses dates, prices, addresses, and reservations — so your itinerary builds itself.

It comes to you

The best feature isn't "ask Palette."
It's Palette telling you first.

Plugged into your calendar and watching the deal feeds, it surfaces only the matches that fit your life and your taste. That's what turns it from an app you open into the first thing you check every morning.

✈️
Palette · this morning
Flight to Lisbon just dropped to €89. You've got nothing on next weekend — want me to plan it?
Plan my weekend
🌸
Palette · seasonal
Cherry blossoms peak in Kyoto in 2 weeks. It's on your dream list — here's a 5-day plan under your budget.
See the plan
🎲
Palette · surprise me
Feeling spontaneous? Tap once and I'll surprise you with somewhere new that's exactly your kind of place.
Surprise me

Why Palette

One app.
Replaces five.

You already have five apps for travel and going out. None talk to each other. None know you. Palette replaces all of them — and gets better the more you use it.

What you use today
✈️
Skyscanner / Google Flights
Flights only · no personalisation
replaced
🏨
Booking.com
Stays only · no itinerary, no context
replaced
🗺️
Google Maps
Restaurants · no context about you
replaced
📖
TripAdvisor
Generic reviews · not your taste
replaced
💬
WhatsApp groups
Endless chats to agree on anything
replaced
The only app you need
Palette
One conversation. Every plan. From tonight's restaurant to a six-month trip — flights, stays, restaurants and group coordination, all in one place, built around you.
Flights + stays + restaurants in one search
Weather-aware daily discovery — tonight, every night
AI that learns your taste over time
Group trips with built-in voting
Full itinerary — day by day, in the right order
One-tap booking coming next

Built around your taste

Palette learns who you are.

Tell us your vibe once. Every suggestion after — tonight's dinner, this weekend, next summer — is chosen for you. Not for everyone. For you.

Luxury
5-star stays, private experiences, the best table in the room.
Fine diningBoutique
🏔️
Adventure
Off the beaten path, remote, wild — places most people never find.
Hidden gemsOutdoors
🍷
Food & Culture
Local markets, authentic spots, art and real neighbourhood life.
Local spotsWine
🌊
Beach & Relax
Sun, sea, slow mornings and nowhere to be — the perfect reset.
IslandsSlow travel
🌆
City Break
Rooftop bars, nightlife, architecture and energy that stays with you.
NightlifeCulture
🧘
Wellness
Retreats, spa hotels, nature walks and rest that actually works.
SpaRetreats
Every trip makes the next one better. Palette never forgets what you loved.

Group trips, done properly

Six friends.
One plan. Zero group chat chaos.

🎨
Blended taste
Everyone's profile merges into one set of options that actually works for the whole group.
🗳️
Vote, don't argue
Palette offers the choices, everyone taps, the decision makes itself.
💸
Costs split automatically
No spreadsheets, no "who owes what" — it's tracked as you go.
💬
A group chat that's actually useful
Ask once, Palette answers for everyone — the WhatsApp group it finally replaces.
A
M
J
+3
Athens, June · 6 going
🏖️ Beach day in Vouliagmeni5
🏛️ Acropolis at sunrise4
🍷 Wine tasting, Nemea3
💸 Trip so far €1,284 · auto-split €214 each · everyone settled

After the trip

Every trip becomes a memory you keep.

When you're home, Palette builds a recap automatically — the places, the photos, what you said you loved. A personal travel archive that grows for years, beautiful enough to share, and quietly making the next trip smarter.

Barcelona, a weekend
May 2026 · 2 days · with Maria
7
places
42
photos
3
new favourites
€181
all-in
You loved Tickets (you said "best meal of the year") and the Gothic Quarter at night. Palette will lean into late, lively, food-led nights next time.
Share recapAdd to my archive

Why it gets better — and why that's the moat

It doesn't just say it learns you.
You can watch it happen.

One tap after each experience teaches the AI something real. Multiply that across every trip and the personalisation becomes a head start no new competitor can copy — and your data finally works for you, not against you.

How was it?
Trattoria Da Enzo
Dinner · Trastevere, Rome
♥ Loved
Fine
Not for me
+ add a note: "tiny, no-fuss, perfect cacio e pepe" — earns 30 points
Six months later: "find me a Da Enzo–style place in Lisbon."
It knows exactly what you mean — small, unpretentious, locals-only, brilliant pasta. Because you taught it, one tap at a time. That memory is the flywheel:
You rate & note AI sharpens Better picks You earn points You give more

And a few that punch above their weight

Small touches. Big pull.

📥
30-second setup
Import last year's travel from your inbox and saved posts — your taste profile is ready before you've finished signing up.
coming next
🎲
Surprise me
One tap and Palette sends you somewhere new that's unmistakably your kind of place.
🌸
Seasonal alerts
"Cherry blossoms peak in Kyoto in 2 weeks." The right place, at exactly the right time.
💑
Couples mode
Blend two profiles into one — plans that genuinely suit both of you, not just one.
coming next

Why now

A huge market meets the first AI that can plan a whole trip.

$700B
Global online travel market
5 apps
Used to plan one trip today
0
Major platforms that reward your data

How Palette sustains itself

Aligned with you — not the supplier.

Get started

Palette

€0/forever
  • AI trip planning, up to 2 trips a year
  • Basic preference learning
  • Basic trip cost estimate
  • Earn 1× Palette Points
For the regular traveler

Palette Plus

€10/mo
  • Unlimited AI trip planning
  • Deeper preference learning — gets better the more you use it
  • Personalized trip cost estimate based on how you actually spend
  • Wallet: savings pots, budget tracker, travel inbox
  • Earn 3× Palette Points + partner perks
For the serious traveler

Palette Pro

€15/mo · or earn it
  • Everything in Plus
  • AI reads every hotel review and surfaces what matters to you — quiet rooms, walkability, whatever you care about
  • Real-time trip cost estimate with live prices
  • 24/7 human concierge
  • Earn 5× Palette Points
  • Free if you earn 5,000 contribution points a year

The path

Now
Working prototype & waitlistThe experience you just tapped through — AI discovery, planning, instant pricing, the during-trip "There" mode and rewards. Collecting founding members.
Next
Live beta + one-tap booking the booking pieceReal flight, stay and restaurant booking, plus the proactive engine (calendar + deal feeds) and the learning feedback loop. Technical co-founder onboarded.
Then
The everyday travel companionGroup trips with voting & auto-split, live on-the-ground rerouting, trip-recap memory and the concierge tier — the one app that replaces five.

From the founder

Why I'm building Palette

I've watched thousands of travelers check into hotels they didn't love, eat at restaurants they regretted, and leave trips wishing they'd planned differently. I've felt it myself too — and I see it in everyone around me who wants to travel more but doesn't know where to go, what they'd actually enjoy, what's close enough to be a real option, or how often they can realistically make it happen.

I spent nine years in luxury hospitality across four continents — and travelled just as much as I worked. Every guest asked me the same thing: where should I go, what should I eat, what's actually worth it?

I was their Palette. Now I'm building one for everyone.

J
John Bakalis
Founder, Palette

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great experience?

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