The Francisco Fare start
I'm Alex — the Francisco half of Francisco Fare. A few years and a lot of Chase Ultimate Rewards points ago, I got stuck on one question: what's the most travel I can actually get out of the points I already have?
Earning points was never the hard part. Finding where they unlock something worth booking was — a lie-flat seat to Tokyo, a category-7 room in Paris — without spending every evening refreshing airline sites and getting blocked.
So I built the tool I wanted. It checks award space quietly in the background and lets me search the results in a second. Nothing gets scraped live when you hit search, nothing hammers the airlines — it's just a fast, honest cache of what's really open right now.
Francisco Fare started as a spreadsheet for me and a couple of friends. This is the version that isn't a spreadsheet anymore.
— Alex Francisco
