Optional AI

Hospitality is human — AI just keeps the answers instant.

Simply Hospitality works completely with AI off. On, your team gets Ask Simply for instant operational answers — occupancy, events, balances — and your website answers guests around the clock from your own published details, taking real booking inquiries and handing anything delicate to your staff.

The ground rules

Four things that stay true, whatever you switch on.

AI in Simply Hospitality was built the way we would want it used on our own team: opt-in, supervised, explainable, and priced in the open.

Optional

Off until you say otherwise

Simply Hospitality is a complete product with AI turned off. Every AI feature is opt-in for your team — turn on what helps, skip what does not, and change your mind anytime. Nothing on this page is required.

Human

People decide; people answer

Ask Simply proposes — a person approves before anything changes. The website assistant answers — and hands the conversation to your team the moment someone asks for a person. AI here extends your people; it never replaces them.

Transparent

Answers show their work

Ask Simply cites the records behind every answer and previews every change before it happens. Website conversations land in your inbox with a per-answer trace for admins. Usage is metered visibly, spending caps are on by default, and the pricing page discloses published AI add-ons and the current usage policy. Any additional prepaid AI pack price is shown before purchase.

Secure

Your permissions are the AI’s permissions

Ask Simply can only see what the signed-in person is allowed to see — enforced by the platform, not by the AI’s good manners. The website assistant knows only the information you connect. It all runs on the same AWS infrastructure as the rest of Simply Hospitality, and your data is never used to train AI models.

Flavor one — for your team

Ask Simply: the colleague who read everything.

Ask Simply answers from your live guest, booking, and event records with each user’s permissions, shows the records behind every answer, and proposes changes for your approval.

The owner or GM

“How does this month look across rooms and events?”

Occupancy, event bookings, and deposits in one plain-language picture with live records linked — the morning number without the morning meeting.

The events coordinator

“What is unconfirmed for Saturday’s wedding block?”

Room blocks, timelines, and vendor confirmations answered from the booking — the checklist anxiety, resolved in seconds.

The front desk

“Which arrivals today have notes or special requests?”

The nitty gritty that makes service feel personal, pulled from guest records into one glance.

The catering lead

“Draft the production sheet for Thursday’s corporate dinner.”

Counts, courses, timings, and dietary notes assembled from the event record into a draft your kitchen can trust — after you approve it.

The bookkeeper

“Who has an outstanding balance from May events?”

Balances and payment schedules in a list, with drafted, courteous reminders — approved by you before anything sends.

The marketing hat

“Create a page for the New Year’s Eve dinner.”

Seasonal pages drafted in your brand’s style with the booking form wired in — live after your look, not after a vendor quote.

From the big numbers to the missing-form chase to drafting the next page — if it lives in Simply Hospitality, you can ask about it in plain language. See Ask Simply live in a demo

On the go

Your whole system, in a back pocket.

On the floor during service, ask your phone “how many covers tonight, and any allergy notes?” — Ask Simply is built into the Simply Anywhere mobile app, moving at the pace of the room.

Chat turns out to be the perfect mobile interface for a system like this: no menus to hunt through, no laptop to open — just the question, the cited answer, and the approval, wherever the work is happening.

The full Ask Simply, inside the Simply Anywhere appSame permissions, sources, and approvals as your deskAsk for the number on the way into the meetingReview and approve proposed changes from anywhereYour records, messages, and notifications ride along

Flavor two — for the people you serve

A website that answers back — honestly.

Guests ask at all hours, from every time zone. A conversation widget on your site answers from your published rooms, menus, and policies, takes real booking and event inquiries through your forms, and knows when a request deserves a person.

A guest planning a stay

“Do you have pet-friendly rooms in August?”

Policies and offerings answered from what you publish, with the booking inquiry form right in the conversation.

An event host

“Can you do a rehearsal dinner for forty?”

Private dining and event capabilities explained from your real pages — and the inquiry captured with dates, counts, and context your coordinator can quote from.

A corporate booker

“What AV comes with the meeting room?”

The practical details — capacities, equipment, catering options — answered consistently, so requests for proposals start warmer.

A guest with a problem

“My reservation is wrong.”

Service recovery is human work: the widget hands the conversation to your team immediately, with the details attached and the tone intact.

Set the voice like you set the table — warm, unhurried, precise about policies — with your property’s own vocabulary in the guidance.

The assistant is always honest about being an assistant, and a human is always one ask away — because the fastest way to lose someone’s trust is to fake a person.

Your assistant, your rules

Customization, control, and a paper trail.

A public assistant speaks for you, so you hold the controls — what it knows, how it sounds, and what it is never allowed to do.

Voice

It sounds like you

Guidance and voice settings — tone, words to use, words to avoid, example answers — teach the assistant your way of speaking. Each widget can also choose a deeper or faster AI model.

Knowledge

It knows what you connect — nothing else

You choose the pages, knowledge articles, and workflows behind each widget. It answers from those, says so when it does not know, and cannot wander into data you did not connect.

Actions

Real actions, same safeguards

When a visitor registers, signs up, or pays, the assistant walks them through the same verified forms and payment flows as the rest of your site. It cannot write to your data any other way.

Handoff

People, one ask away

Visitors can reach your team at any point, and the assistant escalates on its own when it is unsure or the topic is sensitive. Conversations land in your inbox with full context — and offline hours are handled honestly.

Oversight

Every conversation, visible

Your team can read every conversation, see what the assistant consulted for each answer, test changes before publishing, and measure satisfaction — including the questions it could not answer, so you know what to publish next.

Budget

Costs with a ceiling

AI usage is metered transparently with spending caps on by default. Plans include monthly AI credit, and live website assistants carry a flat monthly price — all published on the pricing page.

Honest answers

If you never turn AI on, Simply Hospitality is still Simply Hospitality.

Welcome, judgment, and recovery when something goes wrong stay with your people — that is the hospitality. The AI answers the questions that just need answers.

And if you do turn it on, it stays optional forever — feature by feature, widget by widget, with visible usage, spending caps, and public prices.

What’s included

Website conversation widgets

Let visitors ask for help from your website and keep the handoff attached to the page and topic they came from.

See how hospitality teams use this
  • Visitors can ask questions and get answers grounded in your configured views and knowledge.
  • A conversation can hand off into a form — from question to signup in one thread.
  • Transcripts keep the context when a human follows up.
Add-on$29/mo per live conversation widget.

Ask Simply help inside the app

Ask Simply helps the hospitality team understand records, draft copy, and move faster inside the app.

See how hospitality teams use this
  • "What is this record, and what should I do next?" can be answered inside the app.
  • First drafts of messages and copy can start from your real data.
Included with allowancePaid plans include monthly AI credit sized to the plan; trials include trial credits.
Pricing details
  • Budget caps stay on by default, and larger prepaid AI credit packs are available when you need more.

AI help for website copy

Draft, refine, and rework website copy while keeping human review in the publishing flow.

See how hospitality teams use this
  • A page can start from a solid AI draft and still get the human pass it deserves.
  • Rewrites for tone and length happen inside the editor.
Included with allowancePaid plans include monthly AI credit sized to the plan; trials include trial credits.
Pricing details
  • Budget caps stay on by default, and larger prepaid AI credit packs are available when you need more.

AI translations

Translate team-authored content where multilingual presentation matters, with language costs disclosed before activation.

See how hospitality teams use this
  • Public content can carry additional languages without a manual translation cycle.
  • A human correction can override any machine translation.
Add-on$15/mo per AI translation language.

AI credits and budget caps

Give teams useful AI help without open-ended spend by showing included value, prepaid credit packs, and caps.

Included with allowancePaid plans include monthly AI credit sized to the plan; trials include trial credits.
Pricing details
  • Budget caps stay on by default, and larger prepaid AI credit packs are available when you need more.

Bring us the double-booked weekend. We will make it feel simple.

Show us the reservation grid, the event pipeline, and the catering sheets. We will map them to Simply Hospitality and show you the calmer version of your busiest week.