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Notes from the road.

Stories from real trips, product updates, and a few notes on what we're learning building Kindiro.

A glowing teal USB-C connector floating above a dark surface, cables converging on it from several directions

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The Kindiro MCP: run your trip by just asking Claude

Connect Kindiro to an AI assistant like Claude and just ask — what's my balance, add this dinner, who pays who? You can even snap a photo of a receipt and have it logged for you.

Eric
A world map of the continents assembled from hundreds of mixed gold, copper, and silver coins on a pale grey surface

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Splitting a trip across currencies — and why we never convert

Most splitting apps convert every foreign expense to your home currency at an invented rate, and that rate is a quiet lie. Why Kindiro keeps one ledger per currency instead.

Eric
A smartphone calculator showing the result 26.6666667 next to a small pile of euro coins on a wooden table

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How to split trip expenses fairly when not everyone goes to everything

Equal splits work until someone skips the boat trip. A guide to the four ways to split — equal, shares, exact, percentage — and when each is fair.

Eric
A small group of friends walking along a Hebridean shoreline under heavy clouds

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Why did we create Kindiro?

Eleven friends, a long weekend on Islay two weeks away, and a shared spreadsheet that's already broken. The pre-trip mess that pushed us to build Kindiro.

Eric