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What 150+ cold calls to travel agencies taught us

How Itiner's product-market fit came from calls, not a survey.

2026-02-28 · shipping, design

Itiner's product-market fit didn't come from a form. It came from personally calling 150+ regional travel agencies and asking what actually broke in their itinerary workflow, not what they'd want in a hypothetical product.

The answer that mattered most wasn't a missing feature. It was that agents didn't want a model overwriting their judgment. That single sentence shaped the entire drafting architecture: AI proposes, human edits are never silently discarded.