China has the largest domestic tourism market in the world.
in annual spend (PPP)
($1.9T, world's #2)
Yet international inbound is only 10% of visitors.
Why?
It's not that people don't want to visit China.
China's travel supply is invisible to the international traveler.
A trusted discovery layer doesn't exist.
Nobody knows the true TAM of China inbound tourism.
China is only now ready to open up to the world — and we're riding it early.
We're not entering a market.
We're creating one.
I spent a month on the ground in China.
What I found shocked me.
of suppliers said yes immediately.
Not because I'm a good salesman.
Because they've been waiting for someone to build this bridge.
Every supplier is personally experienced as a customer before onboarding. Two non-negotiables: Experience and Trust.
Every supplier is going deeper.
The airport transfer guy?
Now doing private mountain expeditions + Michelin tours.
The tour guide?
Curating hidden tea markets and ethnic village stays.
Incredible experiences exist. They have no trusted channel to surface them.
I spend 20–40 emails with each customer before they book. Most don't.
— Sunny Journeys, Shanghai tour agency
That's not a sales problem.
That's an intelligence gap.
The supply exists.
The demand exists.
What's missing is the
intelligence layer
that matches them.
AI travel infrastructure — built bilateral from day one.
Not an OTA. Not a middleman. Not a trip planner.
The intelligence layer.
Bilateral Architecture
Consumer AI
Heart (emotional resonance) + Travel DNA (preference understanding)
User never articulates what they want — they feel whether it resonates
Orchestration Layer
AI matches supply ↔ demand AND supply ↔ supply
The product IS the quality of the match
Supplier AI (DragonBridge)
Onboarding agents + intelligence dashboard
Suppliers see who they're serving, not just booking details
Nobody is building for the AI era.
A growing segment of international travelers wants ultra-personalized, trust-verified experiences in China. No one knows how to match them.
The gap isn't just who is here — it's that these companies are optimized for volume transactions.
We're optimized for match.
You couldn't build Ganny.
The models weren't good enough.
The year.
Too late.
Someone will own this corridor.
How do you plan a trip to somewhere you've never been?
Trying to imagine an experience you can't preview.
Using preferences you can't articulate.
"What do you want?"
But travelers don't know what they want.
They don't know what's possible.
They don't know what they don't know.
Heart inverts the model.
Instead of asking what you want, we show you what we think you'll love.
You don't search. You don't filter.
You feel whether it resonates.
Let me show you what I mean.
"You understand me. Let's go deeper together."
"If Heart works the way you've designed it, would you ever go back to the old way?"
That's not a feature improvement.
That's a format change.
Like TikTok changed video discovery.
And TBH… Ganny has barely even started.
The Order Flow
TRADITIONAL
GANNY
"The verified expert looked at your profile and gave you a better plan."
A holiday is actually one product.
(to the user)
Ganny: AI matches supply TO supply.
A 3-day off-road tour auto-pairs with the right lodge, the right meals, the right local guide.
Personalized bundles that couldn't exist and scale before AI.
The flywheel compounds.
A compounding system, not a static product.
What we've built
verified suppliers
agencies (100–200 each)
cities across China
SUPPLIER SIDE
WeChat AI onboarding
DragonBridge dashboard
Supplier intelligence profiles
USER SIDE
Travel DNA profiling
Heart (emotional discovery)
AI itinerary composition
THE REAL PRODUCT
The matching algorithm & intelligence graph
Database architecture + AI orchestration that connects verified supply to deeply-profiled demand — producing matches no search engine or OTA can replicate.
Team
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Jonathan
Co-founder & CEO
Travel domain expertise. Product vision. China ground-level relationships.
Egor
Co-founder & CTO
Computer science. Built enterprise ERP systems. Engineering rigor at scale.
Vision + Execution
Roadmap
DragonBridge + Heart v1.0
Hire 2 China city managers
Soft launch
10 confirmed trips
Every city in China
Every experience category
Deep supply network
Expand corridors
Thailand, Japan, Indonesia
12-Month KPIs
verified suppliers across 5+ cities
completed bookings
First-Heart acceptance rate
NPS from completed trips
Proof that the intelligence loop closes.
RAISING
Seed Round
S$500K
Angels / VCs
+
S$500K
SEEDS Capital (Startup SG Equity)
Close Q1 2026 → Soft Launch Q2 2026
The intelligence layer
for Asian travel.
"The private travel concierge experience — democratized through AI."
jonathan@ganny.ai