Houseful Tools

Tools that do real work.

We build custom tools for boutique hospitality operators across the Caribbean and Riviera Maya. Quote calculators, daily guest guides, lead-gen reports. The kind of thing that books a guest, captures an email, or brings a local back. Not gadgets. Working parts of your funnel.

Why a tool beats a pitch

A pitch asks for trust. A tool just helps.

It answers a real question. What’ll this charter run me. Is tomorrow a good beach day. Are the fish biting. And while it answers, it captures the lead, books the trip, or pulls someone back to your site.

Built right, a tool earns its keep every day. You don’t touch it. It works the front door while you run the place.

Built and running

A few we’ve put to work.

Real tools, live and working. Some answer a guest’s question, some screen an investor’s deal, some help a founder open the doors. Each one started as a question someone kept asking, and turned into something that answers it and captures the lead.

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Is This Legit?
Free scam checker

Is This Legit?

Houseful — free for operators

Paste a suspicious email, text, or letter (or snap a photo) and get a plain-English verdict in seconds. Built to protect hospitality operators from the booking-platform, domain, and overpayment scams hitting inboxes right now.

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Quote calculator

Charter Quote Calculator

UC Yacht Charters

Guests price their own charter in 30 seconds. Pick the boat, the date, the headcount, the extras. They get a number, you get a qualified lead with their details already attached. No email tag before anyone’s even serious.

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Daily guest guide

Daily Fishing Report

Fish Riviera Maya

Answers the only question an angler cares about: are they biting. Pulls conditions, updates every day, and turns “maybe someday” browsers into this-week bookings. Doubles as fresh content that ranks.

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Daily guest guide

Beach Day Index

BookVI · St. John

Ranks how good tomorrow looks on the beach from weather and cruise ship overflow, so visitors plan around the crowds instead of into them. A daily reason to come back to the site, and a soft handoff into what to book.

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Investor calculator

Hotel Underwriting Tool

Saltvale & Co.

Investors screen a distressed Mexican hotel in minutes. Plug in price, keys, ADR, and the Mexico-specific costs (fideicomiso, IVA, acquisition tax) and get yield-on-cost, cap rate, cash-on-cash, DSCR, and a five-year IRR. The math that used to need a spreadsheet and an analyst.

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Investor calculator

Closing Cost & IVA Estimator

Saltvale & Co.

Shows a foreign buyer the real cost to close in Quintana Roo: transfer tax, notario, trust setup, and the 16% IVA they can claw back. Asset purchase or share deal, the number shifts, and the tool shows exactly why.

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Interactive map

Food Truck Opportunity Map

Opening Day Kit

A free, no-email map ranking which U.S. cities are the best bet to open a food truck. Pulls founders in, proves the value, and hands them into the kit, backed by food-cost, menu-pricing, break-even, and naming tools inside.

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Cost calculator

Startup Cost Calculator

Trade Starter Kit

Adds up exactly what it costs to launch a landscaping or plumbing business, line by line. Uncheck what you already own, edit any number, and get a real startup total.

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Pricing calculator

Job Pricing Calculator

Trade Starter Kit

Tells a new tradesperson exactly what to charge so every job turns a profit. Pick the trade, plug in the numbers, and get a price on the spot.

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Interactive tool

Food Truck Name Generator

Opening Day Kit

Spins up food truck names and checks the Instagram handle and domain for each in one tap. A fun front door that pulls founders into the kit.

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What we can build for you

If your guests keep asking it, we can build the thing that answers it.

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Quote & booking calculators

Let guests price a stay, a charter, a tour, or a table, and hand you a qualified lead.

02

Daily condition guides

Weather, crowds, surf, fish, what’s good today. A reason to come back every morning.

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Lead-gen scorecards

A guest answers a few questions, gets a useful result, and you get their email.

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Plan-my-trip tools

Itinerary builders and availability finders that move browsers toward a booking.

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Locals & loyalty utilities

Passes, perks, and repeat-visit mechanics that fill the shoulder season.

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Whatever’s specific to you

If it’s a real question your front desk keeps fielding, it’s probably a tool.

How it works

Built once. Runs on your stack.

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We find the one

We look at what your guests keep asking and where you’re losing leads, then pick the single tool worth building first.

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We build it on-brand

It lives on your site, in your colors, on infrastructure we run. It plugs into your email list, booking engine, and ads so the leads go somewhere.

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We keep it running

We host it, maintain it, and keep it current. You don’t babysit it. It works the front door every day.

A tool is a fixed-price build plus a small monthly to host and keep it live. It works on its own. It works harder as part of a full Houseful engagement.
Talk it through

Let’s find the one tool that earns its keep.

Tell us what your guests keep asking. We’ll tell you what to build, what it costs, and what it’ll do for your bookings.

Book a call or email hello@housefulhospitality.com