{"id":35801,"date":"2026-07-14T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=1d9a8982d14d47b23cab91d6a3306172"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:08:00","slug":"otto-the-agent-adds-car-rental-becoming-the-only-business-travel-ai-that-books-and-services-the-entire-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=35801","title":{"rendered":"Otto The Agent Adds Car Rental, Becoming the Only Business Travel AI That Books and Services the Entire Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nFlights, hotels, and cars in one conversation - with corporate rates, loyalty support, and 24\/7 human agents<\/i><\/p><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Otto The Agent, the AI travel assistant from Expedia, Egencia, and Concur veterans, today announced car rental booking, making Otto<\/a> the only business travel AI that books and services a traveler's entire trip in a single conversation. Flights and hotels have been live since early 2025; car rental completes the trip.<\/p>

\nMost AI travel tools plan. Otto books and services the trip, end to end - starting from your meetings. Tell Otto, \u201cI have a 10am meeting with Microsoft in Redmond on Tuesday,\u201d and it goes to work: finding the meeting address, timing your flight, booking a hotel close by, recognizing you'll need a rental car, and arranging all of it.<\/p>

\nCar rental includes corporate negotiated rates, so companies keep their existing supplier discounts automatically, plus loyalty support so travelers keep earning rewards. Because Otto doesn't just book but also services the trip, travelers can modify, extend, or cancel in the same conversation - with 24\/7 human agents on demand.<\/p>

\nOtto brings the same hyper-personalization to cars as flights and hotels, learning your vehicle class, rental companies, loyalty numbers, and pickup habits, then surfacing the right car first. No re-entering membership numbers. Just the right car, ready to confirm.<\/p>

\n\u201cA business trip is a flight, a hotel, and a car, and until now you had to wrangle all three yourself. Otto now handles the whole trip the way my own EA once did for me - booking it, servicing it, and fixing it when plans change,\u201d <\/i>said Michael Gulmann, CEO and Founder of Otto The Agent.<\/b><\/p>

\nCar rental is live now for all Otto users at no additional cost - across web, mobile, email, Microsoft Teams<\/a>, Slack<\/a>, and AI assistants via MCP<\/a>, including Anthropic's Claude Connectors<\/a> and OpenAI's ChatGPT app<\/a>.<\/p>

\nAbout Otto The Agent<\/b><\/p>

\nOtto The Agent gives every business traveler the experience of a world-class executive assistant. Cofounded in Seattle by CEO Michael Gulmann, former Chief Product Officer of Expedia Group, and CTO CD Wang, Otto is backed by Madrona Ventures and former CEOs of Expedia, Orbitz, and Concur. Learn more at OttoTheAgent.com<\/a>.<\/p> Contacts<\/b>

\nMedia Contact<\/b>Michael Gulmann, CEO & Founder\nOtto The Agent\nmichael@OttoTheAgent.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flights, hotels, and cars in one conversation – with corporate rates, loyalty support, and 24\/7 human agentsSEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Otto The Agent, the AI travel assistant from Expedia, Egencia, and Concur veterans, today announced car rental bookin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-businesswire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35802,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35801\/revisions\/35802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}