Introducing Away Team: Trip Planning, Reimagined

You've been there. Someone books a hotel and posts the confirmation in the group chat. It gets buried under twenty "who's bringing the adapter?" messages. The Google Doc with the itinerary is on version 14, half the links are broken, and nobody can remember which version has the actual flight times. Meanwhile, the restaurant you were going to book on Tuesday filled up three weeks ago because the poll in the chat never reached a consensus.

Group trip planning is chaos. Not because groups are bad at planning — but because the tools were never built for it. Spreadsheets are great for solo budgets. Docs are great for notes. Group chats are great for quick back-and-forth. None of them are great for planning a ten-day trip across multiple cities with five people who have different travel styles.

What Away Team Is

Away Team turns itineraries into living, actionable travel dashboards. One place for your timeline, bookings, checklists, and group decisions — visible and editable by everyone on the trip.

Here's what that looks like in practice:

Day-by-day timeline

Your trip is organized by day. Each day has activities with start times, locations, booking references, and notes. You can see the whole trip at a glance or drill into any day. When plans change — and plans always change — you update in one place and everyone sees it.

Collaborative checklists

Packing lists, pre-departure tasks, things to buy — checklists in Away Team let anyone on the trip claim a task ("I've got the sunscreen") and mark it done. No more "did anyone remember to...?" moments at the airport.

Group polls

Where should we eat on Tuesday? Which walking tour should we book? Instead of a 47-message back-and-forth that ends in someone just picking something, create a poll. Everyone votes, the result is right there in the trip.

Role-based access

Not everyone needs to edit everything. Away Team has four roles — owner, editor, traveler, and viewer — so you can invite your travel agent, your mom who wants to follow along, and your co-planners, each with the right level of access.

Rich text notes

Activities support full rich text notes. Paste in the hotel confirmation details. Write directions to the trailhead. Drop in that blog post you found about the best local restaurant in the neighborhood. It lives with the activity, not buried in a chat thread.

Mobile app

Away Team is available on iOS and Android. The mobile app is built for on-the-go access — check your timeline, mark checklist items done, and see what's happening next without pulling up a laptop.

What Makes It Different

Plenty of travel apps exist. Most of them are optimized for solo travelers, or for organizing a single booking type (flights here, hotels there). Away Team is built around the group. The assumption from the start is that multiple people are planning and traveling together, with different roles, different devices, and different levels of planning obsession.

The other thing we cared about: Away Team is a dashboard, not a booking platform. We're not trying to sell you flights or hotels. We're the place where you bring everything together — confirmations, plans, decisions, tasks — so the whole trip has a single source of truth.

What's Coming

Away Team launched with the core planning tools. We're already working on what comes next: interactive maps, daily weather forecasts for each day of your trip, multi-day activities that span the timeline, and more ways to bring in external data like flight and hotel confirmations.

The roadmap is driven by real trips and real planners. If you're using Away Team and there's something you wish it did, we want to hear about it.

Try It

Away Team is available now at trips.awayteamapp.com. Start a trip, invite your people, and see what it feels like to plan without the chaos.