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Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

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Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Price, location, time, event type, group size, for starters.

make sense, we are actually starting to enable people to edit these fields on the right panel. Aren't you scared that we will have 2 concurent ways to control the experience: - Chat - Buttons We may have the syndrom "too many cooks in the kitchen" don't you think?

I'd sync the UI to the text.

Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

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> Where would you expect this to fail?

Haven't organized large meetups, but for regular enterprise companies this could be a difficult to buy decision, because you have ChatGPT + bunch of connectors which can get company policies.

This could be good idea for event companies who regularly schedule things, but even for them, probably difficult to justify the value when you have access to ChatGPT and other connectors

Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

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I'm on the technical end but to me this looks like just another ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking.com & flight planner API key. Nothing more. Expedia was on the list of ChatGPT plugin developers in 2023. What's stopping you? What keeps you in business the moment any travel agency decides gets into Gemini, ChatGPT or the like? I'm sure you make a lot of money per commission, but I don't see what is unique about you as co…

Fair question. If we were just a ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking API, we’d be already dead. Our value isn’t the interface it’s the supply. We have direct relationships with hotels that log in daily to quote, adjust pricing, negotiate, and close deals. That’s not something you get with an API key. You can vibe-code an Airbnb clone in an afternoon. Without supply, contracts, and operational execution, it’s useless. Mark…

The risk isn't "anyone", it's Tripadvisor or Trivago.

Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

#24
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

make sense, we are actually starting to enable people to edit these fields on the right panel. Aren't you scared that we will have 2 concurent ways to control the experience: - Chat - Buttons We may have the syndrom "too many cooks in the kitchen" don't you think?

I'd sync the UI to the text.

Ok yes that is for sure , maybe with an udpate in the chat saying "we udpate your dates to XYZ"

Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

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> Where would you expect this to fail? Haven't organized large meetups, but for regular enterprise companies this could be a difficult to buy decision, because you have ChatGPT + bunch of connectors which can get company policies. This could be good idea for event companies who regularly schedule things, but even for them, probably difficult to justify the value when you have access to ChatGPT and other connectors

Are you talking about data security policy for enterprise companies? For that we can just protect the data (SOC2 etc) and comply with enterprise companies.

For the second part, ChatGPT only could potentially aggregated options but It will not get quotes, booking etc, it will stay shallow. The value here is that it gives you good venues vetted by our network but you can also book them and continue organizing your event with process and credibility of a real company.

A retreat is $$$ expensive, you need a real company in the background to insure the booking and finance safety, ChatGPT won't do that.

Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

#27
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair question. If we were just a ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking API, we’d be already dead. Our value isn’t the interface it’s the supply. We have direct relationships with hotels that log in daily to quote, adjust pricing, negotiate, and close deals. That’s not something you get with an API key. You can vibe-code an Airbnb clone in an afternoon. Without supply, contracts, and operational execution, it’s useless. Mark…

It's not a human response, it's an AI

Anyone making such a claim should be providing reasons or evidence of their claim about someone else's comments being AI. Not everything is AI just because you don't like someone who uses AI in other areas.

Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

#28
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a human response, it's an AI

I am Vincent, TeamOut's CTO, if you want to see my face you can book a call here: https://calendly.com/vincent-363/15min no problem for me!

Not the person you're replying to but this response uses different quotation marks and capitalisation compared to your shallow ChatGPT output from earlier. I took the time to write out what I thought and I'm not going to reply to LLM output. If you wanted genuine dialogue put in effort to reply yourself.

Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

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I initially didn’t read this post, fixated on “company event”, and thought it could be used for a single-day, one-off “thing to do tonight given (location) and (preferred activities/venue type) after (work end time)” It presented hotels and then some potential activities, but didn’t look up the time. When I asked about what is open after the time, the agent seemed to realize my request was not in your typical use cas…

Since there has been more than one case of this misunderstanding in the thread, I've changed the title to say "retreats" instead of "events". That (to me at least) that implies overnight stays.

Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

#30
> For venue recommendations [...] we do not rely purely on the language model. We embed both user requirements and venues into vector representations and retrieve candidates using similarity search. Hard constraints such as capacity and dates are applied first, and results are ranked before being presented.

Huh this surprised me as a forgone opportunity.

I heard second-hand about the process for organizing our last offsite. Searching for venues was not the time-consuming part.

The time-consuming part was actually engaging with the venues to confirm specific details not available online. Our teammate who did this engaged with _hundreds_ of venues. It was a lot of work on their part ... and probably not the most fun part of their job.

That seems like an ideal agent scenario?

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