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Pre-Seed Investment Opportunity

StayHive

AI That Never Sleeps

Hospitality's first AI-native property management platform

March 2026  |  Confidential

The Problem

Your phone rings at 2AM.

Nobody answers.

$150 gone.

This happens every night at 50,000+ independent US properties. Missed calls, lost bookings, and OTA commissions draining margins down to nothing.

Annual Cost of Doing Nothing

$43,770/yr

Missed after-hours bookings $15,600 OTA commissions (avoidable) $21,600 Manual labor overhead $6,570

StayHive cost: $3,588/year

4.3x ROI in Year 1

The Solution

From missed call to booked room in 90 seconds

Guest Calls

2AM. July. Friday.

Tourist needs a room.

AI Answers

Checks availability. Books room.

Sends door code. Confirms payment.

$

Owner Wakes Up to Revenue

$150 booked.

Zero human intervention.

31 AI agents handle everything: voice calls, booking management, dynamic pricing, housekeeping, guest communication, and security24/7/365.

Traction

Live in Production. Real Revenue.

March 2026

Production Since

LIVE

12

GA Features

GA

97.2%

AI Test Pass Rate

PASSING

31

Active AI Agents

AGENTS

West Bethel Motel

764 W. Bethel Rd, West Bethel, ME 04286

Real property. Real guests. Real revenue.

(207) 836-3575 Call and hear the AI answer

How It Works

The Guest Journey

Phone / Web / Kiosk

Guest

31 AI Agents

StayHive

Owner Dashboard

Property Owner

Voice

Answers calls, books rooms, provides info, transfers to staff when needed

Operations

Housekeeping tasks, door codes, maintenance alerts, night audit

Intelligence

Dynamic pricing, revenue analytics, guest profiling, competitive monitoring

Defensibility

The AI Moat

31

AI Agents

Voice, booking, pricing, housekeeping, guest comms, security

535

Database Models

Enterprise-grade schema, 13 migrations, PostgreSQL RLS

4-Layer

Tenant Security

HTTP middleware → Agent Router → Query filters → Database RLS

Per-Tenant

AI Cost Attribution

Real-time budget enforcement, Stripe metered billing

Built in 90 engineering sessions using Claude Code. No competitor has this stack.

Why this can't be replicated with a ChatGPT wrapper: 4-layer multi-tenant isolation, per-property circuit breakers, real-time cost attribution, 1,301 automated tests, and an OpenAPI specification covering 27 endpoints.

TAM $4.3B US Independent Lodging SAM 50,000+ Properties 10-80 Rooms SOM (Year 2) 500

Market

The Untouched Market

Average property

22 rooms

Average RevPAR

$85/night

Current tech spend

$0 – $200/mo

StayHive entry price

$199/mo

Untouched by AI

95%+ of independent properties

Revenue

Business Model

Starter

$199/mo

20 rooms, 3 seats

  • Booking management
  • Guest portal
  • Housekeeping
  • Door codes
  • Email support

Standard

$299/mo

30 rooms, 5 seats

  • Everything in Starter
  • SMS notifications
  • Revenue reports
  • Maintenance tracking
  • Priority support

Enterprise

$499/mo

Unlimited

  • Everything in Professional
  • White-label branding
  • API access
  • Custom integrations
  • SLA guarantee

10 à la carte add-ons

Door Codes $29/mo Two-Way SMS $39/mo Channel Manager $49/mo Expense Mgmt $29/mo AI Pricing $49/mo Web Chat $39/mo AI Auto-Responses $59/mo Voice AI (24/7) $79/mo Email Threading $29/mo Custom Integrations $99/mo

Net Revenue Retention

Metered AI usage billing → NRR >100%

Usage-based pricing on AI calls ensures expansion revenue grows with each property

Financials

Unit Economics

21x

LTV / CAC

$10,764 LTV at $299/mo × 36 months vs $500 target CAC

~85%

Gross Margin

AI infrastructure costs ~15% of subscription revenue

4.3x

Year 1 ROI

$15,600 recovered booking revenue vs $3,588 annual cost

AI Cost Waterfall — Per Property at $299/mo

$299/mo Revenue -$45 AI $249/mo Gross Profit (83%) -$45 AI Costs -$5 Infra

AI costs tracked per-tenant in real-time via TenantAILedger. Costs decrease as model prices drop.

Independent Property Focus → AI Capability → AI Enterprise AI Independent Enterprise PMS Budget PMS Oracle / Mews Little Hotelier $109-149/mo Cloudbeds $200-500/mo StayHive $199-499/mo

Competition

Competitive Advantage

Feature StayHive Little Hotelier Cloudbeds
AI Voice Agent Yes No No
Door Code Automation Yes No No
Dynamic AI Pricing Yes No Extra cost
Multi-tenant Isolation Yes Limited Yes
Starting Price $199/mo $109/mo $200+/mo

Traction

What's Live

LIVE

1 production property

12 GA features across 4 tiers

31 AI agents with 97.2% pass rate

Stripe billing: 15 products, 29 prices

OpenAPI specification (27 endpoints)

1,301 automated tests

PostgreSQL RLS on 7 tables

Roadmap

Next 6 Months

Month 1

A2P 10DLC SMS goes live

Month 1-2

5 pilot properties onboarded

Month 3

Channel manager GA (Booking.com, Expedia)

Month 4

15 properties, first hired salesperson

Month 6

25 properties, $90K ARR target

Month 6

Position for $2-3M seed round

Team

Who's Building This

Aaron Bentley

Forward Deployed Founder & Technical Architect

Forward Deployed Founder who built StayHive from a real operational need at West Bethel Motel, Maine. The rare combination: a hospitality operator who is also the technical architect behind 535 database models, 31 AI agents, and a 4-layer multi-tenant security system. Can implement and integrate with anything — from Twilio voice APIs to Stripe billing to PostgreSQL row-level security.

How We Build

90

engineering sessions with Claude Code

10K+

lines of production code in a single session

AI-native development: we use AI to build AI-powered software

This isn't a side project — it's a technical achievement that proves the AI inventor thesis

The Rare Value Proposition

Most founders need a technical co-founder. Most CTOs need an operator to explain the problem. Aaron is both — a forward deployed founder who operates a real property, understands the pain firsthand, and builds the AI infrastructure to solve it. This combination is rare and is the unfair advantage behind StayHive's velocity.

Investment

The Ask

$500,000 – $750,000

Pre-Seed Round

$500K -$750K
40% Pilot Properties
25% Engineering
20% Sales & Marketing
15% Operations

10

paying properties within 6 months

PMF

Product-market fit validated across multiple geographies

$2-3M

Positioned for seed round

Hospitality is first.

The pattern repeats.

Industries where the workforce gap is real, the data is structured, and customer interactions are predictable are ripe for AI-native automation.

ACTIVE

Hospitality

Production. Revenue. 31 agents.

Auto Repair

Structured data. Appointment chaos. 2027.

Veterinary

Same pattern. Same opportunity. 2028.

This is AI Infrastructure for Hospitality.

Aaron Bentley  |  aaron@mahoosuc.solutions  |  (207) 836-3575

stayhive.cloud  |  West Bethel, Maine