Archive · Closed August 2026
Captain was an AI flight-search and price-tracking experiment.
It explored whether a conversational agent and a visual workspace could help people shape complex trips, compare live flight options, and watch prices as plans changed.
The experiment is no longer available. Read the closing essay on opemipo.com.
People could bring an early idea or a firm plan, ask in plain language, and refine the trip as they talked.
Captain checked live flight data and brought useful options back into the conversation.
Cities, soft dates, events, and constraints became a structured trip without interrupting the conversation.
The experiment handled one-way, round-trip, and multi-city plans, including constraints like “before Wednesday” or “the first week of May.”
Captain used budget, cabin, stop, and airline preferences to make later answers more relevant.
Once a trip was clear, Captain could check prices daily and return when something meaningfully changed.
Flight data used in the experiment was provided by Duffel; recorded fares could change or expire.
The workspace gave each conversation somewhere to live: people could review the plan, see what Captain was considering, adjust preferences, and keep the trip in view.
Captain was an AI flight-search and price-tracking experiment. It used the context built through conversation to turn early travel ideas into structured trips and flight searches.
No. The experiment closed in August 2026, and its Telegram interface is no longer offered.
No. It helped people plan and compare options; travellers still chose an itinerary and booked it themselves.