The Home Concierge · for short-term rental hosts
A handmade wood-framed display that's intentionally simpler than another tablet or screen. Your place is a getaway, not a waiting room. Connect your bookings once, and Hiya is ready for every stay.
Built by hand in small batches in North Carolina — founding pre-orders are open.
The voice concierge
A guest holds the button on top of the box, asks out loud — "when is trash day?", "where's the best coffee?" — and lets go. A moment later the box answers, spoken aloud and scrolling across the screen.
It answers only from the house guide you upload or add in your host portal, so it says what you would say. Anything you haven't covered, it refers to you instead of guessing — no made-up answers about your home.
The microphone is wired to the button: it listens only while the button is physically held. No wake word, no always-on listening, no recordings kept.
The home concierge
A solid maple shadow box with mitered corners, wrapped around a 64 × 64 LED matrix behind black acrylic. 7.9″ × 7.9″ × 3″ (200 × 200 × 77 mm) — small enough for a side table, warm enough for the mantel.
Every frame is cut, sanded, and varnished one at a time in North Carolina, finished in clear semi-gloss so the grain does the talking. No two are quite alike.
The only control on the whole box is a stainless button set flush into the top: hold it to ask. Nothing to pair, nothing to charge, nothing else to learn.
Your host portal
Every screen in the rotation is a switch you flip, a few lines you write, or a booking you already have. It all lives in one portal, on your phone or your laptop — change something and the Concierge will reflect it. No app for you or your guests to download.
Customizable
Hosts can toggle screens off and on, and create customized messages.
Location-Aware
Your property address unlocks nearby events, weather, restaurants, and much more.
Personalized
Hiya Concierge greets your guests by name, and knows to wish them a happy 50th anniversary.
A day on the wall
Real renders from a live property — the same code the device runs, one dot per LED.
Good manners
You set the waking hours in your portal — 6am to 10pm to start. At your closing time the box doesn't just cut out: it fades down over twenty minutes, says goodnight, and rests warm and dim until morning, when it says good morning again. If a guest wants the room dark sooner, the box offers first — a double press puts it out until morning, and any press brings it back. Between stays it switches itself off entirely, still awake enough to answer a touch.
The pocket concierge — on the same subscription
During each stay the box shows a QR code. One scan opens that stay's own page in the guest's browser — the same concierge, out at the beach or in line for coffee: ask anything, tap to copy the wifi, check the checkout time, see your notes and what's on around town today.
No app, no account, no sign-in. It's a private link minted just for that stay, and it retires itself at checkout. Pocket Concierge is part of the same subscription that makes the box answer — one subscription, both surfaces. Or take it on its own, without the hardware.
Questions go to the concierge, not to you. Every reply comes automatically from the same house guide the box speaks from, and it's labeled as automated — guests always know it's Hiya they're talking to, not their host. Same handling, too: what's asked during a stay is saved with the booking so you can fix anything the guide got wrong.
A power outlet and your wifi — that's it. No TV, no app for your guests, nothing to install. On first power-up the box creates its own temporary wifi network — connect to it from your phone, enter your home wifi details, and the box comes online, already linked to your place.
From your bookings — three ways, your choice. Best: connect your booking system directly — OwnerRez, Lodgify, Hostaway, or your Airbnb account — and names and dates arrive together, sync themselves every hour, and update when bookings change. Completely hands-off. Or paste the calendar link from your Airbnb, Vrbo, or Booking.com listing — each stay's dates then arrive on their own, and you just add the guest's name in the portal. Or simply type stays in by hand.
No. The microphone is wired to the button and listens only while the button is physically held. There's no wake word, no always-on listening, and recordings aren't kept after the question is answered.
Only from the house guide you upload or add in your host portal — so it says what you would say. Anything you haven't covered, the box refers the guest to you instead of guessing.
Your guests won't notice a thing — the box keeps doing everything else: the welcome by name, the wifi, weather, local events, and check-out reminders. The ask screen simply leaves the rotation, and if someone does hold the button, the box politely points them to you. Switch it back on anytime.
Yes — every screen is a toggle in your portal, from tides to local events. The box also dims in the evening and rests overnight, so it's a warm glow, never a bright light.
Built by hand in small batches in North Carolina — $199 for the box, plus a Hiya Home Concierge subscription from $9.99 a month. Founding pre-orders ship free and go first in the build queue.
Conditional pre-order — cancel for a full refund any time before your box ships. Price excludes sales tax, added at checkout where required.