For operators and management companies
Every unit has a ceiling that day-to-day operation rarely reaches. We establish it, team costs included, then set out unit by unit what it takes to get there.
The gap
Short-term rental has built real expertise in pricing and distribution. What the teams actually cost appears in no dashboard. Not high turnover, not a trained cleaner walking out, not a role that sits open for months.
Until that cost is measured, the gap stays open. Every month, on every unit in the portfolio.
The firm
DAO Partners is an economic advisory firm. We manage nothing on your behalf and we replace no one. Our role is to establish, unit by unit, what each one can really earn and what still stands between you and it.
Our work complements yours.
The levers
On any given unit, they never move at the same time. Our role is to identify the one that matters most, then order the rest.
Location, fit-out, comfort. What it takes to bring it up, and what that returns.
What each team actually delivers, measured against what it costs. A cost your P&L never shows.
From arrival to checkout, the care that builds a unit's reputation and then holds it.
How much of your business books direct, and what channel commissions take out every month.
Rate is not a fifth lever. It is the output of the other four.
Strasbourg
Our Strasbourg operation has held twice the local ADR for four years, with a 9.8 Booking rating that has risen every year. Rate and reputation together.
It does not come from a firm watching the business from a distance. It comes from an operation run day to day.
The mandate
The mandate carries a fixed fee and a variable fee. The variable side depends on the gain recorded on your units. That rule keeps us on the ground until the result holds.
The last twelve months, month by month and unit by unit. We then visit every unit under review.
One sheet per unit: what to address, in what order, and what it returns.
We supervise the work on the ground, alongside your teams.
The gain is measured each month, against the same month a year earlier.
The result
A reputation that sets you apart and makes new contracts easier to win. Higher NOI across the portfolio. Owners who stay with you and refer you.
On one unit, the effect is already clear. Across the portfolio, it compounds.
The conversation
A thirty-minute scoping session, with no commitment. We look at where your units stand today and tell you whether a mandate makes sense.
Book a scoping sessionWe manage no properties, take no commission on your bookings and sell no software.