Cruise Search AI
Find the right cruise by just describing it.
AI cruise discovery for military and veteran travelers.
- Client
- Military Cruise Deals
- Industry
- Travel & Hospitality
- Region
- United States
- Engagement
- B2C · assisted cruise booking · Embedded AI search module
We built an AI cruise-matching module for militarycruisedeals.com, the client's existing WordPress site. Instead of scrolling long listings, travelers describe what they want in plain words. The AI asks a few short follow-up questions, turns the request into validated search filters for ships, ports, and dates, and returns one clean results link to the client's own search engine.
The problem we set out to solve.
Customers searched in vague, conversational ways and changed their criteria midway.
Long, scroll-heavy listings made the site hard to use.
Mismatched filters produced false "no results" pages that lost bookings.
Date handling had to follow strict departure-window rules to stay accurate.
What success needed to look like
- Let customers search the way they naturally talk, not fill out a rigid filter form.
- Stop false "no results" outcomes caused by mismatched filters.
- Hand back one clean results link instead of a long, scroll-heavy list.
- Give the team visibility into what customers are actually searching for.
How we delivered it.
01
Diagnose
Traced real search sessions to find where vague requests, mismatched filters, and session carryover were producing false "no results" outcomes.
02
Design
Designed the clarifying-question flow and the rules for turning conversational intent into validated ship, port, and date parameters.
03
Build
Built the FastAPI and LangGraph agent with Redis session state, then embedded it as a widget inside the client's existing WordPress site.
04
Launch
Connected the chatbot to the client's existing cruise search engine so every conversation ends in one clickable results link.
05
Run
Added an admin dashboard for reviewing recent searches and put controls in place to keep OpenAI usage reliable.
What we built.
We built a conversational cruise-search module inside the client's WordPress site. It asks short clarifying questions, then translates intent into validated parameters for ships, ports, and dates. It checks each request against real ship, port, and date combinations, so travelers get a single clickable results URL that points to the client's existing search engine. An admin dashboard lets the team review recent searches, and controlled AI usage keeps costs and reliability in check.
Tech stack
Integrations
- OpenAI API
- Client's cruise search engine
A good search assistant doesn't just answer questions — it turns a vague, conversational request into a precise, valid search every time.
