Odessia

Founder of Odessia, previously co-founded Sonder.

Odessia is a conversational travel agent that plans and books complete trips, flights, hotels, and day-by-day activities, in a single chat. Aimed at leisure travelers who want a real itinerary without bouncing between tabs, the app generates destination guides, full itineraries, and curated things to do, then lets users book directly inside the conversation. Odessia helps you plan trips big and small. Where to go, how to get there, where to stay, what to do. Personalized, price-shopped, ready to book instantly. The pitch hinges on neutrality and price discovery. Other travel sites make money by selling placement, the property that pays the most shows up first. Odessia works like any travel agent: you book, we earn a commission. Every recommendation is tailored to how you travel and backed by millions of reviews, editorial sources, and real prices, not by who's paying for placement. The product also compares hotel and flight rates across booking sites and direct sources, and surfaces points options on flights, positioning itself against both legacy OTAs and the wave of generic AI trip planners. The launch matters because of who is behind it. Odessia is the next act for Francis Davidson, who co-founded Sonder while at McGill University, building from subletting his student apartment into a global short-term rental and hospitality operator . After running Sonder for more than a decade as CEO, he is now applying that operator's view of hotels, inventory, and distribution to the consumer trip-planning layer, an area where AI demos have been plentiful but end-to-end booking has remained rare.

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