Meet Navan Anywhere: Powering Travel and Expense Wherever Work Happens

For decades, using enterprise software has meant the same thing: logging into a specific tool, clicking through menus, filling forms, navigating dashboards, and learning one more workflow just to get something done.

Even though interfaces got cleaner and more polished, you still had to jump into a separate system, figure out how it works, and stay within its boundaries.

AI is redefining those boundaries.

Software can now be surfaced through natural language, embedded into everyday workstreams, and orchestrated across systems in ways that weren’t possible before.

For Navan, this shift unlocks a major opportunity. We’ve spent years building the foundations to power travel and expense at scale: unified data, policy intelligence, global travel inventory, payments, approvals, expense workflows, and AI-powered trip management. Navan Anywhere extends those capabilities beyond the traditional experience and into the AI-powered tools your team already uses every day.

It comes to life in two ways:

• For travelers: Employees can search, book, and manage trips through natural language inside the enterprise tools they already use.
• For admins: Travel and finance teams can query program data instantly through their preferred enterprise AI interface.

You control the interface. Navan powers the travel, expense, and compliance engine behind it.

Let’s dive into the first Navan Anywhere capabilities: booking travel inside Gemini Enterprise and accessing real-time T&E program insights through the Navan MCP server. This is just the start, as integrations with many more workplace tools are on the way.

For Travelers: Book and Manage Trips Inside Gemini Enterprise

AI has already changed how people expect to interact with technology. Users increasingly expect to express intent in natural language and receive intelligent, contextual results instantly.

At Navan, we’ve already integrated this into our core platform. Travelers can now book and manage their trips entirely through conversations inside the app. With Navan Anywhere, we’re extending that same conversational intelligence beyond the Navan app and into the enterprise AI environments where employees are already working.

Start a Chat. Start a Trip.

What makes this different from a basic travel integration is the architecture. Navan's AI travel assistant, Ava, communicates directly with the Gemini agent via Google's agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol. This also allows the interface to balance conversation with rich visual elements so travelers can browse options, compare rates, and book directly inside Gemini.

The booking happens inside the conversation. The traveler never gets redirected to an external site or even to Navan to finish the purchase. But once complete, the traveler can immediately see their trip within the Navan app.

The integration runs on the same foundation that powers Navan’s core platform:

• Rich travel content and fulfillment: Navan’s content platform, built over more than a decade, connects to the GDS, OTAs, aggregators, and 20+ NDC connections across flights, hotels, rail, and car — bringing broad inventory and deep fulfillment capabilities into the conversational experience.
• Unified data core: Every transaction maps back to Navan, bringing preferences, behavior patterns, loyalty rewards, and trip history into the chat environment.
• Policy intelligence: The engine is fully policy-aware, surfacing in-policy choices and out-of-policy flags in real time.
• Native experience: No redirects. No external tabs. The Navan trip planning and booking experience happens within Gemini.

The result: a traveler can go from "I need to be in Chicago Thursday" to a confirmed, policy-compliant booking without ever leaving their Gemini chat.

For Admins: Instant Answers via the Navan MCP

Travel managers and finance leaders need a faster way to answer specific questions, investigate trends, or surface insights in the moment.

The Navan Model Context Protocol (MCP) server connects your full T&E program data to any AI interface your team prefers: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or others. Think of MCP as a secure connector that gives your enterprise AI a direct line to your Navan data.

No exports. No pivot tables. Just ask.

To be clear, all of this granular spend and policy data is already available and visualized within the native Navan dashboard. What the MCP server adds is an unprecedented conversational shortcut — turning your enterprise LLM into an on-demand data analyst that can surface insights instantly.

Stop Searching. Start Asking.

Instead of downloading a CSV and spending an hour finding the answer, admins can ask questions like:

The data is already in Navan. The MCP just brings it to you, wherever you're working, however you want.

Manage T&E in More Interfaces

AI is redefining where and how work happens — and enterprise software is evolving with it.

With Navan Anywhere, companies can build workflows around how employees actually work, while Navan powers the travel, expense, policy, payment, and compliance engine behind the scenes.

We’re starting with booking inside Gemini Enterprise and MCP support for conversational analytics, but this is only the beginning. Navan Anywhere will continue expanding into more of the workplace tools your teams use every day.

Ready to see how embedded AI and conversational analytics can streamline your travel program? Learn more about Navan Anywhere or request a demo with the Navan team today.