Your AI travel companion that actually knows you.
Road Dawg pairs real-time AI with live flight data, local transport, and hyper-local discovery to give you the answer a well-connected local friend would — not another top-10 list.
Private alpha now live. Limited invites available.
- 🚀Private Alpha— Active & live
- 🤖AI-powered — Real-time data + LLM tool calling
- 🌍Built for independent travelers who move fast
- 🇺🇸US-incorporated — Delaware C-Corp
Meet Max
Not a search engine. A travel companion.
Max is Road Dawg's AI core — built on frontier LLMs with live tool calling into flight data, maps, transport, and local discovery. It adapts to who you are, not just what you searched.
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Real-time data, always
Live flight lookups, transport pricing, and local data — pulled the moment you ask, not cached from last month.
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Learns how you travel
Multiple traveler personas — business trip, backpacker, luxury weekend. Max adapts its answers to your mode and history.
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Adapts mid-conversation
Push back on a suggestion and Max pivots — no rigid scripts. It reasons through your preferences in real time.
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One-tap trip planning
Tell Max your vibe and One Click Trip generates a full AI itinerary — flights, transport, places, timing included.
What's Inside
Five surfaces. One experience.
Road Dawg alpha ships with five core surfaces — all powered by the same live data layer Max runs on.
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Explore Feed
Personalized discovery of places, photo spots, hidden gems, and events — filtered to your traveler identity, not the generic tourist list.
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Map View
The same personalized data layer, geographic and filterable. See your world the way you actually move through it.
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Max Chat
Conversational AI with live tool calling — flights, transport, local picks, trip planning. The full companion experience in one thread.
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Trips
Save and organize trips, bookmark places, or hit One Click Trip to generate a complete AI itinerary from scratch in seconds.
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Social Layer
Connect with travel buddies, follow people with your taste, and build a network of people who know where the good stuff is.
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Traveler Personas
Switch between modes — business trip, backpacker, luxury weekend — and get recommendations that actually match how you're traveling.
The Team
Built by people who travel.
A distributed team with deep roots in media, technology, hospitality, and AI product development.
Nick Romero
CEO & Co-Founder
Serial entrepreneur. Founder of The Ave Customs (16 years, US patent, Shark Tank). Building Road Dawg from CDMX.
Jacob Cherry
Co-Founder
Hospitality operator. Owns Bonita Escondida, the #1 ranked hostel in North America on Hostelworld.
Private Alpha
Be first on the road.
We're rolling out early access through our pilot partner network. Apply now and we'll reach out when your spot is ready.