About Pneuma
Why we exist, and who’s behind it.
Our story
Umang had over four million miles spread across airline programs and no good way to spend them. Collecting the points took discipline. Turning them into the right trip took another round of research, across airlines, transfer partners, and dates, for every booking.
Pneuma is the search he wished existed: live seats you can book with points, across airlines, in one place.
A note from the founder
“I knew what it took to earn those points. Spending them well shouldn’t have been a second job.”
Umang Poddar, Founder and CEO
What we hold to
Traveller first.
We start with the trip you want, then work backwards to what we have to build. Every screen shows only what you need to decide.
Build what doesn’t exist.
The search we wanted didn’t exist, so we built it. We keep working the hard parts until they feel simple.
Design is how it works.
Not just how it looks. A result that’s right but hard to read has failed. The best design is the part you never notice.
Straight with you.
We show you what we found and tell you what we couldn’t confirm. When we get something wrong, we say so and fix it.
Nearly right isn’t right.
One wrong detail and the trip falls apart. So we don’t show you a seat we can’t stand behind.