🧠 Show & Tell: What have you built with AI + the OwnerRez API?
We’ve been seeing a lot of interest lately around MCP and AI integrations, which is awesome.
At the same time, I think many folks may not realize just how much you can already do today using the OwnerRez API combined with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and others.
So I thought it would be fun, and helpful for the community, to start a bit of a Show & Tell thread
🚀 What have you built?
If you’ve created anything using AI + the OwnerRez API, we’d love to see it!
That could be things like:
📸 If you can, share:
👨💻 Also curious:
🎯 Goal here
The goal is simple, to help others see what’s possible.
There are already some really creative things being built out there, and with how good AI tools have gotten, you don’t necessarily need to be a developer to get started anymore.
If you’ve built something cool, even if it feels small, share it. It might be exactly what someone else needed to see to get started.
👉 Added bonus: On May 1st, I’m going to take everyone who has submitted an example and put the names into a randomizer. One person will win a $100 Amazon gift card as a thank you for taking the time to share with the community.
Looking forward to seeing what everyone has put together!
I'm not a professional coder/developer but enjoy dabbling with tech and would say I'm moderately experienced. AI vibe coding (with Lovable) has helped me build several useful tools integrated with our OwnerRez account.
To start, I built our direct-booking site (potomacadventure.com). It's fully-synced with our OR data and automatically generates new property-detail pages when I add a property in OR.
The best part is; now that I've got our OwnerRez connection established for the web site, I'm able to re-purpose the same data to easily build other tools and the possibilities are endless.
For example; I just finished a task manager with a lot of features that could only be possible with the OwnerRez API connection:
- The admin dashboard let's us create one-off tasks or auto-generate tasks in real time based on our OR calendar.
- Our staff logs into the task portal with a PIN to see their task list.
- Tasks display check-out & check-in times. Late departures and early arrivals are highlighted in bright red.
- Tasks show the cleaner details they need to know about the next guests
- Staff can add notes and upload photos.
I built a chrome extension that takes Amazon purchase orders and turns them into recorded expenses. Enjoy.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/amazon-to-ownerrez-expens/kbkknholokeoedejfnghagfkdchjfagc
Screenshots: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aRxRAPKFChGSSTx56
🚀 What I’ve Built with AI + OwnerRez API
My end goal is simple: remove myself from day-to-day operations while still scaling the business.
Over the past few months, I’ve been building a fully custom operations system on top of OwnerRez using AI tools.
🧹 Replaced Resort Cleaning with an Internal App
I built a full cleaning + inspection system:
🌡️ Built My Own Smart Device Automation (Replacing Vendors)
🔥 Smart Pool Heater Logic
📲 Guest + Cleaner Coordination System
🚪 Early Checkout Automation
🔐 Backup Access System (Saved Me Multiple Times)
🧩 Built a Full Internal Ops Dashboard
On top of all this, I created a centralized admin system to run everything:
At this point, it’s less of a “tool” and more of a custom operating system for running my STR business.
🧠 Tools Used
👨💻 Technical Level
Some experience, but not a developer.
Had never built anything like this or worked deeply with APIs before AI.
🔮 What I’m Building Next
All focused on removing myself further from operations:
🎯 Big takeaway:
AI + the OwnerRez API makes it possible to build real, scalable systems without being a traditional developer.
What a great idea
I built a chrome extension that takes Amazon purchase orders and turns them into recorded expenses. Enjoy.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/amazon-to-ownerrez-expens/kbkknholokeoedejfnghagfkdchjfagc
Love this! Are you willing to share your plug-ins?
I should also point out that RedCarpet Host—an official OwnerRez integration—is a good demonstration of what's possible to build with AI coding and the OwnerRez API.
The primary component of RedCarpet Host is the Guidebook app. It includes a complete admin interface for building and editing guidebooks. Personalized guidebooks are generated for each booking.
The ability to use OwnerRez custom field codes as content in the guidebooks is a game-changing feature. It let's OwnerRez be my single source of guest information & instructions so guidebooks update automatically when I make a change to a custom field in OwnerRez. No need to update info in multiple places!
A uniquely AI feature is the ability to include dynamically-generated content in guidebooks based on AI prompts. e.g. Using the dates of guest's stay and property location to provide seasonal packing suggestion and activities.
You can watch a demo of the guest interface at:
https://youtu.be/Qu2wKBhcPfY
Additional tools include; a fully automated Waitlist, a Property Status tool, and a Cancellation Monitor.
I'm not a developer, but have been playing with Claude integrated with OR. So far, I've done the following:
1) Connected OR to Tawk.to using (Claude Code and Railway to host the connection) so that my chatbot on my website can actually look up availability and pricing info to give accurate info to people asking the chatbot. Here is a more detailed description: https://www.notion.so/How-We-Connected-tawk-to-Scout-to-OwnerRez-Summary-for-Other-Hosts-34f020d9e37c81829501dc856fcef193?source=copy_link
2) Connected OR to Claude Cowork so that I can run a "skill" every Monday morning that tells me how my bookings are looking this week vs. last year; 30 days out TY vs LY, ADR, etc. You can decide which data you want in the report. I call it my "Booking Pacing Report" and I can run it anytime from Claude. Here's a description of how ti works: https://www.notion.so/Weekly-Booking-Pacing-Report-Summary-for-Other-OR-Hosts-34f020d9e37c81b095f2ff0cfbf1926e?source=copy_link
3) I use claude for all kinds of other things as well that aren't necessarily related to the API connection. For example, if I'm running an email promo with a discount, I don't want to send it to people who already have a booking. But I also don't have a report in OR that connects people's emails with their booking dates. So, I download a "bookings detail" report with arrival dates and ask Claude to create a new version that connects it to a CRM report that has people's first name, last name and email. By merging those together, I can now sort by anyone who has an arrival date in the next month and exclude them from my mailing list. Otherwise, we get grouchy people who receive the email about some discount and they want it retroactively applied to their booking!
4) Another example, is I took the Booking Details report, told Claude that I consider Fridays and Saturdays to be weekends, and then asked for a new list of only guests who have booked "weekdays." Then, I connected it to the CRM list and had a great "Look Alike Audience" list for targeting ads at weekday people in Meta or Google AND i have a good mailing list of people who might want to book a weekday vs a weekend for a future email campaign.
5) I also downloaded all of my amazon purchases in Claude (we buy almost all of our supplies from amazon!) and asked it to tell me how to save money with either different product choices, bulk saving options and/or purchasing through Costco or Sams.
Those are just a few of the things I have been doing. I would love more ideas if anyone has them! Let me know if you have questions on these! I'm actually thinking about consulting, so if you're interested, you can email me at atkonradi@gmail.com We could brainstorm a consulting plan!
I created StayMetrics.co, a dashboard to help me visualize and understand how I am pacing vs prior years and provide insights for improvements. I've expanded it to give me reporting on a number of metrics, like channel mix and average length of stay. It can now even generate owner reports with custom logos as well as commission reports to help me understand how I am doing vs prior years in terms of commissions.
I have no coding experience. I used Lovable for the main marketing page and Cursor for creating the dashboard. I use oauth so other OwnerRez customers can view their own metrics simply by logging in.
I am in the process of putting together systems and tools for co-hosting and one of the tools I have built is an Owners Performance Portal.
I put together a short Loom video showing the Portal and what I have created for it so far. Here is a link:
https://www.loom.com/share/9c249c6428df4eec9757ffacc5389cba
I am not a software developer by trade, but I am an electrical engineer with 25 years of experience in control systems engineering. My work has focused on the design and integration of industrial automation systems across water and wastewater treatment facilities, mining operations, and manufacturing plants. This has included significant programming responsibilities, specifically for programmable logic controllers (PLC) and human machine interfaces (HMI) using the IEC 61131-3 framework. Through this experience, I have developed a strong understanding of programming structure, organization, and best practices.
If you go back far enough, my college programming courses included Pascal, Fortran, C++, and even a bit of assembly which probably tells you exactly how long ago that was!
I used Gemini to build this, along with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), GitHub, and Vercel.
I plan to build the following in the future:
The plan is to build these all using Claude chat, cowork, and code.
I love talking technology and automation, so feel free to reach out if you want to discuss these or have any questions: chris@staypictureperfect.com
Here are some screenshots of the Owners Performance Portal:
Thanks to all those that shared! As promised, I put the names of those that showed off their work in a virtual hat and had AI do a random draw 3 separate times and averaged them to find the winner....
And the Winner is Chris H!! I will have our Marketing team reach out via email with your Gift Card prize! Thanks again for using OwnerRez, and keep creating these awesome solutions!
