NOW ACCEPTING FOUNDING TRAVELLERS
Every city has a soul…
most travellers never find it.
A private session with a vetted local expert - before you leave home. They draw on their network of specialists, cover your full range of interests, and deliver you a personally curated city guide built from knowledge that only years of genuine embeddedness create.
"Every city has a soul. Most travellers never find it - not because it's hidden, but because nobody showed them the door. Tramica shows you the door, and then opens it for you."
JAPAN
Kyoto
TÜRKİYE
Istanbul
PORTUGAL
Lisbon
THAILAND
Bangkok
AUSTRALIA
Melbourne
WHAT IS TRAMICA
The friend who knows every city.
Most travellers arrive in a city knowing only the version that exists for tourists. The real city - where the locals eat, argue, live, work, and make things - stays hidden. Not because it's inaccessible. It's that nobody showed them the door. And when you only have a few days in town, a wasted day isn't just disappointing; it's a big chunk of your entire trip, gone.
The gap between the city you visit and the city locals know exists everywhere. AI travel planning distils what's popular - the same restaurants, the same neighbourhoods, the same recommendations everyone gets. What makes a trip genuinely extraordinary lives in people, not platforms. Tramica is your pre-trip fixer - just like Anthony Bourdain relied on in every destination: someone who gives you the inside knowledge and arranges access before you even set foot on a plane. Nothing is left to chance.
Tramica gives you access before you leave. A private 90-minute session with a genuine local insider who covers your full range of interests - food and wine, architecture, history, art, walking routes - by drawing in their personal network of specialists during the research phase. One beautiful city guide. One relationship. Many areas of inside knowledge.
You arrive not as a tourist, but as someone about to discover the soul of your destination.
Every city has a soul. Most travellers never find it. Tramica is how you do!
1 - SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS, NOT GUIDES
Artists, architectural historians, food writers. Not tourism professionals selling their services. Practitioners and locals whose primary life is the city draw on their specialist networks to cover your full range of interests during the research phase. They share what they know because they love their city and want to share it.
2 - CURATED, NOT OPEN
Every expert is personally vetted and tested by the Tramica team before going live. The pool is deliberately small and deliberately excellent. You are not browsing through a market place of hundreds - you're accessing a community of the best.
3 - MATCHED, NOT CHOSEN
You don't pick from an endless menu of providers. Tramica matches you with the right expert based on your interests, travel style, and compatibility. No decision fatigue. No uncertainty. The platform makes the call, and you take it from there.
4 - AI ENHANCED, NEVER AI-REPLACED
Tramica will use AI for many things to make your experience and our business better. AI powers matching, screening, session preparation, and quality benchmarking. It's how we make a curated personalised service scalable. Human knowledge and interaction will always be the product. AI protects and amplifies it.
HOW IT WORKS
Four steps. One city,
deeply understood.
01
Tell us about yourself
A short questionnaire before we match you with an expert. Your travel style, your interests, what you've loved before, and what you want to feel. Your expert reads every word before you meet.
02
Your private session
A 90-minute video call with your expert, weeks before you travel. Day-by- day curation, insider knowledge, the things that don't appear in guidebook. Specific, considered, and entirely yours.
03
Research & consultation
Over 48-72 hours, your expert consults their local network, makes calls, and conducts research only an insider can do - checking availability, securing access, and filling every gap the session revealed.
WHAT MAKES TRAMICA DIFFERENT
04
Your city guide arrives
A beautifully researched and written personal guide with a day-by-day itinerary arrives within the next 72 hours - and your expert stays available for questions, real-time recommendations, and anything the guide didn't anticipate. until you're home.
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THE DELIVERABLE
A guide written
for you, specifically.
A local friend for the whole trip.
Not a PDF of generic recommendations. A mobile-first guide your expert spent 48-72 hours preparing - consulting their network, arranging access, wrining in their own voice. something you can hold in the palm of your hand for the entire trip.
Interactive Google Maps for every location
Expert's personal note on every recommendation
Works offline - add to your phone's home screen
Access not available on any booking platform
THE EXPERTS
Every expert
can open a door.
Every city has a soul. Most travelers never find it - not because they don't want to, but because the tourist layer sits over it like a lens that makes every city look the same. Tramica experts are the people who can open the door to what lies beneath. They are not guides. They are practitioners - people whose years of genuine embeddedness in the city they love give them access to the specific, living character of a place.
Tramica has launched with a small founding cohort of experts. Each profile below represents a real person who holds genuine deep love and knowledge of their city - knowledge that took years to accumulate and cannot be found anywhere else. they are the door-openers. We add new experts slowly and deliverately, because the quality of the door matters as much as the key.
Yuki Kobayashi
Ceramicist - Tea ceremony practitioner
Kyoto has a relationship with craft that runs so deep it's almost a philosophy. Yuki has spent eighteen years inside it - first as an apprentice, now running her own studio in Higashiiyama. She holds the door to a Kyoto most visitors never see: the seasonal rhythms, the studios, the tea houses, the knowledge that disappears when a generation does.
Specialist in craft culture & tea
from $185
KYOBI, JAPAN
YK
Cen Aydin
Architectural Historian - Author
Istanbul is one of the most layered cities on earth - civilisations written over each other across millennia. Cen has spent his career learning to read that layering. Through his eyes, a single street becomes a conversation between cultures separated by centuries. He opens a door to an Istanbul that exists in historical depth, not just at the tourist surface.
Specialist in architecture & history
from $185
ISTANBUL,TÜRKİYE
CA
Manuel Ferreira
Food Writer - Former Chef
Lisbon has a particular soul -melancholic and warm in equal measures, most alive in the neighbourhood restaurants that haven't changed in decades and the wine cellars that don't need to advertise. Mauel spent seven years running a restaurant in Mouraria before closing it to write about food. He opens a door to Lisbon that locals actually live in.
Specialist in food, wine, & culture
from $185
LISBON, PORTUGAL
MF
FOUNDING TRAVELLERS
Every city has a soul.
It's time to find it.
A once in a lifetime trip and the trip of a lifetime are not automatically the same thing. The difference is knowing the city you're visiting the way someone genuinely lives there, and loves it, would show it to you.
Founding travellers get a lower introductory price, direct access to the founder, and the knowledge that their feedback will shape what Tramica becomes.
Founding session rate
Sessions from $185 - our introductory price for the first cohort of travellers
Direct founder access
Your feedback is how we grow
Money-back guarantee
If your session doesn't meet expectations, we refund in full. No questions asked.
Priority for new cities
Founding travellers get first access as we add experts in new cities.
Request a founding session
Tell us where you're travelling and we'll match you with the right expert. We'll be in touch within 24 hours.
No payment now. We'll confirm availability and send details within 24 hours.
Full refund if your session doesn't meet expectations
Essential
$185
One expert. Your primary interest explored in genuine depth.
60-minute private video session
One vetted specialist expert
Primary interest coverage
48-72her research phase
Money-back guarantee
REQUEST ESSENTIAL
Signature
$279
One expert. Your primary interest pllus secondary interests addressed through their specialist network.
90-minute private session
One vetted specialist expert
Covers primary & secondary interests
48-72hr research & network consultation phase
Premium written curated city guide
Expert available throughout trip
REQUEST SIGNATURE
Collective
$399 / $499
Two or three formally coordinated specialists. One primary expert leads everything. Secondary experts fill every gap.
90--minute session with primary expert
2 experts ($399) or 3 experts ($499)
AI generated brief for each specialist
Every area of interest covered in depth
Primary expert available during trip
REQUEST COLLECTIVE
PRICING
Three tiers.
one city, fully understood.
Tramica is the one form of travel insurance that protects the trip itself - not the booking, but the experience. Three tiers for different traveller profiles - from a single specialism explored in depth, to a formally coordinated panel of specialists covering every area of interest you arrive with.
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