A Living Globe of what's happening right now. Captured by real locals on the ground, the moment it happens. No retakes. No edits. No filters.
FRiNGE02 / 17 · Problem
The problem
Locals and tourists are talking past each other.
Three sides of the travel economy each missing the others. and a $XXB market sitting in the gap.
Tourist content, no local depth
Travel guides are written by visitors passing through. They miss the rhythm, the culture, the spots that only people who actually live there know. and by the time they print, the bar has closed.
Locals can't reach tourists
Communities miss real economic upside because they lack the tools, distribution, and onramp to share their world with visitors at the moment a tourist is deciding where to go.
Tourism boards flying blind
Destinations spend billions promoting places without real ground level signal. Local intelligence never reaches the campaigns that need it most. so the dollars chase yesterday's photo.
When you're standing in Boracay tonight, you ask the hostel desk or your taxi driver. The answer lives in human networks. No product bridges all three sides.
FRiNGE03 / 17 · Solution
The solution
Meet your Local Bestie.
FRiNGE trains and pays local insiders to capture authentic, 1 take HD video guides of their home. for tourists visiting AND locals living there. Automated geotagging, automated subtitles, automated upload. The local bestie speaks to both worlds.
"Not just a local telling tourists where to go. A bridge between two communities. sharing the vibe both ways."
How it works
01Local bestie records a 1 take HD video on their phone
03Content instantly shared with tourists, locals & tourism boards
04Bestie gathers tourist feedback to enhance the experience
05Traveler follows, tips, joins FRiNGE & books a trip
Boracay local bestie
Jannah 🤙
155 vibes lifetime
FRiNGE04 / 17 · Insight
The insight
Where local culture meets tourist experience.
FRiNGE doesn't choose sides.
Locals share the vibe.
Travelers discover it.
Tourism boards amplify it.
The local bestie is trained to understand what travelers want to experience AND to share what the community is proud of. bridging both worlds authentically.
Trained & paid locals
Besties are onboarded and trained in both local knowledge and tourist experience. quality and depth built in.
1 take authentic HD
No edits. No filters. Honest, high quality video that serves both audiences with equal respect.
Two way community
Besties engage travelers to understand their experience and feed those insights back to the local community and tourism boards.
Follow your bestie
Travelers and locals alike build a relationship with the bestie. follow, tip, subscribe, and book through them.
FRiNGE05 / 17 · Product & tech
Product & technology
Built to get out of the way of the story.
Automation stack · today
Crossfade camera transition · industry first
AVMultiCamSession runs both cameras simultaneously for a capture time crossfade no other app has built for storytelling.
Automated geotagging
Every video pinned to the exact location at capture. The geoarchive builds itself.
CC
Automated subtitles & translation
Speech to text + multi language translation applied automatically. Zero friction across languages.
Automated upload pipeline
1 take, processed and published instantly. Zero post production. Zero editing.
Roadmap · AI Vision & Prompt Discovery
Crossfade demo · real vibe
Jannah · Boracay
AI Vision + Prompt Discovery
Every video feeds AI vision LLMs. building a proprietary geodataset. Prompt UX coming: "Find me a quiet beach bar tonight in Boracay."
Every surface below is on production right now. Tap a card to open the real screen on fringe.travel. the URLs are not mockups, they're the product Jannah & Djila are shipping into.
The travel economy is enormous. Tourists are everywhere. Creators are everywhere. Yet no one is bridging the moment a tourist is on the ground with the locals who actually know what's happening. That's our wedge.
$1.9T
Global travel market (2024)
1.4B+
International tourists annually
4.8B
Active social media users worldwide
$8.8B
Travel content & influencer market
FRiNGE08 / 17 · Platform vision
Platform vision
Travel is just the beginning.
FRiNGE's geocontent infrastructure is purpose built for any vertical where local, on the ground video insight creates value. Travel unlocks the platform. These verticals scale it.
Local News
Citizen journalism at the neighborhood level
Trained local besties report community news, local events, planning decisions, and regional stories that national and digital media never reach. FRiNGE becomes the infrastructure for hyperlocal journalism. geotagged, timestamped, and searchable.
· Council decisions & local politics
· Community events & celebrations
· Emergency & safety reporting
· Cultural stories mainstream media misses
Real Estate
The neighborhood walk through, reimagined
Buyers and renters want to know what a street, block, or suburb actually feels like. not just square footage and photos. FRiNGE besties provide authentic neighborhood context that no listing platform can replicate.
· Street level neighborhood tours
· Morning vs. evening vibe reports
· Local amenities & lifestyle context
· School zones, parks, commute realities
Youth Sports
Bringing families closer to the game
Parents, grandparents, and supporters who can't make it to a game get authentic 1 take sideline coverage from local besties. geotagged to the field, subtitled, and instantly shareable. A massive underserved content vertical.
· Sideline game coverage
· Post match player highlights
· Tournament & league updates
· Club culture & team stories
FRiNGE09 / 17 · Traction
Traction
Building and testing in Boracay.
Velocity is the proof. Every milestone below shipped to production while Jannah and Djila were on the ground capturing real content.
Apr 2026v1.0 launched on App Store. Boracay first strategy
Apr to May5 rapid updates: stability, quality, HD upload pipeline
May 2026Sponsored spots & branded vibe content shipped
May 2026Zone / neighborhood support for urban destination expansion
Jun 2026Vibe Requests & P2P Tipping launched on fringe.travel
We're proving daily active habit in one place. Boracay, Philippines. before we replicate the playbook. Two local besties on the ground, a published 5 day schedule, a real audience of tourists checking before they go out tonight.
2
Local besties (Jannah · Djila)
5 to 7
Scheduled vibes / day
300
DAU target · 60 days
When Boracay proves the wedge, the playbook (one bestie, one guide, one daily rhythm) ports to Bali, Lisbon, Tulum, Hood River. anywhere a real person can make a living capturing 5 vibes a day.
FRiNGE11 / 17 · Real numbers
Real numbers · captured this week
Real content, real vibers, real regions.
3,575
Vibes captured lifetime
81K+
Video views
15+
Regions actively producing
96
Onboarded vibers
FRiNGE12 / 17 · Business model
Business model
4 Revenue Streams.
01 Memberships
Travelers become members to support their local bestie. gain access to premium content, deeper guides, and discounts with partners.
02 Sponsorships
Venues, tourism boards, and destination brands pay to sponsor spots covered by locals. Already shipped. logo watermarks embedded in videos from sponsored locations.
03 P2P Payments
Already shipped. users tip and directly pay their local bestie for the vibes they share.
04 Travel Bookings
FRiNGE earns commission on travel bookings made through local bestie referrals. tours, stays, experiences.
FRiNGE13 / 17 · Competition
Competitive landscape
No one bridges local & tourist.
Platform
Local Creators
Tourist Experience
HD Video
Tourism Boards
Monetises Locals
FRiNGE
✓
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Atmosfy
Partial
✓
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Partial
Lonely Planet
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✓
Partial
Partial
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TripAdvisor
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✓
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Partial
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Instagram
Partial
Partial
✓
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Partial
Google Maps
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✓
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Unlike Atmosfy and others, FRiNGE trains and pays local creators. not tourists. to serve both the local community and the tourist experience, with tourism boards as active partners.
FRiNGE14 / 17 · Team
The team
Built by people who've done it before.
Brian Gallagher
Founder & CEO
· SDSU EE · Electrical & Electronics Engineering
· Andromeda Interfaces · Cofounder (Acquired). 10 years building HMI products; successful exit
· Illumina · HMI Automation Engineer. boosted DNA synthesis ops through advanced robotics interfaces
· Aptera Motors · Senior HMI Engineer 4+ yrs. engineered electric vehicle dashboards and control systems
· P3 Consulting · HMI Consultant, Aachen & Stuttgart. automotive HMI for European OEMs
Jonathan McAllister
Cofounder & CTO
· USC BSEE · Digital Signal Processing
· Salesforce / Heroku · Senior Manager, Language Runtimes. led global team of principal engineers across 7 languages, tens of thousands of devs
· VP Engineering · Blast / ATM.com. AWS event driven fintech platform; real time equity & ledger systems
· AI First Pioneer · COSTAR/RTF frameworks; CrewAI orchestration; ~500% dev velocity gains
· Early Career · Director of Engineering YellowPages.com · QA roots at Napster
Backed by a network of 96 vibers shipping content across 15+ regions · Boracay, Rio, Indianapolis, Tokyo, Shonan Enoshima, Orange County, Maui, and more · $310K+ self funded
FRiNGE15 / 17 · Roadmap
Roadmap
From Boracay to the world.
Phase 1
Now to Q3 2026
→ Scale local bestie program
→ Launch creator rewards
→ Vibe requests & P2P tipping shipped ✓
→ Android launch
Phase 2
Q4 2026 to Q1 2027
→ 5 new destination regions
→ Tourism board partnerships
→ Travel booking integrations
→ Brand sponsorship scale
Phase 3
2027+
→ Global geoarchive rollout
→ 10M+ registered users
→ Bestie network in 50 cities
→ Series B readiness
FRiNGE16 / 17 · The ask
The ask
Seed Round.
$1.5M
Raising
$6M
Pre Money Valuation
20%
Equity Offered
We're raising to scale the local bestie network, expand to new destinations, and build the platform infrastructure to take FRiNGE global.
Product & Engineering
40%
Creator & Bestie Program
30%
Destination Expansion
20%
Operations & Legal
10%
FRiNGE17 / 17 · Thank you
Thank you
Travel, as it's actually happening.
The bridge between local culture and the tourist experience.
Shipped. Growing. Ready to scale.
