Launching today
CTC Stays
Your AI assistant can book the villa now
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Your AI assistant can book the villa now
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Ask ChatGPT or Claude to book a vetted family villa. It checks the live calendar, catches a stay that can't be booked, and hands you the OwnerRez checkout with the same total. You pay there. The assistant never sees your card.
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Hi Product Hunt — I'm Chris Cassidy. My wife Tamara and I run CTC Stays from our family's house, Villa Coral, in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
We kept watching guests open five tabs, fight a booking calendar, and still not know if the week they wanted could even be booked. So we taught the assistants to do that part.
The demo isn't the happy path. It's a stay that can't happen: April 7, 2027 runs into a four-night gap and our five-night minimum. The assistant catches it, explains it, re-plans to April 18–23, and quotes $4,883.48 — which is exactly what our OwnerRez checkout showed when we clicked through. That match, to the cent, is the product.
What works today, no asterisks:
• ChatGPT and Claude: live dates, minimum-stay logic, live total, payment link — through the CTC Stays connector (one-time setup, about two minutes, no API key; steps and screenshots on the launch page). A plain chat without the connector can describe the houses but cannot read live prices.
• Gemini: finds and explains the houses, routes to inquiry. Live booking is in progress. There's a hidden-warnings issue on the OwnerRez payment page that their dev team has logged. We re-test after their Wednesday patches (Nov 4 and Nov 11) and update the table either way.
Three things we'd love from you:
1. Try the copy-paste prompts on https://ctcstays.com/ai-booking/ with your real dates. If the assistant invents a price, skips the minimum-stay catch, or hands you a dead link, post it here. We read every one.
2. Builders: the plumbing is public — MCP connector, OpenAPI, an ai-catalog file, llms.txt, plain-text quotes. Tell us what your agent needed that it didn't get.
3. Group organisers — the person who always ends up booking for everyone: what is the worst part of it? Chasing shares, splitting rooms, fronting the deposit? We are building the organiser side next and would rather hear it from you than guess.
Agents never take a card and never hold dates here. The guest pays on OwnerRez, like they always did. We just removed the calendar fight.
Happy to answer anything — pricing math, why agents stop before payment, or how a family villa ended up with an MCP server.
— Chris