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AI Agent Built for Hotel Operations

AI Agents for Hotel Operations that owns guest communication end-to-end and orchestrates complex actions across the hospitality tech stack. Trusted by hotel groups with 50+ hotels across Marriott, Hyatt, and Hilton.
Active Founders
Gavin Brennen
Gavin Brennen
Founder
COO of Lance. Previous work on AI agents at Domo, with earlier Product & customer facing roles at SmartSuite (Series A) and Zeus.
Caleb Chan
Caleb Chan
Founder
CEO of Lance. Former Head of Product and Founding Engineer at Silicon Valley Commerce (9‑figure exit). Previously product roles at Google and Salesforce, building industry-leading voice and AI agent technology.
Gatik Trivedi
Gatik Trivedi
Founder
CTO of Lance. Previously founded and exited MedTec Innovate, worked on speech and language research at Stanford, and studied EECS + Business in Berkeley M.E.T. Built agent infrastructure at GI Partners and LLM eval metrics at Knowtex (YC S22).
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Lance - AI Agents Built for Hotel Operations
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TL;DR

Lance builds AI agents for hotel operations that handle guest communication and complete requests end-to-end.
We’re working with some of the leading hotel groups in the US operating 50+ hotels across major hotel brands.

https://youtu.be/4lfd34piGiE

The Problem

Hotels still run on phone calls for everything.

Guests call for towels, late checkout, maintenance, parking, and directions. Each call kicks off a manual workflow: someone answers, gathers details, routes the task, tracks it down, and follows up.

That model breaks when teams are lean. With 65% of hotels reporting staffing shortages, simple requests require too many people and too many handoffs.

The result is constant interruptions, slow fulfillment, missed revenue, and burned-out staff. During busy periods or after hours, hotels miss up to 40% of incoming calls, not because demand is too high, but because the operation doesn’t scale.

Our Solution

Receptionist AI Agent: (Call, SMS, Email, Hotel Messaging Platforms) answers guests 24/7 and completes requests end-to-end

  • answers questions instantly and handles service requests
  • gathers the right details, routes work to the right team, escalates when needed
  • supports multiple languages so every guest gets help fast
  • takes action through vision based computer-use agents when workflows require navigating through older systems like on-prem PMS or CRS

Sales AI Agent: (Call, SMS, Email) turns every inbound inquiry into a qualified revenue opportunity, so your sales team only talks to guests who are ready to book.

  • responds to inbound sales inquiries and RFPs automatically
  • qualifies leads and gathers booking or event details
  • follows up instantly so hotels never lose deals to slow response
  • drafts pricing, availability, and sales responses using hotel data
  • unibox keeps a full record across email and messaging

Lance Pad: a tablet-first operations hub where service teams coordinate work and stay connected in real time across the property.

  • replaces walkie talkies with real-time team communication across the property
  • track open guest requests and service tasks live in one shared system
  • manage escalations and see resolution outcomes instantly
  • stays synced with Lance from request → action → completion

Our Ask

If you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:

  • Do you know any hotel owners / operators whose teams are stretched thin and juggling multiple systems for basic guest requests?
  • Do you know any management groups (multi-property) that want more consistent guest ops?

Reach us at founders@lance.live or schedule a demo today at lance.live

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Lance
Founded:2026
Batch:Winter 2026
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Diana Hu