Pick a bench. Each one is a live working front.
ARJ Labs is the umbrella lab. These are the businesses and practice areas underneath — written for the public web, not an internal ops wiki.
Port City Stays
Full-service short-term rental management on the New England Seacoast. Founded by Alex; operated with a lean team across cleaning, field ops, finance, and guest experience.
What this lab is about
- Owner partnerships: co-host and full-management models
- Guest journey systems (PMS + automation stack)
- Local operations that protect reviews and owner trust
- Growth toward direct booking and stronger brand presence
Double Diamond Stays
Independent vacation-home growth systems, proven first on 56 Main Street in Ludlow, Vermont. Pricing Pro, multi-channel distribution (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and more), guest email campaigns from WiFi capture, property websites, and social demand systems.
Focus
- Owner-facing Growth Stack for independent homes
- 56 Main Street case study — same property, better systems
- Mountain inventory presentation without marketplace-only dependence
Real estate & RGA
Personal and family-adjacent property work, including long-term rental holdings. This lane stays high-level on the public site — no private deal rooms, no internal numbers.
How to think about it
- Operator who also owns and improves property
- Long-term rental mindset alongside STR craft
- Practical renovations and asset care over speculation cosplay
AI Lab
Not demo-ware. ARJ Labs uses multi-agent systems for coordination, research, drafting, site work, and operational support — with a human still owning judgment and approvals.
What we actually do
- Always-on coordinator agents (Hermes and specialists)
- Second-brain / knowledge systems for messy real businesses
- Routing work across models and tools instead of one-chat miracles
- Advisory and build help for operators who want AI that ships
Marketing & growth
Brand systems, content, local presence, and conversion paths for hospitality and founder-led companies. Cute is a strategy when it makes you memorable — not when it hides weak ops.
- Brand worlds (like this claymation Labs identity)
- Site + funnel builds
- Content and social systems
- Direct booking / offer clarity
Ops & tools
Playbooks, automation, and internal tooling patterns learned from running real stays and teams. Public pages stay conceptual; sensitive SOPs and guest data never live here.
- Operator cadences and role lanes
- Automation boundaries (what can auto, what needs a human)
- Tooling experiments worth stealing