Can it calculate how many people you need to layoff to make the company retreat affordable for next quarter?
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
#42I asked it for locations in the Randstad (area in The Netherlands around Amsterdam) and I got: 1. Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (actually ok location) 2. Marysville, Ohio, United States 3. Lisboa, Portugal 4. Nashville, Tennessee, United States 5. Kenmore, Washington, United States 6. Golden, Colorado, United States I would expect there to be some reviewer agent that ensures that all found locations are at le…
Thank you for reporting that. It is a real issue.
We are actually pushing an update on that, we want to make the distinctions between Exact Matches (respecting destination criteria) and Non Exaft Matches , that. are suggestions.
The below options were suggestions (because we have limited supply in Netherlands ) but it not clear at all for the user:
2. Marysville, Ohio, United States 3. Lisboa, Portugal 4. Nashville, Tennessee, United States 5. Kenmore, Washington, United States 6. Golden, Colorado, United States
Thank you for your help
Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
#43Interesting. My team just went through this to plan offsite. Took about 1/2 a day of one person's time. So I asked your tool to help me: "I want to have a two day offsite for a team of 12 in Cambridge in April." It then started pulling up results in Cambridge UK. I meant Massachusetts. I didn't say that in the prompt, but I figured since there are two equally famous Cambridges, it would ask me for clarification. I re…
Thank you for trying it and giving me a feedback.
Cool that it adapted from UK to Massachusetts. Do you remember what was the price per person per night? Our client usually book around $200-500 room rate per night.
Yes we manage the whole booking process, I think the true value is here as aggregating venues with AI nowadays is quite easy .
For questions between venues and client, we have a specific chat but the Agent can also try to reply if it knows the answer or decide to contact the venue via email (we haven't released that tool yet)
Thanks
Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
#44Interesting. My team just went through this to plan offsite. Took about 1/2 a day of one person's time. So I asked your tool to help me: "I want to have a two day offsite for a team of 12 in Cambridge in April." It then started pulling up results in Cambridge UK. I meant Massachusetts. I didn't say that in the prompt, but I figured since there are two equally famous Cambridges, it would ask me for clarification. I re…
Thank you for trying it and giving me a feedback. Cool that it adapted from UK to Massachusetts. Do you remember what was the price per person per night? Our client usually book around $200-500 room rate per night. Yes we manage the whole booking process, I think the true value is here as aggregating venues with AI nowadays is quite easy . For questions between venues and client, we have a specific chat but the Agent…
I am asking because I want to see if my Cambridge (MA) supply overall is too expensive. Have you tried asking for cheaper options?
Thank you
Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Agreed. Thank you for the support. There was even grammar issues in my response, what sort of Ai is doing grammar mistakes?
Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
#46I 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.
Thank you Daniel, it makes sense to me
Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
#47Can it calculate how many people you need to layoff to make the company retreat affordable for next quarter?
Actually I have been of both side of this story.
2019 -- 2020 : we had an office in New York with my previous company for 30 people
2020 -- 2026 : We are fully Remote at TeamOut, we are 30 and we only do retreats
We pend 5X less than a company going to an office everyday
Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
#48>"Agent" > (2022) Has there been a rebrand as of late? What was the product pitch before that? I guess "AI for planning company retreats" (and possibly SaaS for company retreats before that) This capacity to pivot into these buzzwords shows that at least sometimes they are more phenomenons with marketing (or at least UX) definitions rather than technological ones.
As an AI engineer I made mysefl a promise when started a company:
"You will only use Ai, if it really useful for your customer" IT wasn't from 2021 to 2025 but then LLM reached a point that now the experience for my customer is way better using a completely different product that is a conversation instead of a classic Airbnb search. What do you do when you discover that? You change you product
Also we do not use AI "buzzwords" for the marketing at all, if you go to our website https://www.teamout.com/ we do not even mention it, we focus on the experience you will get at the event.
Thank you
Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
#49Built upon the original ideas of Quicksilver (never forget)
Re: Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
#50I understand the pitch, and the extra value add of having some existing relationship with the hotels / etc.
But the quality of the actual AI response is just worse than GPT 5.2. Which makes it feel like a tacked on thing and more of a gpt wrapper.
I asked about a retreat with our US team that could also include one engineer in Pakistan that needs a visa. And the response was something to the effect of: "Assuming your engineer has a US visa, you can go to Puerto Rico".
Whereas chatgpt gave a much more well researched answer.