Pre-Trip Intelligence

Most travel budgets are managed on faith.
Yours doesn't have to be.Replace faith with facts.

TripTester links every proposed business trip to its business goal — then rates its cost, risks, and expected value before a dollar is spent. The result: sharper allocation decisions, less low-value spend, and a travel portfolio that makes sense to the whole business.

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Sample Pre-Trip Rating

NYC → London · Best and Final · Economy

MERIT RATING

★★ ★★ ★

Fairly Strong Business Case

Trip Value · $12,500
Est. Cost · -$3,700
Trip's Value-Add · $8,800
Financial merit·Very Strong
Traveler concerns·Very Low
Destination risk·Fairly Low
Jet lag risk·Moderate
Flight friction·Moderate
Carbon-intensity risk·Acceptable

The Problem

No lender would make a loan
without checking a credit score.

Yet companies allocate millions in travel spend every year without gauging the value of the trips they're funding.

TripTester brings the equivalent of credit scoring to business travel.

The Evidence

24%

of business trips produce low value — consuming budget while delivering little or no measurable return on investment.

75%

accuracy rate for predicting low-value trips before they are taken.

97%

of business travelers said they would be willing to spend a few minutes documenting their travel needs.

Until now, Finance had no way to gauge a trip's value.
TripTester solves this problem.

All findings: The Justified Business Trip, tClara LLC  ·  Survey of 407 US business travelers  ·  2023

The Justified Business Trip Paradigm

One question reveals any trip's value.

"What's the most this trip could cost and still be worth taking?"

Willingness to pay is the most direct measure of a trip's value. When a traveler sets their maximum justifiable cost, they're making a claim about the trip's importance.

The higher the maximum cost, the more important the trip. Executives can now prioritize trip approvals with confidence.

The research behind TripTester's approach:

The Justified Business Trip whitepaper cover

April 2023 · 47 pages · Survey of 407 US business travelers

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Any traveler can claim a high trip value.
TripTester puts that claim on the record — and makes it theirs to defend.

How It Works

Two minutes to rate a trip. Instant clarity about booking it.

1

Enter the trip's purpose, itinerary, and expected cost

2

Decide the most this trip could cost and still be worth taking

3

TripTester computes the risk-adjusted value of the trip

4

Receive an objective pre-trip rating with full financial valuation

Low-value trips — and their emissions — are identified before they're booked.
High-value trips are easier to fund and defend.
Travel budgets are proposed, managed, and measured using CFO-centric metrics.

See It In Action

What a scored trip looks like.

Every trip gets a credible and objective assessment of its financial value, travel risks, and environmental impact. The trip's merits are made clear with a standardized 1–5 star rating — done in less than 2 minutes.

Sample Pre-Trip Rating

NYC → London · Best and Final · Economy

MERIT RATING

★★ ★★ ★

Fairly Strong Business Case

Trip Value · $12,500
Est. Cost · -$3,700
Trip's Value-Add · $8,800
Financial merit·Very Strong
Traveler concerns·Very Low
Destination risk·Fairly Low
Jet lag risk·Moderate
Flight friction·Moderate
Carbon-intensity risk·Acceptable
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Travel Spending Clarity

See exactly how travel budgets are being used.

TripTester connects every dollar of travel spend to the business goal it's meant to serve — making low-value spend visible before it's committed.

TripTester goal analytics chart showing travel spend by business goal and pre-trip rating

Environmental Impact

Cut emissions without trying.

TripTester helps eliminate low-value trips and their carbon emissions. No offsets. No mandates. No carbon budgets. Just better use of travel budgets and their carbon emissions.

Trips that can justify the cost of airfares with low carbon intensities* can earn better trip ratings. The reason: airfares with acceptably low carbon intensities are often more expensive. Trips which can justify the extra cost are signaling higher value.

* TripTester defines low airfare carbon intensity as <= 0.65 CO₂e kg per USD. Cabin- and route-specific carbon emissions are estimated for each trip to derive the trip's carbon-acceptable airfare.

Learn More About Sustainable Business Travel Programs and Policies

The Strategically Sustainable Business Travel Program 45 pages · 2024 · tClara LLC
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Who TripTester Is For

Designed for Finance.
Built to maximize travel's value.

CFOs, Finance Directors & Controllers

  • Bring objective rigor to every travel approval decision
  • Identify and eliminate low-value spend before it's committed
  • Link travel spend and its expected return to key business goals
  • Manage the travel budget as a strategic portfolio, not a cost pool
  • Accelerate Scope 3.6 emissions reduction

Travel & Procurement Managers

  • Give approvers a powerful tool for eliminating low-value trips
  • Surface traveler well-being and destination risk before trips are booked
  • Connect travel spend to business goals across the organization
  • Recognize high-value trips warranting better travel policies
  • Analyze powerful new data for reporting and benchmarking
TripTester

Replace faith with facts.

Credit scores for business trips.

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