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Built in Huntsville, Alabama
Volume I · No. 1

Anchor

Established 2026
An AI Phone Agent for Limited-Service Hotels · Built by Owner-Operators
AAHOA Member-Owned
Works With Every Brand
No Brand Approval Required
Live in 7 Days
Now Serving Owners Of
Comfort InnQuality InnSleep InnCambriaEcono LodgeHampton InnHilton Garden InnTru by HiltonHome2 SuitesHoliday Inn ExpressCandlewood SuitesStaybridge Suitesavid hotelsFairfield InnSpringHill SuitesTownePlace SuitesDays InnSuper 8La QuintaRamadaMicrotelBaymontBest WesternRed Roof InnMotel 6Extended Stay AmericaIndependents Comfort InnQuality InnSleep InnCambriaEcono LodgeHampton InnHilton Garden InnTru by HiltonHome2 SuitesHoliday Inn ExpressCandlewood SuitesStaybridge Suitesavid hotelsFairfield InnSpringHill SuitesTownePlace SuitesDays InnSuper 8La QuintaRamadaMicrotelBaymontBest WesternRed Roof InnMotel 6Extended Stay AmericaIndependents
Filed by the Front Desk · 04:00 CST

The front desk that never sleeps, never leaves the lobby, and never sends another guest to voicemail.

Every night, somewhere between midnight and dawn, a traveler dials your property looking for a room. If nobody picks up (and nobody does), they call the hotel down the street. We built Anchor because we got tired of watching that happen at our own property. Now it doesn't. Now it shouldn't at yours either.

Hear Ava live, right now
(256) 809-0866
She'll pick up in under two rings. No appointment, no sales pitch.
Room Ii.

The math nobody runs on a limited-service property.

Your front desk is losing money every time the phone rings. Not because they're bad at their job. Because they can only be in one place. Three ways the lobby drains revenue, every single night.

No. 01 · The voicemail tax

Bookings down the street.

A guest calls at eleven o'clock and gets your voicemail. They book the Hampton Inn across the parkway inside of four minutes. That's how the math works after dark. Multiply by three hundred and sixty-five nights.

$15,000 – $40,000 lost annually
No. 02 · The fumbled group

The $5,000 paper notebook.

An assistant coach calls about a twenty-two-room block for next month's tournament. Front desk says "let me grab the GM" and the lead disappears into a paper notebook nobody reads. Three weeks later: no follow-up.

$3,000 – $15,000 per missed block
No. 03 · The split attention

Death by a hundred small things.

Your night auditor is checking in a family of four, answering the phone, restocking the breakfast bar, and triaging a maintenance ticket. All at the same time. Service quality drops. So do reviews. So do repeat bookings.

Compounds every shift, every season
The hotel that answers the phone wins the booking. We just built the thing that always answers.
Sam, owner-operator, Comfort Inn Huntsville Research Park
Room IIii.

Hear Ava. Three real calls. No marketing demos.

Most "AI for hotels" demos are scripted. Below are three actual call types Ava handles every night at our test property in Huntsville. Read the transcripts, hear the audio, decide for yourself.

Sample 01 · 02:47 AM

After-hours rate inquiry.

0:42
Caller "Hi, do y'all have a room for tonight? Late check-in." Ava "We sure do. Our rates start at $110, depending on availability. I can have our desk call you back in five minutes with the exact rate and book you, or you can check our website. Which works better?" Caller "Just text me a confirmation when it's booked. I'll be there by 1."
Sample 02 · 11:18 PM

Group block, sports tournament.

1:23
Caller "I'm calling about a youth soccer tournament next month. I need about 18 rooms across Friday and Saturday night." Ava "Wonderful. We love hosting groups. Sam from our team will follow up personally within the hour. First, what's the name of the tournament?" Caller "Rocket City Cup. Coaches and parents, mostly..."
Sample 03 · 09:04 PM

Spanish-speaking guest.

0:35
Caller "Buenas noches, ¿tienen habitaciones disponibles para mañana?" Ava (in Spanish) "Buenas noches. Sí, tenemos disponibilidad. Nuestras tarifas comienzan en $110 por noche. ¿Para cuántas personas y cuántas noches?" Caller "Dos personas, dos noches..."

Call Ava live right now: (256) 809-0866. She answers in under two rings.

Room IIIiii.

Your numbers, not ours. Run the math on your property.

Plug in your rooms and your ADR. The calculator below is the same conservative model we use for every property we onboard. Most owners see results better than this.

★ Live Estimate Annual Projection
Property Folio · Custom Run
rooms
Typical limited-service property: 60 to 120 rooms
$ / night
Mid-South limited-service average: $110–$150
calls
Most properties underestimate this by half
Your annual gain (estimated)
Recovered bookings $20,280
Group inquiries captured $8,000
Long-stay captures $22,000
Front desk hours saved $7,665
Anchor service cost − $13,900
Net annual gain $44,045
Room IViv.

One agent. Every call. Day and night, English and Spanish.

Ava picks up every call, sounds like a person, and routes intelligently. The unsexy work that drains your staff, automated. The high-margin moments, captured cleanly.

§ 01 · Always answering

First ring. Every time.

No more voicemail. No more "please hold." Ava picks up on the first ring, twenty-four hours a day, in English or Spanish, auto-detected from the caller's first sentence.

§ 02 · Rate strategy

Quotes the right way.

"Starting at $X, depending on availability." Captures booking intent without committing your property to a wrong price. The exact rate is confirmed by your front desk on the callback.

§ 03 · Lead capture

Group inquiries, intact.

Groups, weddings, crews, long-stays. Ava captures every required field and SMS-alerts the owner inside two minutes. No more $5,000 bookings disappearing into a paper notebook.

§ 04 · FAQ flood

Handles the small stuff.

Pool hours. Breakfast times. Pet policy. Directions from the airport. The thirty questions your front desk answers fifty times a day. Handled.

§ 05 · Smart transfer

Knows when to step aside.

In-stay issues, lockouts, manager requests, emergencies. Ava transfers immediately to your front desk. Trained on when she should be answering and when she shouldn't.

§ 06 · Brand-safe

Sits outside your PMS.

No franchise approvals. No brand IT delays. Lives on your phone line, plays nicely with whatever PMS, RMS, or call system your brand mandates. Deploys in days, not quarters.

Room Vv.

The ledger. Conservative numbers for a 70-room property.

A folio for a typical 70-room limited-service property. We use conservative assumptions throughout. Actual results from your property are measured monthly and reported back.

★ Year One Estimate ★
Annual Folio · Property #00001
70-room limited-service · Mid-South ADR
After-hours bookings recovered Calls that previously went to voicemail
3/wk · $130 · 52
+ $20,280
Group inquiries captured Sports, weddings, funerals, corporate blocks
2 groups · $4,000
+ $8,000
Long-stay capture Crews, traveling nurses. Calls worth $5K+
1/quarter · $5,500
+ $22,000
Front desk hours saved Phone time redirected to in-person guests
1.5 hrs/day · $14 · 365
+ $7,665
Anchor service cost Setup + retainer + operating cost
$2,500 + $11,400/yr
− $13,900
Net annual gain
$44,045

Illustrative for a 70-room mid-scale property at typical mid-South ADR. Your actual results depend on call volume, current voicemail miss rate, and front-desk staffing levels. Reported monthly. No spin.

Room VIvi.

Paperwork to live line in seven days.

No franchise approvals. No tech integrations. No new vendor your brand has to bless. We work outside the PMS and on top of your existing phone line.

First.

Discovery & factsheet.

One ninety-minute call. We capture every detail of your property: rates, amenities, hours, policies, local landmarks, scripts. You sign off on the knowledge base before we build anything.

Day 1 – 2
Then.

Build & parallel test.

We build Ava on a parallel phone line. Voice trained, scripts loaded, your top FAQs verified. You call in twenty times pretending to be every guest type. We iterate.

Day 3 – 6
Finally.

Cut over & measure.

We point your main line through Ava with a one-line forwarding rule. We monitor every call for the first week. Monthly performance report from day thirty forward.

Day 7 & onward
Room VIIvii.

Peer hoteliers. Same flag, same headaches, same fix.

The honest word from peer hoteliers running Ava at their properties. First wave of pilot owners across multiple brands launching now. Case studies are being captured live.

Pilot · Q1

"Three group blocks in the first month I would have missed otherwise. Paid for itself by week six. My night auditor finally has time to do her actual job."

M
Mike Hampton Inn · Tennessee
Pilot · Q1

"I run three properties. Anchor is the first thing in fifteen years that actually saved me time AND made me money on the same line item. AAHOA folks need to know about this."

J
Janan Holiday Inn Express (×3) · Alabama
Pilot · Q1

"My Spanish-speaking guests get the same service as everyone else now. That alone was worth the price. The group capture is a bonus we didn't expect."

S
Stacy La Quinta · Georgia

First pilot cohort closes Q2. Hear Ava yourself: (256) 809-0866

Room VIIIviii.

Built by a hotel owner. Not by an AI bro who's never run a property.

Most "AI for hotels" companies sell a generic chatbot dressed up in hospitality language. We started by building this for our own property, then made it work for every flag on the market. The product exists because we needed it ourselves. Now you can have it too.

The generic AI agency

  • Pitches every vertical: restaurants, gyms, dentists, hotels
  • Doesn't know a PMS from a punch list
  • Demos a script that breaks the first time a guest goes off-script
  • Locks rates into the AI, quotes wrong when demand shifts
  • Wants to integrate with your PMS, then a six-month brand approval slog
  • Charges $5K+/month and disappears after onboarding

Anchor

  • Built exclusively for limited-service hotels, every flag
  • Owner-operators who actually run a property
  • "Starting-at" rate quoting, never commits to a wrong price
  • Brand-safe. Sits on your phone line, doesn't touch your PMS
  • One factsheet, seven days, you're live
  • Fixed monthly retainer, monthly performance reports, real metrics
Room IXix.

Terms of service. No quote forms, no haggling.

One price. One property. Multi-property owners: ask about portfolio rates on the demo call.

Single Property
Every Brand · Every Flag · Every Property
The Anchor Retainer
$600/ month
+ $2,500 one-time setup
  • Ava AI phone agent, 24/7, unlimited call volume
  • English + Spanish, auto-detected at greeting
  • Group, corporate, long-stay lead capture
  • SMS alerts to owner for every high-value inquiry
  • Monthly performance report: bookings recovered, hours saved
  • Quarterly factsheet update: rates, policies, seasonal events
  • Month-to-month after the first 90 days. No long contracts
  • Direct line to support, not a ticket portal
Book the demo
Room Xx.

The questions hotel owners actually ask.

No marketing copy. The honest answers we've already given a dozen times.

Does this require franchise approval?
No. Ava lives on your phone line, not inside your PMS. We don't touch your booking engine, channel manager, or any brand-mandated system. That's a deliberate design choice so you can deploy in days, not quarters, regardless of what flag you fly.
What happens when a guest actually wants to book?
Ava captures the booking details (name, dates, room type, contact) and routes them to your front desk for callback within the hour. Revenue-managed rates change daily; pinning a specific rate to the AI risks committing you to a wrong price. The capture-and-callback model protects margin while still catching the demand.
How does Ava sound? Is it obviously AI?
Most guests don't realize until they ask. Modern neural voices, sub-second response time, natural interruption handling. Book a demo and call the test line yourself. That's the only honest answer.
What does it cost to run beyond your fee?
Marginal call cost runs roughly twenty cents. For a typical 70-room property, total operating costs are $150 to $350 per month, included in the monthly retainer. No surprises.
Will my front desk staff hate this?
If you frame it as "we're replacing you," yes. If you frame it as "we're giving you back two hours a day to take care of guests in front of you," they usually become the biggest advocates. We help you write the staff memo.
What if Ava gets something wrong?
We monitor every transcript for the first 30 days and tune weekly. Ava is also instructed to escalate anything she's uncertain about. The default failure mode is "let me have someone follow up," not "let me invent an answer."
Which brands do you support?
Every flag. We've built Anchor for the entire limited-service category: Choice (Comfort, Quality, Sleep, Cambria), Hilton (Hampton, Hilton Garden Inn, Tru, Home2), IHG (Holiday Inn Express, Candlewood, Staybridge, avid), Marriott (Fairfield, SpringHill, TownePlace), Wyndham (Days Inn, Super 8, La Quinta, Ramada, Microtel, Baymont), Best Western, Red Roof, Motel 6, Extended Stay America, and independents. Because Anchor lives on your phone line and not inside your PMS, the brand on your sign doesn't matter to the technology.
Can I cancel?
Month to month after the first 90 days. We don't lock anyone in long contracts. If Anchor isn't earning its keep, you shouldn't be paying.
Final Note

Stop missing the calls that pay your mortgage.

Book a fifteen-minute demo. Bring last week's call log. We'll show you exactly where the money is leaking.

For sales questions, reach the owner directly at (706) 350-3883