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Cendra

Also known as: Botel, Botel AI, Cendra AI

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Entry priceA free trial, then plans start at about $50 per month for up to three properties and scale with portfolio size; some sources cite roughly $10 per listing.Full pricing detail

AI guest communication and property operations platform for hospitality, with agents trained on your property data, 45 plus PMS integrations, and human in the loop escalation.

Cendra, formerly Botel, is an AI powered guest communication and property operations platform for hospitality operators, from short term rentals and vacation rentals to hotels, hostels, corporate housing, and luxury villas. It connects to a property management system and communication channels, then deploys AI agents trained on the operator's own property data, house rules, and local recommendations. Configurable agents respond to guest inquiries 24 hours a day across WhatsApp, email, and the major booking channels from a single unified inbox, handling check in instructions, amenity questions, and special requests, and automatically identifying upsell opportunities such as gap nights, early check ins, and late check outs.

Beyond messaging, Cendra automates operations by detecting issues and routing tasks to the right team and by supporting maintenance and cleaning workflows with predictive scheduling. Property managers keep full visibility and control through a human in the loop copilot interface with smart escalation, so the AI handles routine questions and notifies a person only when human attention is needed, and a Sandbox lets operators test the agent against common scenarios before going live. Cendra syncs properties, reservations, pricing, and guest details in real time and works with 45 to 50 plus property management systems.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.cendra.ai

Category

Customer support agent

Funding status

Seed. Raised 1 million dollars in a seed round in February 2026 led by Revo Capital, with APY Ventures, Heartfelt Capital Management, and Turkey Development Fund. Formerly Botel; founded 2023 in San Francisco by Can Koseoglu, Ali Ozaltin, and Mumin Sahin.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

Automated guest messaging across channelsUnified hospitality inboxProperty task routing and operationsUpsell automation for stays

Target customers

Short term rental operatorsVacation rental and Airbnb hostsBoutique hotels and hostelsCorporate housing and villa managers

Integrations

Connects to 45 to 50 plus property management systems including Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Cloudbeds, Mews, OwnerRez, and Beds24, and to channels such as WhatsApp, email, Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, and SMS, plus Stripe, bringing every guest conversation into one unified inbox.

In practice

Your guests message through Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, WhatsApp and email at all hours. Cendra brings every thread into one inbox, answers routine questions from each property's knowledge base and escalates only true exceptions to your team.

Your operations team loses hours chasing maintenance vendors. Cendra's agents triage the issue, open a ticket, coordinate the vendor and follow up, holding the case open until the vendor responds.

Your revenue team wants to fill gap nights and sell early check ins and late check outs. Cendra spots each opportunity, sends the upsell offer at the moment it is sellable and takes payment through Stripe.

Agentic Index coverage score

7.5 / 14 capabilities · 54%

Integrations & Tool Calling Full

Native integrations cover Guesty, Hostaway and Lodgify plus 40 plus further property management systems, among them Cloudbeds, Mews, Hospitable, OwnerRez, Hostfully, Beds24, Smoobu and Eviivo. WhatsApp, email, SMS, Stripe and the OTA channels Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia sit alongside, all brought into one inbox with one click setup and no technical work. The integrations write as well as read.

Properties, reservations, pricing and guest details sync in real time, agents open tickets and route tasks to the right team, upsells for early check in and late check out are sold and paid through Stripe, and vendors are coordinated from inside the flow. The 40 plus long tail is reached through a unified API aggregation layer, not 50 individually built connectors, so a PMS outside the named three connects through that layer.

Sourcecendra.ai/integrationsread 2026-09-05

Workflow Orchestration Full

Autonomous agents triage issues, open tickets, coordinate vendors, follow up and escalate only true exceptions. Each step depends on the last, and the agent holds the case open while a vendor responds instead of closing at the reply.

Around that sit task routing to the right team, maintenance and cleaning workflows with predictive scheduling, and upsell detection. Upsell detection identifies gap nights, early check ins and late check outs and fires the offer at the moment it is sellable. Live PMS data on properties, reservations and pricing changes the path as the reservation changes. The workflows are built for hospitality.

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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Full

Each property gets a Knowledge Base where the operator loads property specific information, house rules and local recommendations. Cendra says that before it handles a single guest message, the agent learns from the operator's actual past messages instead of generic training data, so the voice and the answers are that property's. On top of the curated base, live PMS data on properties, reservations, pricing and guest details syncs continuously. An answer about a booking reflects the current reservation, not a cached copy.

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Human Oversight & Guardrails Full

Operators keep full visibility and control through a human in the loop copilot interface. The AI handles routine questions and escalates only true exceptions, notifying a person when human attention is needed. Before go live there are two checks.

A Sandbox lets an operator test the agent against common scenarios, and a review step has the operator confirm property details, house rules and response preferences before the agent handles a guest. Day to day, team collaboration covers assigning conversations and setting permissions for each user, so who may intervene is configurable. Cendra names no approval queue for individual messages.

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Security, Identity & Governance Partial

Team permissions let an operator assign conversations and set who on the team may do what. The mobile apps carry device biometric authentication, which protects the phone, not the customer's account. Cendra claims no security certification or attestation of any kind. It names no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and publishes no trust page or report a customer could obtain. Cendra says its technical leadership brings decades of experience building secure, scalable infrastructure.

Sourcecendra.ai/integrationsread 2026-09-05

Observability & Auditability Partial

Property managers get full visibility through the copilot interface. It shows which guest messages the AI handled and which it escalated, with real time notifications on messages, bookings and items needing attention, and a public status indicator shows service health. Cendra describes no reasoning trace for each conversation, tool call record, source attribution on answers or configuration audit trail. If an agent quotes the wrong house rule or opens a ticket against the wrong vendor, Cendra names no record of the step that produced it.

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Memory & State Persistence Partial

The unified inbox holds every guest thread across WhatsApp, email and the OTA channels in one place, and that history persists. Guest details, reservations and stay history synced from the PMS travel with the conversation, so a returning guest is recognized and an agent picks up mid stay without the guest repeating themselves. Cendra describes no memory product and names no scope, lifetime or deletion control for state it keeps between stays. Agents learn from every conversation, and that learning is absorbed into a model, not kept as memory a customer can inspect.

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Deployment & Data Residency Not documented

Delivery is cloud SaaS, with native iOS and Android apps and self onboarding that needs no code. Cendra names no self hosted, private cloud or single tenant option. No hosting region, cloud provider, data center or residency option is published.

Sourcecendra.ai/privacyread 2026-09-05

Prebuilt Agents / Templates / Packs Partial

Configurable AI agents are set up for each property, trained on that property's knowledge base, house rules and response preferences. Portfolios of many properties run from one app, so scaling from five properties to five hundred means replicating a configured setup instead of building each from nothing. The whole product is built for hospitality, covering hotels, short term rentals, hostels, corporate housing and luxury villas. Cendra names no template gallery, agent library or marketplace a customer browses and puts into service.

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Triggers & Channel Coverage Full

Coverage spans WhatsApp, email, SMS and the OTA message threads on Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia, all landing in one inbox. A guest messages through whichever platform they booked on, and the operator cannot choose. Work starts in three ways. It starts inbound when a guest writes on any channel.

It starts on events, with real time alerts on new messages and new bookings, and issue detection opens a ticket without anyone asking. It also starts proactively, with upsell offers for early check in, late check out and gap nights delivered at the moment they are sellable. Native mobile apps carry push notifications, so an operator is reached wherever they are.

Sourcecendra.ai/integrationsread 2026-09-05

Model Flexibility & Routing Not documented

The agent comes pretrained on hospitality and on the operator's own message history, live from day one, and the model is treated as an implementation detail beneath the knowledge base and the escalation rules. Cendra names no model provider and describes no model selector, routing configuration or bring your own key path.

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APIs / SDKs / MCP Extensibility Not documented

The docs subdomain at docs.cendra.ai is product documentation that explains what Cendra is and how to connect a PMS. It is not a developer reference, and Cendra publishes no public API, SDK, webhook reference, MCP endpoint, endpoint catalog, authentication guide or client library for itself. The one API mentioned runs the other way.

Cendra reaches 40 plus additional property management systems through a unified API, a third party aggregation layer it uses to build its own connectors, which customers cannot call. Onboarding runs the same direction, since a customer pastes a Guesty or Hostaway API key into Cendra instead of calling Cendra from their own systems.

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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Partial

A Sandbox lets an operator test the agent against common scenarios before going live, alongside a review step that confirms property details, house rules and response preferences. Cendra sells the pair as making the agent operational from day one instead of after six weeks of training. A change passes through this check before a guest meets it. Cendra does not say what the Sandbox returns. It publishes no score, pass rate, judge verdict, regression suite, saved scenario set or comparison between versions, so an operator reads the test output themselves.

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Browser / Computer-use Not documented

Agents reach other systems through connectors. They read and write through PMS integrations with Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify and the rest, open tickets and route tasks inside Cendra's own operations layer, take payment through Stripe, and reach guests over WhatsApp, email, SMS and the OTA message threads. Coordinating a vendor means messaging them, not operating their system. Cendra describes no browser control, hosted session or interface automation.

Sourcecendra.airead 2026-09-05

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Pricing

A free trial, then plans start at about $50 per month for up to three properties and scale with portfolio size; some sources cite roughly $10 per listing.

Subscription scaling with the number of properties or listings managed.

Free tierTrial available

Included quota

Entry plan covers up to three properties for about $50 per month.

Cost watchouts

Cost scales with the number of properties or listings, and AI message volume grows with guest traffic; model usage is bundled but undisclosed.

Variable cost rationale

Subscription scales with property or listing count, and AI guest messaging volume rises with occupancy, though pricing is anchored to a predictable per property or per listing rate.

Overage / add-ons

Additional properties or listings increase the subscription.

Sales call required

No, self serve available

Free / trial

Seven to thirty day free trial with no code self onboarding.

Lowest paid plan

About $50 per month for up to three properties.

Key ambiguities

Two figures appear across sources (about $50 per month for up to three properties, and roughly $10 per listing); the full tier table is not fully public.

Agentic Index verified 2026-07-09

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