Live now
Thu11:00AM
Guest checks out.
Calendar event resolves; the property registers as unoccupied. No human input required.
Interior21°C→14°C
The Problem
Your heating bill doesn't care if no one's checked in.
Every gap between bookings costs you money. Every cold arrival costs you a review. And neither one shows up on your calendar.
39%
of the average STR heating bill is spent on empty properties
£748
wasted per coastal cottage per year, on average
52%
of nights a typical holiday let sits unbooked
Based on UK STR occupancy data and £160/mo average heating cost. See the methodology.
What if your heating just followed your bookings?
The Solution
Meet Alfred.
A controller that reads your booking calendar and runs your heating automatically. Warm for every arrival. Standby for every gap. Quietly, without you lifting a finger.
What It Is
Calendar-driven climate control
A controller that replaces your existing thermostat and syncs with your booking calendar. Alfred reads your timeline and manages your heating automatically.
Who It's For
Short-term rental operators
Built for anyone who owns or manages short-term rentals — from a single Airbnb property to a portfolio of 100+.
Why It Matters
Your heating doesn't know when guests leave
Without AirAutomate, your heating runs at full blast between every checkout and check-in. That's money leaving your account every single day.
The Problem
Every empty hour costs you money. And you can't even see it.
Your booking system knows when guests arrive. Your heating system does not. That disconnect means you're paying to heat properties with nobody in them — every gap, every late check-in, every vacant Tuesday.
You're heating empty properties
Between every checkout and check-in, your heating runs at full blast for nobody. That's money leaving your account every single day.
Manual control doesn't scale
One property is manageable. Ten means you're logging into apps, texting cleaners, and still missing things. The cost of those missed adjustments adds up fast.
Last-minute bookings mean cold guests
A booking comes in tonight. You're driving, in a meeting, or managing a check-out. The property is cold when the guest arrives. That's a bad review waiting to happen.
You can't see where the money goes
No centralised way to know which properties are wasting energy, how much it's costing you, and where to cut.
The Solution
Alfred connects your calendar to your heating. The waste stops.
A controller replaces your existing thermostat and connects to your booking calendar via WiFi. Alfred reads your timeline and manages your heating automatically — warm before guests arrive, off when they leave.
Step 01
Connect your calendar
Alfred's controller replaces your thermostat and syncs with Airbnb, Booking.com, Hostaway, and all major PMS platforms.
Step 02
Alfred reads the timeline
The system knows when guests arrive and leave, and builds an optimised heating schedule.
Step 03
Heating follows bookings
Heating prepares before check-in and reduces after check-out. Frost protection stays active.
The day, hour by hour
Standby
Thu11:15AM
Heating drops to standby.
Setpoint eases to 14°C. Frost protection holds. Radiators stay quiet through the empty turnover.
Holding14°C
Pre-heat
Fri1:00PM
Pre-heat begins.
A 3pm arrival is on the booking ledger; warmth starts climbing two hours out of the check-in window.
Climbing14°C→21°C
Arrival
Fri3:00PM
Guest arrives to 21°C.
Warm rooms, no thermostat fiddling, no apology message from the operator.
Settled21°C
The point
Between checkout and check-in, a typical short-let burns four to six hours of heating into an empty room. Calendar-driven control closes that gap automatically — across one flat, or a portfolio of two hundred.
−38%
Average winter heating reduction