It remembers how your household flies, keeps everyone’s details, and comes back with a shortlist you’d actually book from.
Create your householdFree while we’re in beta. Nene never books anything without your approval.
2 options hidden by your rules
Expedia Group Path to Purchase, 2023 — passive metering of 70,000+ travellers across seven markets including Australia.
That’s how long people spend reading travel content before booking one trip — 141 pages of it, across 45 days. Expedia worked that out themselves.
Your household’s next trip is a Tuesday flight to Brisbane you take four times a year. It should not cost you an evening.
Business on long-haul when the family’s along. Always economy on Australian domestic, even with the family. Never Jetstar — except when you’re flying alone. Aisle seat, towards the front.
Tell Nene once, in plain English. Every search after that obeys, and every result tells you which of your rules produced it.
Business on long-haul when the family’s along.
HouseholdAlways economy on Australian domestic, even with the family.
HouseholdNever Jetstar — except when you’re flying alone.
2 conditionsAisle seat, towards the front.
Josh onlyCarry-on only when travelling solo.
1 conditionNene runs an MCP server. Connect it once and your assistant can search fares, apply your household’s rules and book — as you, with exactly your permissions.
list_people to book_flight.That’s the whole setup. The token is shown once — we only ever store its digest.
Everyone who flies with you — your partner, the kids, the in-laws, the baby with no email address of their own. Passports, dates of birth, frequent flyer numbers, entered once.
In plain English, in the app or by telling your assistant. Nene turns each sentence into a rule it can apply and still show you in your own words.
Nene shows you the flight, the passengers and the total. Nothing is booked until you say so.
Expedia was built for a stranger who arrived from Google and has to be sold something before they close the tab. Nene is built for a household it already knows. Same business, twenty-five years of better tools.
…means an evening of open tabs. Sort by price. The cheap one leaves at 5:40am. Sort again. The good one has a four-hour layover in Sydney. Back to the first one to check whether the fare includes a bag.
Then you type it all in. Passport number, date of birth, frequent flyer number — once for you, once for your partner, once for the baby. And when you book the March trip, you’ll type every character of it again.
It isn’t difficult. It’s just long. And it’s exactly as long the fourth time as it was the first.
And if the flight is cancelled, you’re a third party to your own booking. This is what Expedia’s own support team says when that happens:
“Expedia is subject to the rules and restrictions of our vendors and we do not have the authority to change or override their policies.”
…buys you real expertise and a bill that scales with your family. Published Australian fees run $175–300 per person for an international flight and $50–75 per person domestic, on top of a planning fee of around $150 that you pay before anyone starts looking.
For a family of four that’s $700 to $1,200 before the airfare.
You still send over everyone’s passport every trip — one agency charges a $35 late fee if the copies don’t arrive on time.
Nene is the third thing. Everyone’s details and your household’s rules live in one place that belongs to you, and asking takes a sentence.
When a flight collapses at 11pm in Queenstown, a good agent rings the airport, finds a bed and books a taxi before you’ve reached the front of the queue. Nene doesn’t do that yet. If the trip falling apart is the part you worry about, that’s still worth paying for, and we’d rather say so than pretend.
| What you are comparing | Expedia | A travel agent | Nene |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to book the same family trip | [TK — measure it] | 15 min free, then $90/hour | [TK — measure it] |
| Cost to book a family of four | No booking fee | ~$150 + $175–300 per person | Free in beta |
| Everyone’s passport and loyalty numbers stored | [TK — see note] | In the agency’s system | In yours, editable by you |
| Your rules applied to every search | No | Yes, by a person you brief | Yes, and it shows you which |
| Ask at 6am from your phone | Yourself | Business hours | Yes |
| Drafts the trip from your calendar before you ask | No | Only if you tell them the dates | Yes, using what it has learned about how you fly |
| Argues with the airline for you at 11pm | No | Yes | Not yet |
| Earns you loyalty points with the booking site | Flights: none since 28 Jul 2026 | n/a | n/a — you keep airline status |
A person in Nene isn’t a login. The baby has a passport and a frequent flyer number and no email address, and Nene books them anyway. Your partner has their own login and can set rules that apply only to them — and theirs beat the household’s.
Booking refuses to run unless you confirm, and the refusal spells out the exact flight, the passengers and the total — so your assistant has to put a plain summary in front of you before you can say yes. Cancelling needs a confirmation too.
This is enforced in Nene, not in the model. A jailbroken prompt, a confused assistant or a bad day still can’t buy a ticket you haven’t seen.
Confirmation required. QF612 · BNE→SYD · Tue 8 Sep 09:40
Passengers: Josh Adams, Mira Adams, Ada Adams (infant)
Total: $486.20 · Set confirm:true to book.
Connect your calendar and Nene reads the events that imply travel — the Brisbane offsite, the wedding in Perth, the week your parents are in town. By the time you think about flights, there’s a suggestion waiting.
Read-only. Nene never writes to your calendar.
Brisbane offsite, 14–16 October
SYD → BNE · Mon 13 Oct 17:05 · aisle, front of cabin
Return Thu 16 Oct 18:40 · carry-on only
Perth wedding, 21 November
Three passengers · infant fare applied · Qantas FF on all three
It’s the part where knowing your household pays off most. Nene already knows there are three of you, that one needs a cot, that you’d take Marriott where it’s competitive and want a medium SUV with an infant seat. Nobody has to ask you any of that again.
The airline cancels at 5am; Nene has options waiting when you wake up.
PayID and BPAY instead of card fees.
The same people, the same details, invited into a work space with its own policy and billing.
No booking fee, no change fee on top of the airline’s, no minimum spend. You pay the fare and that’s the whole bill.
Nene earns a commission from hotels when you book somewhere to stay — the same way every travel agent and booking site has for thirty years. We’d rather tell you that than let you wonder. It never changes the order of your results: those come from your rules, and every result shows you which ones.
Create your householdOrdered by how likely each is to stop the signup.
No. Booking and cancelling both require your explicit confirmation, and the confirmation prompt shows you the flight, the passengers and the total first. The rule lives in Nene, so no amount of clever prompting gets around it.
It will sometimes suggest the wrong flight — that’s why you approve every booking. What it can’t get wrong is your details or your rules: those come out of the database, not the model. After ticketing, changes and cancellations go through the airline’s own conditions, and Nene shows you those before you pay.
Commission from hotels, once you’re booking somewhere to stay through us. It’s the oldest model in travel and we’re not pretending otherwise. What it doesn’t do is decide what you see: results are ordered by your household’s rules, and each one tells you which rule put it there. Flights make us almost nothing — that’s true for everyone, Expedia included — so treat the flight search as the part we do because it’s the part you do most.
You can, and for one person on a simple return it’s fine. The difference shows up on the fourth trip, when you’re typing the same four passports and the same preferences into the same form again — and on the day something goes wrong, when you find you booked through a middleman who can’t override the airline. Nene books you directly with the airline, so your ticket and your status are yours.
A good one, yes — and they’ll do it better than Nene when a trip falls apart at midnight. The difference is what it costs and where your details live. Agents charge per person, so a family of four pays four times, and the planning fee is usually due before anyone starts looking. Nene charges nothing right now, and your household’s rules are yours to read and change.
Yes, live airline content through Duffel, and a real ticket at the end. When you’re looking at demo data, the page says so.
They’re encrypted at rest and decrypted only to send to the airline you’re flying. No one at Nene reads them.
No. Everything works in the web app on its own. The connector is there if you’d rather ask your assistant.
Most of them, through Duffel’s content. A few carriers need direct arrangements and we’ll be straight with you when one’s missing.
Not yet. Nene is built for households first, and company spaces with policy and central billing come later.
Email us and you’ll get one of the two people who built it. We don’t run a call centre, and we’d rather say that than pretend.