Describe the trip
Destination, duration, budget, interests, or simply the mood.
Pixelmojo × Lakbay AI · 2026 Case study / AI travel tech
We turned 7,641 islands into one conversation.
A local-minded AI travel concierge that turns one sentence into a personalized Philippine route in under 60 seconds.
DisciplineAI product design
Coverage18 destinations
Experience3 connected portals
StudioMakati, Philippines
Route preview / 04 daysThinking…
ManilaDeparture · 06:20
El NidoLagoon pace · 3 nights
4DPace
₱22kEst. budget
SlowEnergy
First route in 00s
01 / The brief
The Philippines is not one destination. It is 7,641 possibilities.
The product had to make an enormous archipelago feel approachable from the very first question.
Trip planning was scattered across old articles, booking tabs, maps, and disconnected advice. Travelers were doing the hard integration work themselves before the holiday even began.
Lakbay needed to understand mood, pace, budget, and interests, then shape that intent into a route without forcing anyone to learn another complicated planning tool.
BeforeHours of tabs
AfterOne natural prompt
02 / The experience
Say it naturally. Lakbay does the sorting.
The interaction starts where travelers already are: “Here’s the kind of trip I want.” Lakbay returns a structured route that is ready to explore, adjust, and save.
Five days. Surf, café mornings, and island hopping, easy pace.
Build the route
Relevant local knowledge becomes a usable day-by-day plan.
Explore the days
Activities, timing, costs, locations, and helpful travel notes.
Free to planNo signup requiredFirst route in <60 sec
03 / The intelligence
Local knowledge, made retrievable.
A retrieval layer connects each request with structured travel content across 18 mapped destinations. The model gets relevant context before it shapes the answer.
Mapped destination layer
18destinations
Wizard inputs or a free-form travel request.
Vector search surfaces relevant local knowledge.
The response is streamed into structured day cards.
Flight intent can trigger Amadeus; signed-in users keep trips.
04 / Connected product
One intelligence layer. Three ways in.
Lakbay is not a single chat screen. It connects travelers, travel agents, and administrators through role-shaped workflows.
Traveler portal
From wish to working route.
Create, explore, and keep a personal itinerary with day-level structure and practical travel context.
Lakbay AIRoute ready
Day 01 · Arrival
Day 02 · Explore
Agent portal
More clients. Less repetition.
A guided workspace for building and managing routes around client preferences.
Lakbay / AgentClient routes
Client brief
Route status
Admin portal
See and steer the system.
Role-gated controls for the information, activity, and users behind the experience.
Lakbay / AdminSystem view
Conversations
Destinations
05 / The build
Complex underneath. Effortless at the surface.
Generation, retrieval, travel search, identity, and three user experiences operate as one coherent product system.
Experience
Next.js 16TypeScript
Intelligence
OpenAIpgvector
Travel search
Amadeus API
Identity
ClerkRole routing
Content
MDX13 articles
Every technical decision serves the same product idea: planning the Philippines should feel smaller than the country really is.
06 / Visual system
Designed like a route, not a dashboard.
Ferry-map logic, Philippine travel color, and confident editorial type make the interface useful before it becomes decorative.
Project palette
Channel#073B4C
Pacific#1FC7D4
Sun#FDC304
Hibiscus#F0524D
Mangrove#1C6B5A
Voice / Direct, warm, useful
Tara.
Let’s go.
Anybody × Familjen Grotesk × DM Mono Let’s go.
Signature grammar / a route always goes somewhere
07 / Product scope
A smaller planning surface for a very large country.
These are shipped product facts, not dressed-up vanity metrics. The result is a broad platform with a remarkably simple front door.
<60s
From travel intent to a structured first route.
18
Mapped destinations with structured local content.
3
Traveler, travel-agent, and admin portals.
Free
The public planning experience is free to try.
No signup
Start a route before creating an account.
7,641
Islands behind one deceptively simple prompt.
Release 02 / 07 · AI travel tech · 2026 Next release · Vector by Pixelmojo
Pixelmojo · AI product studio
Have a hard product that should feel this simple?
Strategy, experience, and engineering from one studio in Makati. First route in under 60 seconds was a product decision before it was a technical one.