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PointPursuit is a personalized travel-rewards engine for people with 200,000+ transferable points who are tired of generic blogs, churning forums, and reading three articles to answer one question.
One quiet email a week. One clear recommendation. Backed by your actual balances, your actual trip wishes, and the one or two sweet spots that genuinely matter for you right now.
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One email. One number that matters. One thing to do.
No round-up of 12 deals. No table of contents. Just the single best move for the trip you’re actually planning, with the math we used to get there — so you can trust it or override it in 30 seconds.
- Subject line tells you the dollars saved.
- Top pick names the program, not just a deal.
- Other candidates the engine considered, with cents-per-point.
- Score breakdown so you know why we picked it.
Hi Alice, (writing from your San Francisco base)
For your trip to Tokyo (Mar 14–22).
Top pick: ANA via Asia Miles
90,000 points · ~$4,260 value · 4.73¢ cpp
Feasible — your Citi ThankYou balance covers the transfer to Asia Miles with 8k to spare.
ANA’s award space on the SFO–HND nonstop is wide open the week of Mar 14, and Asia Miles is the only program where round-trip biz lands at 90k. Chase portal is the worst tool for this job — you’d be paying $4,260 cash-equivalent for a seat you can book for 90k points.
Score 87/100|value 94 · feasibility 88 · fit 79
Other candidates we scored
- Virgin Atlantic to ANA business — 95,000 pts, ~$4,260, 4.48¢ cpp
- United Polaris (saver) — 121,000 pts, ~$4,260, 3.52¢ cpp
- Cash-and-points hybrid (Hyatt + Asia Miles) — 84,000 pts + $410, ~$3,950, 4.21¢ cpp
You have the points. You don't have the time.
Most premium cardholders sit on hundreds of thousands of points and never use them well. Not because they're lazy — because the information ecosystem is hostile to a clean answer.
Blogs optimize for SEO. Forums optimize for argument. Card portals optimize for redemption fees. Nobody is optimizing for the question you actually have on a Sunday night: what should I do with what I have, for the trip I'm planning?
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Your point balances across major programs, your card lineup, your travel preferences, and the trips you’re actually thinking about. Once. Not on every visit.
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A small, hand-curated set of authoritative writers and program announcements. Transfer bonuses, devaluations, new sweet spots. We read it so you don’t.
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Headline
Burn 90k Asia Miles for ANA business class round-trip; you’d spend $4,260 routing through the Chase portal.
Top pick
ANA via Asia Miles
ANA’s award space on the SFO–HND nonstop is wide open the week of Mar 14. Asia Miles is the only program where round-trip biz lands at 90k.
- Burn
- Asia Miles ← Citi TY
- Points
- 90,000
- Value (USD)
- $4,260
- cpp
- 4.73¢
Other options the engine considered
- Virgin Atlantic to ANA business95,000 pts · 4.48¢
Same plane, slightly worse cpp; book directly via Asia Miles.
- United Polaris (saver)121,000 pts · 3.52¢
More points for the same seat. Skip unless Polaris+ availability.
- Hybrid: Hyatt nights + Asia Miles flight84,000 pts + $410 · 4.21¢
Lower point spend but adds cash; only useful if you’re short on TY.
Every option on the table — not just the one we picked.
Click through from the email and you’ll see exactly why the engine made its call: the candidates it scored, the cents-per-point on each, the feasibility check against your real balances, and the reason codes the model used.
If you disagree, the data is right there to disagree with. No recommendation is presented as an opinion — every one is a number you can re-run.
- Feasibility: yes/no against your live balances and transfers.
- Score: composite of value, feasibility, and fit (0–100).
- Reason codes: the levers the model pulled.
- Re-run anytime: the engine reflects today’s sweet spots.
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Your trips, balances, transfer bonuses, and devaluations get scored. Candidates are ranked. Feasibility is checked. The best one is selected.
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