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Trailblazer Awards 2026 · Finalist

Aaron TsaiFounder, Drifter AI

TravelTech Show · ExCeL London · 25 June 2026

On a forum, someone asked

“Where should I go to feel like this?”

Edward Hopper · Nighthawks · 1942

AI recommends where travelers go.
Does your place get named?

We help places be understood by AI, so the right travelers find them.

When AI doesn’t know a place deeply enough,
the answer is always the same.

PPar avion

Greetings from

Paris

France

SPar avion

Greetings from

Santorini

Greece

RPar avion

Greetings from

Rome

Italy

BPar avion

Greetings from

Bali

Indonesia

TPar avion

Greetings from

Tokyo

Japan

A place is not just a brand.

Marriott — Brands
Logos. Names to track.

La Valencia Hotel above La Jolla Cove at golden hour — A place
A hundred years of light above the cove. AI has to understand all of it.

La Valencia · live

The Pink Lady shows up. Her own story doesn't.

La Valencia Hotel

Currents · lavalencia.com Ready

Answer Share

0.0%

Absent from the queries it should win

Authority Share

Observed Peers

The Lodge at Torrey Pines48%
Hotel La Jolla, Curio41%
Pantai Inn36%

This week’s plan

3 ready to delegate · La Jolla, CaliforniaMon · Jun 15

Content gapHigh-intent gapDelegate → Marketing

Publish a romantic getaway guide.

Travelers asking AI for the most romantic place to stay in La Jolla get the chains and the review sites. La Valencia’s own romance story barely reaches the engines.

Why now

Currents found the Pink Lady absent from the high-intent occasion queries it should own. A first-party story is the fastest way back into those answers.

Linked brief

TechnicalDelegate → Web / IT

Unblock the AI crawlers in robots.txt.

Content gapDelegate → Marketing

Publish the 1926 heritage story.

AI describes La Valencia as historic, but cites bloggers and Wikipedia, not the hotel. The "old California" story is told about the Pink Lady, never by her.

Why now

AI already wants the heritage angle. Publishing it first-party makes the hotel the cited source instead of the third-party write-ups.

Linked brief

The wedge

The same question, everywhere.

Traction · since March

40+ destinations & hospitality groups, and counting.

Five continents · in our first 100 days

“Where should I go to feel like this?”

AI recommends where travelers go.Does your place get named?

When AI doesn’t know a place deeply enough,the answer is always the same.

Paris

Santorini

Rome

Bali

Tokyo

A place is not just a brand.

The Pink Lady shows up. Her own story doesn't.

La Valencia Hotel

This week’s plan

Publish a romantic getaway guide.

Unblock the AI crawlers in robots.txt.

Publish the 1926 heritage story.

The same question, everywhere.

40+ destinations & hospitality groups, and counting.

AI shapes where travelers go.Make it understand yours.

AI recommends where travelers go.
Does your place get named?

When AI doesn’t know a place deeply enough,
the answer is always the same.

AI shapes where travelers go.
Make it understand yours.