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<item><title>A first look at Atlas.</title><link>https://airheart.com/blog/whats-new/a-first-look-at-atlas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://airheart.com/blog/whats-new/a-first-look-at-atlas</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Meet Airheart’s AI travel agent. Atlas plans around your real constraints and keeps you in charge of every supported booking.</description><dc:creator>Airheart Team</dc:creator><category>What&apos;s New</category><content:encoded><![CDATA[<!--[--><!--[--><p>We’ve been building an AI travel agent. Its name is Atlas, and it launches in Q3 2026 alongside Voyager and the production rebuild of Catalogues.</p> <p>Here’s a first look at how it helps, and where you stay in control.</p> <h2>It plans around your constraints, not around averages</h2> <p>Ask a generic AI for a Tokyo itinerary and you may get the same list as everyone else. Atlas starts with you: your dates, your budget, the people coming along, dietary or mobility needs, and the pace that will make the trip feel good. It carries those details through the plan instead of treating them like an afterthought.</p> <h2>It works in the open, inside Voyager</h2> <p>Atlas doesn’t hand you a wall of text and send you on your way. It works inside <a href="/blog/whats-new/introducing-voyager">Voyager</a>, moving the same days, stays, and flights you can move yourself. You can see what changed, adjust it, or undo it. The plan remains yours.</p> <h2>It books with your approval, and Airheart stands behind it</h2> <p>Supported money-moving steps are approval-gated. Before anything is confirmed, Atlas shows you the exact price, terms, and cancellation rules and waits for your approval. It works with verified rates and availability. If something Atlas books doesn’t match what you approved, Airheart makes it right.</p> <h2>It keeps an eye on things after you book</h2> <p>Some of the hardest travel work happens after you book. Where provider data is available, Atlas can help watch for schedule changes, price drops, weather, and advisories. When a watchable change needs your attention, Atlas can bring it to you with a draft response for your approval.</p> <h2>It reads the catalogues you own</h2> <p>Atlas can use the <a href="/blog/whats-new/introducing-catalogues">Catalogues</a> you own as source material, then filter the publisher’s recommendations through your dates, your group, and your needs. Expert knowledge stays connected to the trip you’re actually taking.</p> <h2>Built to earn trust</h2> <p>Atlas launches in Q3 2026, and we’re taking care with the parts that matter most: the booking, the watching, and the moments when you need to make a decision. We’d rather earn your trust with something dependable than impress you with a demo that guesses.</p> <p>You can see more on the <a href="/">homepage</a>, and any catalogues you choose now will be ready to use with Atlas.</p><!--]--><!--]-->]]></content:encoded></item>
<item><title>Introducing Catalogues.</title><link>https://airheart.com/blog/whats-new/introducing-catalogues</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://airheart.com/blog/whats-new/introducing-catalogues</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Travel Guides has a new name and a rebuilt home. Expert recommendations can now stay current, and move with you into a real trip.</description><dc:creator>Airheart Team</dc:creator><category>What&apos;s New</category><content:encoded><![CDATA[<!--[--><!--[--><p>Some people know a place in a way a search result never will. They know the coffee shop worth crossing Tokyo for, the quiet beach to visit before lunch, and the family-run hotel you’ll still talk about years later.</p> <p>In 2024, we built a small marketplace for that kind of knowledge. Ten operator-vetted creators joined, and travelers bought more than 500 of their guides. It showed us two things: people value recommendations from a named expert, and even a wonderful guide needs a way to keep up when a place changes.</p> <p>So Travel Guides is now <strong>Catalogues</strong>. We’ve rebuilt the marketplace for production, and it relaunches alongside Atlas and Voyager in Q3 2026.</p> <h2>Why “catalogue”</h2> <p>The name matches the intent.</p> <p>A guide can sound like something you read once. A catalogue is a collection someone chose with care: the restaurants, neighborhoods, and day-shaped itineraries they would share with a friend. Every recommendation has a clear source, so you always know whose point of view you’re bringing into your trip.</p> <p>And because a catalogue is a collection, it can do things a document can’t. You can pull one entry into a trip. A publisher can update one entry without republishing everything. And software can read the collection and work with the expert’s picks.</p> <h2>What changed</h2> <p><strong>Catalogues are versioned.</strong> Places change. Restaurants close, hours shift, and hidden favorites get discovered. When a publisher releases an update, your saved version stays as it was until you choose to move to the new one. No silent edits.</p> <p><strong>Catalogues come from named experts.</strong> The byline is part of the product. It gives every recommendation context and lets you choose the people whose taste you trust.</p> <p><strong>Catalogues turn into trips.</strong> Each recommendation is a structured entry you can bring into Voyager and arrange around your days. The distance between “we should go someday” and “we’re going in October” gets a little shorter.</p> <p><strong>Catalogues work with Atlas.</strong> Atlas can use the catalogues you own as source material, then filter those recommendations through your dates, budget, group, and needs. A great Tokyo catalogue can keep helping every time you return. Here’s <a href="/blog/whats-new/a-first-look-at-atlas">a first look at Atlas</a> if you’re curious.</p> <h2>If you bought a Travel Guide</h2> <p>Everything carried over. The guides you bought are catalogues now, with the same authors and content. They’ll pick up versioning from here, and there’s nothing you need to do.</p> <h2>If you know a place</h2> <p>The publisher side has been rebuilt, too, with tools for turning the knowledge you already have into something travelers can use and buy. If you know a place well and want to share it, we’d love to meet you.</p> <p>Visit <a href="/catalogues">Catalogues</a>, or start with your <a href="/catalogues/library">library</a>. A good trip can begin with one recommendation from someone who really knows the place.</p><!--]--><!--]-->]]></content:encoded></item>
<item><title>Airheart has a new look.</title><link>https://airheart.com/blog/whats-new/airhearts-new-look</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://airheart.com/blog/whats-new/airhearts-new-look</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A warmer, clearer home for the next chapter of Airheart, and for every trip that starts here.</description><dc:creator>Airheart Team</dc:creator><category>What&apos;s New</category><content:encoded><![CDATA[<!--[--><!--[--><p>Airheart began in Austin in 2021 with Travel Bans Explorer, a tool that helped more than six million people make sense of pandemic-era border restrictions. Bookings followed in 2022. In 2024, we opened our first creator marketplace with ten operator-vetted creators, who sold hundreds of travel guides.</p> <p>Now those chapters are coming together. In Q3 2026, Atlas and Voyager launch alongside the production rebuild of Catalogues. You can plan in a shared workspace, draw on expert recommendations, and ask an AI travel agent to help, with every supported booking waiting for your approval.</p> <p>Airheart needed to feel like one place, too. So we gave it a new look.</p> <h2>Warm, editorial, and light</h2> <p>The new Airheart uses a warm cream palette and editorial type. Travel is personal, and the places where we share ideas with you should feel more like a thoughtful travel magazine than a software dashboard.</p> <p>The palette starts with two warm neutrals: a soft cream for marketing pages and a paper tone for cards. On top of them sits one working blue we call Sky, and Sky has one job: it marks everything you can act on. A button, a link, a control. If it’s Sky, it does something. The rest of the color comes from a small set of sunset hues, Sand, Twilight, and Dusk, plus a deep Midnight and a golden Horizon. We call the mix a warm-cool tension: warm where you read, cool where you act.</p> <figure class="my-10 grid gap-3"><button type="button" class="block w-full cursor-zoom-in overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-seo-rule bg-seo-surface-soft p-0 transition-colors duration-200 ease-out-quart hover:border-seo-ink/25 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ui-primary/50 focus-visible:ring-offset-2 focus-visible:ring-offset-seo-bg"><img src="/press/airheart-palette.svg" alt="The Airheart palette: Sky, the working blue; the sunset hues Sand, Horizon, Dusk, Twilight, and Midnight arranged as one band; and the four neutrals" width="1200" height="476" class="block h-auto w-full" loading="lazy"/> <span class="sr-only">View larger</span></button> <!--[0--><figcaption class="font-product text-[12px] leading-[1.5] text-seo-ink-mute">One working blue, five sunset hues, four neutrals. Sky is the only color that ever asks you to do something.</figcaption><!--]--></figure> <!--[-1--><!--]--><!----><!----> <aside role="note" aria-label="Why one blue?" class="my-8 grid gap-2 rounded-r-lg border-l-4 bg-seo-surface-soft p-5 border-l-seo-rule"><!--[0--><strong class="font-product text-[13px] font-semibold leading-[1.3] text-seo-ink">Why one blue?</strong><!--]--> <div class="font-product text-[14px] leading-[1.6] text-seo-ink-soft"><!---->When every button, link, and control shares a single hue, color stops being decoration and becomes information. Sky is reserved for things you can do. The sunset hues are reserved for things you can feel.<!----></div></aside><!----> <p>Inside the product, the mood shifts. The workspace is dark, calm, and focused: the kind of place that feels good to use when you’re planning after dinner. And when we show the product on our site, we show the real thing. What you see is what you’ll use.</p> <h2>Editorial voice, product clarity</h2> <p>Two typefaces carry the new look, and each one has a job. Playfair Display, always in italic, is the editorial voice: headlines, pull quotes, and the moments where we’re talking with you rather than operating software. Manrope is the workhorse: body copy, labels, and every surface inside the product. A third face, JetBrains Mono, appears only for data, like dates, confirmation codes, and email addresses, so the details you need to read precisely also look precise.</p> <figure class="my-10 grid gap-3 border-y border-seo-rule py-8"><blockquote class="m-0 font-editorial text-[clamp(1.45rem,2vw,2.15rem)] italic leading-[1.18] text-seo-ink"><!---->Editorial voice, product clarity.<!----></blockquote> <!--[0--><footer><cite class="font-product text-[12px] font-semibold uppercase not-italic tracking-[0.08em] text-seo-ink-mute">Airheart brand guidelines, August 2026</cite></footer><!--]--></figure><!----> <p>The rule underneath is simple: Playfair Display never appears inside the product, and product chrome never leaks into the magazine. When you’re reading, it should feel like a story. When you’re planning, it should feel like a tool.</p> <p>You’re looking at the system right now. The headline above this section is Playfair. The paragraph you’re reading is the workhorse.</p> <h2>The airplane stays</h2> <p>The blue airplane has been with us since the beginning, and it’s staying. We paired it with a refreshed wordmark designed to feel at home everywhere Airheart appears, from a browser tab to an app icon.</p> <figure class="my-10 grid gap-3"><button type="button" class="block w-full cursor-zoom-in overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-seo-rule bg-seo-surface-soft p-0 transition-colors duration-200 ease-out-quart hover:border-seo-ink/25 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ui-primary/50 focus-visible:ring-offset-2 focus-visible:ring-offset-seo-bg"><img src="/press/airheart-lockup.svg" alt="The Airheart lockup shown twice: the blue airplane-heart mark with the ink wordmark on a cream panel, and the white mark with the white wordmark on a dark panel" width="1200" height="352" class="block h-auto w-full" loading="lazy"/> <span class="sr-only">View larger</span></button> <!--[0--><figcaption class="font-product text-[12px] leading-[1.5] text-seo-ink-mute">One rule, two surfaces: the blue mark on light, the white mark on dark.</figcaption><!--]--></figure> <!--[-1--><!--]--><!----><!----> <p>The lockup rules are deliberately few. The airplane-heart sits beside the wordmark with clearspace equal to the mark’s own width. The mark is blue on light surfaces and white on dark ones. It’s never stretched, rotated, or recolored, and the wordmark is never set in any typeface but Playfair Display italic. Fewer rules means it shows up the same way everywhere, which is most of what a logo is for.</p> <h2>Names that mean something</h2> <p>The names now fit together around one trip. <strong>Voyager</strong> is the trip workspace you share. <strong>Catalogues</strong> is the rebuilt marketplace for expert travel guides. <strong>Atlas</strong> is the AI travel agent that waits for your approval before booking anything.</p> <p>You can read about the other changes shipping alongside this one: <a href="/blog/whats-new/introducing-catalogues">Catalogues</a>, the rebuilt creator marketplace, and the <a href="/blog/whats-new/introducing-voyager">new Voyager</a>, the workspace rebuilt from the ground up.</p> <h2>What isn’t changing</h2> <p>This isn’t a new company or a grand reinvention. It’s Airheart growing into the work we’ve been doing all along: helping people plan and book trips with more confidence, and less work.</p> <p>You can find company facts, logos, brand guidelines, and our coverage archive on the <a href="/press">press page</a>.</p><!--]--><!--]-->]]></content:encoded></item>
<item><title>Meet the new Voyager.</title><link>https://airheart.com/blog/whats-new/introducing-voyager</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://airheart.com/blog/whats-new/introducing-voyager</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A new multi-traveler trip workspace for keeping days, bookings, people, and places together, and easy to change.</description><dc:creator>Airheart Team</dc:creator><category>What&apos;s New</category><content:encoded><![CDATA[<!--[--><!--[--><p>Airheart has spent five years building for travelers, from Travel Bans Explorer in 2021 to Bookings in 2022 and our first creator marketplace in 2024. Voyager brings what we’ve learned into one new place: a multi-traveler trip workspace launching in Q3 2026 alongside Atlas, our AI travel agent, and Catalogues, the rebuilt marketplace for expert travel guides.</p> <p>The idea is simple: your trip should be a shared workspace, not a document someone has to keep fixing.</p> <h2>Pieces, not paragraphs</h2> <p>A trip in Voyager is made of pieces: days, flights, stays, activities, transit, people, and places on a map. You can pick each one up and move it instead of hunting for the right line in a document.</p> <p>That matters when Kyoto needs to swap with Osaka and the middle of the week has to change with it. Move the pieces, and the plan moves with you.</p> <h2>Everyone sees the latest plan</h2> <p>Trips are group projects, even when one person does most of the planning. Voyager gives everyone the same up-to-date view, so the latest flight, dinner reservation, and address don’t disappear into the group chat.</p> <h2>Mistakes are cheap</h2> <p>Planning means changing your mind. Voyager keeps a versioned history and lets you undo changes, so trying another shape for the week feels safe. You can also compare up to four itineraries side by side, see the tradeoffs, and choose the one that fits.</p> <h2>Launching together</h2> <p>Voyager launches in Q3 2026 alongside Atlas and the production rebuild of Catalogues. We’ll keep improving it as more people bring real trips, wonderful complications and all, into the workspace.</p> <p>It’s also where Atlas, our AI travel agent, works. Atlas moves the same pieces you do, in the same workspace, where you can review what changed and adjust the plan yourself.</p> <p>If a trip has been forming in the back of your mind, <a href="/voyager">start it in Voyager</a>. And if a catalogue sparked the idea, even better: entries from <a href="/blog/whats-new/introducing-catalogues">Catalogues</a> can come with you.</p><!--]--><!--]-->]]></content:encoded></item>
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