Cohost Bros Academy w/ Matt

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Aug '25 •

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Matt Codd

Aug '25 •

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🎉 Welcome to Cohost Bros Academy! 🎉

You made it to the community built for people who want to master the art of cohosting and build freedom without owning property. Here’s what you can expect inside this group: ✅ Step-by-step training on how to land property owners ✅ Proven systems to run smooth operations & keep owners happy ✅ Tools, scripts, and resources to grow your income faster ✅ A supportive community of people on the same journey 👉 Whether you’re brand new or ready to scale, this group is designed to give you the roadmap and confidence to succeed. 📌 Start here: 1. Introduce yourself in the comments (name, city, and your cohosting goals). 2. Check the pinned resources at the top of the group. 3. Ask questions, share wins, and stay engaged — the more you put in, the more you’ll get out. Welcome to the Academy — let’s build your cohosting business the smart way 🚀 — Matt

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Matt Codd

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Communication on auto pilot

I just rebuilt my entire STR guest communication bot from scratch, and the difference is night and day. For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to get an AI auto-responder working using Zapier + Claude. The concept was right but the execution kept failing. The system prompt had all properties hardcoded into one massive block of text. Rate limit errors. Wrong answers. Tokens through the roof. Every test run either timed out, hallucinated, or fired when it wasn’t supposed to. So I scrapped it and rebuilt it the right way. Here’s the new setup: → Google Apps Script runs every 5 minutes → Pulls new guest messages directly from Hospitable’s API → Loads ONLY the relevant property’s knowledge base from a simple text file in Google Drive → Sends it to Claude to generate the response → Sends the reply back through Hospitable automatically The knowledge base is just text files in a Drive folder. One file per property. Shared rules in a separate file. Need to update something? Open the doc, change the text, save. Done. ✅ Live on the next run. No Zapier. No rebuilding prompts. No digging through hundreds of lines of code. Adding a new property? Fill out an onboarding form, hand it to Claude, it generates the file in minutes. The cost difference is the best part: ❌ Old way → loading all properties every single run = 30,000+ tokens, constant rate limit errors ✅ New way → loads only 1 property per message = ~2,000 tokens 💰 Cost per message: ~$0.009 💰 100 messages/month: under $1 It runs 24/7, handles inquiries and reservations, screens for red flags, escalates when it doesn’t know the answer, and texts me when it needs me. My guests can’t tell it’s not me. If you’re running STRs and still copy-pasting the same answers to the same 15 questions every week, there’s a better way. Drop a comment if you want to know more. P.S. Here is an inquiry test run. I had Carissa send me messages. With the exception of one message I had an auto WiFi response turned on in Hospitable. 🤦‍♂️