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AI Platform Engineering

AI for Booking

AI inside the booking engine your guests and patients already use.

We engineer AI into the booking engine your guests and patients already use: booking by chat and voice in their own language, slot planning and price suggestions your team approves, reminders and waitlists for the bookings people miss, and changes handled without a phone queue.

Inside your booking engine, under your control

Each feature is wired into the reservation, scheduling and payment systems you already run, and every release is tested against your own cases before a guest sees it.

a quiet room with a sea view for three nights from Friday, late check-in

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    Sea-view room, upper floor

    Quiet side, free all three nights

  • A smiling woman at a cafe counter with a point-of-sale laptop

    Late arrival

    Desk open until midnight

  • An analytics report and calculator laid out on a desk

    Poolside terrace

    Steps from your room

  • A cashier serving a family at a supermarket checkout

    Dinner on Friday

    Often added to this stay

Search in a guest's own words

A guest's sentence becomes a shortlist of what is free, matched to their dates, their needs and your rules.

  • AssistantYes. Your stay now starts on Saturday in the same room, at the same rate, and the desk knows you will arrive late. Shall I move your dinner too?
  • GuestOur flight has moved. Can we arrive on Saturday instead and keep the sea-view room?
  • AssistantWelcome back. Your sea-view room is booked from Friday for three nights.

Booking assistant

Books, changes and answers from your live availability and policies, in the guest's language, and hands over to your staff when it should.

Weekend rate, sea-view rooms

Demand for next weekend is ahead of pace. Suggest a higher sea-view rate on Friday and Saturday nights.

Rates your revenue team approves

Price and yield suggestions are drafted from demand, booking pace and your rules, and wait for a person before they go live.

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  2. Release 13Passed
  3. Release 14Held back
  4. Release 15Testing

Every release tested first

Search, slot, pricing and assistant changes are checked against your own cases before guests see them, and the last good release is one step back.

What we engineer into a booking engine

The pieces we build most often. Each one connects to your reservation, scheduling, payment and messaging systems, and each one is judged on your own bookings.

  • Conversational booking

    Guests and patients book on your website, in messaging apps and by voice, in plain sentences. The assistant checks live availability, takes payment or a deposit through your existing provider and confirms in the same thread.

  • Search that understands

    Room, table and appointment search that reads a whole sentence: dates, party size, accessibility needs and preferences such as a quiet floor. Results respect live availability and the rules your team sets.

  • Availability and slot optimisation

    Schedules that place appointments, treatments and room turnarounds where they fit, keep the buffers your staff need and fill the gaps that cancellations leave. Every rule stays visible and editable.

  • Price and yield suggestions

    Rate and package suggestions drawn from demand, booking pace, local events and your own history, shown with the reasons behind them. A revenue manager approves every change before it reaches a guest.

  • No-show prediction, reminders and waitlists

    Signals that flag bookings likely to be missed, reminders timed and worded for each guest or patient, and waitlists that offer a freed slot to the next person in line, within limits you set.

  • Itinerary building

    Trips assembled from a traveller's request: flights, stays, transfers and activities in a sensible order, priced from your live inventory and adjusted in conversation until the traveller is ready to book.

  • Multilingual booking

    The same booking flow in the languages your guests speak, by text or voice, with your terms, prices and policies kept exact in each one and checked by a person before launch.

  • Changes, cancellations and rebooking

    Guests move dates, swap rooms or appointments, cancel and rebook in a few messages, under your fare and cancellation rules, without waiting in a phone queue. Anything outside those rules goes to your staff.

  • Handover to your staff

    When a request needs judgement, such as a medical question, a complaint or a group booking, the assistant passes it to the right person with the conversation and the booking attached.

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Agentic commerce

When the traveller's assistant books for them

Travellers are starting to plan through AI assistants that search, compare and act on their behalf. Open standards for agent checkout are arriving from the large platforms and payment networks, among them Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, the Agentic Commerce Protocol from OpenAI and Stripe, and Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol for recognising verified agents.

We make a booking engine readable and bookable by those agents: availability and prices in a structured form agents can read, an MCP server over search, holds and bookings, verified agent booking, and the rules that decide what an agent may change or cancel.

Agentic Commerce

From one feature to a platform

Most booking teams start with one feature on one channel. We build it inside your stack, prove it on your own bookings and hand it to your team.

  1. 01

    Scope

    A short readiness sprint in your booking, availability and guest data to choose the first feature and agree how it will be judged.

  2. 02

    Build

    Engineers work in your repositories and your cloud, wiring the feature into the reservation, scheduling, payment and messaging systems you already run.

  3. 03

    Prove

    We test on your own booking cases before launch, then release to a share of bookings and watch the measures you chose, with a rollback ready.

  4. 04

    Hand over

    Runbooks, dashboards and a team trained to run it. You own the code, the prompts and the evaluation set; we can stay on to operate it if you want.

Frequently asked questions

Do we have to change booking systems to add AI?

No. We build on the reservation, property, scheduling or practice management system you run, through its APIs and in your own cloud. Each feature ships as a service your website, apps and channels call.

Which feature should we start with?

Usually the one closest to revenue or unused capacity and easiest to measure: conversational booking, no-show reminders or rebooking. The readiness sprint compares candidates on your own data and picks one with a clear way to judge it.

How do you stop the assistant from booking the wrong thing?

It books only from live availability and your rules, reads the details back to the guest before it commits and declines what it cannot ground. Payments, refunds and exceptions follow limits you set, and every release is tested against your own booking cases first.

Can it handle patient appointments?

Yes. For clinics we keep the assistant to scheduling, reminders and administrative questions, hand anything clinical to your staff, and keep patient data in your own cloud under the access rules your organisation already applies.

Who owns the models, prompts and data?

You do. The code, prompts, evaluation sets and any fine-tuned weights are yours, in your repositories and your cloud. We build on open or hosted base models you approve.

What happens when an AI assistant books for a traveller?

The assistant searches, holds and books on the traveller's behalf, so your engine has to be readable and safe for it. The standards are still settling, so we start with what pays off either way: clean, structured availability and an interface agents can read. Verified agent booking follows when your channels support it.
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Tell us about your booking engine

Tell us the system you run and the feature you have in mind, and we will come back with a first view of how we would build it.

  1. 01The booking or scheduling system you run, and what sits around it
  2. 02The feature you have in mind, or the problem behind it
  3. 03How you would judge it working