About WanderBids

A real choice of vetted agencies for the trips that matter

Family reunions, friends’ trips, honeymoons: the trips with the most moving parts are the hardest to shop for. WanderBids introduces you to vetted agencies, sends your brief to up to three of them and lays their proposals side by side, so you can choose.

Our mission

Give every traveler planning a complex trip a real choice of vetted, licensed or accredited agencies, without the noise, and give good agencies a fair shot at the trips they plan best.

Why we started

Planning a big trip usually means chasing several agencies, then trying to compare quotes that arrive as PDFs, emails and chat messages, each with different inclusions, hotels and terms. A firm price can take days, and it’s hard to tell which agency to trust. Groups make it harder still: someone has to gather everyone’s preferences.

Agencies have the mirror-image problem. They spend hours on custom quotes that often go nowhere, and many pay for leads whether or not anyone books.

Why now

Many travelers now start planning with AI, but a complex trip still needs an accountable person to price it, book it and look after it: a travel agency. AI can now do the slow parts: organizing a brief, helping agencies draft from their own rates and lining proposals up side by side. That makes tailored proposals faster for agencies to prepare and easier for you to compare. People stay in charge of what matters: agencies set every price, and you choose.

How WanderBids is designed

A real choice, without the noise.

At most three agencies per trip.

Fit, not price alone.

Proposals are compared on how well they match your brief.

Complete proposals.

Full itineraries with terms, which you can compare like for like.

People in charge of AI.

Claude does the legwork. People choose the agencies, and agencies set and sign off every price.

Fair on both sides.

Travelers pay nothing to WanderBids; agencies set their own prices. On our planned agency plans, agencies pay a success fee only when they win a booking.

One route at a time.

A route opens fully only when at least three vetted agencies are ready to quote it.

Who’s behind WanderBids

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The team

Ace Centeno

Co-founder and CTO

Ace has spent more than 13 years leading IT and information security in Singapore and is an ISO 27001 Lead Internal Auditor. He leads WanderBids’ technology, security and AI. A Filipino who has lived in Singapore for 15 years, he knows two of our launch markets first-hand.

Two ways to start

Travelers

Tell us about your trip and ask up to three vetted agencies for tailored proposals.

Travel agencies

Quote on qualified trips, with no lead fees.