The Vision
Short-term rental operations are broken by design.
Your systems don't talk to each other. Booking calendars don't control heating. Sensors don't inform decisions. AirAutomate is the platform that connects them — starting with Alfred, who links your booking calendar to your heating. Climate control is just the beginning.
The Problem We See
Every property operator knows this pattern.
Guest checks out at 10am. Cleaner arrives at 2pm. Next guest checks in at 4pm. During those six hours, the heating runs at full comfort temperature for an empty property. Multiply that across 10 properties, 30 turnovers a month, 12 months a year.
The waste is invisible because it's gradual. It shows up in monthly bills, not daily alerts. Most operators absorb it as a fixed cost. We don't think it has to be.
A typical month — 10 properties
Turnovers
checkout-to-checkin cycles
Avg gap
heating running with no guest
Wasted hours
of unnecessary heating
Estimated cost
in avoidable energy spend
Our Approach
Three principles that separate Alfred from a smart thermostat.
Calendar-driven, not thermostat-driven
Traditional smart heating reacts to occupancy. Alfred reads your booking calendar and anticipates. He knows what's coming before the guest does.
System-level thinking
One property is a thermostat problem. Twenty properties is a systems problem. Alfred is designed for the operator managing a portfolio, not a single home.
Infrastructure protection built in
Frost protection is never disabled. Pipes don't freeze. The system never switches everything off blindly. Safety is the floor, not a feature.
Platform Architecture
A team of specialists. Complex automation made human.
Each member of your AirAutomate team has a name, a role, and clear boundaries. Operators always know who is doing what.
Alfred
Core Control
Reads your calendar. Controls your heating. Executes decisions automatically across every property in your portfolio.
Live
Eleanor
Intelligence Layer
Sensor data, occupancy patterns, anomaly detection. Eleanor understands what's happening across your properties and surfaces structured recommendations.
Coming Soon
Angus
High-Power Systems
Hot tubs, swim spas, underfloor heating, multi-system orchestration. Angus manages the heavy-load systems that drain energy fastest.
Coming SoonThe Opportunity
Short-term rentals are a massive, underserved market for energy efficiency.
6.2M
Short-term rental listings in Europe alone. The vast majority have no intelligent heating control.
30%
Average heating energy wasted in properties with manual or timer-based control between bookings.
£400+
Estimated annual saving per property. Across a 20-property portfolio, that's meaningful margin recovery.
Commercial Model
Hardware gets you in. Software keeps you.
We subsidise hardware costs to reduce the barrier to entry. Our revenue comes from monthly subscriptions — aligned with the ongoing value we deliver. As your portfolio grows, your cost per property decreases.
No feature gating. No upsell friction. Every operator gets everything. Tiers are based on system complexity, not artificial limitations.
Hardware margin
Near-zeroWe want you to start, not profit from setup
Subscription
£19-49/moAlfred climate control, per property. Future products priced separately
Portfolio discounts
5-15%+Automatically applied as your portfolio grows
Lock-in
NoneMonth-to-month. The system earns its place every month
Ready to stop heating empty properties?
We're accepting founding operators now. Limited places available.