Qurett: AI Hotel Summary & Smart Inquiry Assistant

Qurett is an AI-powered Chrome extension that lets users access Google-verified hotel insights — ratings, reviews, directions, booking, and direct inquiry options — all in one click on any hotel page

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✨ Inspiration

Finding accurate hotel insights online is often messy — multiple tabs, unreliable data, and repetitive searching. We wanted to make it effortless for travelers to get trusted information and take quick action without leaving the page.

💡 What it does

Qurett is an AI-powered Chrome extension that lets users access Google-verified hotel insights — ratings, reviews, directions, website, shortlist, compare, booking, and inquiry options — all in one click from any hotel listing page.
It also uses on-device AI (Gemini Nano) to:

  • Summarize hotel highlights in under 300 characters for quick understanding.
  • Auto-draft professional inquiry emails using the Writer API.
  • Work securely and locally, without sending user data to the cloud.

🛠️ How we built it

We built Qurett using:

  • Chrome Extension APIs for tab detection, scripting, and UI overlays.
  • Google Places API (new) to fetch verified hotel data including ratings, photos, website, phone etc.
  • Gemini Nano APIs — Summarizer and Writer — for local, on-device AI capabilities.
  • A minimal HTML/CSS/JS front-end for seamless pop-up UI.
  • Fallback logic for AI calls to ensure reliability even when local APIs aren’t active.

⚙️ Challenges we ran into

  • Understanding how to balance cloud-based APIs (Google Places) with local AI (Gemini Nano).
  • Managing text truncation and keeping summaries readable within limited popup space.
  • Debugging the Chrome AI APIs, which are still in developer-preview, and aligning them with extension code

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Built a fully functional, on-device AI integration inside a Chrome extension.
  • Achieved one-click access to all Google hotel insights — verified and actionable.
  • Created a consistent and stable UI after multiple refinement iterations.
  • Delivered a privacy-safe user experience powered by local AI summarization.

📚 What we learned

  • How to architect extensions that combine real-time API data and AI logic efficiently.
  • The value of designing for clarity — users appreciate speed, not just intelligence.

🚀 What's next for Qurett: AI Hotel Summary & Smart Inquiry Assistant

Next, we plan to:

  • Add AI-driven recommendation based on shortlists.
  • Introduce voice-based inquiry drafting using Gemini Nano’s prompt APIs.
  • Extend the same logic to other verticals (restaurants, experiences) — making Qurett a universal “Smart Info Layer” for travel.

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