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Vancouver-based TravelAI acquired the Sonder brand and intellectual property — but none of its properties — and relaunched Sonder.com as an AI-powered guide to urban stays, following the original Sonder's Marriott licensing termination and November 2025 bankruptcy. In a Hotel Dive interview published Aug. 4, 2026, co-founder and CEO John Lyotier declined to disclose the price, citing "residual traffic and residual brand value" built on what he said was $84 million of sales and marketing spend reported in 2024. He targets up to $100 million in gross booking value on the brand within 12 months and payback "measured in months, not years." TravelAI is also building what Lyotier calls memory infrastructure, including a project called traveler.md that lets travelers plug personal preferences into Claude, ChatGPT and other agents; it is integrated into Sonder.com.

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