We started by building software for people the industry had given up on.
MyStayAI Technologies is an AI and technology company for India's hospitality, travel and tourism industry. We are based in Kolkata, we make four products, and we do not do anything else.
How we got here
We began in the unglamorous parts of this industry. Channel managers that disagree with each other. Tax rules that change with the budget. OTA payments that never quite match the bookings they are supposed to cover. Owners answering guests from a phone at midnight because there is nobody else to do it.
What became obvious was that the software was not missing features. It was missing judgement. A system would record a booking beautifully and tell you nothing about whether the price was right, whether the room would be ready, or whether the quote you had just sent still had margin in it. The hard part of the job was the part nobody had automated.
So we built products where that judgement is the point. myhomestay.ai went live first, in the hands of homestay owners with real bookings and real money at stake — the least forgiving customers you can have, and the best teachers. myotasync.com followed, because the same owners kept losing nights to calendars that disagreed with each other. myrevai.in and mydmcpro.com carry the idea into revenue management and tour operations.
India's stays and trips are mostly run by small businesses: farm stays, heritage houses, hill-station homestays, family tour operators. They create the jobs in their towns and give visitors the trip they remember. Giving them the tools the big chains use is not a market segment to us. It is the whole plan.
Six things we do not trade away
01
The intelligence should be the product
Adding a chat window to a booking system does not make it intelligent. We start from the decision — what to charge, what to prepare, what to chase — and build the software backwards from there.
02
The small operator deserves the good version
A six-room homestay makes the same decisions as a 300-room hotel, with none of the staff and none of the software. That imbalance is the reason this company exists.
03
Build for how India actually works
WhatsApp, UPI, GST, MakeMyTrip, Goibibo. These are not localisation tasks for a later release. They are the first requirement, and everything else fits around them.
04
Never take the decision away
Every suggestion carries its reasoning. Every action is recorded and reversible. Anything expensive stops and asks. Software that cannot explain itself does not get to run a business.
05
Charge for software, not for their success
We do not take a commission on a customer’s direct bookings. If our software helps a property earn more, that money belongs to the property.
06
Learn in public, from live businesses
Our products run real properties and real trips today. Every useful thing we know came from an owner telling us, without much ceremony, that something did not work.
The basics
- Company
- MyStayAI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- Based in
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Founded
- 2024
- Live products
- myhomestay.ai · myotasync.com
- In development
- myrevai.in · mydmcpro.com
- Customers
- Homestays, hotels and travel businesses across India
- We speak
- English, Hindi, Bengali