🚀 The group formation engine · est. by the guy who started this category in 2000

Most group trips die in the group chat. Yours won’t.

GroupAbout is the first platform built for the whole life of a group trip — the messy idea, the dates, the money talk, the booking, the shuttle, the group dinner, the photo dump. One link. The whole crew. Zero chaos.

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2,400+ crews planning right now · founded on 26 years of group travel

the group chat 💀47 messages, 0 decisions

One platform · seven phases

Every other site sells you a booking.
We run the whole journey.

HotelPlanner starts at the RFP. Engine stops at the room block. Splitwise only does the math. GroupAbout owns the full arc — and every phase feeds the next.

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Spark — Trip Lab

Idea board, date matcher with the Best Weekend Score™, anonymous budget poll. The decisions that kill trips, made painless.

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Crew — Group Hub

One room for chat, polls, tasks and the AI concierge that answers with your group’s real numbers.

Enter the Hub

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GroupCast™

Write once — delivered as text, WhatsApp, email, Facebook, even an automated voice call. Deadlines send themselves.

See it fan out

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Book — split checkout

Group-fit-scored hotels, room-block builder, and a checkout where everyone pays their own share. Nobody fronts $4,800.

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The moat · what nobody else builds

The commitment layer.

Between “I’m in!! 🎉” and a paid booking, every other tool goes silent. That gap is where trips die. We own it: RSVP states everyone can see, money chase that runs itself, drop-out protection, quorum-based booking.

👀Verbal yes → tracked yes. Invited, seen-it, in, paid — live for the whole crew. Social momentum does the chasing.

💸The chase, automated. GroupCast nudges the unpaid with their exact amount, on their channel, politely. Friendships intact.

🛡Drop-out insurance. One late bail doesn’t collapse the room math — coverage redistributes the share.

Nash Bash ’26 — live commitment board

GroupAbout vs. the industry

All of them, combined — then the parts nobody built.

	GroupAbout	HotelPlanner	Engine	Mindtrip	Splitwise
Pre-trip collaboration (ideas, dates, budget)	✅ Trip Lab	—	—	partial	—
Group hotel blocks, 3–25 rooms	✅ instant	9+ rooms, slow RFP	✅	—	—
Per-person split checkout	✅ built-in	—	—	—	math only
Commitment layer (RSVP→paid, auto-chase)	✅ the moat	—	—	—	—
Multi-channel comms + voice (GroupCast™)	✅	—	—	—	—
Transport + group tickets + itinerary	✅ one ledger	—	—	itinerary	—
Post-trip settle-up & next-trip loop	✅ Glow	—	—	—	partial