A modest proposal for people who travel for work

Decrapify business travel.

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 prompt into your agent, and it connects Potniq, turns the bookings in your email into a trip and comes back with a time to leave for every journey.

The entire signup formConnect it from your agent

Set me up with Potniq. Read https://potniq.com/llms.txt and follow it.

Paste it into your agent. You create your account when Potniq opens, approve read and write access, and confirm one summary of the trip. Your agent does the rest.

Works with agents that can connect to MCP servers. Setup steps for Codex and Claude Code are in the connection guide.

CancellationsEffective one prompt from now
Things Potniq removes from business travel
TimeServiceStatus
--:--Another travel app to installCancelled
--:--The signup form, and its dropdown for your titleCancelled
--:--Forwarding confirmations to yourselfCancelled
--:--Retyping flight numbers into a calendarCancelled
--:--"Recommended for you", paid for by someone elseCancelled
--:--Guessing how long the drive takesCancelled
07:50Knowing when to leaveOn time

The last row is an example. Times are calculated estimates, not guarantees.

The first run, itemised

What your agent does, and what only you can do.

StageYour agentYou
01 ReadOpens potniq.com/start and follows the guide written for agents.Nothing.
02 ConnectChecks the connection, and tells you how to add Potniq if it is missing.Add Potniq, create your account when it opens and approve read and write access.Once
03 FindLooks in your own email for the bookings of your next trip, or asks you to describe the trip.Say which trip, and which dates.
04 ConfirmShows one short summary of the trip: each leg, the times and the places.Confirm it, or correct it.
05 SaveSaves the trip with create_itinerary. Potniq calculates every journey in between.Nothing, unless a booking is unclear.
06 ReportChecks the trip is complete and sends you the trip link and your first leave-by time.Open the link.

"Find my bookings" never means the whole mailbox. Your agent agrees the trip with you before it reads any mail, looks only for that trip, and you confirm one summary before anything is saved.

What comes back

A saved trip, and a time to leave.

Trip saved · London, then Munich · Thu 12 NovExample. Estimates, not guarantees.

Your agent, when it is done

"Done. I found four booking emails for the Munich trip and saved them as 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.

Ranges

18 to 40 minutes, not "about twenty". The range shows the risk, so you decide how early is early enough.

Changes

Plans move. Tell your agent, and Potniq recalculates the journeys and gives you new times.

One page, two readers

Half of this page is not for you.

For the traveller

You should not have to learn another travel app. So we stopped making you.

  1. 01 Copy the prompt.
  2. 02 Paste it into an agent that can connect to MCP servers.
  3. 03 Do the human parts when it asks: create your account and approve read and write access, say which trip, confirm the summary.

Setup steps for Codex and Claude Code are in the connection guide.

Read the connection guide

For the agent

# Potniq, for agents
Your traveller asked you to set them up
with Potniq and turn their next trip's
bookings into a trip. Follow the steps.

steps      https://potniq.com/llms.txt
guide      https://potniq.com/start
server     https://api.potniq.com/mcp
auth       OAuth. The traveller creates the
           account and approves read and
           write. Never do either for them.

# House rules
1. Agree the trip and dates before you
   read any mail.
2. Read only that trip's bookings, in the
   traveller's own email. If there are
   none, ask them to describe the trip.
3. Show one summary and get a yes. Then
   call create_itinerary once.
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

Things we cannot decrapify.

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

  1. 01 It does not book, rebook or contact providers. No affiliate links, no commission.
  2. 02 Your agent looks only for the trip you agreed. Potniq never sees the rest of your mailbox.
  3. 03 It does not guarantee arrival. Times are estimates, shown as a range.
  4. 04 It does not time the airport itself. You choose your buffer.

Less crap. One sentence.

No app to download and no form to fill in, which is rather the point.

The entire signup formConnect it from your agent

Set me up with Potniq. Read https://potniq.com/llms.txt and follow it.

Paste it into your agent. You create your account when Potniq opens, approve read and write access, and confirm one summary of the trip. Your agent does the rest.

Works with agents that can connect to MCP servers. Setup steps for Codex and Claude Code are in the connection guide.