A modest proposal for people who travel for work
The booking portal. The expenses portal. The itinerary app that mostly wants to sell you something. We cannot fix all of it. We can take the trip admin off your hands: paste one sentence into your agent, and it signs you up, brings in your bookings and comes back with a time to leave for every journey.
Sign me up at potniq.com and import my booking emails into a trip.
Paste it into your agent. You confirm it is you, approve access, verify your email once and say which trip. Your agent does the rest.
Needs an agent that can read your email and connect to MCP servers. Without an invite code, signing up puts you on the waitlist.
| Time | Service | Status |
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| 07:50 | Knowing when to leave | On time |
The last row is an example. Times are calculated estimates, not guarantees.
The first run, itemised
| Stage | Your agent | You |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Read | Opens potniq.com/start and follows the guide written for agents. | Nothing. |
| 02 Sign up | Starts your signup, or signs you in if you already have an account. | Complete signup and confirm your email.Once |
| 03 Connect | Adds Potniq and asks for access to your trips. | Approve access on the Potniq screen. Reading and changing trips are approved separately.Once |
| 04 Find | Searches your mailbox for that trip's bookings, and only that trip's. | Say which trip, and which dates. |
| 05 Forward | Forwards those booking emails to Potniq's import address. | Verify the email address it sends from, with a code.Once |
| 06 Place | Puts each booking into the trip. Potniq calculates every journey in between. | Nothing, unless a booking is unclear. |
| 07 Report | Checks every booking has an outcome and sends you the trip link. | Open the link. |
"Import my booking emails" never means the whole mailbox. Your agent agrees the trip with you before it reads anything, and forwards only those bookings.
What comes back
Your agent, when it is done
"Done. I found four booking emails for the Munich trip and placed all four in one trip: the flight, both hotels and the conference registration."
Potniq has calculated the journeys between them. Your first leave-by time is 07:50 on Thursday.
potniq.com/itinerary/5e0c7a1f-2b9d-4c63-8f4e-91a7d3b6e208
Leg 01 · 18–40 min
The Hoxton → QEII Centre
Leave by 07:50
Leg 02 · 45–80 min
QEII Centre → Heathrow T5
Leave by 15:05
Leg 03 · 35–50 min
Munich Airport → Hotel, Maxvorstadt
On arrival
Each range is calculated for that route at that hour. You choose your own airport buffer.
18 to 40 minutes, not "about twenty". The range shows the risk, so you decide how early is early enough.
Plans move. Tell your agent, and Potniq recalculates the journeys and gives you new times.
Export the trip to your calendar if you would rather look there.
One page, two readers
You should not have to learn another travel app. So we stopped making you.
Setup steps for Codex and Claude Code are in the connection guide. Pilot: agent compatibility is still being verified.
Read the connection guide# Potniq, for agents Your traveller asked you to sign them up and import their booking emails. Start with the guide. guide https://potniq.com/start server https://api.potniq.com/mcp auth OAuth. The traveller signs up and approves consent. Never do either for them. # House rules 1. Agree the trip, dates and mailbox before you read any mail. 2. Forward only in-scope bookings, from a verified mailbox, to the address Potniq reports. 3. Place each import. Ask one short question only when it is unclear. 4. Check get_trip_completion before you call the trip done. 5. Potniq does not book or rebook. Do not imply that it can.
In the interest of not adding to the crap
The 06:10 departure. The hotel wifi. The middle seat. The expenses portal, which is beyond the reach of any technology.
We do one thing: the time between your commitments.
And what Potniq itself does not do
No app to download and no form to fill in, which is rather the point.
Sign me up at potniq.com and import my booking emails into a trip.
Paste it into your agent. You confirm it is you, approve access, verify your email once and say which trip. Your agent does the rest.
Needs an agent that can read your email and connect to MCP servers. Without an invite code, signing up puts you on the waitlist.