Hotel operations studio · Berlin

Smart hotel operations. Simplified.

Designed by hospitality operators. Built for daily operations.

We build and operate custom automation systems for hotels, hotel groups, and the central teams that serve them.

A small studio that builds, and stays to operate.

We come from hotel operations ourselves. We build the systems we wish had existed when we were inside the work — and we stay to run them.

Why we exist

Hotel work should feel worth doing again.

We come from hotel operations. We have done the work — the inbox sorting, the copy-paste templates, the manual handoffs. We build the systems we wish had existed. The goal is not efficiency for its own sake. It is giving hotel teams their time back for the work that matters: guests, colleagues, the craft of hospitality.

What we build

Automation that fits the work.

We shape solutions around existing processes, not against them. Change friction is a real cost, not an externality. The hotel does not learn a new way of working — the system learns the hotel. What was gut feel becomes structured, reliable, machine-assisted work.

How we deliver

We build it, then we run it.

Every engagement follows the same shape: a setup fee to build, an ongoing monthly fee to operate. We stay in the system after go-live — monitoring, updating, tuning. Hotels do not inherit a maintenance burden. We never bill by the hour.

What we don't do

Not the standard answer.

We are not a slide-driven consultancy. We are not a self-service software vendor that hands over a login and disappears. We work with a small number of hotels at a time — selected on fit, not on pipeline pressure.

Custom automation, shaped around your operations.

Most hotels have already discovered that off-the-shelf tools don't fit their workflows. We start by listening to how the work actually runs — then design and build automation that lives inside the tools your team already uses.

Primary engagement

Custom Automation for hotels & central teams.

Bespoke automation systems for individual hotels, hotel groups, or the central teams that serve them. Built in defined phases. Operated by us thereafter.

01

A group sales inbox automation for a German hotel group — multi-intent classification, structured extraction per inquiry, draft preparation, folder routing and conversation tracking across the long sales cycle.

02

A central reservations workflow — classifies incoming requests, extracts guest and booking data, checks live availability, and prepares a complete reply draft. What was manual copy-paste from Excel templates becomes one click.

03

Workflow bridges between operational systems — connecting inbox, property management, and internal handoff where APIs allow, and pragmatic workarounds where they don't.

How a custom engagement works
Standard product

Mail Intelligence Engine

For the front desk.

A pattern we've productised. The shared front office mailbox handles everything — guest inquiries, FAQ, internal handoff. The engine classifies, structures, and prepares drafts. Nothing leaves the hotel without a human sending it.

Read more

Four steps. One sequence. Building before understanding is how good intentions become bad software.

01
Understand
02
Adapt
03
Build
04
Operate
01 — Understand

Time inside the operation.

We spend time with the operation as it actually runs. We talk to the people doing the work. We document what hurts, and why.

02 — Adapt

System learns the hotel.

We design solutions that fit the existing process. The system learns the hotel — not the other way around.

03 — Build

Inside the existing tools.

We build inside the tools hotels already use. As few new logins as possible. Dashboards only where they genuinely add value.

04 — Operate

We run it, indefinitely.

We run the system on the hotel's behalf, indefinitely. The hotel does not inherit operational responsibility for software it did not write.

"Hospitality got busy with the wrong things."

Hotels have filled themselves with tools, dashboards, and SOPs. Every metric is optimised — ADR, OCC, RevPAR — measured, tracked, dashboarded. The work has become busier, but not better.

The cumulative effect is a profession that fewer and fewer people want to enter. The industry tells itself this is a generational problem. "It is not. It is a working-conditions problem disguised as a generational one."

Automation, used carefully, can reverse some of that drift. Not by replacing people. By taking off their plates the work that nobody should have been doing manually in the first place — and giving back the parts of the job that make the job worth doing.

Quality time with guests. Quality time with colleagues.
Quality time on the work that matters.

Hotel data, handled with restraint.

Every system we build runs on EU infrastructure under a signed data processing agreement. Hotel data is not used to train AI models. Hotel staff work entirely inside the tools they already use.

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EU residency

All processing and storage inside the European Union. No transatlantic data transfer. Built on infrastructure hotels already trust, governed by AVV on every contract.

Hosting

EU infrastructure.

All processing and storage inside the European Union. No transatlantic data transfer. Built on infrastructure hotels already trust.

Legal basis

AVV on every contract.

A signed data processing agreement (Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag, GDPR Article 28) governs every engagement. Controller and processor roles, retention, and sub-processors defined in writing.

AI data handling

Not used for training.

Classification and draft generation run through commercial AI APIs under terms that exclude training use. No inputs, no outputs, no hotel data is used to train models.

Want to take work off your team, not add to it?

Relevo Lab works with a small number of hotels at a time. If any of this sounds like it could fit how your team works, write a few sentences about your setup and we'll take it from there.

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