For short-term rental hosts

The stay guide that answers back.

An AI-native guest experience for short-term rentals — your favorites, your tone, available 24/7. Editorial in feel, useful in practice, graceful when it doesn’t know.

Rated 4.9 out of 5. 4.9 from 1,200+ hosts
·Free 14-day trial·No card required
Welcome to
The Marsh Cottage
Hosted by Ana · Camden, Maine
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Welcome to
The Marsh Cottage
Hosted by Ana · Camden, Maine
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Hi, I’m your guide for The Marsh Cottage. Ask about dinner spots, hikes, rainy-day picks.
Host pick
Primo
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How it works

Set up once. Hosts forever.

Drop in your property, paste your favorites, hand the link to guests. The guide writes itself — and answers questions you’d otherwise field at midnight.

i.

Add your stay

Wi-Fi, door codes, check-in instructions, the quirks of the dishwasher. Paste a CSV or import from your existing welcome book — we keep the warmth.

ii.

Curate favorites

Your dinner picks, the morning bakery, the sunset spot. Tag with confidence — “Host pick”, “Verify hours” — so guests trust what they’re reading.

iii.

Hand off the link

One URL per stay. Guests open it on their phone, ask anything, save spots, build a day. You sleep through the “what’s the Wi-Fi” texts.

What guests get

A guide that knows the place.

Not a PDF, not a Notion page. A real concierge that pulls from your favorites, softens what it can’t verify, and gracefully says so when it doesn’t know.

AI guide

Ask anything. Get the host's answer.

Your AI guide answers in your voice, citing your hand-picked favorites first. When it can't verify a detail, it hedges — never invents.

  • Cites Host pick / Verify hours / Web suggestion confidence tiers
  • Trained per-stay on your specific notes and quirks
  • Speaks 32 languages without losing tone
Where should we eat tonight — somewhere walkable?
Cool tonight — try Primo (8 min walk). Ana’s go-to.
Host pick
Primo
Day plans

From a saved spot to a real Saturday.

Guests build a day from your favorites — tap to add to morning, lunch, sunset. The guide times walking distance, suggests the order, books OpenTable when it can.

  • Drag to reorder, swipe to remove
  • Auto-syncs walk/drive times from the property
  • Exports to Apple Calendar or Google with a tap
Saturday, June 14
09:00
Coffee at French Press
4 min walk
11:30
Mt. Battie summit hike
15 min drive
13:30
Lobster roll at the wharf
6 min walk
19:00
Dinner at Primo
8 min walk
Stay essentials

Wi-Fi, door codes, house quirks.

The boring stuff that makes 80% of guest texts. One-tap copy on codes, a QR for Wi-Fi, your voice on the bits that need explaining.

  • Wi-Fi QR for one-tap connect on iOS and Android
  • Door codes time-locked to the stay window
  • Host notes — your tone, italicized in serif
Wi-Fi
5 GHz preferred
Network
MarshCottage_5G
Password
seaglass-2024
Router’s in the kitchen cabinet — give it a moment after a storm. — Ana
82%
Drop in guest support texts
4.9
Average post-stay rating
11min
Average setup time per property
32
Languages, host tone preserved
Try it live

Ask the guide. Right here.

This is a working demo of the Marsh Cottage’s guide. Try a suggestion or ask your own question — same engine, same warm hedge language, same host-pick-first ranking that ships to your guests.

Marsh Cottage Guide
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Hi, I’m your guide for The Marsh Cottage. Ask about dinner, hikes, rainy-day picks — or whatever’s on your mind.
City coverage

Hand-picked in 146 towns. Helpful everywhere else.

Our editorial team curates the restaurants, coffee, and can’t-miss spots in each town — grounded in real local favorites. Outside these, the AI guide still helps, and tells your guests honestly when it’s working from the open web.

Akron is curated. Hand-picked local favorites across Akron.

From hosts

Quieter inboxes. Warmer stays.

Our "what's the Wi-Fi" texts dropped to zero in a week. Guests open the link before they even land.
Ana Petrova
Owner, The Marsh Cottage · Camden, ME
It actually sounds like me. The first time a guest replied "thanks Ana!" to the AI, I knew we'd nailed the tone.
Marcus Hale
5 properties · Hudson Valley, NY
We replaced a 47-page Notion welcome book with this. Guests get more out of it. We get our evenings back.
Lila Okafor
Coastal & Co. · 14 properties
Pricing

Per property. No setup fees.

14-day free trial on every plan, no card up front. Cancel any time — your guide stays active through the end of the current stay.

Starter
For a single stay you host yourself.
$19
per property / month
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  • 1 property
  • AI guide trained on your favorites
  • Wi-Fi QR + door code essentials
  • Day-plan builder for guests
  • Email support
Portfolio
For boutique managers and agencies.
Custom
billed annually
Talk to sales
  • Unlimited properties
  • API + PMS integration (Hostfully, Guesty, Hostaway)
  • Multi-brand white-label
  • Curated city expansion on request
  • Dedicated success manager
  • SOC 2 + DPA
Questions

The honest answers.

Welcome books are read-only documents — guests scroll, then text you anyway. Guest Guide is a concierge: it answers in your voice, ranks your hand-picked spots first, and softens what it can’t verify ("Looks like it’s open until 10 — worth calling to confirm"). Editorial in feel, useful in practice.

Free 14-day trial

Set up your guide
this afternoon.

Eleven minutes per property is the average. No credit card. You’ll have your first guest URL before the kettle boils.

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