For owners of 2–20 short-term rentals

I build the operations you don't have.

A custom back-office, designed around how you actually run. AI and agents are part of the toolkit — used where they earn it, not because they look good in a deck.

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01 — Operators

Don't take my word for any of this.

Justin walked me through what was possible in 20 minutes and it was the clearest conversation I've ever had about this stuff. I run four Airbnbs and now I can actually see what to build first.

Joe Hager
Short-term rental operator · 4 properties

Most software in our space is built by people who've never done the job. Justin's different. He built around how I actually work — not how a product manager thinks I work — and it's the first sales tool I'd actually pay for.

Dane Parrott
Auto industry · Dealership services

Senior operator references available, including from a Fortune 500 industrial real estate platform.

02 — Sound familiar

If any of this is your actual week, we should talk.

i.
A guest sends a 2am message about the AC, three reviews need responses before checkin, and the cleaner just texted that the linens were short again.
ii.
You set pricing on Sunday night and you already know you're either leaving money on the table or chasing the comp set down. Either way, it's a guess.
iii.
The cleaner texts "I'm here but the lockbox isn't working" and you're in a meeting with no way to help.
iv.
Three guests this month asked the same question about parking. You wrote three slightly different answers, each one a little less patient than the last.
v.
A maintenance request came in three weeks ago. You can't remember if you sent it to the vendor. You scroll back through the thread anyway.
vi.
A 4-star review just landed. The reason is something you actually fixed last month. Now you need to write a response that doesn't sound defensive.
03 — What it looks like

Guest messaging, before and after.

One workflow shown end to end. The same shape applies to pricing, reviews, maintenance, the books, and the rest.

Before

Your phone is the system.

Messages come in across Airbnb, VRBO, Hospitable, SMS, and email. You answer them yourself, or your assistant does, or nobody does in time and the review reflects it.

Common questions get the same answer typed for the hundredth time. Hard questions wait until you have a minute. 2am messages get answered at 7am, or not at all.

Every conversation lives on its own platform, in its own thread, in its own inbox. There's no record. There's no way to see how well you're actually doing.

After

The system has the conversation.

A trained agent with your house rules, FAQ, and tone handles the routine layer — wifi password, checkin instructions, neighborhood questions, lockbox codes — in seconds, in your voice, around the clock.

Anything urgent or unusual gets flagged with a draft response ready for one-click approval. You answer the important things faster, not more.

Every conversation is logged, searchable, and rolled up into a weekly view of what guests are actually asking, where the friction lives, and what's worth fixing.

If this is the shape of what you need, the next step is short.

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04 — Working together

How an engagement actually runs.

A premium custom service. Not a SaaS product. Not a productized package.

It starts with a call. You describe the workflow that's eating your week. I tell you what I'd build, how long it would take, and what it would cost. One page. Fixed scope. Fixed fee.

Builds run two to six weeks. I work fast and I work in public — you see drafts as they ship, not at the end. When the system is live, I train you and your team to actually run it.

After launch, two paths. You own it and run it. Or I host and operate it on a monthly retainer — you log in, the system works, I keep it sharp as your portfolio changes. The hosted path is where most operators end up.

Currently taking one to two new engagements per quarter. Pricing discussed on the call.
05 — About
Short version of who you'd be working with.

I'm an operational excellence leader by day and a 0-to-1 builder by night. Six years running operational excellence and AI adoption at a Fortune 500 real estate company. Before that, Lean leadership in two major health systems.

I ship software, not slides. FieldPilot, a decision system for field sales teams. Fillr, a pay-per-slot scheduling product for service businesses. Both live, both shipping to real customers.

I'm not a consultancy that subcontracts the build. I am the build.

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06 — Common questions

Things people ask first.

How small is too small?
If you have at least one workflow eating more than two hours a week and you can describe it clearly, you're not too small. The sweet spot is 2–20 properties, but I've built useful systems for operators with one well-loved property.
Do I need to know anything about AI?
No. Knowing your workflow is the prerequisite — not knowing the technology. If you can describe what currently happens and what should happen, I can build the system. I'll teach you what you need to run it confidently.
What happens when the AI gets something wrong?
Every system I build has a human review layer for anything material — guest comms, payments, money decisions. The agent drafts. You approve. As it proves itself on specific task types, we expand its autonomy. Nothing ships that can quietly fail on you.
My PMS / cleaner / accountant already uses [tool]. Will this conflict?
Almost never. Most of what I build sits on top of your existing tools — Hospitable, Hostfully, AppFolio, QuickBooks, Gmail, your spreadsheets — and connects them in ways the tools themselves don't. We design around your stack on the call.
Where does my data live?
By default, in your accounts on your infrastructure, under your control. If you'd rather I host the system, your data lives on infrastructure I run under a written agreement on retention, access, and deletion. Your data is never used to train models. It's never shared.
What's the smallest project worth doing?
One high-leverage workflow, built and live in two to three weeks. If we get on the call and the honest answer is "you don't need me — here's the off-the-shelf tool that does this," I'll say that. The goal is leverage in your operation, not maximizing my invoice.

Tell me what's eating your week.

A 30-minute call. You describe the workflow. I tell you what I'd build, how long it would take, and what it would cost. Or I tell you that you don't need me, and what to use instead.

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