What changes when Grok is connected
Unconnected, Grok's itinerary lives in the chat and nowhere else. Connected, it creates the plan in the Meridian Dispatch app, edits days, stops, times and hotels on request, and reads back the plans you already have.
It also reads the travel preferences you set in the app, so it plans at your pace and at your kind of hotel rather than a generic one.
Who can add it
xAI's documentation says connectors are available to all Grok users, and custom connectors are added on grok.com. On Grok Business, an admin adds the connector for the team in the xAI console, and each person then connects their own account.
If you would rather not add a connector, paste the prompt from the import guide into Grok and tap the link it sends back. The whole trip lands in the app.
Facts from a reporting desk
When Grok asks the connector about a place, the answer comes from Meridian Dispatch guides to countries, towns, sights and events, with a link to each page. If something has changed, Grok can send the desk a correction, and applied fixes are logged on the corrections page.
And afterwards, a journal
As you travel, Meridian Dispatch puts your photos on the right days of the plan and writes each one up. The morning after you get home, the trip is a finished journal laid out like a magazine. The app never asks for location access, and your photos are never uploaded.