{"id":108283,"title":"Atlia: The AI-Native STR Property Management Company","tagline":"The AI-Native STR Property Management Company","body":"### TL;DR\n\n**Atlia is the AI-native short-term rental property management company.**\n\n**You give us your Airbnbs to manage, and you’ll take home 10-20% more while both you and your guests have a better experience.**\n\nLaunch Video:\\\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/gvvV5zLIPV4\u003e\n\n## The Problem\n\nShort-term rentals were sold as passive income. But in reality, every Airbnb is a tiny hotel and a nightmare of operations. Every reservation restarts the operational clock: prices must be adjusted, guests screened, messages answered, cleaners scheduled, access coordinated, supplies restocked, and maintenance handled, often overnight or between back-to-back stays.\n\nAnd in traditional short-term property management companies, operational failures are common, and they can quickly become very costly:\n\n* A missed cleaning becomes a bad review\n* A poorly screened guest becomes property damage\n* A neglected maintenance issue becomes an issued refund or lost booking\n\nOn top of these operational failures, the average management company takes 15–30% of rental revenue, often alongside cleaning, maintenance, and other fees.\n\nWe’ve been property managers for the past year and ran into the same lose-lose choice every owner faces: manage a 24/7 hospitality business yourself, or hand over a quarter of your revenue to a management company whose costs increase with every property it adds.\n\n## The Solution\n\nWe are building a new type of property management company, with infrastructure built for agents and human-computer-interaction from the ground up. By replacing the layers of coordination and operational overhead built into traditional management companies, we provide a much better service at a much lower fee.\n\nWe center around a simple premise: owners shouldn’t have to choose between good service and reasonable fees. With our model, **owners take home 10–20% more and guests have a more premium experience.**\n\n## Team\n\nWe’re Shaan and Edmond, longtime friends, Duke roommates, and property managers.\n\nEdmond previously built AI voice agents at Rilla, LLM agents at S\u0026amp;P Global, and data pipelines at Vanguard. He has been managing rentals for a year, experiencing the owner’s dilemma firsthand.\n\nShaan previously designed GPU hardware at Apple, brain-computer interface research at Yale, computer architecture research at Duke. He also has been managing Airbnbs and longer-term rentals for a year and a half.\n\n## The Ask\n\nWe are live in 80 properties today, and would love to have you join us.\n\n**If you own a short-term rental** (such as an Airbnb), we can help you generate more revenue while providing better experiences to guests and giving you that peace of mind that your property is in good hands.\n\n**If you are considering investing in a short-term rental,** we can help turn your investment into a much more lucrative investment vehicle.\n\nYou can reach out to us at [founders@atlia.com](mailto:founders@atlia.com). And schedule a free property review at [www.atlia.com](http://www.atlia.com).","slug":"SAV-atlia-the-ai-native-str-property-management-company","created_at":"2026-07-29T17:19:12.682Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T01:59:38.985Z","total_vote_count":8,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SAV-atlia-the-ai-native-str-property-management-company","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":31257,"name":"Atlia","slug":"atlia","url":"https://www.atlia.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7a4b2fb5aaa99f5f795d2aa898508681eae26222.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"Real Estate and Construction","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Real Estate","Proptech","Big Data","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31257"}}