Policy

Building a travel policy engine that actually scales

Lena Kowalski

March 15, 2026 · 5 min read

Travel policies that work share three traits: they’re simple, they’re enforced at the right moment, and they leave room for exceptions.

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Lena Kowalski

Writes about corporate travel, finance, and the modern workplace.

4.6 / 5 from 88 readers

Rohan Mehta 3 days ago

This matches what we saw last quarter. The credit-shell leakage alone was eye-opening for our finance team.
- Aarav Shah 2 days ago
  
  Glad it landed, Rohan. We’re publishing the credit-shell deep-dive next week.
Sara Khan 5 days ago

The “better defaults beat more rules” line should be on every CFO’s wall.
James O’Connor 1 week ago

Would love to see hard numbers on the manual reconciliation hours saved after switching.
Priya Menon 1 week ago

We cut reconciliation by 70% in the first quarter. Happy to share details if useful.