About

There's one person
doing all of this.

They started the group chat. They made the poll nobody answered. They keep a spreadsheet. Six Airbnb links are somewhere in the thread, scrolled away by Tuesday. They fronted the deposit a month ago and they still feel weird about asking for it back.

Nobody assigned them the job. Nobody sees them doing it. And by the time the trip finally starts, they're already a little tired of it.

Kompani is for that person.

What actually goes wrong

It isn't that anyone stopped wanting to go.

Between “we should really do this again” and someone actually booking a house, there are about forty small decisions. Dates. Budget. Who's driving. Whether the two-year-old can share a room. Which families are fine with a two-hour drive and which one absolutely isn't.

Forty decisions, no good place to make them, and one person holding all of them in their head.

Friendships don't usually end. They get postponed.

And the reunion that doesn't happen this year has a way of not happening next year either.

What Kompani does about it

→Finds the weekend. It reads everyone's real calendars and returns the four-day windows that actually work. Not "when is everyone free" in a group chat. The actual dates, ranked.

→Runs the vote. Houses live in one place with the votes attached, so option three doesn't scroll away by Tuesday.

→Splits the money honestly. Including the part nobody wants to raise out loud: the family with no kids shouldn't be paying for the kids' museum passes.

→Does the nagging. So no human has to be the one who nags.

The money, visible to everyoneSplit 3 ways · $60 eachTwo families skipped. No kids on this trip.

One place, from “we should do this again” to “everybody's paid up.”

Why we built it

We're a group of college friends who all had kids within about three years of each other.

That's what broke it. Group trips used to take one text message. Then it was five households, nine calendars, two toddlers who nap at different hours, one severe peanut allergy, and a deposit big enough that somebody had to actually think about it. The wanting never changed. The coordination cost went up, right as everyone's free time went down.

So the goal here isn't better software. It's more weekends where everybody's in the same house.

Every feature gets judged against one question: does this make the trip more likely to actually happen?

What we won't do

The tools in this category are some of the most disliked software on the internet. Not because the features are bad. Because they got squeezed. Ads between expense entries. Caps on what you can log. Reminders moved behind a paywall.

We're not going to do that. In writing:

✓No ads. Not now, not at scale.

✓No paywall, no limits. The whole thing works, for everyone in the group.

✓We never hold your money. Kompani does the math and generates the request. The cash goes friend to friend. We don't touch it.

✓Calendars stay private. We read free/busy. When you're open, never what you're doing.

✓Your data is yours. Export it any time, in a format you can actually use.

✓No affiliate deals. Nobody pays us to recommend a house. Being un-incentivized is the entire point.

The name

Kumpania is the Romani word for a band of families who travel together, pool what they have, and decide things as a group. Not a family, not a company. Both at once. We spelled it the way the Scandinavians do, where kompani still carries the older sense of a company: not a business, but the people you keep.

Your kompani is the crew you'd cross a state line for.

Who made it

Kompani is built for PRMR, powered by Ooni Marketing, out of Bellingham, Washington. It started as our own annual reunion and is still tested there first. Nothing ships until twelve real people, five real families, and a few genuinely difficult toddlers have run it through a weekend.

One weekend. Everyone there.

Start a trip in about four minutes. You can invite everyone before you've decided anything.