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Agentic resource scheduling for tour operators.

LightningRes is a deterministic, agent-native booking engine for scheduled, limited-capacity trips. It is built so AI assistants can sell your seats while every booking follows your capacity, your prices and your rules.

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LightningRes: Agentic Resource Scheduling Engine. A deterministic, agent-native solution for tour operators.

Built for the way scheduled tours really run

LightningRes is a reservation and booking system for day boats to the reef, overnight liveaboards, day bus tours with hotel pickups and scenic flights in fixed time slots. Here is what it is built to do.

  • One inventory, every channel

    Your booking page, phone bookings with payment links, an agent portal for tour desks and wholesalers, marketplaces and distributors through one partner API (OCTO standard), and AI assistants all draw from the same seats. It is built so the last seat can never be sold twice.

  • Built for boats, buses and cabins

    Shared legs on multi-stop voyages, cabins and berths across nights, dive sessions, hotel pickups and third-party allotments live in one capacity model. Each kind of trip is modelled the way it actually runs, not forced into a generic time slot.

  • Run the day

    Manifests, digital waivers and check-in are designed to work on a moving deck, in bright sun, with one free hand. Crew can see who is booked, who has signed and who is aboard.

  • Every dollar explained

    A daily close is built to reconcile bookings, payments and payouts to a balanced day. Exports to Xero and MYOB mean your bookkeeper starts from numbers that already agree.

  • Measurable from the first booking

    One booking reference follows each guest across every channel, from first click to check-in. Marketing attribution and server-side conversion tracking are designed in, so you can see which spend fills seats.

  • AI that helps, not decides

    Owners will be able to ask questions of their own data in plain English. AI never changes prices or confirms bookings on its own.

    See Ask LightningRes

Run the day. Large targets and high contrast, made for a deck at 6 am.
Every dollar explained. Ready to export to Xero or MYOB.

Ask LightningRes

Ask your business a question. Get an answer you can act on.

Type or say a question on any screen. LightningRes is built to answer from your live bookings, show the numbers behind it, and suggest what to do next. You stay in charge of every decision.

  • Can do now An answer only. Nothing changes.
  • Needs your approval A draft, ready for you to accept.
  • Needs a person A person has to do this part.

A badge describes what happens next, not whether it is available today.

How are bookings looking for the next two weeks compared with this time last year?

Coming

Built to compare passengers and revenue by departure for the next 14 days against the same lead time last year, product by product, and to show the daily series as a chart.

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Sample answer

“20 Oct to 2 Nov is 38% behind last year at the same lead time. Want me to set up a sale for those dates?”

This year Last year, same lead time The next two weeks

Draft sale · not applied

Adults $249 to $212 on 14 dates, your website and phone only.

Built to end by itself on the last date. Nothing changes until you approve it.

Approve sale Needs your approval

Which of our ads actually brought in bookings?

At launch

A post on Instagram or Facebook, or an ad on Google, links to your booking page. LightningRes is built to follow each visitor from that first click through to the booking, and to report bookings and revenue by campaign, by channel and by device.

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Sample answer

“The reef sunset reel brought 64 bookings and $18,400 this month. The Google search ads brought 22. Most people who arrived from Instagram dropped off at choosing a date.”

  1. Ad click
  2. Booking page
  3. Choosing a date
  4. Confirmed

The return on what you spent needs the ad account connected.

Coming
Can do now

Where are we losing people?

At launch

Built to show the booking steps side by side, with the drop-off at each step and how long each step takes.

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Sample answer

“Four in ten visitors leave while picking a date, and that step is the slowest. The payment step is fine.”

  1. Page view100
  2. Date chosen60 · slowest
  3. Guests added55
  4. Checkout51
  5. Payment49
  6. Confirmed47
Can do now

How many certified divers are booked for tomorrow?

At launch

Built to count tomorrow’s divers by certification and dive session across every channel, and to give a list with names, ready for the dive briefing.

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Sample answer

“14 certified divers. 9 on the 08:00, 5 on the 11:00.”

  • A. Nguyen08:00 · Open water
  • J. Taylor08:00 · Advanced
  • K. Patel11:00 · Rescue

The full list of 14 is built for the briefing.

Can do now

Who hasn’t paid for tomorrow?

At launch

Built to list bookings with an outstanding balance, the amount and the channel they came from.

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Sample answer

“Two bookings still have a balance. $429 in all.”

  • M. Rossi · Phone$249
  • P. Singh · Agent$180

Compare today and this month to date with the same time last year, and show me a graph.

Coming

Built to chart this year against last year, day by day, and to explain the difference in plain words: more passengers, a different price, a different mix of products, or more cancellations.

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Sample answer

“Month to date is up 12%. Most of it is the new sunset cruise. Reef day trips are flat.”

This year Last year

If the website tracking changed, or a burst of junk traffic inflated the numbers, it is built to say so instead of reporting a false jump.

Can do now

Why is today’s payout $438 less than yesterday’s card sales?

Coming

Built to trace the payout through card fees, refunds and timing, line by line, tied to the daily close.

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Sample answer

“The $438 is fees, one refund and money held until tomorrow. It ties back to the daily close.”

  • Card sales, yesterday$2,140
  • Today’s payout$1,702
  • Card fees−$62
  • Refund, M. Rossi−$249
  • Held until tomorrow−$127
Can do now

Tell me something about the last seven days I don’t know.

Coming

Built to surface something easy to miss, so a small problem can be fixed before a booking is lost.

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Sample answer

“K. Patel tried to pay four times last night and each one failed. The two seats on Saturday’s reef trip are still held.”

Needs a person

Built to be trusted

These are the rules the assistant is built around.

  • Answers from your real data. Numbers come from your bookings and payments, never from a guess. Every figure is built to be checked a second time against the underlying records before you see it.
  • Your own data is the source of truth. Advertising platforms can receive booking events so their ads can learn, but reports are built to come from LightningRes’s own record of the booking, not from an advertising pixel. A confirmed booking is built to outrank a pixel.
  • You approve every change. It can suggest a sale or draft a message. Nothing is built to change a price or contact a guest until you approve it.
  • It never touches money or capacity. The assistant is built with no ability to take payments, issue refunds, confirm or cancel bookings, or change seats on a departure.
  • It tells you what it can do. Every suggestion is built to say which kind it is, in plain words: “I can do this now”, “I need you to approve this”, or “This needs a person”.
  • Private to your business, and every question is logged. It is built to see only your company’s data, and only to read it. If a question is out of scope, it says so plainly.
  • Tracking is your choice. Connecting advertising accounts is a step you can skip, and nothing about taking bookings depends on it. For operators serving Australia only, advertising consent is off until you turn it on.
  • The booking system never depends on AI. If AI were switched off, bookings, payments and check-in are built to carry on exactly as before.

Built around the way you work

Set up by conversation

Coming

Paste your website address and answer a few questions. LightningRes is built to draft your products, prices and capacity, and to read the advertising tags already on your site so you confirm them instead of typing them. You review each product before anything goes live. The goal is a live booking page in under ten minutes.

Needs your approval

Describe your rules in plain words

“Only 15 divers, and certified divers can do 3 dives.”

LightningRes is built to propose the setup from words like these. You approve it before it applies.

Coming

Once you approve a rule, the booking engine is built to enforce it exactly.

At launch

A weekly summary

Coming

A short written note of anything unusual: cancellations, failed payments, a channel that stopped syncing.

Can do now

Hands-free at check-in

At launch

Dictation is built into every field, so crew can speak instead of typing on a moving deck.

Guests can book through AI assistants

Coming

When travellers plan trips with AI assistants, LightningRes is built to let those assistants check real availability and hand the guest a booking to confirm and pay. The assistant is not built to confirm a booking on its own.

Needs a person

Figures in this section are illustrations of answers LightningRes is built to give. They are not live data, and they are not a promise of results. Dollar amounts are examples, in Australian dollars.

Your guests pay you, directly

We take nothing from your payments and add nothing to your customer’s price.

  • Each operator connects its own Stripe account through Stripe Connect.
  • Guests pay you directly. You are the merchant of record for your tours.
  • LightningRes is never the merchant of record and never holds guest money.
  • You pay Stripe’s published processing rate, to Stripe. Stripe keeps its processing fee on refunded payments.
  • Your LightningRes subscription is billed separately, based on passengers carried. See pricing.

Pay for passengers carried. Every feature included.

One subscription per operator, metered on passengers carried each month. Every feature is included at every volume. Prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST.

Monthly chargeEach rate applies only to passengers within its range.
Passengers in the monthCharge (AUD, ex GST)
First 120$65 monthly minimum
121 to 500$1.20 each
501 to 1,000$1.15 each
1,001 to 3,000$1.10 each
3,001 to 8,000$1.05 each
Above 8,000$1.00 each, or talk to us about an enterprise agreement

Worked example

An operator carries 500 passengers in a month.

  • First 120 passengers$65.00
  • 380 × $1.20$456.00
  • Total$521.00

Plus GST. Cancelled passengers and crew are not counted.

  • Who counts

    A passenger counts if their booking was confirmed at departure time, from any channel. Crew never count.

  • We don’t charge for cancellations

    Passengers on departures you cancel (weather, breakdown, minimum not reached) and passengers who cancel before departure do not count.

  • 90 days free

    No card, no cap.

  • Billed monthly, in arrears

    You pay for passengers actually carried. We tell you the amount three days before your card is charged and send a receipt. No annual contract and no minimum term.

  • Leave any time

    Take a full data export whenever you like. If you stop paying, your account goes dormant: read-only access and full export for 12 months, nothing deleted, one-click reactivation.

  • No surprise price rises

    Prices change only on 30 days’ written notice, from the next billing period. Cancel before then and you pay nothing further.

Now taking early‑access operators

LightningRes is pre-launch. We are working with a small group of Australian operators who run scheduled, limited-capacity trips, and we would like to hear how you take bookings today.

Email us for early access

Or write to hello@lightningres.com with your business name, the trips you run and roughly how many passengers you carry each month.

  • Reef day boatsShared legs, island stopovers and dive add-ons
  • Overnight liveaboardsCabins and berths across nights, dive sessions
  • Day bus toursHotel pickups and third-party allotments
  • Scenic flightsFixed time slots with tight seat limits

Contact and company

LightningRes Pty Ltd is an Australian company based in Queensland, incorporated in October 2026. We build and sell reservation software to tour operators. We do not run tours or sell tours to the public.

Company
LightningRes Pty Ltd
ABN
88 703 055 029
Address
314 Severn Street, Parramatta Park QLD 4870, Australia
Phone
0466 622 375
Email
hello@lightningres.com