Automated Flight Deal Detection Across 50+ Destinations

The Challenge

A travel newsletter startup built its audience by sharing incredible flight deals. Error fares, flash sales, and underpriced routes that most travelers would never find on their own. The problem was finding them. The founder was spending hours every day manually scanning booking sites, comparing prices, and cross-referencing historical averages to spot genuine deals. It was inconsistent, time-consuming, and didn't scale. As the newsletter grew, covering more departure cities and destinations became essential, but doing it manually meant either hiring a team or missing deals. They needed an automated system that could monitor hundreds of routes around the clock and reliably surface only the deals worth sharing.

The Approach

We built an automated monitoring system powered by Clawdbot that continuously tracks flight prices across 50+ departure destinations, each covering hundreds of individual routes. The system pulls fresh pricing data at regular intervals, compares it against historical baselines, and uses anomaly detection to flag routes where the current price is significantly below the norm. Deals are scored by savings percentage and filtered to remove false positives, like prices that look cheap but involve unreasonable layovers or hidden fees. Qualified deals are automatically formatted and delivered to the editorial pipeline, ready for the newsletter.

The Outcome

The system now surfaces 1–2 genuine deals per destination per week, with detected savings ranging from 30–80% compared to typical fares. The founder went from spending hours on manual research to reviewing a curated list of pre-qualified deals each morning. Newsletter content quality improved, publication frequency increased, and the subscriber base grew as readers consistently received deals they couldn't find elsewhere.

Tech Stack

What's Next

We're expanding the system to cover additional departure airports across Europe and adding hotel deal detection to the pipeline. The goal is to enable the newsletter to offer complete travel packages, flight and accommodation, surfaced automatically and ready to publish. We're also exploring personalized deal alerts based on subscriber preferences and travel history.