Two founders.
One road. Raising to ship it.
Byway is the AI scenic routing engine. Google Maps for turns. Byway for soul. We’re a two-person team building it. Below: who we are, how we got here, and how to back us before we launch in Q4 2026.
Small team. Shipping hard.
Shipped a travel app at Byway's scale
Already shipped a travel app at Byway’s scale. As lead mobile engineer at a top-tier guided-tours brand, re-platformed the app now serving 1M+ travelers across 80+ countries on 200+ guided tours — highly rated, with tens of thousands of reviews. Now Director of AI & Innovationin an enterprise R&D org, leading AI strategy and enterprise-wide adoption — defining the playbooks, reference architectures, and governance frameworks engineering teams use to deploy AI across the SDLC inside a regulated environment. On the side, runs an autonomous AI trading agent live on prediction markets.
Applied AI at consumer-tech scale
Senior software engineer at a major US consumer-tech company, leading applied-AI practice across engineering. Builds React + TypeScript UI systems at scale and pairs them with the AI automation chops Byway runs on.
Five roles open.
Every role here is AI-native — we expect expert, daily use of AI, not curiosity about it. Product and engineering are founder-covered.
Growth & Marketing
Ideal: a demand-gen operator who lives in SEO, content, and performance — and runs all of it AI-native.
Actively recruiting
Social & Content
Ideal: a short-form storyteller who makes the road irresistible and builds in public, with AI-native content ops.
Actively recruiting
Legal & Securities counsel
Ideal: startup counsel across Reg D 506(c), data licensing, and privacy — fluent with AI tooling. Fractional welcome.
Actively recruiting
Partnerships & BD
Ideal: an AI-native dealmaker who opens doors with tourism boards, hospitality, and RV / auto brands.
Actively recruiting
Community & Creators
Ideal: a community builder for the local-creator flywheel behind the marketplace — AI-native, ships fast.
Actively recruiting
If this is you, or you know who we should talk to, reach out at contact@byway.world.
Four reasons this is timely.
Three product categories, one app.
AI routing, real-time narration, and a creator marketplace — in a segment that's never had all three stitched together.
Defensible data, not hype.
Verified POIs, preference vectors, and community signals compound with every trip. The founders seed the file by hand on the field program, then locals carry it forward — the moat grows on the road, not on ads.
Multi-sided monetization.
Subscription + marketplace commission + sponsored stops + voice packs + API licensing. Five plausible revenue streams across the roadmap.
IP protected, early.
Five USPTO trademark classes filed. Madrid (EU) secured in 042. UK + EUIPO planned. Brand is safe before it ships.
$940B travel-experience market. 1.2B road-trippers a year.
70% of travelers prefer “authentic, off-the-beaten-path” experiences. Digital audio + travel content is already a $60B segment. Byway sits in the middle of all three — and nothing else does.
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Why now
Three forces converging in 2026 — and what it means for scenic travel tech.
Open →Market
TAM, SAM, SOM. And the category wedge nobody else holds.
Open →Revenue model
Five revenue streams and the narrative behind each one.
Open →Roadmap
v1 to v2, milestone by milestone.
Open →Traction
USPTO, AWS Activate, waitlist, prototype. What's real today.
Open →Moat
Why this is hard to copy. Data, marketplace, companion, IP.
Open →FAQ
The six questions every seed VC asks. Pre-answered.
Open →Risk factors
The plain-English, material risks of investing in an early-stage company.
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