Plan a trip with ChatGPT or Claude, then make it real

A chat model writes a plausible three-day itinerary in ten seconds, and has no idea whether the museum is shut on Monday, how long the drive actually takes, or whether anything runs back to your hotel at eleven. Treader is the part that checks. The method takes four steps: ask for an itinerary the map can read, paste it in once, let Treader find what the chat could not know, then let Scout fill the gaps with real places.

Ask for an itinerary the map can read

The paste works on structure. Ask for the answer in the shape Treader reads, and every stop lands on its day, as long as the trip has that many days.

• Ask for Day 1, Day 2 headings with a bulleted list of places under each, one place per bullet.
• Ask for real, findable names with the city or neighbourhood. "Café A Brasileira, Chiado" lands on the map; "a nice cafe near the river" does not.
• Ask for a home base each night, so every day ends somewhere. That is what the bed and last-train checks read.
• Ask it to say what it is unsure of: opening days, seasonal closures, whether a place still exists. A model that hedges is more useful than one that does not.
• Skip the times. The chat's "15 minutes' walk" is a guess; Treader draws the real leg once the stops are on the map.

Paste it in

1. 1 In the itinerary, open Add stop and choose Paste anything, then paste the whole answer, headings and bullets included.
2. 2 The Day 1, Day 2 structure is read on your device and no Scout message is used. Each stop goes to the trip day with the same number; a day the trip does not have yet goes to the Ideas pen, so set the dates first.
3. 3 Tick what lands. A row you untick never touches the trip, and a place the source gave no day goes to the Ideas pen rather than a guessed one.
4. 4 No account yet? The same paste works signed out on the AI itinerary import page, and the trip is waiting when you sign up.

Using Claude? Add the Treader connector once and ask Claude to make the trip from the itinerary it wrote. It can read your trips and create new ones, and it cannot change or delete one. Free on every plan. The full list of what you can paste, from booking PDFs to screenshots, is in Paste anything.

How to check an AI itinerary

• Hours on your dates. Every stop is grounded against the map. On Pro, $4.99 CAD a month, each one brings its opening hours, so a stop that will be shut on the day you visit says so and Trip check lists it with the fix; on Free, the places Scout suggests carry their hours too.
• The real legs. Each gap between stops gets a travel time for its mode, and the route draws on the map. A day that does not fit reads as Over-stuffed before you have booked anything. (Add stops and discover places, Shape your days)
• Daylight, rain and beds. An outdoor stop that runs past dark, rain over an outdoor stop within the forecast window, a night with no bed: all rows in Trip check, all free.
• The last train home. On Pro, a late day that rides transit back to the bed is checked against the end of service, and Treader says when to leave. (Know when the last train home leaves)
• The road, if you drive. Fuel and charging on each long drive, up to 12 a trip, and any posted height, weight or length limit the car you pick for the trip would not clear. (Plan fuel and check the road for your car)

Then let Scout fill the gaps

Scout is the assistant in the Chat tab of the right-side dock, and it searches before it speaks: open Thursday, ask for lunch near its stops, and the suggestions are real places, as cards, ready to drop on the day. Ask it to move dinner or drop the market and nothing changes until you tap Apply changes, and Undo takes them back; on Pro you can let changes apply on their own. Free includes 15 messages a month, Pro 100, Discovery unlimited within fair use. Tell it once how you travel in Make Scout yours, and learn the questions that get good answers in Get better answers from Scout. (Meet Scout)

What to keep from the chat, and what to drop

• Keep the shape of the days, the neighbourhood logic and the ideas you would not have had.
• Drop every specific it invented: hours, prices, distances, "a five-minute walk". The map has the real travel times, and on Pro the opening hours.
• Check any stop that did not land where it should, or that Trip check says has no location. Often the place is real and misspelt; sometimes it closed years ago, and sometimes the chat made it up.
• Rebalance after the paste. Chats front-load the famous stops on Day 1, and the insight row will tell you so.

Guides in this section

• The trip planning checklist → Every step from the idea to departure day, in order. /docs/trip-planning-checklist
• Add stops and discover places → Search, browse the live map, and turn a pile of places into a day. /docs/add-stops
• Route-shaped stops → A GPX or KML file becomes a stop shaped like the trail. /docs/route-shaped-stops
• Shape your days → Day names, the insight rows, Optimize and the board. /docs/shape-your-days
• Add flights to your trip → One entry, both airports, the right days across time zones. /docs/add-flights-to-your-trip
• Paste anything → Bookings, links, screenshots and chat itineraries onto the trip. /docs/paste-anything
• Trip check → Everything that could still go wrong, in one list with its fix. /docs/trip-check
• Know when the last train home leaves → The end of service against your own finishing time. Pro. /docs/last-train-home
• Run the day with Today mode → Now, next, how far behind, the weather and the local basics. /docs/today-mode
• Save a trip's map for offline → The map around every stop, on your phone. Pro. /docs/save-the-map-for-offline
• Take the trip offline as one file → One page that opens with no signal and no sign-in. Pro. /docs/take-the-trip-offline-as-one-file
• Set a trip budget → One ceiling, a live total, facts marked apart from guesses. Pro. /docs/set-a-trip-budget
• Split costs with the group → Who paid what, and who pays who. Pro to start. /docs/split-trip-costs
• Build a packing list from your trip → Built from the length, the forecast and the stops. Pro. /docs/build-a-packing-list
• Plan fuel and check the road for your car → The garage, the fuel estimate and the limits on each drive. /docs/plan-fuel-for-your-car
• Take notes that know your trip → Templates, chips with real trip data, and co-editing. /docs/take-notes-that-know-your-trip

Common questions

Can I import a ChatGPT itinerary into a trip planner?

Yes. Paste the answer into Treader with its Day 1, Day 2 headings and the stops land on their days on a map. Treader then checks the travel time between stops and whether each day fits, and on Pro the opening hours on your dates.

Does Treader use ChatGPT?

No. Scout is Treader's assistant, running on Google's Gemini models. It does not use your ChatGPT or Claude account, and it searches the map before it suggests a place.

Does pasting an AI itinerary use my Scout messages?

Not when it has Day 1, Day 2 headings: that itinerary is read on your device and costs nothing. Anything else you paste, a link, a list of places, a booking email, a PDF or a screenshot, uses one Scout message, from an allowance of 15 a month on Free, 100 on Pro and unlimited on Discovery within fair use.

Can Claude add the trip to Treader for me?

Yes, with the Treader connector for Claude. Add it once from Claude's connector settings, then ask Claude to make the trip from its itinerary. It can read and create trips; it cannot change or delete one.