Commissions, Incentives, and Fees: How Travel Agents Make Money (Datasheet)

 These infographics demonstrate the core revenue streams of travel agencies, identify who actually pays the reseller (the supplier, another intermediary, or the traveler), and provide estimates of amounts/ranges. To learn more, read our dedicated article on how travel agencies get paid. Commissions 

Building Cursor and Claude Code MCP Servers for Code Intelligence Platform

Building Cursor and Claude Code MCP Servers for a Code Intelligence Platform

 When we built Interlace, our AI-powered codebase intelligence platform, we deliberately chose to skip the graphical interface entirely and build an MCP server instead, one that coding assistants could connect to directly. For a tool whose entire purpose is to give AI agents structured, persistent 

AI in Insurance Underwriting: Use Cases, Tools, and Challenges

 Insurance underwriting (the process of evaluating risk and determining policy pricing) has traditionally been driven by rules and expert judgment, but is increasingly augmented by AI. This article explores how AI is transforming core underwriting tasks, including risk assessment, pricing, and 

Code Refactoring and Legacy Modernization Tools Compared

How Engineering Teams Map Complex Codebases With Agentic AI

 Many organizations reach a point where their software becomes difficult to fully understand. It’s not just about age. More often, it stems from accumulated changes, developers moving on, outdated or missing documentation, and evolving requirements that gradually obscure the original design. To 

Personalized Insurance: Auto and Telematics, Health, and Other Success Stories

 This article explores the insurance and risk management services that can be adjusted and tailored to the client’s needs. We’ll look at how to approach personalization, the challenges companies may encounter when implementing it, and some real-life examples. What is personalized insurance? 

 Until recently, modernizing a legacy system meant expensive consultants, months of reverse engineering work that could still leave critical gaps, and a high chance of unexpectedly breaking something. AI has changed what is possible, but it has also produced a crowded, confusing market. Here is a 

Legacy System Modernization Approaches

 If your company is still running software that was built 10, 15, or 20 years ago, you're not alone. Many organizations, commonly those in banking and healthcare, depend on systems that were cutting-edge at the time but have, over time, become slow, expensive to maintain, and difficult to integrate 

Rack Rates, BAR, Discounts, and More: A Guide to Hotel Prices

 Wondering about the maze of hotel rates—from the government to AAA, consortia, and industry rates—and how they are calculated? This article breaks down all types of hotel rates: base, discounted, negotiated, and others. The guide provides insights to help you seamlessly navigate hotel pricing, 

Improving Airport Operations with Data Analytics An Expert Overview

Improving Airport Operations with Data Analytics: An Expert Overview

 Airport operations—from baggage movement and boarding flows to gate coordination, staffing decisions, and managing connecting flights—generate large volumes of data every day. But raw data alone doesn't improve operations. Turning that information into something useful requires the right 

Lessons Learned in Project Management: Techniques and Best Practices

 This article explores when and how to run lessons-learned sessions, facilitation techniques that uncover real insights, and practical steps to turn lessons into measurable improvements. What are lessons learned? TL;DR What is it? Lessons learned in project management are documented insights 

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Node.js

React

MS SQL Server

MS Azure Cloud

WebSocket

Redis

MongoDB

Enhancing Drive-Thru Efficiency with AI Order Taking and Real-Time Insights

Travel

Vue.js

React Native

Creating Next-Gen, NDC-Ready Distribution Ecosystem for Airlines

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LangChain

ChromaDB

Azure OpenAI

Building AI Assistance for Retirement Financial Planners

Python

Elasticsearch

OpenAI API

Simplifying Vacation Planning with AI Travel Assistant by AltexSoft

Finding Expansion Opportunities for Onyx CenterSource through Market Research

Amazon Web Services

DynamoDB

AltexSoft Built a Conferencing App with Embedded Speech Recognition

Java

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Wayaj and AltexSoft: Improvіng the Code Base of the Carbon Footprint Calculator

AI & Data Science

AltexSoft Enabled Natural Language Search for Tours with ChatGPT

New Distribution Capability (NDC) in Air Travel: Airlines, GDSs, and Impact on the Industry

 Two fundamental needs connect all airlines: revenue and passenger satisfaction. To satisfy customers, carriers seek ways to learn more about their clients and provide a set of additional services like baggage insurance or onboard food. Those services, also called ancillaries, are offered for 

Open Pricing Strategy for Hotel Revenue Management: Concept, Advantages, Tools, and Implementation Steps

 As a hotel revenue manager, one of your key responsibilities is creating a pricing strategy tailored to the property and its market. Many hotels still rely on a fixed pricing strategy that uses a tiered pricing system based on room types. However, this strategy fails to consider the demand and 

How Attribute-Based Shopping Will Change Hotel Booking

 Written in conjunction with Hudson Crossing partners Max Rayner and Brian Clark
Nobody likes paying for things they don’t need. If something is included in the price but the buyer hasn’t asked for it, it’s a questionable benefit and possibly a detriment. When searching for hotel rooms, parents 

ChatGPT Implementation in Travel: Unleashing the Potential of GPT Models in Real-World Projects

 There's no denying it: ChatGPT, OpenAI's groundbreaking AI, is the talk of the tech world. This impressive Large Language Model is altering the landscape across many sectors, with the travel industry emerging as a prime example of its transformational power. ChatGPT continues to reshape 

AltexSoft Makes The Financial Times List of the Americas’ 300 Fastest Growing Companies 2026

AltexSoft Ranks 113th in Inc. Regionals Pacific for 2026

AI Reasoning Explained: End of "Chat" Models

Take a deep dive into the "internal monologue" of AI as it learns to think before it speaks. Discover how machines now unspool their own reasoning, navigate complex logic, and correct their own mistakes to solve problems once thought impossible.

Airbnb’s $200M Product Pivot: Reinvention or Overreach?

Airbnb once promised stays like a local – not a hotel guest. Now it’s adding services, experiences, and – yes, hotels.
So what exactly is Airbnb trying to be now? Is it evolving—or quietly turning into the very thing it once disrupted? And most importantly, will these moves unlock a new growth engine — or risk breaking the one that made the company successful?

Hidden Reason Travel Giants Are Buying Fintechs

Alex Medovoi, Founder and CEO of AltexSoft, discusses what tech startups can bring to the table, and see if there’s any investment potential in this space.

Why Corporate Travel is Still Stuck in the 90s

Corporate booking tools were meant to simplify business travel — but what if they’re the reason it feels so complicated? From legacy GDS architecture to NDC struggles and the rise of agentic AI, we break down what’s really happening behind the scenes. Are OBTs evolving — or quietly becoming obsolete? Watch to find out.

How AI Decides Your Insurance Price (It’s Not Just Age)

Insurance is an age-old business with a simple promise: when life goes wrong, we’ll help you make it right. For decades, that meant lengthy manual reviews and tons of paperwork. But today, AI is quietly rewriting that script. It’s shaving weeks off claims, spotting fraud patterns no human could see, and assessing risks with precision that was unimaginable just a few years ago.

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Commissions, Incentives, and Fees: How Travel Agents Make Money (Datasheet)

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Enhancing Drive-Thru Efficiency with AI Order Taking and Real-Time Insights

Creating Next-Gen, NDC-Ready Distribution Ecosystem for Airlines

Building AI Assistance for Retirement Financial Planners