Passage — pitch deck
passageTRIPS

Plan alone.
Travel together.

Shared trip planning where every traveller’s requirements, including access needs, shape the plan from the start.

HARIKRISHNA SURIYANARAYANAN · 2026
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Group trips are planned in chats. The traveller with the strictest needs finds out last.

Preferences, votes, payments and bookings live in five different apps.

A grandparent who cannot manage boarding steps is treated the same as someone who prefers a slow pace.

Access problems show up at the pier, after payment.

Every number carries its evidence.

149M Indians aged 60+, rising to 347M by 2050VERIFIED
2.95B domestic tourist visits in 2024VERIFIED
1 in 5 trips by people with mobility needs hit an access failureESTIMATE
₹1,050Cr a year lost to cancellations and rebookingESTIMATE

Sources: India Ageing Report 2023 (UNFPA, IIPS); India Tourism Data Compendium 2025. Estimates are bottom-up assumptions.

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The group fit engine

A requirement filters options out. A preference only reorders them. Passage never trades one traveller’s requirement for the group’s convenience.

MUNNAR · 8 TRAVELLERS94
StayPrivate roomsRequirement · 2 people
WalkingUnder 200 mRequirement · 1 person
PaceBalancedPreference
Budget₹10k–₹15k7 of 8 aligned
PRODUCT · LANDING

Why people sign up

The selling points, as visitors see them.

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PRODUCT · APP

The trip room, live

Discover, vote, plan the itinerary, run the live trip.

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Choose the stayCloses tonight
● Tea estate cottage5 votes · 63%
○ Town boutique hotel2 votes · 25%
○ Private villa1 vote · 13%

Decisions with deadlines

Every open question becomes a vote with a closing time. The organiser locks the result and the itinerary updates for everyone.

MVP BOUNDARIES

What is real, what is simulated

This version connects organisers with travellers and gives travellers choices plus information about access difficulties at places. Plan & book separates must-haves from nice-to-haves, shows why options are ruled out, and itemises stay, transport, extras and illustrative taxes with a per-person split. Prices, operators, taxes and access details are illustrative; nothing is booked, and deposits and refunds are not shown until approved.

Free for travellers. Operators pay when we bring a booking.

Traveller
Free
Companion Plus ₹99 / month
Listed
10%
commission, no fee
Verified
7%
+ ₹4,999 / month · yearly audit
Fleet
5%
+ ₹14,999 / month

Tourism boards and pilgrimage circuits: custom annual licence. Search ranking is never for sale.

VALIDATION

How we would know it works

Proposed measures: trips where every traveller confirms, access-related cancellations and organiser time to a decision. Targets, not results.

Proposed pilot measures. No traction is claimed.
ROADMAP & RISKS

What comes next

MVP · one circuitGroup room, access facts, plan & book with charges
v1Verified operators, on-site access audits, payments
v2Live trip assistance, tourism-board licences

Risk: access data accuracy → verified audits before ranking

NEXT STEP

See it working

Open the demo→Read the case study→Product site→Pricing→Portfolio→Contact→
Local links work when the site folder is deployed. No public hosted URL is published yet.
APPENDIX

Optional detail

Slides after this point are supporting material, not part of the 12-slide main deck.

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Everyone ready before departure.

Trip readiness
63%
5 of 8 fully ready
Collected
₹80,000
of ₹99,200 · reminders automated
Final payment
05 Nov
Reminders at 7, 3 and 1 day
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Up next · Day 2

Guided tea trail

10:00Meet in the cottage lobby at 09:45
4/8
checked in

Announcements, headcount, incidents and emergency contacts in one place.

What travellers use today

WhatsApp + SplitwiseWhere group trips happen now. No decisions, readiness or itinerary.
GetYourGuide, ViatorActivity booking for one person. Accessibility is a single filter.
Booking.comAccessibility filters for stays only. No journey stages.
Wheel the WorldVerified accessible trips, but curated and not built for mixed groups.
PassageGroup decisions, readiness and live coordination, with every traveller’s requirements enforced.

India first

ESTIMATES
₹17,500Cr

bookable trips a year by travellers with mobility needs and their companions

₹262Cr

reachable: online-booking households on the top 50 circuits

₹3.9Cr

a year by year three: commission plus 300 Verified operators

Global upside: about 1 in 6 people worldwide lives with a significant disability, and most travel markets are ageing.

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Next: 50 group trips on the Kerala backwaters circuit.

Trips where every requirement was met
Assistance confirmed before departure
Decisions closed without chat
Access-related cancellations

Measures to test, not results. harikrishna2004official@gmail.com