If you run a small accommodation business — cabins, cottages, yurts, B&B, treehouses, anything physical and bookable — and you're tired of paying 15-17% per booking to a platform that owns your reviews and your guests, this is for you.
roost is owned by the hosts who list on it. Operated by AI agents under member oversight. £20/mo flat membership. Zero booking commission ever. Bookings go direct to your site · paid into your Stripe · we never see the transaction. You vote on every rule, every feature, every pound.
The platforms had 20 years of taking what hosts built. The next 20 years, the hosts own the platform.
Put a stays.json file at the root of your domain (or let us host it for you). One file, all your units.
£20/mo or £200/yr. Cancel anytime. Your stays appear in the roost marketplace within an hour.
Guests click through to YOUR site. Your Stripe. Your relationship. Your data. roost takes nothing more.
First 100 hosts get founding-member status · lifetime fee lock at £20 even if pricing changes.
No commission · ever · in any form · in any direction.
We're hand-picking the first 100 hosts to keep the founding crowd aligned. We're looking for sovereign-minded operators with at least one bookable unit and a year of live hosting under their belt.
Reviewed within 7 days · no card required to apply
No. Most members keep their existing channels and use roost as their primary direct-booking front-door. Over time, as direct bookings grow, many drop the OTAs entirely. Your choice, your pace.
You stop paying £20/mo, your listing disappears from roost, your stays.json keeps working (it's your file on your domain), your bookings already received continue normally. No lock-in.
Because a normal company eventually has to extract value from members to satisfy investors. A co-op grows by serving members better. We've watched too many "host-friendly" platforms turn against hosts the moment they had to grow revenue. Co-op structure makes that impossible.
We don't try to. The £20/mo from members covers hosting, domain, a part-time coordinator, and modest infrastructure. If roost ever has a surplus, members vote on what to do with it (lower fees, more features, host grants). No exit, no acquisition, no IPO.
It's a full operator hub built by AI Native Solutions (the same folks behind roost) — unified inbox across all your channels, AI-drafted replies in your voice, calendar sync, direct booking site, guest journey automation, off-grid ops dashboard. Free-standing product worth £499; co-op members get it for £99 one-time setup.
Currently a working group of 3 founding hosts plus AI Native Solutions handling the tech. Once we hit 50 members, governance moves to a hosts-elected council. At 100 members, that council can fire the tech provider if they want (we'd hand over the keys).
Add yourself to the waitlist. We're starting UK/Ireland because that's where the founding hosts are, but stays-protocol is geography-agnostic. Once we have 25+ hosts asking for a region, we open it.