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Small hotel or guesthouse

Map the work, assign responsibilities and assess where digital support could help. Adapt this starting structure to your team.

A typical Small hotel or guesthouse with 8 people covers 13 functions.

Up to 9 functions are eligible for Digital Employee support, under a personโ€™s supervision.

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dedicated
4

Functions someone does full time.

hats
6

Functions carried by someone who already carries others.

uncovered
2

Functions nobody does today.

Outsourced
1

Functions entrusted to an external specialist.

How does it look at your place?

Set your team size and say who covers each function today. The four numbers update as you go. Nothing leaves this page until you sign up.

8 people
4
dedicated
6
hats
2
uncovered
1
Outsourced

Who does it at your place?

  1. Owner and host
    Typical: Usually someone full time
  2. Front desk: check-in, guest registration and city tax
    Typical: Usually someone full time DE
  3. Housekeeping and breakfast
    Typical: Usually someone full time
  4. Pre-arrival messages, guest requests and post-stay follow-up
    Typical: Usually a shared hat DE
  5. Channel alignment, platform payouts and commission reconciliation
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  6. Maintenance, driver and facilities
    Typical: Usually someone full time
  7. Social media and online reviews
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  8. Website, direct bookings and returning-guest newsletter
    Typical: Usually nobody DE
  9. Seasonal rota, hours and payroll inputs
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  10. Hiring of seasonal staff and candidate screening
    Typical: Usually nobody DE
  11. Supplier invoices, bank matching and payment packs
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  12. Licences, fire safety, pool records and inspections register
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  13. External accountant and payroll consultant
    Typical: Usually outsourced

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What a typical Small hotel or guesthouse has to cover

Function by function: how it is usually covered, what hurts, and where a Digital Employee can take the hat under the supervision of whoever wears it today.

Owner

(1)

Owner and host

Usually someone full time

This one is done by a person.

Front office and administration

(10)

Front desk: check-in, guest registration and city tax

Usually someone full time

Two people check in, answer the phone, register the guests for the police, compute the city tax and type the pre-arrival answers between two arrivals.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Pre-arrival messages, guest requests and post-stay follow-up

Usually a shared hat

Guests write before arrival to ask about parking, late check-in and the beach, and the answers are typed on the phone between two check-ins.

Digital Employee ยท Support Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Channel alignment, platform payouts and commission reconciliation

Usually the owner, after hours

The channel manager is trusted until the overbooking in August, and the payouts, the commissions and the card payments are reconciled when the accountant asks.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Social media and online reviews

Usually the owner, after hours

Reviews are the hotel's marketing and the owner answers them at midnight; the social page shows last summer.

Digital Employee ยท Marketing Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Website, direct bookings and returning-guest newsletter

Usually nobody

The website shows last year's rates and the returning guests are never invited back directly, so the platforms take the commission twice.

Digital Employee ยท Marketing Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Seasonal rota, hours and payroll inputs

Usually the owner, after hours

The rota for the season is built in May and rebuilt every week; the hours for the payroll consultant are reconstructed at month end.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Hiring of seasonal staff and candidate screening

Usually nobody

Seasonal hiring is a search through last year's staff, and the applications from the platforms get no answer.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Supplier invoices, bank matching and payment packs

Usually the owner, after hours

Laundry, breakfast and maintenance suppliers invoice on three channels and are paid when the reminder comes.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Licences, fire safety, pool records and inspections register

Usually the owner, after hours

The licences, the fire safety checks and the pool records have dates in a drawer, and the inspection is the day they are found.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

External accountant and payroll consultant

Usually outsourced

The hotel's books and payroll are outsourced and fed in monthly batches, and the corrections come back at the quarter.

This one is done by a person.

Rooms, breakfast and maintenance

(2)

Housekeeping and breakfast

Usually someone full time

This one is done by a person.

Maintenance, driver and facilities

Usually someone full time

This one is done by a person.

The first week

What starts after the brief is complete, with every condition kept visible.

  1. A task from the role brief

    Once the brief is complete and the Digital Employee is active, Scovai creates a first task from the role definition. An incomplete brief never produces invented work.

  2. A useful daily summary

    At 07:30 local time, supervisors and the workspace owner receive yesterday's work, open approvals, incidents, silence and spend. Empty days send no email, except for the quiet Monday check-in.

  3. Phone updates by choice

    The push invitation appears only after the first approval request. If you do not enable it, the operational picture remains available in the email summary.

From a reference model to your structure

1

Start from the model

Sign up on the free AGENTIC plan with this blueprint preloaded. You confirm the profile and the functions; nothing is written until you apply.

Found your company
2

Assign the hats

Say who does what today. The mirror shows the load per person and the functions still uncovered, and marks where a Digital Employee is honestly proposable.

See how Digital Employees work
3

Hire from the marketplace

Explore Digital Employees by role and competence. Assign one only after choosing a seat, a clear brief and a human supervisor.

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Straight answers

Who supervises the digital employees?

Each digital employee sits in a seat under a named person in the hotel, usually the owner or the front desk lead. It covers an administrative or support function under that person's supervision, reports what it did, and stops whenever the supervisor says so. No digital employee sits in the professional core seat.

What does a digital employee never decide?

Anything the owner decides: rates and discounts, a refund or a cancellation exception, a supplier, the rota, an answer to a complaint about a person, the licences and the safety records, and whatever its brief marks as reserved: payments, anything sent to an authority, any commitment to a tour operator. On those it prepares the work and asks before acting; the first message to any outside recipient is always a draft.

Where does it take its data from?

From the property management system and the channel manager, the booking platforms' extranets, the review sites, the supplier mailbox and the folders you connect to its seat, and from what the owner and the front desk tell it. It reads nothing you have not connected, contacts nobody you have not listed and handles personal data only within the systems you already use.

What does it cost?

Each digital employee is billed monthly by price band, shown in your currency on the marketplace before you claim a seat. You claim one seat at a time and can release it; there is no bundle price.