Letting a model draft the trip

In short

Where AI belongs in trip planning and where it does not: grounding a draft in inventory you actually hold, keeping prices and availability out of the model's hands, reviewing before a client sees it, and measuring whether a prompt change helped or only changed things.

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diagnostics

Drafts that put a closed property on day four: fixing seasonal blindnessSeasonal blindness is a metadata failure, not a prompting failure: the closure lives in a sentence nobody can filter on, so the shut property stays in the candidate set the model draws from.diagnostic10 min
The AI draft quotes a price that is in no rate card: tracing the numberA figure in a drafted itinerary that reconciles against nothing has 4 likely origins, and a provenance trace over the run's retrieved context and tool log tells you which one in about 20 minutes.diagnostic9 min
The draft packs an impossible day: constraining pacing without hard-codingAn over-packed day is not a prompting failure. The generator was handed no durations and no travel times, so it had nothing to violate — the fix is a mechanical day budget and a validator with a bounded retry.diagnostic10 min

definition

Hallucinated, not contracted, or not available: three different failuresOne symptom, three defects. An invented property, a real one you do not hold, and a contracted one that is sold out need three unrelated controls — and the middle case is the one that reaches the client.definition8 min

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