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Find what your guests keep complaining about — and the reason behind it.

Your rating is an average, so it moves slowly and hides things. Your reviews are not. We read every public review on your property, work out which complaints are real patterns, trace each one to the operational cause, and hand you a costed fix list — starting with the ones that are free.

Public review pages only · no platform messaging · not affiliated with Airbnb or Vrbo

The gap

Your dashboard shows a score. Your guests wrote the reason.

Listing-optimisation tools score your title and photos against market data. None of them read sixty reviews and tell you that your lockbox is mentioned fourteen times, that six of those are in the last twelve stays, and that the fix is a message sent at 4pm instead of at booking.

Averages move slowly

A lifetime rating cannot fall fast. A property can be averaging 4.0 across its last eight stays while the headline number still reads 4.7 — and the headline is what you look at, while recent reviews are what guests read.

Five-star reviews hide complaints

Guests who like you often give five stars and put the problem in the text anyway. Nothing escalates internally, because the score looks fine — but every prospective guest reads the sentence.

The fix is usually free

Most repeated complaints trace back to a checklist item, a message sent at the wrong time, or a promise in the listing that the property does not quite keep. Those cost nothing to change.

Method

How the audit is built

The same process every time, written down so you can judge it.

01

Read everything

Every public review, tagged by theme

Not a sample and not a sentiment score. Each review is read and tagged, then counted for frequency, recency and trend, so a complaint that stopped a year ago is marked solved instead of being sold back to you as a crisis.

Full review set · frequency, recency, trend

02

Separate pattern from noise

One grumpy guest is not a systemic failure

A category with a single mention is reported as a one-off and labelled as one. You have read your own reviews — an audit that inflates a one-off into a crisis is worthless, and you would spot it in a minute.

Counts and percentages · one-offs listed, not escalated

03

Trace it to the cause

The complaint, the reason behind it, and the fix

This is the part the ranking tools do not do. A repeated complaint gets traced to the most likely operational cause, with the quote it came from, and a fix costed as free, under $50, under $200, or not worth doing.

Root-cause chain · costed fix list · quote for every claim

What you get

What is in the document

  • Every public review read and tagged — not a sample
  • Complaint themes with counts, percentages, and whether they are getting better or worse
  • Complaints buried inside 5-star reviews, which your dashboard never surfaces
  • A root-cause chain for each pattern: evidence, likely cause, fix, cost
  • The things guests reliably praise, and where your listing under-uses them
  • Accuracy risks — places your listing and your reviews disagree
  • A prioritised roadmap sorted free / under $50 / under $200 / bigger
  • A “do not buy” list of things we think would waste your money
  • Read one before you decide

    A full sample audit, start to finish. The property is invented — we do not publish real hosts’ problems — but the format, depth and tone are exactly what you would receive.

    Free tool

    Build a house manual while you wait

    A free print-ready house manual builder, with prompts drawn from the same review patterns behind the audit — no email required.

    Straight answers

    What this is not

    The limits, up front, because you are going to ask.

    We have not stayed at your property

    This is an outside read of public information. Causes are the most likely explanation consistent with your reviews, not confirmed fact, and anything we cannot determine is marked as such rather than guessed.

    No guarantees, because nobody can make them

    We make no claim about future bookings, ratings, revenue or search ranking. What we will say is “this addresses the complaint appearing in 8 of your last 60 reviews.” That is a checkable statement; the other kind is not.

    Every number is recomputable

    Each finding quotes the review it came from and each count can be re-derived from your own public review page. If you check one and it is wrong, the whole document is worthless — so we verify every quote against the source before it reaches you.

    Public pages only

    We read public listing and review pages the way a consultant would. We never contact your guests, never message anyone through a booking platform, and never touch private host data.

    Pricing

    Public and flat

    No call required to find out what it costs.

    Free mini-audit

    No charge

    Three specific findings pulled from your actual reviews.

  • Three findings, each with the quote behind it
  • Enough to tell whether the full version is worth it
  • No card, no call, no sequence
  • Most useful

    Guest-friction audit

    $149

    The full document, every review read.

  • Complete theme analysis with counts and trend
  • Root-cause chain and costed fix for each pattern
  • Listing accuracy check and “do not buy” list
  • Audit + implementation

    $499

    Everything above, actually done.

  • Rewritten check-in and checkout instructions
  • Guest-message sequence and digital house manual
  • Turnover checklist built around your findings
  • Start here

    Send us the listing

    Paste the public link to your property. We read the reviews and reply within one business day with three findings, free.

    Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, or your own direct-booking page — whichever has your reviews.

    What are you considering? *

    Optional. If you have a hunch about what guests keep hitting, it helps — but we read the reviews either way.

    We read public review pages only. We never contact your guests, never message anyone through a booking platform, and we are not affiliated with Airbnb, Vrbo, or any booking site.