T&E platform Mesh Payments has launched an orchestration layer, which the company said is capable of bringing together data across booking tools, payment networks and other travel activity into a single layer.
The Mesh Orchestration Layer already has integrated with "most of the traditional booking tools," including Navan, Spotnana, Corporate Travel Management's Lightning tool and Altour Connect, Mesh CEO and co-founder Oded Zehavi said. It also connects to transactions for Visa, Mastercard, American Express and stablecoin alongside Mesh's own payment product and can pull in data from employee calendar invites, emailed invoices and itineraries to capture data from bookings made outside of corporate booking tools and payment products.
Zehavi said that capability allows large and multi-country SME clients in particular to deploy multiple booking tools or payment tools that best fit specific markets rather than trying to force a whole program onto a single platform.
"The ability to funnel everybody into a single tool or single booking engine, it's almost impossible. It's one of the lessons we are learning from our customers," Zehavi said. "Everything is going to be orchestrated into a single, unified travel object."
With the data on a single layer, that can ease the expense process, according to Mesh. For example, the layer can identify a client dinner in a calendar invite and match the restaurant charge and ride-hailing app charge to the dinner, even if those two occurred on different payment products, and reconcile them automatically while ensuring they are within policy.
Zehavi added that an orchestration layer is becoming even more important as the traditional booking tools face disruption from AI technology. While much of the connections to the layer is via API, but it also has a Model Context Protocol server that can connect to other platforms' MCPs as they are developed, which will enable connection to the data from emerging AI booking providers.
"As we go forward, we are enabling the flexibility to integrate today and tomorrow with all these bookings engines," he said.