Founding Pilot Program
Help shape the operating system for the next generation of guided tours
TourRecap is selecting 3–5 Founding Pilot Partners now, ahead of production pilots. Partners work directly with the product team to co-design how the platform runs their routes — this is a co-design program with real operating outcomes, not a software beta with a feedback form.
Production platform in development · Pilot-ready target: end of 2026 · Planned capabilities subject to field co-design
The Pilot Model
How a pilot runs
Five phases, agreed together before anything touches a real departure.
Understand
We study how your operation actually runs — routes, crews, suppliers, standards, and where the day breaks down — before proposing anything.
Build
Your itineraries and standards become working Playbooks, and the platform is configured around your real field conditions rather than a demo dataset.
Run
Selected crews run agreed departures on TourRecap under conditions we set together, with fallbacks in place so a pilot never puts a tour day at risk.
Review
We review the evidence with you: what the platform measurably changed, what it missed, and what the crews actually experienced.
Improve and shape production
What worked hardens into the production platform; what didn't gets redesigned or dropped. Partners decide with us what deserves wider rollout.
What Partners Influence
Co-design with real authority
Partner routes, crews, and field conditions shape these product areas.
- Playbook structure
- Crew roles and views
- Field prompts
- Offline workflows
- Multilingual delivery
- Route and GPS context
- Receipts
- Supplier and hotel checks
- Evidence capture
- Debrief and closeout
- Live Departures
- Approved improvement workflows
Co-design means partner evidence carries real weight in what gets built. It does not guarantee that every requested feature becomes part of the platform — we decide together what the evidence supports.
Pilot Evidence
Pilots measure operating outcomes
A pilot should prove something about how your operation runs — not just collect opinions.
Guide preparation effort
How long a guide needs to be genuinely ready for a departure.
Operating-step completion
Whether the steps the Playbook calls for actually happen.
Issue-to-office-awareness time
How quickly the office learns a day needs attention.
Closeout effort
What it costs to reconstruct plan versus actual after the day.
Field knowledge captured
How much of what the crew learns survives the departure.
Useful Playbook changes
How many approved improvements each season produces.
Guide interaction burden
What the platform asks of a guide while they are running a tour.
Apply
Apply to become a Founding Pilot Partner
Tell us how your operation runs. Applications are reviewed individually — we only ask for what selection actually needs.
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