AI agent for vacation rental hosts
Orphan Night Gap Fill Agent
Short calendar gaps are filled with the best price and rule changes, and each change is reviewed after a week.
What it does
A two night gap between bookings sits unsold because your minimum stay is three nights. Across several listings, that is a lot of lost income. This agent scans your calendars every week for short gaps, then tests price and minimum stay changes against comparable listings in the area. It proposes new rules for each gap, such as lowering the minimum stay to two nights or a small discount for last-minute bookers. After you approve and publish, it checks a week later whether the gap sold. If not, it adjusts the price or rule and proposes again. Edge case: a gap beside a cleaning-heavy checkout is flagged because turnover cost may outweigh a one night booking.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Weekly Sunday run
- Read calendars and find gaps of 1 to 3 nights
- Check comparable listings for price and minimum stay
- Calculate revenue after cleaning cost for each gap
- Draft rule and price changes per gap
- Does each proposal beat cleaning cost and stay above the floor price?If not: Raise the price or drop the gap from the list. Back to step 4.
- Host approves the changes before they go liveThe agent waits here for your OK.
- After one week, read the calendar again
- Did the gap sell?If not: Lower the price in steps or loosen the minimum stay, then repropose. Back to step 4.
- Gap report
How it decides
It proposes a rule only when expected revenue beats the cleaning cost and the gap is within 30 days of today.
- Consider gaps of 1 to 3 nights within 30 days
- Never go below the floor price set by the host
- Offer a discount of at most 15% for gaps under 5 days away
- Skip a gap if cleaning cost is more than 60% of the likely revenue
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Floor price per listing
- Maximum discount (default 15%)
- Gap length range
- Review period in days (default 7)
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Host approves every rate or rule change
Hard limits
- Never change prices on the platform itself
- Never go under the host's floor price
It stops when
- Done: gaps sold or accepted as unsold
- Stop: platform data unavailable
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide