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Product vision & roadmap

Know the access.
Travel with confidence.

XplorAble is building a trusted accessibility information platform that turns vague hotel claims into room-specific, source-attributed measurements — with independent verification and booking integrations planned as the platform evolves.

Starting point · Evidence-led discovery, India Long-term vision · Independently verified booking platform

This presentation describes our strategy and roadmap. Not every capability shown here has launched — see “Product status”.

Problem

“Accessible” on a listing is not the same as accessible for you

What a listing advertises

  • “Wheelchair friendly”
  • “Accessible room available”
  • “Lift on site”
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What a traveller needs to decide

  • Will my wheelchair fit through this room’s bathroom door?
  • Is there transfer space beside the bed — on which side?
  • Is there a step at the entrance, and how high is it?

Vague labels

One tag stands in for very different physical realities.

Missing measurements

Door widths, clearances and step heights are rarely published per room.

High-risk journeys

On medical, family or pilgrimage trips, one wrong assumption can derail the whole journey.

Low trust

Travellers rarely know who said it, when, or whether anyone checked.

Solution

Three layers, each earning the right to the next

01Built in codebase

Structured exact-room facts

  • Room-type features and physical measurements
  • Reported present, reported absent or unknown — never guessed
  • Exact-room filters and side-by-side comparison
02Partly built

Transparent evidence & verification framework

  • Source attribution, provenance and revision history · built
  • Staff review, publication and withdrawal · built
  • Independent on-site audits · planned
03Planned

Personalised Access Index & booking intelligence

  • XA Access Index, published only once validated (today: “Not assessed”)
  • Matching rooms to an individual traveller’s needs
  • Authorised booking and referral partners

The sequence: reliable data → visible evidence → personal decisions → bookings. We open each layer to the public only when the one before it can be trusted.

Product status

Where we actually are

Built means implemented and tested in our codebase — not yet available to public users. Public discovery, submissions and integrations are switched off by default, and the public preview uses fictional illustrative content.

Built · not public
  • Hotel, room-type and accessibility database with measurements
  • Present / absent / unknown distinction
  • Source attribution, rights checks, permanent revision records
  • Staff editing, review, publication and withdrawal
  • Exact-room filters and comparison
  • Account and Traveller Stories foundations, with consent and moderation
  • Automated frontend, backend, database and browser tests
In development
  • Production infrastructure and launch approval
  • Rights-cleared real hotel data and professional imagery
  • Editorial CMS (restricted foundations in place)
  • Traveller Stories photo infrastructure
  • Affiliate referral activation (code exists; no live integration)
Planned
  • Independent auditor network and on-site verification
  • Validated XA Access Index (currently “Not assessed”)
  • Booking partnerships and live room availability
  • Concierge, consulting, B2B data, training and certification
  • Saudi Arabia, then the wider GCC

Five kinds of information we never blur

Source-reportedWhat a property or published source states — attributed and dated.
Traveller observationOne person’s experience, labelled as such.
Independently auditedMeasured on site by trained auditors. Planned.
Your suitabilityDepends on your body, equipment and needs. We inform; you decide.
Live availabilityReal-time room inventory. Not offered today.

Market opportunity

India first to prove it. Saudi Arabia next to scale it.

India · Phases 1–4Now

Product and operations testing market

  • Wide variation between properties makes room-level detail genuinely useful
  • Medical, family and domestic trips are high-stakes use cases to learn from
  • A single-city pilot lets us test data collection, editorial review and auditor operations hands-on
Saudi Arabia · Phase 5Later

Strategic expansion opportunity

  • Religious and family journeys where accessibility planning matters
  • A national tourism development agenda under Vision 2030
  • Entered only after India proves the verification model, with local partners, regulatory review and Arabic-language adaptation — then the wider GCC

Business model

Revenue sequenced by maturity

These are planned revenue opportunities, introduced as each phase matures. None is active yet.

Near-term opportunity
Authorised hotel referrals
Commission through approved affiliate and referral partners.
Distribution partnerships
Room-level accessibility data alongside licensed inventory.
Growth stage
Concierge travel planning
Assisted trip design for complex access needs.
Property accessibility consulting
Readiness and retrofit guidance for hotels.
Later stage
B2B data services & training
Independently governed certification / assessment
Regional pilgrimage services (Saudi Arabia)

Governance principle: consulting revenue must never influence audit outcomes. Advisory and assessment functions stay separate.

Roadmap

Five gated phases. One immediate milestone.

  1. Phase 1Next milestone

    India discovery beta

    Evidence-led hotel and places discovery in one pilot city, using source-reported, editorially reviewed data.

  2. Phase 2

    Independently audited property pilot

    Trained auditors, including disabled travellers, measure a pilot set of properties.

  3. Phase 3

    XA Access Index & booking partnerships

    Publish the index only after validation; activate authorised booking and referral partners.

  4. Phase 4

    Travel services & B2B

    Concierge planning, property consulting, data services and training.

  5. Phase 5

    Saudi Arabia → GCC

    Enter Saudi Arabia with local partners, then expand across the GCC.

We are not launching everything at once. Each phase starts only when the one before it has proven itself.

Verification operations

Trust is earned in stages, and every record says which stage it has reached

STAGE 1

Source-reported

What a property or published source states, attributed and dated.

Built
STAGE 2

Editorially reviewed

Staff check the source, rights and consistency before publishing. This is not independent verification.

Built
STAGE 3

Independently audited

Trained auditors measure on site using a standard protocol, then independent QA reviews the result.

Planned
STAGE 4

Periodically reassessed

Every audit carries an expiry date. Records are rechecked or downgraded when they lapse.

Planned

Disabled travellers run the audits, not just endorse them

  • Help design audit protocols and the measurements that matter
  • Carry out on-site audits as trained, compensated auditors
  • Their lived expertise shapes the method, not the marketing

Every audited record will carry

  • 📏 Timestamped physical measurements
  • 📷 Photo and video evidence
  • ✅ Independent QA sign-off
  • 🗓️ An expiry and recheck date
  • ❔ “Unknown” shown as unknown, never assumed
Non-negotiable rule: source-reported facts approved by staff are never labelled “independently verified”.
Go-to-marketPlanned approach

Win one city first, then grow

How we plan to reach travellers and partners

Hotel partnerships

Properties that want their access details shown accurately.

Disability communities

Co-design, beta testing and word of mouth.

Rehabilitation networks

Trusted advisers at key life and travel moments.

Medical travel

Facilitators who need dependable room data.

Creator relationships

Disabled travel creators, credited honestly.

The India city pilot will tell us

Data depthHow many rooms we can document in detail, and how few fields stay “unknown”.
Traveller valueWhether room-level facts help people choose with more confidence.
Partner interestWhich hotels and organisations want to work with us.
Audit readinessWhat it takes to verify a property independently.

Brand

A premium travel brand, not a clinical accessibility directory

Clarity

Plain facts, plain labels, nothing hidden.

Autonomy

Travellers judge their own suitability.

Confidence

Know what to expect before you arrive.

Freedom

Travel as aspiration, not just logistics.

Creative direction

  • Cinematic photography and confident typography, with calm, purposeful motion
  • Accessibility always visible, framed through aspiration and precision
  • Calm teal for trust, warm orange for optimism, a dark premium canvas

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Orange #F9A825

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Accessible by design

  • Readable contrast on every surface
  • Full keyboard navigation: ← → · Home / End
  • Honours reduced-motion settings
  • Honest status labels, so nobody is misled by the brand

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Why now

Why this matters now

1

Room-level data is the missing layer

Accessibility is typically described for the property, not for the specific room a traveller will book.

2

Trust needs provenance

Travellers need to know the source, the date and the verification state, not just a tick-box.

3

Verification is an operational moat

Trained auditors, QA and recheck cycles take time to build and are hard to copy quickly.

4

Distribution follows trust

Once the data is credible, booking partners and B2B buyers have a reason to integrate it.

What’s next

Launch an evidence-led India beta.
Prove the verification model.
Scale trust into bookings.

Our focus for the next milestone:

01

Product & production readiness

02

Licensed hotel data & operational onboarding

03

Independent verification pilot & auditor training

04

Demand generation & commercial partnerships

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