Ready before they arrive
Alfred reads your bookings and starts ahead of check-in, so guests walk into a comfortable property. You see it on course, then how they arrived.
Meet Alfred
Comfortable for every arrival.
Eased back in every gap.
A thermostat for short-term lets that follows your booking calendar instead of a schedule. Nothing to set, and no guest to remind to turn it down.
Works with your calendar
At checkout Alfred drops to a lower eco hold. Ahead of check-in it starts the run-up, so the place is already comfortable when the guest opens the door.
Read-only sync. Arrivals and departures only.
Direct or by calendar link, and we're adding more.
Every arrival handled, across every property.
One view of every property
Every property on one screen: what needs you first, who arrives next and whether the rooms will be comfortable in time. If one needs you, we email you.
Just a thermostat to guests
It replaces the thermostat already on the wall, and guests turn it up or down like any other. No app, nothing to explain, no cameras or microphones.
Your heating doesn't care if no one's checked in.
The same gap between two stays, drawn twice. A weekly programme heats the property at breakfast and again in the evening whether anyone is in, and is still cold when the guest arrives. Alfred holds back until the next arrival is due.
A weekly programme
Comfort at breakfast and in the evening, every day
- Calling for heat
- 4.3 h
- all of it with no one due
- At check-in
- 16.8°
- Not comfortable
Alfred
Eco from checkout, the run-up 3 h before check-in
Checkout 10:0018:0002:0010:00Check-in 15:00
- Calling for heat
- 3.4 h
- 2.8 h of it in the run-up
- At check-in
- 20.1°
- Comfortable
Illustrative: a 10:00 checkout, a 15:00 check-in the next day, an outside temperature between 5° and 11°, and the same property under each.
See how Alfred does itBuilt by operators who run short-term lets themselves.
We own and manage more than sixty short-term lets between us, so we know how much heating goes into a property no one is in. That is why we built Alfred.
Run it solo, or with a team
Bring in your team, without giving up control.
Owners keep control, always. Add a Manager to run things for you, an Operator for the day-to-day, or send the person who manages your bookings a one-time link with no account at all. We've been on both sides, owner and manager, so who controls what is the thing we built first. Running it alone? Skip all of this.
Give someone a login
Invite a co-manager or a regular operator by email. A Manager runs everything on the owner's behalf; an Operator handles the day-to-day without touching billing. Access is per property, and you can change it any time.
How access works
Who can do what
- You keep control
- Whoever pays for a property keeps full control and can change access at any time. That can't be taken away.
- Manager
- Full control: settings, billing, and inviting others.
- Operator
- Day-to-day running: live status, alerts, overrides. No billing.
- Invites
- Invite by email. If they don't have an account yet, their access starts the moment they sign up.
Or just send a link
Send the person who manages your bookings a one-time link to connect a calendar, and nothing more. No account, no dashboard access. It works once, then expires.
Delegated
Delegated connection
Hand calendar connection to the person who manages your bookings, without giving them dashboard access. The link works once and then expires.
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The limits
What Alfred doesn't do.
Alfred sits in someone else's home while they are on holiday. That earns a straight answer about what it cannot see, hear or touch.
What Alfred reads
- When each stay starts and ends: from your calendar, or the times you set.
- That a room is in use. Motion only.
- Your booking calendar, read-only.
- Whatever a guest sets on the wall.
What it never does
- No cameras.
Presence is a motion sensor. It knows a room is being used, not who is in it or what they are doing.
- No microphones.
Alfred does not listen. There is no audio in the device at all, so it cannot monitor noise or conversation.
- No guest details.
Alfred reads when each stay starts and ends, from your calendar or the times you set. Names, contact details and payment data never reach it.
- No writing to your calendar.
The connection is read-only. Alfred can never move, cancel or create a booking, however it is configured.
Stop heating empty rooms.
Be part of what we're building. Founding operators get Alfred before launch, a direct line to the team, and a say in what it becomes.
Not ready yet? Calculate your savings
- 30-day free trial
- Your first month of Alfred's subscription is on us.
- 30 days to change your mind
- Send it back for a full refund. No reason needed.
- 12-month warranty
- A faulty Alfred is replaced free, straight from your dashboard.
- No lock-in
- Month-to-month. The hardware is yours from day one.