Cajal Bodies Dive & adventure operations

Agencies bring you guests. Then they keep a fifth of the fare.

We build the channel that brings them to you instead — found, converted, captured and kept. Start by finding out what yours is costing.

What your bookings cost you

You are paying
US$275,400
a year, in commission

LiveAboard.com takes 15–18%. Aggressor takes 20%. Booking.com and Agoda, 15–25%.

Get the real number — audit, US$1,200

A booking button does not fix this.

You are not paying eighteen per cent for a checkout page. You are paying it because the platform brings you guests you cannot reach on your own. Install new booking software tomorrow and the boat still fills through agencies, and you still pay. The fee only goes away when the guests come to you.

So we build the whole chain.

  1. 1

    Get found

    Search, AI answers, and content written for the trips you actually run.

    An SEO consultant will do this, and stop here.

  2. 2

    Convert

    A site built around trips, dates and availability instead of brochure pages.

    Web studios do this, at forty dollars an hour.

  3. 3

    Capture

    The right booking platform chosen and set up properly, with Xendit and Stripe wired in.

    DiveHQ and Bookinglayer do this from €75 a month. We set theirs up. We do not sell you ours.

  4. 4

    Keep

    Follow-up that catches the enquiries going quiet, and a monthly count of the commission you did not pay.

    Nobody does this.

What we have built.

Tek Deep Asia

Live

Nick Hogle's technical diving centre in Tanjung Bira. Built with Off Gassing, his scuba podcast, and a video series, and handed over in August.

seascapes.id/tekdeep

GaiaOne

Launching

A thirteen-page rebuild around trips and departures, with instant booking and Xendit payments, replacing a brochure site.

See the preview

Seascapes

Our own

The restaurant system, the staff rota, the attendance records, and the direct booking channel we are building to stop paying Booking.com.

seascapes.id

Tankii

Private tool

A shared tank ledger and a Telegram bot running between two dive operators in Bira. Orders are drafted and confirmed in the group chat, and the counts stay right. It lives behind their login, so there is nothing to show you here.

The Seascapes property on the coast at Tanjung Bira, South Sulawesi, seen from above

We run one too.

Cajal Bodies works out of Bira, in South Sulawesi. We built most of this for our own business first, which is why it fits the way a dive operation actually runs rather than the way hotel software assumes it does.

We work mostly with dive and adventure operators. We also take on selected work outside it — if you found us some other way, this is the rest.

What it costs.

Commission audit

US$1,200

About four days. Credited in full against the engagement.

Direct booking engagement

US$6,000

About eight weeks. Paid 40 / 40 / 20.

Direct demand retainer

US$450

Per month, six-month minimum.

These are founding rates, held for our first three clients.

Start with the audit.

Four days, US$1,200, and one page telling you what your bookings cost you last year and how much of it you can get back. If you go ahead afterwards, the fee comes off the price.

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