Hospitable's AI already uses your property, calendar, guest, and host data when writing messages with the Suggest with AI feature in the Inbox.
However, there are cases when the AI can create a much more accurate and relevant message for you if it had more information to learn from.
This is what the Knowledge Hub is for. It allows you to add things like:
instructions for operating things in the property,
noise/pets/smoking policies,
where to go and eat nearby,
checkout checklist,
safety and emergency information,
and anything else that is relevant to answering guest concerns during their stay.
Once added, the AI will use these bits of information automatically.
Finding the Knowledge Hub
You will see a link to the Knowledge Hub in the sidebar when viewing one of your properties in Hospitable:
Adding information to the Knowledge Hub
If you haven't added anything to the Knowledge Hub before, you'll see a screen asking you to upload your first PDF. Click on the Import from PDF button and choose your guidebook, policy manual, or any other compilation of knowledge that you have as a PDF file.
If you have a Touch Stay account, you can also import your Touch Stay guidebook automatically.
The are multiple steps to the import process:
the file upload
getting the text in the PDF
structuring the text into topics
saving it in a format that the AI can use
⏱️ The import process take about 1 minute, depending on the size of your PDF.
You can visit another page during the import process (once you're past the upload step) and return to the Knowledge Hub later to check back on it.
Once the import completes, you will see all of the imported information:
Verifying the Knowledge Hub data
Once the Knowledge Hub has imported your data, we create 10 questions that a guest might ask during their stay, which the AI should be able to answer using the Knowledge Hub.
Expand the "Ask the AI" section at the top of the page and click on any of the available questions. The AI will generate an answer as if replying to a guest, using the information in the Knowledge Hub.
Starting from scratch
If you want to replace the entire Knowledge Hub information that has been imported, simply click on the three-dot menu button and select the "Rewrite all information" option. This will allow you to upload a file again.
Confirming the Knowledge Hub is being used in the Inbox
Whenever a relevant item was found in the Knowledge Hub and used by the Suggest with AI button to write a message, you will see a small green indicator under the message confirming this.