The intelligence layer for real life.
Lunar Guide is an applied-intelligence company building real-time systems for the messy problems of daily life. Aila, our first, is rebuilding how the world travels — the same engine generalizes anywhere real-time decisions live.
Advised by the former CTO of Trip.com.
We're scientists building real-time intelligence for the problems that actually shape a day.
Real life isn't a single prompt. It's a flight that just got delayed, a trip that needs replanning at 11pm in a city you've never been to, a decision that has to be made now — with whatever context happens to be available. The problems worth solving are real-time, messy, and unforgiving.
We build the systems that meet humans there — sensing live context, reasoning over it as it changes, and acting privately, on your terms. Our first system is Aila, an AI travel companion. The same engine generalizes anywhere real-time decisions live.
The problem
The problems that shape a day are real-time and messy. They don't wait for a prompt.
Our approach
Applied intelligence — agents that sense, reason, and act on live context. Private by default.
Why now
Models are finally good enough to leave the demo and act in the real world.
Four principles. Non-negotiable.
Intelligence-first
AI as the substrate, not a feature bolted on.
Private by default
Local-first. Your data works for you, never becomes the product.
Honest about what it doesn't know
Honest, explainable, calibrated. We treat uncertainty as a first-class output, not a failure mode.
Built to be inspected
Capability is only trustworthy when it can be examined and explained.
Four threads, one engine.
Agentic reasoning
Long-horizon planning, tool use, and memory for real-world tasks.
On-device intelligence
Compact models that run locally. Latency and privacy as constraints.
Grounded context
Retrieval and sensing that keep models tethered to the physical world.
Real-time infrastructure
Cloud-native pipelines that ingest live context, route to the right model, and respond at the speed of human attention.
Cloud-native where it has to be, on-device where it matters. We treat latency, privacy, and grounding as primary engineering constraints — not afterthoughts.
Our first application.
Aila is the first system we're shipping on the Lunar Guide engine. The same primitives — agentic reasoning, on-device intelligence, grounded context, real-time infrastructure — generalize beyond travel.
Aila — your travel brain.
An AI travel companion that takes the constant thinking out of a trip. It plans, books, and guides — unified, private, and adaptive in real time.
We started with travel because travel should be the best part of life — not a side job of tabs, spreadsheets, and second-guessing.
Aila is product 01. The same engine has more applications. If you build agents, local models, or real-time infrastructure — find us below.
Small team. Senior bench.
Building Lunar Guide — advised by a former CTO who's run travel technology at global scale.
Sahnawaz Alam
Founder of Lunar Guide. Building Aila and the real-time intelligence layer beneath it.
ProfileBill Zuo
Former CTO of Trip.com, where he led engineering for one of the world's largest travel platforms. Earlier, engineering leadership at Expedia. Advising on travel, scale, and real-time systems.
We’re hiring
If you build agents, local models, or real-time infrastructure — write to careers@lunarguide.ai.
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Founded in 2025. We believe the most important surface for AI isn't a web page — it's the rest of someone's day.