For vacation-rental hosts and managers
Every guest question, answered at any hour.
Film one walk through each house. Talking Manual turns it into a house assistant that knows how the TV, the hot tub and the thermostat work, where the extra blankets are, and what to do at checkout. Guests scan the sign on the counter and just ask, by voice, by typing or with a photo.
Nothing for guests to download and no sign-up. It works on any phone, in the guest's own language.
See it in action
From a walkthrough video to a house assistant on the counter.
A host films her cottage, checks the house guide Talking Manual writes from it, and prints the welcome sign. Then a guest asks how to work the TV and the hot tub, sends a photo of the thermostat, and asks where to eat. Nothing on the assistant's side is scripted.
The eleven o'clock text about the hot tub.
Guests arrive tired, in a house they have never seen. The TV is on the wrong input, the thermostat is unfamiliar, and nobody can find the extra blankets. The welcome book is thirty pages long and nobody reads it, so they message you instead, often late at night, with the same questions the last guests asked. Talking Manual gives every guest a patient house assistant that knows this house and only this house, and answers the moment they ask.
It knows the house
Not a guidebook to scroll. A house that answers.
Digital guidebooks put your welcome book on a phone. Guests still have to find the right page. Talking Manual answers the exact question, the way you would if you were standing in the kitchen.
| A welcome book or guidebook | Talking Manual | |
|---|---|---|
| "How do I turn on the TV?" | Find the right page, if it is there | Ask, and it walks you through this TV, step by step |
| "What is this?" | Can't help | Send a photo of the panel, remote or appliance and it explains it |
| At eleven at night | Text the host and wait | Answered straight away, by voice or text |
| Places nearby | Your list, from when you wrote it | Your picks first, then a live search near the house |
| Something broken | A message thread | A clear request to your team, with the guest's confirmed contact |
| Your guests' language | Usually English only | It answers in the language they ask in |
What guests ask it
Safe by design. It never gives out a door, lockbox or alarm code. For smoke, a gas smell or a carbon monoxide alarm it tells guests to get out and call 911 first. And it never promises a late checkout, an extra night or a refund: it passes the request to you.
How it works
One walkthrough video per house. One sign on the counter.
Film a walkthrough
Between guests, walk through the house with your phone and narrate as if you were showing a guest around: "this remote turns the TV on, then press Home", "extra blankets are on the top shelf".
Check the house guide
We turn the video into a written guide to every room and how everything works, in minutes. You correct it and publish it. Add your welcome book, appliance manuals and favourite restaurants too.
Put out the sign
Print the welcome sign with the house's code for the kitchen counter, and add the link to your check-in message. Guests scan it and ask.
Don't say or show codes while you film. We leave out any code or password we see or hear, and the video is deleted as soon as we have read it.
A working one, today
Meet the house assistant for Tern Hollow Cottage.
Tern Hollow is a fictional beach cottage we made for this demonstration. Its walkthrough video was built from computer-generated photos and narrated by a voice actor, then read by the same system your houses would use, which wrote the guide the assistant answers from. Ask it how anything works, where things are, or where to eat nearby, or send it a photo.
Voice works best on a phone. Tap the microphone and just talk; you can interrupt it at any time.
What your business gets
Fewer late-night messages. Guests who feel at home.
Quieter evenings
The wifi, the TV, the thermostat and the hot tub are answered on the spot, so the messages that reach you are the ones that need you.
A better stay
Guests who can work everything in the house, find what they need and know the checkout routine have fewer frustrations to mention in a review.
Requests to your team
Something broken, supplies running low, a lost item or a late-checkout request arrives in your inbox, with the guest's confirmed contact and the conversation.
See what guests ask
Every question for every house, anonymous, in your portal. If three guests ask where the colander is, add it to the guide before the next stay.
Careful by design
Never gives out entry codes, puts emergencies first, and never promises anything that changes a booking. It says when the guide doesn't cover something rather than inventing it.
Built for many houses
Each house gets its own code and guide; documents for every house, such as your policies or a town guide, are uploaded once.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
A general assistant can explain how hot tubs work in general. It can't tell your guest where this cottage keeps the cover lifter, which remote turns the TV on, or that the trash goes out on Monday night.
| A general AI assistant | Talking Manual | |
|---|---|---|
| Knows this house | No | Every room and appliance, from your walkthrough |
| Your wifi, rules and checkout | No | Yes, from what you enter and upload |
| Reaches your team | No | Yes, with the guest's confirmed contact and the conversation |
| In the house | Guests have to think of it | A sign on the counter invites them to ask |
Pricing
Pay for the conversations, not the guests.
Every plan includes unlimited guests and typed chat. You choose how many voice minutes a month across all your houses, and bigger plans make extra minutes cheaper.
One-time setup: $99 per property, including reading your walkthrough video. Managing more than 25 homes? Talk to us. Full pricing details.
See it with one of your houses.
In a 20-minute demo we show it working and answer your questions. Send us a short walkthrough of one house beforehand and we'll show you its own guide.
Not a rental business? See every industry Talking Manual serves.
