Who is Avant Vous for?

For families who travel and entertain, and for the people who run their lives: the family office, house managers and personal assistants. The brief goes to whoever receives you: yacht crews, villa and household staff, private chefs, jet catering and hotels.

What is a preference brief?

The preference sheet a yacht crew, villa or hotel asks for before you arrive, always up to date: allergies and medical needs first, then each person’s dining, room, routines and the touches they love, for everyone travelling, pets included.

Do we need an account?

No. There is nothing to sign up for, and Avant Vous works without a connection.

Where is our information kept?

Only on your phone, encrypted. Avant Vous has no servers and no accounts, so nothing about your family ever reaches us. The privacy policy explains it in full.

What does the team receive?

A short PDF, or one image per person, sent the way you choose: email, message or AirDrop.

And the dogs, or the horses?

Each has a profile of their own: meals and anything never to give, walks, the vet, where they sleep. They travel in the same brief, with an image of their own for whoever looks after them.

Can our house manager use it too?

Avant Vous lives on one phone at a time. To hand it over, or to bring a second phone up to date, restore your latest backup there.

US$49.99, once, on the App Store or Google Play. No subscription and nothing to buy inside the app. Your store shows the price in your currency.

Avant Vous

To the family, and to everyone who looks after them,

Before you arrive, they already know.

Avant Vous keeps how each of you likes things — allergies first, then the pillows, the flowers, the music at dinner, even the dog’s evening walk — and turns it into a private brief for the yacht crew, the villa, the chef or the jet. Two taps, and it goes ahead of you.

Arriving on the App Store and Google Play.

No subscription and no account, on iPhone, iPad and Android.

Today, all of this lives in someone’s head, an old email or a long thread of messages. A new crew asks again. A new chef guesses. And the family repeats itself, one more time.

May we enclose what changes that.

Enclosure i

The brief, for whoever is receiving you.

Choose who it is for, and the brief keeps only what concerns them: a chef sees the table, housekeeping sees the room, the captain and chief stew see everything they ask for.

Addressed to

Page one of a brief for Yacht crew, for the fictional Ashford family: who is arriving, people and pets, then allergies and medical, then each person’s preferences.

Allergies lead every brief, set in red, the dog’s too.
Each team sees only what concerns it.
What changed since the last stay is marked, so nothing is missed.
Written in French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic or English, whatever the app’s language.

Bijou’s image card, as the family would send it: her food allergy and the foods never to give her first, then her meals, walks, vet, character, sleep and travel. — Or one image each, ready for a message: here, Bijou’s, for whoever walks her.

Enclosure ii

Each person, exactly as they like things.

A profile for each member of the family, the regulars who travel with you, and the animals who come too. The essentials come first; the personal touches are there when you want them, and never feel like a form.

The family screen: the Ashford family, a button to prepare a brief, and each person with their allergies.

Essentials

Dining
Room
Routine
Children
Health & mobility
Privacy

Personal touches

Flowers & scent
Colours & style
Music & ambience
Spa & wellness
Wardrobe & valet
Car & driver
Gifts & amenities
Interests & conversation
Animals
Celebrations

Pets

Meals & treats
Health & vet
Walks & routine
Stable & riding
Cage & flights
Character
Sleep & comfort
Grooming
Toys & games
Travel

Enclosure iii

Two taps.

Choose who it is for.
Share it, by email, message or AirDrop.

Choosing who the brief is for: yacht crew, hotel, villa staff, private chef, jet catering or new household staff.

The brief ready to share: a PDF for the yacht crew of M/Y Aurora, St Barths.

Enclosure iv

After the stay, a word on what worked.

Note what was perfect and what was not. A note about a person opens the right part of their profile, so the next brief is better than the last.

Notes after a stay at Villa Serena, Lake Como: breakfast on the terrace was perfect; the room was too warm.

Enclosure v

In your language, and in theirs.

The app speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and Arabic. Each brief can be written in any of them, whatever language you use yourself.

Page one of the villa brief, written in French.

Page one of the villa brief, written in Arabic.

You may wish to know

Who is Avant Vous for?: For families who travel and entertain, and for the people who run their lives: the family office, house managers and personal assistants. The brief goes to whoever receives you: yacht crews, villa and household staff, private chefs, jet catering and hotels.
What is a preference brief?: The preference sheet a yacht crew, villa or hotel asks for before you arrive, always up to date: allergies and medical needs first, then each person’s dining, room, routines and the touches they love, for everyone travelling, pets included.
Do we need an account?: No. There is nothing to sign up for, and Avant Vous works without a connection.
Where is our information kept?: Only on your phone, encrypted. Avant Vous has no servers and no accounts, so nothing about your family ever reaches us. The privacy policy explains it in full.
What does the team receive?: A short PDF, or one image per person, sent the way you choose: email, message or AirDrop.
And the dogs, or the horses?: Each has a profile of their own: meals and anything never to give, walks, the vet, where they sleep. They travel in the same brief, with an image of their own for whoever looks after them.
Can our house manager use it too?: Avant Vous lives on one phone at a time. To hand it over, or to bring a second phone up to date, restore your latest backup there.
What does it cost?: US$49.99, once, on the App Store or Google Play. No subscription and nothing to buy inside the app. Your store shows the price in your currency.

With our compliments,

Avant Vous

P.S. Nothing about your family leaves the phone unless you send it.

Kept on this phone: Avant Vous has no servers and no accounts. Everything you note is encrypted on this phone and is never sent to us.
Shared only by you: A brief leaves the phone only when you share it, with the people you choose.
Your backup, in your keeping: A sealed copy, locked with a password only you know and saved wherever you choose: your files, your computer, a drive kept in your safe. It never passes through us, and without your password no one can open it.

Read the full privacy policy