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The decision intelligence layer for smarter flying.

Where travel comes together.

Seed investment · $1.5M · ~24 months runway

AERLYN LLC · Qatar Financial Centre · Licence 05396
September 2026

The problem

Travelers know what a flight costs.
They rarely know the smartest way to pay.

Loyalty programmes, fares and traveller flexibility live in separate systems.

CASH FARE$318 – $1,240
AWARD MILES15,000 – 85,000 pts
CASH + MILESBlended options
WAIT?Fare trends & campaigns
AERLYN BRINGS THEM INTO ONE DECISION

Miles expire unused

~40,000 unused miles per traveller each year; programme breakage runs 10–20% annually.

Redemption is expert work

Transfer-partner mechanics, award-chart math and constant availability checks. Most never learn it.

Value is invisible

Premium awards and mispriced fares appear and vanish within hours.

The region is unserved

Deal platforms target Western audiences. The GCC, Africa and Turkic corridors are ignored.

The Smart Recommendation Engine

Same engine. Different answer.

Award, cash and hybrid ranked together against what each member actually holds — with a plain-language reason and a buy-or-wait call.

Sara

Doha · Qatar
PAY CASH
RouteDOH → LHR
Flexibility±5 days
CabinEconomy
Miles&Smiles38,000
Avios12,000
Dates14–19 Oct

AERLYN recommends

Turkish Airlines · $318

67% below the typical DOH → LHR fare of $970
  • Cash fare is exceptionally strong — a rare pricing window
  • Redeeming 45,000 M&S here buys poor value per mile
  • Preserves 38,000 miles for a higher-value future redemption
  • ±5 days flexibility unlocked this date
Award45,000 M&S + $920.5¢/pt · poor value
Cash fare$742Qatar Airways · not recommended
Blended22,000 M&S + $2850.6¢/pt · below average

"Sometimes the smartest use of miles is not using them."

Emre

Istanbul · Turkey
USE MILES
RouteIST → AMS
Flexibility±14 days
CabinEconomy
Miles&Smiles48,000
Avios6,000
Value2.1¢/pt

AERLYN recommends

Turkish Airlines · 15,000 M&S

Saves $312 cash · 2.1¢/pt value · strong redemption
  • ±14 day flexibility exposed a rare low-mile award date
  • 15,000 M&S is 60% below the typical 40,000 for IST → AMS
  • Miles redeemed at 2.1¢/pt — well above the 1.0¢ threshold
  • Cash fare of $312 makes this award exceptionally efficient

Miles balance · after this trip

48,000 → 33,000−15,000 miles spent

"The same engine. A completely different answer."

PAY CASH

Cash beats the member's miles on value.

USE MILES

Award clears the value-per-mile threshold.

TOP UP

Part miles, part cash — the engine shows the math.

WAIT

Price history says a better window is likely.

Product demo

See the verdict in motion.

Decision intelligence · not just search

Sara pays $318. Emre redeems 15,000 miles.
Same engine. Same intelligence. Different answer.

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Consumer Subscription

Individual travellers. Premium decision intelligence.

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Structured Intent

Verified, actionable demand signals — not clicks.

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Decision Data

Compounds with every verdict. Cash, miles, context.

THE DEAL FEED IS TEMPORARY. THE DECISION DATA COMPOUNDS.

Value tiers

Every opportunity clears two gates.

A percentage below baseline and an absolute saving. Baseline is the rolling median per route, airline, cabin and booking window.

TierThresholdAccessFrequency
Deal≥25% · ≥$50Free~14×/day
Flash Deal≥40% · ≥$100Free1–3×/day
Phantom Fare≥40% · ≥$150Premium1–2×/week
◉ AERLYN ALERT

Phantom Fare
Detected

Classification
Rare pricing anomaly
Verified
Moments ago
Duration
May disappear quickly
AERLYN watches. The opportunity comes to the traveler.

Market

A large idle asset class — and the revenue it makes addressable.

$302.6B

Global travel loyalty market

~$100B

Earned but never redeemed

500M+

Frequent-flyer members globally

10–20%

Of points expire unredeemed annually

TAM $4.0B~40M frequent international flyers across ME, Africa & Turkic corridors × $100/yr
SAM $1.2BWaves 1–3 share
SOM $1.7MYear 3 revenue on plan — 0.14% of SAM

The corridor nobody serves

Own the corridor first. Expand from strength.

92M

Dubai annual passengers — world's #1 international airport

+24%

East Africa seat growth

+500%

Central Asia 20-year capacity growth

$300+

Typical Africa opportunity saving

Cash only
Award only
Cash + award, one verdict
NA / Europe origins
Going · Jack's Flight Club · Dollar Flight Club
Point.me · Seats.aero · PointsYeah · AwardFares · Roame
— empty —
MENAT + Central Asia
Wego · Almosafer · Cleartrip (display only)
— empty —
AERLYN

Deal detection is how we acquire the member and build the panel. The redemption verdict is the product.

Expansion

Five waves. Each one adds, none replaces.

WaveTimingRegionPrimary airportsRoutes
Wave 1 · liveM1–M3Middle East + TürkiyeIST DXB AUH RUH JED DOH CAI60–80
Wave 2M3–M5AfricaADD NBO LOS CMN JNB100–140
Wave 3M5–M7Turkic / Central AsiaGYD TAS ALA NQZ FRU130–180
Wave 4M7–M10EuropeLHR AMS FRA CDG FCO MAD180–250
Wave 5M10–M14Americas + AustraliaJFK MIA GRU EZE SYD220–310

Traction

Already built, already running.

Not a concept raise. The brand, the entity and the content engine exist today.

LIVEInstagram content engine posting daily across value tiers
LIVELanding page with email capture at goaerlyn.com
DONEQFC incorporation — licence 05396, non-regulated
DONEDiscovery and scoring methodology documented and versioned
BUILTBrand system: two registers, post templates, full asset kit
BUILTDual-currency baseline and verification pipeline across Wave 1

The ask

$1.5M seed.

SAFE or priced round — open to discussion. Approximately 24 months of runway.

Product & engineering 45%

Data & integrations 20%

Go-to-market 20%

Compliance & operations 10%

Contingency 5%

Milestones funded

  • MVP live in Wave 1 with the engine in production
  • First 500 paying members at target churn
  • First airline campaign contract signed
  • Phantom tier validated as the conversion lever

Why now

  • Entity incorporated and licensed — able to contract today
  • Content engine and landing page already live
  • Regional corridor structurally underserved
  • Award-search infrastructure now API-available

Team

Who is building this.

Suheyla Ikiz

Founder & Chief Executive

Two decades in enterprise IT, cybersecurity and business development across the GCC and Europe — the go-to-market motion the Campaign Engine depends on.

B.S. & M.Sc. Information Systems · METU

Görkem B.

Co-founder & CTO

Senior Data Scientist in GPU-accelerated analytics, cybersecurity and generative AI. Owns the discovery engine, recommendation layer and platform build.

B.S. & M.S. Engineering · Boğaziçi University

Stefan R.

Data & Pricing Analyst · contract

OTA pricing validation and anomaly verification. Built and maintains the dual-currency baseline model and QA pipeline behind every priced fare.

Investor deck

Let's build the decision intelligence layer for smarter flying.

Full deck with financials, unit economics and risk ledger — for qualified investors.

Or write to hello@goaerlyn.com