“Can vacation rental managers escape OTA commissions by owning AI-discoverable direct-booking channels?”
Founded in 2023 as Flataway by former operators of one of Europe's largest short-term rental management companies. The team first built Calry, a unified PMS API, then pivoted to a broader hospitality direct-booking platform rebranded as OnSeason. The current thesis is that AI travel agents (ChatGPT, Claude) will disintermediate OTAs, and property managers need AI-discoverable direct-booking websites to capture that shift. Payments are outsourced entirely to Stripe — the company is a SaaS layer, not an embedded finance player.