What you’ll need
- A free Muse account at muse.ai, and about 10 minutes.
- Your email and calendar connected under Muse’s connections, so it can read your booking emails.
- Optional: turn off “Help improve our AI models” in Muse’s settings if you don’t want your data used for training.
1. Get your travel profile
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Read my booking emails from the last three years: hotels, hostels, Airbnbs and flights. Build my travel profile. Tell me how many stays and flights I've booked, what kind of places I pick (dorm or private room, price per night, things I always want like WiFi, a pool or a balcony), which sites I book on and how far ahead I book. Then tell me how I fly: one way or round trip, which cabin, and how long a layover I'll sit through to save money. Put my stays in a table. Don't guess: if an email doesn't say, leave it blank. Read only, don't book or change anything.
2. Tell it where you’re going
Paste this in the same chat, with your city in the brackets.
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I'm going to [your next city] next. Find my current booking in my email and tell me when I check out. Then plan how I get from here to there: every leg, with times and roughly what each one costs. Work it around anything on my calendar that week. Don't book anything.
Optional
Get the next free build by email.
One build like this every Tuesday, with the prompt to copy. The guide stays free either way.
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3. Plan your week
Swap in what you care about. The more specific you are, the better the week it plans.
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Here's what I care about on this trip: [your three things, like a gym, meeting people and good food]. Plan my first week in [your next city] around them. Find me places to stay that match my travel profile, and check Booking.com, Agoda and Airbnb live for my exact dates, with the price on each site side by side. Tell me what I need to book ahead and what I can do on the day. Read only, don't book anything.
One catch: Muse’s own flight search only uses one booking company, so check the flight before you pay. Here’s the prompt for that.
Using it for work trips
Traveling for work? Connect your calendar too and tell it what the trip is for. It plans around your calls and meetings, and it can look for events in town that week where you’d meet people in your field. Mine found a founder conference the week I landed.
What you’ll get
Here’s what Muse found when I ran it on my own inbox.
My trip to Chiang Mai, planned by Muse
- My profile35 stays and 16 flights since 2023. Dorm beds until last year, private rooms since.
- How I flyAlways one way, and I’ll sit through a 17-hour layover to save money.
- Next cityI said Chiang Mai, and it found my checkout date on Koh Tao by itself.
- My weekThe ferry and flight off the island, a Muay Thai gym, and a founder conference in town the week I land.
- Where to stayThe conference sold out half the city, so it checked Booking.com, Agoda and Airbnb live and found a pool resort for under a thousand baht a night.
Stuck? Message me on LinkedIn and I’ll help you get it running.