StaysAlert – More revenue. Fewer empty nights.

Author: Dominic Arnold

  • We’re looking for a handful of good serviced-accommodation operators

    We’ve built StaysAlert because we operate short-stay accommodation ourselves.

    And we’re now looking for a small number of professional serviced-accommodation and holiday-let operators to put it through its paces on real properties.

    We’re particularly interested in independent operators managing around 10–50 properties.

    You probably already use a PMS. You may well use dynamic pricing. You know your market, watch occupancy closely and regularly adjust rates or minimum stays yourself.

    That’s exactly who we’re looking for.

    StaysAlert does something slightly different.

    It looks ahead at your property and asks a simple question:

    For these dates and this guest party, what could a guest genuinely book instead?

    That means checking actual availability, stay restrictions and the final guest-facing price — rather than treating every nearby listing as meaningful competition or assuming an unavailable night has been booked.

    It then gives you two separate decisions:

    PRICE — RAISE / HOLD / REDUCE / REVIEW

    MINIMUM STAY — HOLD / CHANGE / REVIEW

    It doesn’t automatically change anything.

    The operator remains in control.

    Who would be ideal?

    We’d particularly like to hear from an operator who:

    • manages a genuine portfolio rather than one or two properties;
    • actively thinks about pricing and occupancy;
    • already understands that dynamic pricing isn’t the whole answer;
    • is prepared to let us examine one real property and its market;
    • will tell us plainly where StaysAlert is useful — and where it isn’t.

    We’re deliberately starting small.

    If this sounds like your operation, let us run one of your properties through StaysAlert.

    No lengthy demo. No obligation. Just give us a real property and let’s see what StaysAlert finds.

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  • Meet StaysAlert: know what needs changing every morning

    Meet StaysAlert: know what needs changing every morning

    STAYSALERT NEWS

    Meet StaysAlert: know what needs changing every morning

    Managing one holiday let means keeping an eye on the market. Managing 20, 50 or 100 turns that into a job in itself.

    Holiday let manager using StaysAlert pricing intelligence at her desk

    Is the empty weekend priced too high? Is the property down the road actually cheaper once you put in the same dates and guests? Can it even be booked? Should you reduce the minimum stay — or leave everything alone?

    That’s why we’ve built StaysAlert.

    One question every morning

    StaysAlert looks 30 days ahead across the properties you choose to monitor and answers:
    Does anything need changing today?

    Every property comes back in the same three windows:
    0–7 days · URGENT
    8–14 days · ACTIVE
    15–30 days · WATCH

    And with the same decisions:
    PRICE · RAISE / HOLD / REDUCE / REVIEW
    MINIMUM STAY · HOLD / CHANGE / REVIEW
    The numbers change. The format doesn’t.

    What could your guest genuinely book instead?

    StaysAlert doesn’t treat an advertised nightly rate as market evidence. It compares the same dates, same guest party and same stay, checking actual bookability, minimum-stay rules, permitted check-in and check-out, and the final guest-facing price.

    If your guest couldn’t actually book it, it isn’t a price comparison.

    And we apply the same discipline to your own property. A base nightly rate isn’t compared with somebody else’s all-in guest price. Guest numbers and known stay charges have to be reconciled first.

    Illustrative StaysAlert map showing a monitored property within a wider candidate pool; geographic proximity alone does not establish comparability.

    Mira’s first Daily Action

    Recently we put the production system to work on a real, anonymised Brighton holiday let. There were two empty nights approaching quickly: 29 September–1 October.

    The property was priced at £168/night. It would have been easy to decide to discount.

    Mira — the AI-assisted operational side of StaysAlert — checked the actual market instead. She established six genuinely bookable comparable stays for the same dates and guest party.

    Market: £150.50–£195.50/night
    Median: £169/night
    Our property: £168/night

    PRICE · HOLD
    MINIMUM STAY · HOLD
    Evidence · STRONG

    Don’t panic-discount. The property was already almost exactly at the market median.

    Sometimes the smartest change is no change

    StaysAlert isn’t another black box whose purpose is to keep moving prices. It watches. It compares. It recommends. And when the evidence supports leaving the property alone, it says HOLD.

    If the evidence isn’t strong enough to support a decision, it says REVIEW rather than guessing.

    Built for portfolios

    A manager shouldn’t need to open 20 listings every morning and manually work out which ones deserve attention. StaysAlert does the watching. Your team deals with the exceptions.

    One property might need a price review. Another might need its minimum stay reconsidered. Eighteen might need absolutely nothing. Those eighteen are just as important.

    What happens next

    We’re beginning to put StaysAlert in front of holiday-let agencies, professional property managers and independent hosts.

    Pricing starts at £14.99 + VAT per monitored property per month for the first 20 properties, reducing to £12.99 + VAT for properties 21–50.

    No credits. No API charges. No long-term commitment.

    StaysAlert doesn’t change your prices or stay rules behind your back. You remain in control.

    If you manage holiday lets and would like us to monitor one property — or part of your portfolio — we’d like to hear from you.

    Start monitoring a property →

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