Actborne

flights

Zero-to-one, Prove the engine

Particulars

Registered file
company/flights/company.yaml
Purpose
flights, a cheapest-PATH flight engine.
Declared stage
Zero-to-one. Declared in the venture registry; no public evidence yet.
Demonstrated capability
A public service answers at flights.robotmind.io
Next useful step
Try the public service listed above.
Commercial site
None listed in the company file.
Current phase
Prove the engine
Purpose of this phase
The engine is live. Show the cheapest self-transfer itinerary consistently undercuts the cheapest single-airline fare, at a Duffel cost-per-query under budget. Emit the cost counters; harden the cost gate.
Governing metric
First real money (a $500 one-month paid B2B routing-API pilot)
Discard budget
$0 (organic only, no paid ads, no domain purchase)
Status
Engine LIVE at flights.robotmind.io (Duffel-backed, cost loop running); commerce forward-declarative (no auth/billing/protection); run instantiated 2026-07-09

Principles

  1. Article 1

    The cheapest path is a graph problem, not a fare-class lookup. We compose itineraries airlines never sell as one ticket.

  2. Article 2

    Every Duffel fetch is real money. A query that can be served from a fresh snapshot must never re-hit the API.

  3. Article 3

    Self-transfer honesty is the product. We always tell the traveler the legs are separate tickets with no airline-guaranteed connection.

  4. Article 4

    Protection is the margin, and it is earned. We only sell a missed-connection guarantee we can price, fund, and pay.

Standing refusals

  • We will not present a self-transfer itinerary without disclosing that it is multiple separate tickets with no airline-guaranteed connection

    Self-transfer honesty is what flights is. Hiding the separate-ticket risk to make a sale founds a different, worse company.

  • We will not sell missed-connection protection without a funded reserve, a written underwriting policy, and a live flight-status data feed to validate claims

    Protection is the margin engine, but it is insurance, an unfunded, unpriced, unverifiable guarantee is a fraud on the traveler.

  • We will not declare unit-economics viability on quoted margins or predicted claim rates, only on settled bookings and measured ProtectionClaim outcomes

    A quote is leading signal. The business is real only when protection_loss_ratio is measured below threshold over a real cohort.

Extract of the file

company/flights/company.yaml excerpt
  1. metadata:
  2. name: flights
  4. identity:
  5. principles:
  6. - The cheapest path is a graph problem,
  7. not a fare-class lookup. We compose
  8. itineraries airlines never sell as one
  9. ticket.
  10. - Self-transfer honesty is the product. We
  11. always tell the traveler the legs are
  12. separate tickets with no
  13. airline-guaranteed connection.
  15. lifecycle:
  16. current_phase: phase_0_prove_engine # Prove the engine