RideGuide is an AI-powered app that provides transit guidance for the whole journey.
Seven stops. Five on the trip, two around it. Every screen is the real product.
Type it the way you would say it, in whatever language you think in. It reads the live network, plans across the operators on the way, and hands back a trip you can board, not a list to sort.
A closure builds ahead of your bus at 7:15. RideGuide has already found the way out, and tells you before you are stuck, not after.
Tap by tap across operators, transfer credit counted, savings shown. The free-transfer clock runs in the app, so you always know how long the next tap stays free.
Elevator notices come straight from the operator and land on the exact step they affect. Working, out, or genuinely unknown: it tells you which, before you are standing in front of it.
It puts a bikeshare leg against the all-transit trip and shows you both: 11 minutes faster, about $3.50 more, priced end to end. You pick.
Your preferences, your places, and even its guesses, all on one screen. Read them, correct them, delete them. Guesses ask permission.
Every paid ride earns points. Spend them on the coffee before the bus or the bikeshare after it, offered where you actually are.
RideGuide is a conversational AI grounded in the feeds transit agencies already publish. It reads the network in real time, plans across operators, and carries the whole conversation, not one question at a time.
It holds the thread. Ask for a plan, then move the arrival time, then ask what the fare becomes. Every answer builds on the last. Nothing starts over.
Save a place, follow a route, switch language. Say it in the chat and it is done. No settings screen to hunt through.
Estimates are labelled as estimates. Operator notices, like an elevator out, land on the exact step they affect. Nothing is made up.
“Diverting a quarter percent of riders could mean millions in savings… this may provide the vehicle to do that.”
“The first time I’ve seen an app that could realistically do this. A great market opportunity for someone who could do it right.”
“I’ve seen a lot of products, and this is a really good vision, a really good prototype, and a really good direction.”
“Not just a ride guide, a life guide. I can just ask it questions, instead of hunting and pecking between the HTML and PDF versions of the transit agency’s website.”
“Yes, I do think it’s useful.”
Riders cross operators; to them it is one trip. RideGuide holds that trip together on the feeds you already publish, and hands you back what it learns.
Discuss a pilot