ROI Calculator

What Manual Triage Is Actually Costing Your Operation.

Select your business scale. See what you're spending on manual guest handling, complaint routing, and coordination — and what a managed AI system recovers in Year 1. Even if you mentally cut these numbers in half, the math still works.

Year 1 Savings vs. Investment
Based on a $5M hospitality operator deploying a Guest Command Center as the first managed system.
Recoverable Value — First System
Front-desk labor capacity recovered ~35 hrs/week of manual triage, FAQ, and dispatch at $29/hr loaded
$52,700
After-hours & overtime premium prevented Eliminating on-call manager interruptions and night-audit premium pay
$15,500
Brand protection & review math ~5 negative reviews prevented, preserving 10–15 future bookings
$8,000
AI-assisted ancillary revenue Capturing missed late check-outs, early arrivals, and upgrades via instant response
$12,000
Your 30A AI Investment — Year 1
Managed System Build (one-time)
−$15KFounding Rate
Fractional AI Operations Retainer $500/mo × 12 — Pilot tier
−$6K/yr
Net Year 1 Savings
$67,200
4.2× return on Year 1 investment
Net Year 2 Savings
No build fee. Retainer only ($6K/yr).
$82,200
13.7× return on Year 2 cost
And that's before expanding to a second workflow.
The Review Math
At $5M revenue, your property likely charges $300–$500+ per night. A single lost weekend booking from a bad review costs $1,000+. Cornell University's hospitality research shows a 1-point drop in review score forces hotels to lower prices up to 11% to maintain occupancy. Preventing 5 negative reviews per year through faster complaint response preserves an estimated 10–15 high-value bookings — roughly $8,000 in direct revenue, plus the rate integrity your brand depends on.

What Drives These Numbers

Realistic Assumptions. Defensible Math.

Every line item is anchored to your actual operating costs — labor rates, ADR, shift structure, and property size. Even a skeptical CFO who cuts these numbers in half still sees a positive Year 1.

Front-Desk Labor Capacity
We calculate the hours your team currently spends manually triaging guest messages, answering FAQ, routing maintenance, and dispatching across shifts — then estimate what a managed AI system handles autonomously at a 60–70% deflection rate. A $5M property with 50–80 rooms typically burns 4–6 hours per day on tasks AI handles in seconds. We use fully loaded labor costs ($29/hr including benefits and overhead), not just wages.
Brand Protection & Review Math
Cornell University's hospitality research shows a 1-point drop in review score forces hotels to lower prices up to 11% to maintain occupancy. At boutique ADRs of $300–$500/night, a single lost weekend booking costs $1,000+. We anchor review prevention to your actual rate structure — not industry averages — and estimate conservatively: not every prevented complaint would have become a review.
After-Hours & Overtime
Most operators pay for answering services, absorb overtime at time-and-a-half ($43.50/hr), or rely on managers handling 2 AM texts from their personal phones. A managed AI system responds with property-specific accuracy around the clock — eliminating the answering service line item, the overtime premium, and the 6 AM voicemail pile that starts every manager's day behind.
AI-Assisted Revenue
An AI Guest Command Center doesn't just triage complaints — it facilitates upsells because it responds instantly when guests are in a buying mood. Automated late check-out offers, room upgrade prompts, and F&B/spa booking recommendations capture ancillary revenue that would otherwise require a staff member to remember, offer, and process manually. Even modest capture rates compound across every guest interaction.

See Your Specific Numbers

These Are Estimates. A Strategy Session Gives You Exact Numbers.

In a half-day working session, we map your actual workflows, calculate your real labor cost, and show you exactly which system to build first. The Strategy Session fee credits in full toward a build.

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Methodology

Savings estimates assume a 60–70% AI deflection rate on routine guest inquiries, complaint routing, and maintenance dispatch — consistent with published hospitality AI benchmarks. Labor recovery is modeled at 4–6 hours per day for a 50–80 room property, scaling with portfolio size. Labor rates use fully loaded costs ($29/hr including benefits and overhead). Negative review cost estimates are anchored to property-specific ADR, with the review-to-rate relationship drawn from Cornell Hospitality Research. After-hours savings assume elimination of overtime premium ($43.50/hr at time-and-a-half) and on-call manager interruptions. Ancillary revenue estimates assume modest AI-assisted upsell capture rates across late check-outs, upgrades, and F&B bookings. All figures are modeled using conservative assumptions. Your Strategy Session produces exact numbers based on your actual workflows and team costs.