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Spec System · A-17 · v0.3

Wisp Travel

Turn vague escape energy into a trip worth joining.
Web & ProductTravel membershipInteractive Globe
ADEPTA LAB / RUNNING10073 / ADAPTED
Interactive Globev0.3 / LAB
LIS TBS BKKCONSTRAINTS / LIVE
THE PROBLEM WE ADDRESSCan discovery stay inspiring while respecting real constraints?
01Modelled business scenarioCompany and figures are fictional
02Working mechanismInteractive Globe
03Modelled outcomeFor commercial orientation

MODELLED BUSINESS SCENARIO

Turn inspiration into a trip someone is ready to book.

BUDGET$36,000 media / monthPERIOD12-week model
01+32%Membership starts
0238% → 59%Trip-board completion
03$112 → $79Member CPA

Modelled for mood-first discovery and constraint-aware recommendations.

BUSINESS MODEL

What is sold and where the problem starts.

01SCALETravel membership start-up
02MARKETUnited Kingdom and Ireland
03PRODUCTCurated trips and member pricing
04REVENUE MODELAnnual membership and booking commission
TASK

Turn travel inspiration into completed trip plans and paid memberships.

STARTING POINT

Beautiful destination content generated saves but little intent; the membership value appeared only after a long generic page.

TARGET

Keep member CPA below $85 and raise trip-board completion above 55%.

THE EXPERIMENT STORY

People saved destinations. They did not choose the trip they could buy.

This narrative uses a modelled scenario. The company, budget and outcomes are fictional; the diagnostic and operating logic show how a real engagement would unfold.
  1. 01
    01 / THE BRIEF

    The first symptom was not inside the ad account.

    Beautiful city films collected saves and comments, then opened a long membership page with no dates, budget or party in sight. Inspiration was abundant; the next decision was missing.

    Travel membership start-up was selling curated trips and member pricing across United Kingdom and Ireland. The model was annual membership and booking commission. On the surface, the brief sounded direct: Turn travel inspiration into completed trip plans and paid memberships.

    MODEL
    Annual membership and booking commission
  2. 02
    02 / WEEK ONE

    Inspiration without action

    Beautiful destination content generated saves but little intent; the membership value appeared only after a long generic page. The trap was that isolated metrics still looked acceptable: Inspiration CTR was 0.93%, trip-board cpc was $2.18, and member cpa was $112.

    Destination posts earned engagement but gave no next decision. That changed the diagnosis. The issue was not one toggle inside an ad account; it was what the system counted as success and which signal reached the team. The work had to connect media to the outcome that actually created business value.

    Member CPA
    $112 → <$85
  3. 03
    03 / THE TURN

    Ask how the next four days should feel, assemble a real trip and reveal membership value inside that choice.

    The first decision was “Mood first.” Ask for mood, dates, party and budget before showing a destination list. It was followed by “Build a trip”: Turn inspiration into a saveable board with flights, stay and member saving.

    Attached every creative to one constraint-aware trip starter. Once the measurement logic was shared, the team could see what to stop, what needed a different message, and where the real constraint sat in the page, lead handling or product availability rather than traffic.

    FIRST DECISION
    Mood first
  4. 04
    04 / THE BUILD

    Don't pick a country. Pick how you want the next four days to feel.

    Don't pick a country. Pick how you want the next four days to feel. The production plan became 12 mood films, 30 destination statics, a trip-board builder and member-savings modules. The tests were not about abstract taste; they covered mood, flight time, total budget, weather, crowd level and member-only saving.

    The journey was assembled as one chain: Mood film → Trip board → Member saving → Membership and booking. Meta, TikTok, Google Search, Pinterest no longer lived in separate reports, while GA4, PostHog, Travel APIs, CRM, Email automation connected spend, behaviour and the final outcome. Calculated member saving on the user's actual board before checkout.

    SYSTEM
    4 channels · 5 tools
  5. 05
    05 / THE DECISION

    Travel inspiration converts when it becomes a concrete plan the user can keep, compare and afford.

    In the model, inspiration ctr moved from 0.93% to 1.67%, member cpa from $112 to $79, and membership starts reached +32%. These are not promises; they make the decision thresholds explicit before real data enters the system.

    Weeks 10–12: Optimize to member and booking value. The main conclusion reached beyond a single campaign. Inspiration converted when it became a concrete, affordable trip the user could keep and compare. That is the logic a real engagement would retain, using the client's actual evidence, constraints and accountable decision makers.

    Membership starts
    +32%

KPI / CTR / CPC / CPA

Not one vanity percentage. The full metric chain.

Every figure in this section is modelled to demonstrate the scenario economics.
01Inspiration CTR
BEFORE
0.93%
TARGET
1.45%
MODEL
1.67%

Destination desire

02Trip-board CPC
BEFORE
$2.18
TARGET
<$1.70
MODEL
$1.48

Cost of planning intent

03Member CPA
BEFORE
$112
TARGET
<$85
MODEL
$79

Subscription acquisition

04Trip-board completion
BEFORE
38%
TARGET
>55%
MODEL
59%

Intent depth

05Membership starts
BEFORE
Base
TARGET
+25%
MODEL
+32%

Paid growth

STRATEGY

Four decisions that change the economics.

  1. 01
    Mood first

    Ask for mood, dates, party and budget before showing a destination list.

  2. 02
    Build a trip

    Turn inspiration into a saveable board with flights, stay and member saving.

  3. 03
    Reveal membership

    Show the exact saving and benefit inside the chosen trip.

  4. 04
    Optimize to intent

    Use completed boards and booking starts as value signals.

CREATIVE IDEA

Don't pick a country. Pick how you want the next four days to feel.

PRODUCTION

12 mood films, 30 destination statics, a trip-board builder and member-savings modules.

WHAT WE TEST

Mood, flight time, total budget, weather, crowd level and member-only saving.

PATH TO OUTCOME

  1. 01Mood film
  2. 02Trip board
  3. 03Member saving
  4. 04Membership and booking

WHAT DID NOT GO TO PLAN

Problems are part of the work. So are the fixes.

01

Inspiration without action

PROBLEM

Destination posts earned engagement but gave no next decision.

FIX

Attached every creative to one constraint-aware trip starter.

02

Abstract membership

PROBLEM

Annual benefits felt theoretical before a trip existed.

FIX

Calculated member saving on the user's actual board before checkout.

OPERATING CADENCE

What happens while the project runs.

  1. 01Weeks 1–2

    Research travel decisions and constraints.

  2. 02Weeks 3–5

    Build trip board and mood creative.

  3. 03Weeks 6–9

    Launch destination journeys.

  4. 04Weeks 10–12

    Optimize to member and booking value.

MAIN TAKEAWAY

Inspiration converted when it became a concrete, affordable trip the user could keep and compare.

This demonstrates how we think — it does not fabricate a case study.

This is not a client result; the numbers are sample data. For your project, we adapt the solution, tools and measurement to the task and budget.

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