Sorsha

Editorial briefs for wherever you wander.

Open Sorsha in a place you've just walked into, and it tells you what kind of place it is, what makes it worth your time, and how to move through it like you belong.

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Sorsha app screenshot showing a brief for Botín, a historic restaurant in Madrid

What the place is, and why it's worth your time.

The brief arrives the moment you do, with the practical things above it. This is Botín in Madrid, running since 1725, which makes it the oldest restaurant in the world.

Sorsha app screenshot showing a brief for Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris

Not just restaurants.

Bookstores, hotels, markets, bars, the places you end up in without a reservation. Sorsha reads the room wherever you are.

Sorsha app screenshot showing a brief for a spot in Nakano, Tokyo

It knows when it doesn't know.

Dense, vertical cities confuse GPS. When two places are genuinely a coin flip, Sorsha asks instead of guessing wrong.

Sorsha app screenshot showing the translation feature in use

And when you need to say something.

Speak or type, and Sorsha translates both directions and suggests what you're likely to hear back.

Sorsha started on a trip where everything went wrong.

Got sick three days into Tokyo, and the itinerary - 118 saved places pulled from magazines and articles and other people's recommendations - became useless.

One night, well enough to walk and with no reservations anywhere, we passed an almost hidden restaurant in an alley off the main street... the kind of place you could live around the corner from and never notice.

It was quiet and warm and exactly what we didn't know we needed. Sitting at the counter, I opened the app I had been building and it knew where I was.

A hand holding a phone at a restaurant counter in Tokyo, with the Sorsha brief on screen Sorsha app screenshot showing the brief for らふ 五反田 おばんざい

Bookmark the places you want to go. But the plan will change, and that's usually where the good part is.

— Scott

Currently in Japan, Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, and Brazil.