ProhostAI is building an AI-powered operating system to automate guest communications and hosting operations for vacation rental hosts. We are on a mission to make every host a 5-star host. Our founding team consists of data scientists and engineers from Airbnb and Dropbox.
AI-powered operating system for vacation rental hosts
Title: ProhostAI: AI Property Manager for Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Hosts | Y Combinator

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### AI Property Manager for Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Hosts

ProhostAI is building an AI Property Manager for short-term rental hosts on Airbnb and other platforms. Our team consists of an ex-Airbnb Staff Data Scientist and Dropbox Sr Software Engineer who are also Superhosts with 9 properties worth $15M making $1.5M/yr.

### Jobs at ProhostAI

San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)

$100K - $200K

0.10% - 1.00%

3+ years

San Francisco, CA, US / Remote

$100K - $200K

0.10% - 1.50%

3+ years

San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)

$100K - $200K

0.10% - 1.50%

Any (new grads ok)



ProhostAI

Founded:2024

Team Size:2

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Bill Ulammandakh, Founder

Co-founder and CEO at ProhostAI. Previously Staff Data Scientist at Airbnb, Etsy, Thumbtack and Wayfair. Harvard undergrad.



### Andrew Lawson, Founder

Co-founder and CTO at ProhostAI. Previously Software Engineer at Dropbox, JWPlayer, and others.



### Company Launches

[### ProhostAI - AI property manager for Airbnb hosts](

[**ProhostAI**]( **is an AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms.**  We run 9 Airbnb properties as Superhosts (4.99+ rating) worth $15M, and our AI automations have already cut our own costs by 30% and automated 70% of guest communications.

**Our key features:**

*   **AI for Guest Communications:** AI agent drafts responses to every guest message
*   **AI for Maintenance Ticketing & Cleaning Management**
*   **AI for Revenue Generation** with automated guest upsells

All of this with a first class mobile app, because most hosts manage their properties from their phones!



### Our Founding Team

[**Bill**](

*   **Bill was a Staff Data Scientist, Algorithms at Airbnb for 6+ years, building AI & ML products**
    *   3 AI patents for products implemented at Airbnb that drove hundreds of millions in revenue
*   9+ years total in data science (Etsy, Wayfair, Thumbtack)
*   Undergrad from Harvard

[**Andrew**](

*   **Andrew was a Sr Software Engineer at Dropbox for 6+ years,** working on their API Platform handling millions of requests per second
*   9+ years as a software engineer

We are Airbnb hosts with 9 properties, 4.99+ ratings across 1000+ guest reviews, and $1.5M/yr revenue. We've been hosts for 5+ years.

### Why we are building ProhostAI

*   **70% of things a host has to do can be automated with no intervention today**
    *   Guest communications, cleaning coordination & communication, and maintenance ticket management are repetitive and simple tasks ripe for automation with LLMs and AI agents with a high-quality mobile-first experience.
*   **80%+ of hosts use no SaaS tools yet** but are ready to professionalize their operations with better tools.
*   **Airbnb hosts are digitally native, working from their mobile phones all the time**, and highly likely to adopt new technologies to improve their operations.
*   **SaaS for hosts is a $5B market** with 10 million short-term rental listings globally!



**🚀Asks**
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1.  **If you are a host, join our waitlist at** [**prohost.ai**]( or shoot me an email at [bill@prohost.ai](mailto:bill@prohost.ai)!
2.  **Share our website with others hosts** and have them join our waitlist!
3.  **Follow us on **[**LinkedIn**]( and **[**X**](
4.  **If you are using Hostaway or Guesty for Pros to manage your properties,** we can get you set up right away! Sign up for a free trial [**here**]( or [**book a demo**](
