# navan-cost-tuning — One-Pager

Optimizes travel spend using Navan's policy engine, booking analytics, negotiated rates, and employee reward incentives.

## The Problem

Organizations lose 15-30% of potential travel savings through policy non-compliance, missed negotiated rates, unused tickets, and lack of booking behavior visibility. Finance teams manually review expense reports after the fact, when it is too late to influence booking decisions. Without proactive cost controls, travel budgets consistently overrun.

## The Solution

This skill configures Navan's built-in cost optimization features: travel policies with hard and soft caps, dynamic policy rules based on advance booking windows, negotiated corporate rate enforcement, unused ticket tracking and rebooking, and the Navan Rewards program that incentivizes employees to choose cheaper options. Includes analytics queries to identify the highest-impact savings opportunities from existing booking data.

## Who / What / When

| Aspect | Details |
|--------|---------|
| **Who** | Finance managers, travel managers, IT administrators configuring Navan for cost optimization |
| **What** | Policy engine configuration, spend analytics dashboards, negotiated rate setup, unused ticket tracking, Navan Rewards program activation |
| **When** | Initial Navan deployment, quarterly travel budget reviews, negotiating new corporate rates, launching employee savings incentive programs |

## Key Features

1. **Policy Engine Configuration** — Hard caps, soft caps, advance booking rules, and approval workflows that enforce savings at the point of booking
2. **Spend Analytics** — API-driven booking pattern analysis to identify top savings opportunities by department, route, and advance purchase window
3. **Navan Rewards** — Configure the built-in program that gives employees personal travel credit for choosing options below policy limits

## Quick Start

See [SKILL.md](../SKILL.md) for full instructions.
