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Notes on running hotels with AI agents
Playbooks, product thinking and field notes from the teams putting autonomous agents to work in hospitality.
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The Gap Between Sounding Smart and Doing Work
44% of SaaS licenses go completely unused. Companies buy them anyway. I saw a post about building a "$100B advisory team" inside Claude using celebrity personas. Clever prompting.
OpenTravel Team · 6/17/2026 · 1 min read
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I Stopped Adding AI Tools. That's When Automation Actually Started.
Somewhere around the seventh AI tool we'd integrated, I realized we weren't automating anything. We were just moving faster between dashboards. The Integration Tax Every new SaaS t
OpenTravel Team · 6/17/2026 · 2 min read
Designing a Calmer Front Desk
Small operational choices that make reception feel quiet.
OpenTravel Team · 5/15/2026 · 1 min read
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Welcome to OpenTravel
Why we built a calmer hotel management platform.
OpenTravel Team · 4/20/2026 · 1 min read
The agentic hospitality brief
One email, every other week. New playbooks and product updates. No fluff.