Rate intelligence

Know what the market is charging, and why you should move.

Competitor rates for the next ninety nights, refreshed daily, turned into a single recommended movement you can defend to an owner. Not a black box, and not a full revenue-management system at ten times the price — one explicit formula over measured inputs, showing its working.

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Rate intelligence

Rate shopping has been priced as an enterprise tool for so long that most independents simply guess, or check three rivals by hand on a Sunday night and call it strategy. Seer does the checking every day, adds the things a spreadsheet cannot see — real search demand, your guest rating against theirs, the holidays that actually matter here — and hands back one movement with its reasoning attached.

  • Best available rate per competitor per night, 90 days out, refreshed daily — every channel, not just one
  • A rate MOVEMENT you can act on, with every factor and its effect written out in a sentence
  • A holiday calendar that actually contains Eid — computed locally, and every holiday can be flipped driver or detractor
  • Click any rate to see every channel that quoted it, and spot parity leaks — including your own
  • Adapt writes the movement back to your rate schedule in one click, with an undo and a guard rail
  • No reservations access, by design — it reads rates and availability and writes rates, nothing else
  • Works on a phone, like everything Medjay ships — your office in your pocket

Best for: Independent hotels and lodges of 20 to 150 keys who are pricing on instinct or on a rival's website, and who want a defensible number rather than an enterprise revenue-management contract.

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Medjay Seer — a rate grid showing competitor best available rates across 90 nights, with a recommended movement per night

A movement, not a number — and it shows its working

Seer does not tell you to "go to 112". It tells you to move +14, and Adapt applies that to single, double and triple together — so your own differentials, your weekend rule and your child policy all survive it. A rate throws away everything you already know about your property; a movement keeps it.

Click any night and you get the full reasoning: each factor, the effect it had, and a sentence saying why. "Eid al-Fitr (driver) +2.5%, estimated" is the standard. A number nobody can argue with is a number nobody will act on — and a revenue decision has to survive an owner asking "why?".

Six inputs, and it admits what it cannot see

The comp set's best available rate every night across every channel that quoted it. Your own rooms left to sell. Real search demand in your top five source markets, with a year-on-year figure. Your Google rating against theirs, weighted by how many reviews it rests on. The position in the market you choose to hold. And the calendar — weekends, public holidays and your own events.

Where an input is missing, the explanation says so instead of quietly filling the gap. That is the difference between a tool you can trust with a rate and one you check by hand anyway.

A holiday calendar that actually contains Eid

The free holiday services return a Tanzanian calendar with no Islamic holidays at all — no Eid al-Fitr, no Eid al-Adha, no Maulid — for a market that is around 99% Muslim. A holiday a calendar omits is worse than one it gets wrong, because nothing flags it: the grid looks complete and the busiest night of the year prices like an ordinary Tuesday.

Seer computes its dates itself, marks the lunar ones as estimated because they are declared by moon sighting, and lets you flip any holiday between driver and detractor — Ramadan empties a beach resort and fills a city hotel, and only you know which you are. When a driver and a detractor land on the same night, it names both rather than quietly cancelling them out.

It cannot see your guests, and that is enforced in code

Seer reads competitor rates and your rooms-left, and writes a rate back. It does not take bookings, does not open a guest record and never touches a folio. That is not a gap we are working on — it is the product boundary, and it is an allow-list in the code rather than a promise in a brochure.

Every rival at this price asks a hotel to hand over PMS access and then describes what it intends to do with it. If you are being asked to let a third party near your system, that difference is worth asking about.

With our PMS, or with yours

As an add-on to Host it reads your availability directly and writes the recommendation straight back to your rate schedule, one click, with an undo — and it needs no separate activation, because your Host licence already covers it.

Standalone, it works against any hotel on earth from day one: the full grid, demand, events and the recommendation, with no integration meeting and nothing installed on your PMS. Where we can reach your availability — through a channel manager, which speaks one language for hundreds of systems — pace comes in automatically too.

Your office in your pocket

Seer installs as a real app, on a phone and on a desktop — its own icon, its own window, straight from your own web address rather than an app store. The whole grid, the working behind a night and the recommendation itself, on the screen an owner asks about at dinner.

Nothing of yours is kept on the device — every screen is fetched live. Seer sits behind an identity check that only lets named people through: a one-time code to an approved address, and a session that closes itself. Access is granted and withdrawn centrally, and there is no VPN profile on anyone's phone.

Pricing

Medjay Seer from $39 a month

Billed yearly, whole team included. 0% commission · $0 setup · free onboarding, import and templates · free domain for life · pricing & strategy consultancy before every season. The first ten clients keep the launch price for life.

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Questions we get asked.

What is hotel rate shopping?

It is the practice of tracking what comparable hotels are charging for each future night, so you can price against the market rather than against last year. Seer collects the best available rate for each property in your comp set every day, ninety nights ahead, across every channel that quoted it — and then turns that into a recommended movement rather than leaving you a spreadsheet to interpret.

Do I need your PMS to use it?

No. Standalone Seer works against any hotel, whatever system you run, and needs no integration to get started. As an add-on to Medjay Host it goes further — it reads your availability directly and can write the recommended movement back to your rate schedule.

Where do the competitor rates come from?

Google Hotels, which aggregates the OTAs and, where a hotel is connected, its own site. That makes them excellent for positioning. We say plainly what they are not: an OTA-sourced rate is not a claim about a competitor's own contracted BAR, and the grid badges every rate that did not come from the hotel's own site.

Is this a revenue management system?

No, and we would rather say so than have you find out. There is no forecasting, no optimisation and no group displacement analysis. Seer is comp-set intelligence plus an arguable recommendation — which is what a 30-to-150-key independent actually needs, and roughly what the enterprise systems charge ten times as much to wrap in a black box. Pricing and strategy consultancy before every season is included in every Medjay subscription.

How many competitors can I track?

Six properties — you plus five rivals — are included, with additional competitors at a published monthly rate each. The cap is on competitors because that is exactly what the underlying data cost scales with, the same way Host caps on rooms and Traveler on users.

How often does it check?

Rate shopping runs daily and is not rationed — that is the product. Demand and destination data refresh weekly, and the comp set can change twice a month, because those are the cadences the underlying data actually has. Search volume is monthly; a second look inside a week buys the same numbers twice. And a comp set that churns every few days has no trend left to read.

Can it change my rates automatically?

It can write the recommended movement into Medjay Host in one click, with an undo, and it refuses a move beyond the guard rail you set rather than clamping it. It does not do it on its own. A rate is the most consequential number a property owns, and a human should press the button.

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