About Us
Varedelo was born from a simple frustration: watching incredible travel content and having no easy way to turn that inspiration into an actual trip.
What is Varedelo?
Varedelo is an AI-powered travel mapping platform that converts online travel content into structured, personalized city intelligence.
We help travelers reduce research time by transforming videos, search data, and AI-generated insights into interactive map collections and itinerary flows.
Target Audience: Modern independent travelers
Problem We Solve: Fragmented travel research across YouTube, blogs, and Google Maps
Industry: Travel Tech + AI + Location Intelligence
Our Mission
We believe that travel planning should feel like an extension of discovery, not a chore. Varedelo bridges the gap between "I want to go there" and "Here's exactly how to experience it."
The Team
We're a small team of travelers, engineers, and designers based in New York City, united by a passion for meaningful exploration and elegant technology.
Our founding team brings together expertise in iOS development, AI/ML engineering, product design, and travel industry operations. We've collectively visited over 80 countries and understand firsthand the pain points of modern travel planning.
We're building Varedelo as a real company with real infrastructure, real users, and a clear path to sustainable growth in the travel technology space.
Founder
Yusuf A.
Founder & Engineer
Experienced data systems engineer building AI-powered travel intelligence tools. Passionate about structured information, automation, and rethinking how people explore cities. With a background in ML engineering and data science.
Previous experience at Fortune 500 healthcare/lifesciences companies, leading DevOps initiatives and building scalable data infrastructure for mission-critical systems.
📧 hello@varedelo.com
Our Approach
AI does the research. You do the living. Every feature we build is designed to save you time while preserving the joy of discovery.
Current Product Stage
Platform Status
- iOS App (MVP complete)
- AI Agent streaming itinerary engine
- Google Maps Platform integration
- Private beta testing
Key Features Live
- YouTube video mapping
- Google Places search integration
- Interactive map with colored pin categories
- AI-agent Gemini powered itinerary generation
- Spot collections and organization
- Notifications and daily travel insights
From our founder
Varedelo was built for the people who used to make travel planning a second job — spending hours watching YouTube videos, collecting spots, reading blogs, and trying to stitch it all together into one coherent trip.
Instead of forcing you to manually discover the “permutation of spots” that make a city feel complete, Varedelo does that work for you. It watches the content, pulls out the key places, layers on local food, must-see sights, tips, and transport, and then packages everything into a single, ready-to-go trip you can import straight onto your map.
On the map, simple colored markers show you what’s been experienced, what hasn’t, and how close everything is to each other. You instantly see clusters of activity, understand where to start, and move through a city with the confidence of someone who’s already been there — without sacrificing hours of your life to research.
Infrastructure & Technology
Frontend
- SwiftUI (iOS native)
- iOS 26+
Backend
- Python / FastAPI
- PostgreSQL database AWS
APIs & Services
- Google Maps Platform (Places API)
- Google Maps Platform (Photos + Geo)
- Google Cloud Gemini 3.1
- Post-trained LLMs trained on watching videos
- Proprietary reasoning chain of thought post-trained on researching travel
Infrastructure
- AWS Partners
- Cloud-hosted backend
- Scalable architecture
We're committed to building on enterprise-grade infrastructure that scales with our users and supports long-term growth.