ProhostAI recently launched!

Launch YC: ProhostAI - AI property manager for Airbnb hosts
"AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms"

Founded by Bill Ulammandakh & Andrew Lawson

The ProhostAI Founding Team

Bill was a Staff Data Scientist, Algorithms at Airbnb for 6+ years, building AI & ML products

  • 3 AI patents for products implemented at Airbnb that drove hundreds of millions in revenue
  • 9+ years total in data science (Etsy, Wayfair, Thumbtack)
  • Undergrad from Harvard

Andrew was a Sr Software Engineer at Dropbox for 6+ years

  • Worked on Dropbox's API Platform handling millions of requests per second
  • 9+ years as a software engineer

The founders are Airbnb hosts with 9 properties, 4.99+ ratings across 1000+ guest reviews, and $1.5M/yr revenue. They've been hosts for 5+ years.

ProhostAI is an AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms

They run 9 Airbnb properties as Superhosts (4.99+ rating) worth $15M, and ProhostAI automations have already cut their own costs by 30% and automated 70% of guest communications.

The key features:

  • AI for Guest Communications: AI agent drafts responses to every guest message
  • AI for Maintenance Ticketing & Cleaning Management
  • AI for Revenue Generation with automated guest upsells

All of this with a first class mobile app, because most hosts manage their properties from their phones!

Image Credits: ProhostAI

Why the founders are building ProhostAI

  • 70% of things a host has to do can be automated with no intervention today
  • Guest communications, cleaning coordination & communication, and maintenance ticket management are repetitive and simple tasks ripe for automation with LLMs and AI agents with a high-quality mobile-first experience.
  • 80%+ of hosts use no SaaS tools yet but are ready to professionalize their operations with better tools.
  • Airbnb hosts are digitally native, working from their mobile phones all the time, and highly likely to adopt new technologies to improve their operations.
  • SaaS for hosts is a $5B market with 10 million short-term rental listings globally!
Image Credits: ProhostAI

Learn More

🌐 Visit www.prohost.ai to learn more.

📧 If you are a host, join the waitlist here or shoot the founders an email!

📤 Share the ProhostAI website with others hosts and have them join the waitlist!

⭐ If you are using Hostaway or Guesty for Pros to manage your properties, the founders can get you set up right away! Sign up for a free trial here or book a demo.

👣 Follow ProhostAI on LinkedIn & X.

Posted 
October 15, 2024
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