Crino · Member Intake · Confidential
This is everything we need to build your first plan. Rough answers are genuinely fine — we verify the details ourselves. Nothing here is a test.
We have what we need. You’ll hear from us within three working days with your first plan.
If you travel with children, tell us their ages in the last section — award seats for families work differently.
Tick everything open in your name. This is the single most useful thing on the form — which card holds your points changes what they're worth.
American Express
Chase
Capital One
Citi · Wells Fargo · Bilt
Airline co-brands
Hotel co-brands
Closed cards matter — several issuers lock you out of a bonus for 48 months even after the account is gone.
Round to the nearest thousand. Leave blank anything you don't have. If a balance is more than a couple of months old, tell us in the date box — we treat stale balances differently.
Card points
Airline and hotel programs
Elite status matters more than people expect — with some programs it's the difference between points that expire and points that don't.
That last question changes more than it looks. Several cards pay their headline rate only through their own booking site — which quietly costs you the hotel's own points and elite nights.
Tick anything you spend meaningfully on each month. We use this to work out which card to put each purchase on — and to stop recommending credits you'd never use.
This is an eligibility question, not a spending one. Business cards are open to sole traders and side businesses far more often than people assume — and on some issuers they do not count toward application limits, which changes the order we would recommend applying in.
Issuers run rules that quietly block bonuses. Knowing these up front stops us recommending a card you can't get.
Only cards we did not list. They still count toward issuer application limits.
Amex decides eligibility during the application, and sometimes waives its own once-per-card rule. We’ll flag the risk — only Amex can confirm it.
Some issuers block bonuses using cards you no longer hold. Tick any and we’ll show what it means for you.
One bonus ever across all three, no expiry. The old Wells Fargo Bilt card doesn’t count against you.
Nested, and order matters. A past Reserve blocks Gold and Platinum bonuses; a Platinum blocks Gold — not the reverse. The business cards behave differently: Platinum Business and Reserve Business block nothing but themselves, and you can take both a consumer Gold and a Gold Business bonus — neither names the other.
Any consumer card blocks the others for 24 months. Business cards don’t count.
48 months, per card. Holding one doesn’t block the others.
24 months, per card. Holding one doesn’t block the others.
Holding a consumer Sapphire blocks a new one outright; a past one may block the bonus. The business card is judged separately.
48 months, per card. A past Venture X bonus also blocks a Venture bonus — not the reverse.
48 months, per card. Counted separately from Citi’s AAdvantage cards.
48 months, per card. Autograph and Autograph Journey are judged separately.
24 months, per card. The business card is judged separately from the consumer one.
15 months — the shortest clock of any card we track.
24 months. Shares Avios with Iberia and Aer Lingus, but the bonus rule is per card.
24 months. Holding the card now blocks a new bonus outright.
24 months, across the family rather than per card.
24 months, per card. Separate from Sapphire and Ink despite sharing Ultimate Rewards.
Tick this if none apply. We need an answer either way — leaving it blank means we can’t recommend a bonus without asking you first.
Quietest. You’ll miss deals on trips you hadn’t thought of yet.
Uses your home airport and usual cabin. A business-class sale from your airport reaches you whether or not you’ve logged a trip.
The most email. Some programs run a promotion every month.
Deadlines and verdicts only. No promotions at all.
Up to three trips. One is plenty to start. Dates can be vague — "next spring" is a real answer.
Trip one
Trip two — optional
Trip three — optional
Save a copy for your records, or copy your answers to send back. We'll come back within three working days with your first plan — a trip you can actually book, and what to do between now and then.