GuruHotel
ActiveAI-native direct booking infrastructure for global hospitality
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About
GuruHotel is building the AI-native booking protocol that will power direct hotel reservations in the next decade, effectively becoming "Stripe for hotel bookings" and ending OTAs' $370B stranglehold on hospitality distribution. For 25 years, hotel ecommerce has been broken. Independent hotels lack the infrastructure to sell directly online, forcing them to pay OTAs 20-40% commissions on 40-60% of their bookings. Hotel websites don't convert (<0.5% vs. 5-10% in modern ecommerce), booking engines redirect users, payments are fragmented, and inventory is trapped in legacy PMS systems. More critically: AI agents cannot book hotels directly today. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, none can complete a hotel transaction end-to-end because inventory isn't exposed in a machine-readable format. GuruHotel has built the complete solution: a full-stack ecommerce platform (website + native booking engine + checkout + payments + AI-ready APIs) that integrates directly with hotel PMS systems, enabling both humans and AI agents to book directly.
Founders · 3
Hospitality Professional with over 10 years of experience in E-commerce, Revenue Management and Online Distribution for Hotels and Vacation Rentals. Broad experience managing overall sales for properties in Mexico and the Caribbean with a deep understanding of booking engines, channel managers, price comparison and revenue management tools.
Cofounder at @GuruHotel (YCW20). Angel Investor in +40 LATAM startups.
I make digital products. I am based in Medellín, Colombia. Brands and UI / UX designer, frontend developer lead and co-founder of GuruHotel, Inc.
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