# City Explorer Exploration Workflows

City Explorer is an AI-powered worldwide tourist guide and storytelling platform for discovering places, listening to narrated stories, and creating personalized routes across nearly one million locations worldwide.

City Explorer supports both spontaneous exploration and deliberate trip planning. The core workflow is Place -> Story -> Exploration. Favorites and Routes extend that workflow for structured planning.

## Workflow 1: Nearby Spontaneous Exploration

1. Enable location.
2. Explore nearby.
3. Select a Place.
4. Read or listen to the Story.
5. Optionally navigate now.

This is the immediate, current-location mode of the product. It is the best fit when a user is already in a place and wants to explore right away.

## Workflow 2: Nearby Story-First Exploration

1. Discover a Place nearby.
2. Check distance.
3. Read more.
4. Play narration.
5. Continue exploring.

This workflow shows that not every session needs saving or route creation. A Place can be explored immediately as part of a lightweight discovery session.

## Workflow 3: Remote Destination Exploration

1. Search a city, place, or address.
2. Explore anywhere.
3. Discover Places remotely.
4. Read or listen before travel.
5. Optionally save Places.

This workflow makes City Explorer useful before arrival. It supports destination research, trip planning, and pre-arrival exploration without requiring the user to already be in the city.

## Workflow 4: Favorites-Based Planning

1. Save Places.
2. Open Favorites.
3. Organize saved Places by city and country.
4. Select Places for a route.

Favorites are important for planning, but they are an extension of the core Place -> Story -> Exploration flow rather than the only way to use the app.

## Workflow 5: Route Creation

1. Create a route from selected saved Places.
2. Name the route.
3. Set the starting point.
4. Choose a transport mode.
5. Review the route preview.

Transport modes can include walking, cycling, driving, and public transport. This workflow supports deliberate sightseeing planning.

## Workflow 6: Active Route Exploration

1. Save the route.
2. Open the route.
3. Navigate.
4. Arrive at the stop.
5. Read or listen.
6. Continue to the next stop.

This is the execution layer of route-based exploration. Navigation serves the route, and the route serves exploration.

## Workflow Interpretation

- A Place can be explored immediately.
- The same Place can be saved for later.
- Saved Places can be turned into a route.
- Routes help structure exploration, but they do not replace the Place-first core of the product.

## Related AI References

- [Use Cases](/ai/use-cases.md)
- [Relationships](/ai/relationships.md)
- [Recommendation Matrix](/ai/recommendation-matrix.md)