Cutting out the manual data entry entirely.
With the core application running, the next stage was eliminating the manual step that remained: each month, someone had to pull data from Hostaway — Aire Spaces’ operational platform — and populate the sheet before uploading. We built a Hostaway integration that does this automatically.
We also built an admin-side report workbench: a structured interface for reviewing the pulled data, supplementing it with the fields that still come from outside Hostaway, and confirming before reports are generated. This gave the team a clear and controlled place to handle edge cases without having to touch a spreadsheet.
On building the integration
- •Explored the Hostaway API surface before committing to any data model.
- •Drafted a CLI tool first — faster to validate the integration without the bulk of the application UI around it.
- •Used Figma Make again to prototype the admin workbench UI before coding it.
- •AI-assisted development for the integration layer — fast to write, but still required the exploration work up front to get it right.
CLI-first validation is a pattern worth repeating. Get confidence in the integration before adding the UI. Cheaper to throw away a script than a screen.