Ari
An AI-powered travel rewards app

Travel rewards are genuinely confusing. Points across a dozen loyalty programs, flights that might be cheaper with miles or might not, hotels that may or may not be worth a transfer. Kelsey Woody, founder of Ari Rewards, wanted to fix that — not with a spreadsheet or a rewards calculator, but with a conversation.

The idea was Sunny: an AI travel assistant that could answer questions the way a well-traveled, financially savvy friend would. "I want to get to Canada in the next three months on premium economy — should I use points or cash?" You ask, Sunny answers, and the booking is one tap away.

What we built

Ari is a full cross-platform app (iOS and Android) built in FlutterFlow, with a lot going on under the hood.

At the center of it is Sunny — an OpenAI-powered chatbot custom-trained on travel scenarios, loyalty program logic, and points redemption strategies. Sunny doesn't just answer; it acts. It generates itineraries, compares options, and kicks off booking flows directly from the conversation.

Around Sunny, we built:

• Booking modules for flights and hotels via Duffel, and rides via Booking.com — with real-time pricing, preference matching, and booking history

• Award Wallet integration for automatic loyalty points syncing, plus manual entry for programs that don't auto-connect

• Push notifications for deal alerts and booking updates

• A web-based admin panel for Kelsey's team to monitor signups, booking activity, and reward balances

The whole thing was built for App Store and Google Play submission, with full source code and FlutterFlow project files transferring to Ari Rewards on completion.

The challenge worth naming

Building an AI travel assistant means integrating a lot of third-party systems that don't always play nicely together — flight search APIs, hotel inventory, loyalty account syncing, and a live AI layer on top of all of it. We navigated API constraints, iterated on Sunny's prompt engineering to get responses that were actually useful (not just technically correct), and kept Kelsey in the loop at every step with real builds she could test herself.

Launching soon

Ari is heading to the App Store and Google Play. For travel lovers who've ever stared at a points balance wondering what to do with it — Sunny's about to make that a lot easier.

Built with: FlutterFlow, Firebase, Google Cloud, OpenAI API, Duffel API, Ticketmaster API, AwardWallet API