Who checks your plan
Hi, we’re Akshat and Akanksha.
Two people, one product, and every stop checked by hand before it reaches you.
We met in our first year at Warangal and have travelled together ever since — Sri Lanka was the first trip abroad. Akshat’s parents had already taken him everywhere from the Andamans to Jaisalmer. Between us it now adds up to 20+ countries and every Indian state and union territory.
The thing you learn doing that is that nobody travels the same way. Some people want a slow week. Some want to see everything. One person’s perfect day is a beach; the next person’s is a heritage walk through a city.
Vietnam is where this became a product. Five of us, five different ideas of a good trip, and at first it looked unplannable. What worked wasn’t compromise — it was finding a different way to give each person the thing they actually wanted. Since then we’ve planned trips for friends, for family and for ourselves.
Madagascar is the one we remember. Almost nobody goes, so almost nothing useful is written down — not how to get around, not what’s worth doing. We still got from the capital to Tsingy de Bemaraha, the national parks and the Avenue of the Baobabs. Our car broke down in the middle of nowhere and locals got us moving again.
Why there’s an AI draft at all: reading every blog and reel yourself is the exhausting part. A draft gives you a structure, and it is far easier to add and remove things than to start from a blank page. Then we check it by hand, because a structure that is confidently wrong is worse than none.
The mistake we still catch ourselves making: trying to do everything in one trip.
We built DontPlanIt together to do this for other people: a free AI draft to start, then the two of us check every place by hand before you pay for it.
Why we know what to check
Akshat grew up in Udaipur; Akanksha grew up in Ranikhet, in the Himalayan foothills — both places other people spend their savings to visit. Growing up on the tourist side of a heritage city and a hill station, watching what a destination shows a visitor against what it’s actually like day to day, is where the instinct for a lazy “checked” started, long before either of us built a website. The travelling since has tested that instinct against places we didn’t grow up in — Lakshadweep, Madagascar, Morocco, the Philippines, and plenty more, adding up to five continents, 20-plus countries and every Indian state and union territory between us.
We’re not telling you this to claim we’ve been where you’re going — most of the time, we probably haven’t.
We’re telling you because it’s the reason we know what a lazy “checked” looks like: the “20-minute drive” that’s actually a mountain road, the fort that’s “open daily” except in the one season you’re travelling, the “walkable” distance that’s really a highway crossing. That’s the instinct we bring to every plan, whether or not either of us has personally stood in that particular town.
Madagascar
Merzouga, Morocco
Chefchaouen, Morocco
Luxor, Egypt
Valley of the Kings
Jibhi, Himachal Pradesh
What we actually do
You answer a few questions about how you travel. An AI model drafts an outline from open map data — free, and always labelled a draft. If you pay, we go through every stop ourselves: an official page, a phone call, and — for the places one of us has actually been, which today starts with Goa — standing there in person. In practice Akshat does more of the calling and the official-page checking; Akanksha checks in parallel and re-verifies roughly half of what goes out — but nothing reaches you until both of us have looked at it. Every stop gets stamped with the date it was checked. Then it’s yours, at a private link, within 24 hours.
What we deliberately don’t build
We don’t book anything — no hotels, no flights, no tickets. We don’t touch your travel money; the only payment we ever take is our own fee, through Razorpay. We’re not travel agents and we’re not a tour operator. That’s not a limitation we’re apologising for — it’s the reason the checking is any good. The moment we start booking things, we’re juggling contracts and commissions instead of actually going and confirming whether a place is still open. Narrow, on purpose.
The legal, boring bit
Two co-founders, one registration: a sole proprietorship is the simplest thing two people can start under in India, so it is a paperwork fact rather than a statement about who runs this. DontPlanIt is run by Akshat Jain, sole proprietor, based in India at b1-1006, DSR Highland Greenz, Chikkanayakanahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560035. Full terms at /legal/terms, refund policy at /legal/refund, and if anything goes wrong, the grievance officer named on /legal/contact is the escalation path — not a ticket queue.
At home, two cats, Oggy and Jack, keep an eye on absolutely none of this.