The holy grail of assistive apps has long been a collaborative trip planning app.

But no one has ever successfully constructed such an app. Why?

Because there are too many bespoke combinations it would have to cover

Every airline / travel partner integrated.

Every chat app / ad hoc friend group communication style.

Integrating various notes and goals, from semi-structured requirements to notes on scraps of paper.

Every friend has to agree to use the same app.

That is, everyone has a slightly different workflow they use to collaboratively trip plan today.

If you make an app that perfectly solves a given user's workflow, the TAM is a single user: Far too small to justify building it.

To solve this problem, you'd need to atomize apps into smaller components that could be assembled into a just-in-time bespoke workflow.

A swarm of self-assembling situated software.