The diagnostic
A fixed-scope engagement: we analyse your booking and payment flows end to end — online, offline, and leased — quantify the fraction of travel spend that bypasses budget approval, and design the control model that closes it. You are paying for findings, not for a sales process; the findings are yours whether or not you proceed.
What you get
- A quantified unmanaged fraction. How much travel activity bypasses approval today, and where it enters — the number your organisation has never measured.
- A flow map of every booking and payment path: booking tools, phone, email, operations desks, and the leased and chartered capacity that current reports value at zero.
- A control-model design. Where the budget-approval chokepoint belongs in your flows, what enforcing it requires, and how policy governs the travel your current tools cannot see.
- An implementation path, if you choose to take it — grounded in what has already been run in production, not a proposal deck.
How long does it take?
It depends on your requirements, and on how quickly your organisation can give access to the flows we need to see. We have implemented comparable controls in production quickly; in our experience the pace is set by the organisation, not by the analysis. We would rather do what is needed than pretend it is simple.
Why UnityTrip
This diagnostic is drawn from production, not theory. UnityTrip runs booking, approvals, and expense claims for a multinational LNG producer — 30,000+ passenger movements and 4,000+ approved expense claims a month — where travel previously considered too complex to automate now runs as policy-governed workflow. The measured results are published in our benchmarks and the deployment story in the case study.
Common questions
What is the Travel Spend Diagnostic?
A fixed-scope engagement: UnityTrip analyses your booking and payment flows end to end, quantifies the fraction of travel activity that bypasses budget approval, and delivers a control-model design that closes it. You keep the findings whether or not you proceed to the platform.
How long does the diagnostic take?
It depends on your requirements and on how quickly your organisation can give access to the flows that need to be seen. We have implemented comparable controls in production quickly; in practice the pace is set by the organisation, not by the analysis. We would rather do what is needed than pretend it is simple.
Why does so much travel spend go unmanaged?
Travel booked offline — by phone, by email, through an operations team — never touches a booking tool, so it never triggers budget approval. And managed-spend reports typically value leased travel at zero, because a leased seat has no fare: it appears in no spend report until the service fails. At a multinational LNG producer, roughly 80% of travel logistics ran outside managed workflow before it was brought under policy governance.
What happens after the diagnostic?
The findings are yours either way. If you proceed, the control-model design becomes platform configuration — UnityTrip onboarding is configuration, not a migration project.