A booking platform built by someone who has run tour operations.
Sputnik is a modern reservations and office system for tour operators, built on .NET and Blazor. It exists because the person behind it has spent a career inside tour operations and cruise — and knew exactly what the industry's ageing systems get wrong.
Tour operators run on systems older than their staff.
Legacy reservation platforms, spreadsheet workarounds and manual document runs are still the norm for small and mid-sized operators. Replacing them has historically meant enterprise vendors and enterprise price tags. Sputnik takes a different route: a focused, modern platform built with agentic development — which changes the cost of building it, and therefore the cost of owning it.
Born in 2016. Reborn through agentic development.
Sputnik was first developed in 2016, drawing on a career spent inside tour operations and cruise. It has since been comprehensively refactored with agentic tooling to bring it right up to date — modern .NET, modern architecture, modern expectations — and in doing so became something else as well: a technology demonstrator for what agentic development can do to a substantial, real-world codebase.
If you're wondering whether your own ageing system could be modernised rather than replaced, Sputnik is the answer worked through in full.
From the office to your website.
Office & reservations
Bookings, amendments and the day-to-day workflow of an operations team in one coherent system — the working core of the platform.
Search, cost & book API
A cache, search, cost and book API designed for web developers, so your product can be sold through your own website and partner channels without re-keying.
Automated customer documents
A standalone document service reacts to booking changes and renders and emails customer documentation automatically — confirmations and updates without the afternoon document run.
Reporting for Power BI
A dedicated reporting database designed for Power BI, so management information comes from the system of record rather than exported spreadsheets.
Built for operators, sized for reality.
Sputnik is aimed at small and mid-sized tour operators who need proper systems but can't justify — or stomach — an enterprise implementation. If you're choosing between another year of spreadsheets and a platform migration you dread, Sputnik is the third option.
See where Sputnik is heading.
Get in touch for a conversation about the platform, the roadmap, and whether it fits your operation.