**The problem it solves** Fast-growing STR operators face rising fraud, chargeback, and party-house exposure, and the manual review process that catches it doesn't scale past a few hundred bookings per month. **What Autohost does** Autohost is a Canadian AI-powered guest screening and verification platform for STR property managers, boutique hotels, and hospitality companies. It automates the guest vetting process that typically requires manual review, embedding identity checks and risk scoring into the booking and pre-arrival flow. **How it works** The platform captures ID documents with liveness detection, runs AI-based risk scoring, screens against watchlists and politically exposed persons databases, and applies behavioural fraud flagging. It draws on 5.7M+ threat intelligence records, 45,000 sex offender database entries, 150,000 eviction records, 300,000 global watchlist entries, and a network of 28.7M normalized verification events to surface repeat offenders. Credit history checks are Equifax-powered. The guest verification flow is white-labelled and embeds into existing guest communication sequences. A REST API integrates with PMS platforms including Guesty, Hospitable, and Hostaway. Pricing is usage-based per verification with volume discounts; white-label deployment takes under half a day. **Who it's for** Fast-growing STR operators (50+ units), institutional vacation rental brands, and boutique hotels that need to reduce fraud and chargeback exposure without proportionally growing the manual review team.
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