How it works
How we investigate your hotel
Most audit tools do not show their work. This page does.
A Mystery Shop is a five-stage investigation of your website and your AI presence. Every finding arrives with evidence: a screenshot, a line of code, or a recorded answer from an AI assistant. The same scan also surfaces the demand you are missing, handed back as a brief on what to win. See Win the demand you are missing.
43
checks live in your report
69
in calibration until we trust them
The pipeline
Five stages. Every finding has to earn its place.
From the first page we capture to the report in your inbox.
01
Crawl
Up to 30 mobile pages, screenshots and HTML captured
02
Deterministic
Rules that return the same answer every time
03
AI vision
Each screenshot read the way a guest reads it
04
Cross-property
Your hotels compared to each other
05
AI investigator
An agent that follows hunches and files evidence
Stages 01 + 02 / The groundwork
Capture first. Then the rules we trust completely.
We crawl up to 30 pages per property on a mobile viewport, capturing screenshots and raw HTML. We simulate the public digital journey: we never log in, never make bookings, never touch guest or booking data. The crawler identifies itself, follows standard rate limits, and has no effect on your rankings.
Then the deterministic pass: checks that return the same answer every time. A missing sitemap is missing. An absent security header is absent. No judgement calls. This is the layer search engines and AI assistants actually read when deciding whether to surface your hotel.
Stage 03 / AI vision
What the camera sees, the model reads.
Example. A Christmas promotion from 2024 still live on a homepage in May. No rule catches that. The vision pass does, because it reads the screenshot the way a guest would: prices, dates, booking buttons, broken layouts, placeholder text.
A visual finding never reaches you on its own. It has to be corroborated by the page code, and it has to survive a set of bright-line rules that dismiss anything the site itself contradicts.
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Stage 04 / Cross-property
Defects only a portfolio scan can find.
Example. On a recent scan of a European hotel group, the Milan property’s page carried the Lisbon hotel’s full identity block in its code, verbatim. Both pages looked perfect to guests. To search engines and AI assistants, Milan was Lisbon.
What guests saw
Two beautiful, correct hotel pages. Right photos, right address, right phone number.
What machines read
"name": "Hotel Lisbon"
"addressLocality": "Lisbon"
On the Milan page. One hotel, as far as AI is concerned.
This stage runs when you have more than one property. It catches identity drift, copy-pasted content, missing local-language pages, and coordinates that put your hotel in the wrong country. A group’s biggest invisible risk is its properties blurring into each other.
Stage 05 / AI investigator
The newest part, and the hardest to do well.
After the audit, an AI agent investigates what the rest of the pipeline cannot resolve on its own. It reads your site the way a consultant would: it follows hunches, fetches evidence, and only files a finding it can pin to a specific piece of proof. It is how multiple symptoms collapse into one upstream cause, and how a small bug inside a critical booking flow gets promoted to the top of your report.
It runs on hard time and spend caps, and its findings face the same evidence bar as everything else. Today it informs our team’s review of your report; its findings will appear directly in your dashboard once calibration proves their accuracy.
The other audience
We do not stop at your website. Every scan also asks the AI assistants guests actually use how they describe and recommend your hotel, and records the answers as evidence.
The trust ledger
We hold back more checks than we ship.
A check goes live the day we trust it, not the day we build it. Right now that means:
| State | Count | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Live in your report | 43 | Accuracy proven on real hotel websites |
| In calibration | 69 | Running silently until they earn their place |
Live in your report
43
Accuracy proven on real hotel websites
In calibration
69
Running silently until they earn their place
Our team keeps an eye on every scan and fine-tunes the system behind it. When a finding does not hold up, we dismiss it and tighten the check that produced it. That feedback loop is why the live column stays trustworthy as it grows.
Drawn lines
What we never do.
- ·We never access guest or booking data. No booking engine, no PMS, no payment systems, no logins.
- ·We never affect your rankings. The crawler identifies itself and follows standard rate limits.
- ·We never make real bookings, and we never submit forms with invented guest details.
- ·We never ship a check until we trust its accuracy.