{"id":83739,"title":"ProhostAI - AI property manager for Airbnb hosts","tagline":"AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms.","body":"[**ProhostAI**](https://www.prohost.ai/) **is an AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms.**  We run 9 Airbnb properties as Superhosts (4.99+ rating) worth $15M, and our AI automations have already cut our own costs by 30% and automated 70% of guest communications.\n\n**Our key features:**\n\n* **AI for Guest Communications:** AI agent drafts responses to every guest message\n* **AI for Maintenance Ticketing \u0026 Cleaning Management**\n* **AI for Revenue Generation** with automated guest upsells\n\nAll of this with a first class mobile app, because most hosts manage their properties from their phones!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=83739\u0026key=user_uploads/1847372/efb9d4f7-c541-47e8-9c1f-505cdfff39c1)\n\n### Our Founding Team\n\n[**Bill**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bulam/)\n\n* **Bill was a Staff Data Scientist, Algorithms at Airbnb for 6+ years, building AI \u0026 ML products** \n  * 3 AI patents for products implemented at Airbnb that drove hundreds of millions in revenue\n* 9+ years total in data science (Etsy, Wayfair, Thumbtack)\n* Undergrad from Harvard\n\n[**Andrew**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeriklawson/)\n\n* **Andrew was a Sr Software Engineer at Dropbox for 6+ years,** working on their API Platform handling millions of requests per second \n* 9+ years as a software engineer\n\nWe are Airbnb hosts with 9 properties, 4.99+ ratings across 1000+ guest reviews, and $1.5M/yr revenue. We've been hosts for 5+ years.\n\n### Why we are building ProhostAI\n\n* **70% of things a host has to do can be automated with no intervention today**\n  * Guest communications, cleaning coordination \u0026 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.\n* **80%+ of hosts use no SaaS tools yet** but are ready to professionalize their operations with better tools.\n* **Airbnb hosts are digitally native, working from their mobile phones all the time**, and highly likely to adopt new technologies to improve their operations.\n* **SaaS for hosts is a $5B market** with 10 million short-term rental listings globally!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=83739\u0026key=user_uploads/1847372/219c2d72-5762-4e81-981e-1316c2390e94)\n\n## **🚀Asks**\n\n1. **If you are a host, join our waitlist at** [**prohost.ai**](https://www.prohost.ai) or shoot me an email at [bill@prohost.ai](mailto:bill@prohost.ai)!\n2. **Share our website with others hosts** and have them join our waitlist!\n3. **Follow us on **[**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prohostai/)** and **[**X**](https://x.com/prohostAI)**.**\n4. **If you are using Hostaway or Guesty for Pros to manage your properties,** we can get you set up right away! Sign up for a free trial [**here**](https://app.prohost.ai/register) or [**book a demo**](https://calendly.com/bill-prohost/prohostai-demo) ","slug":"Lmd-prohostai-ai-property-manager-for-airbnb-hosts","created_at":"2024-09-04T15:36:31.502Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T05:36:26.148Z","total_vote_count":35,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lmd-prohostai-ai-property-manager-for-airbnb-hosts","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=83739\u0026key=user_uploads/1847372/efb9d4f7-c541-47e8-9c1f-505cdfff39c1","company":{"id":29607,"name":"ProhostAI","slug":"prohostai","url":"https://www.prohost.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/069321145273b85ba7d87787840c61562c041b8f.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","SaaS","B2B","Travel","AI Assistant"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29607"}}