About Vektrip
A planner that knows what it shouldn’t decide.
The problem with “smart” travel apps
Planning an observant family’s trip across two or three countries is genuinely hard: Shabbat and Yom Tov shape every week, kosher logistics shape every day, and a six-month-old shapes every hour. Most tools either ignore all of that — or worse, pretend to handle it by computing religious answers they have no standing to give.
A community that (rightly) won’t accept an app as a halachic authority will trust a tool that presents clean information and leaves the decisions where they belong. That’s Vektrip’s entire posture, and it runs through every screen.
Facts, not verdicts
Vektrip shows raw sunrise and sunset for every destination, in that destination’s local time — astronomical facts from a public data source, displayed verbatim. It never computes zmanim, candle-lighting, or “is this flight okay.” It can show a day as “Fri · sunrise 05:12 · sunset 18:42 · ✈ departs 16:00” — all facts — and it will never tell you that’s wrong. That reasoning happens where it should: with you, your rav, and your conversation with Claude.
The caution layer: flag, never correct
When high-stakes content enters a trip — eruv reliance, kosher availability over Shabbat, mikvah access, fast-day logistics — Vektrip attaches a caution. The caution is a question, never a counter-claim:
What it says
“⚠ This plan relies on an eruv. Eruv status is local and changes — confirm directly with the local Chabad/community before relying on it.”
What it will never say
“There is no eruv in Seoul.”
— a fact the app can’t source and shouldn’t assert.
The useful outcome is the phone call: every caution links straight to your saved contacts, so “confirm with the local Chabad” is one tap. The app flags the risk; the community confirms the fact.
AI that proposes, never imposes
In practice, most Vektrip trips are built by talking to Claude — connected securely over MCP, reading your live trip and constraints before every answer. But Claude never writes to your trip. It proposes; you see a precise diff of what would change; you approve, amend, or reject. Every change — yours or the AI’s — lands in the same versioned history, so co-travelers never overwrite each other and nothing happens silently.
And the whole app works with no AI at all. Manual editing isn’t a fallback — it’s the same first-class write path.
Orthodox-first, everyone-capable
The Orthodox-relevant capabilities are the standout — sunrise and sunset on the calendar, constraints that make Claude genuinely helpful, the caution layer that keeps confident claims honest. But underneath is simply a very good multi-country trip planner: the day-by-day builder, the flagship calendar, points and flights tracking, offline mode, exports. If none of the observance features matter to you, everything else still does.
The name
“Vektrip” carries no signal on purpose — the product should feel at home on any phone, in any family. The posture does the community-facing work: we present information and tell you what to confirm; you decide.