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Who Sherpa Data is not for.
Software companies rarely publish this page, because every visitor is a potential deal. But selling Sherpa to the wrong operator wastes your money and our founding-cohort seats — so here's exactly who should walk away, and what we'd use in your shoes instead.
1. You host one to four properties.
At that size, the problem Sherpa solves — tools that don't talk to each other across a growing portfolio — hasn't bitten you yet. A good PMS, PriceLabs, and an afternoon a month genuinely cover it, and the honest math says our subscription would buy you more as two nights of professional photography.
What we'd do instead: PriceLabs for pricing, your PMS's own owner statement if you manage for anyone, and revisit us at 10+ doors — that's where the spreadsheet starts to crack.
2. You're an enterprise brand with an in-house data team.
If you run hundreds of doors with engineers on payroll, you'll want to own your data model, and you'll have procurement requirements — SSO, SLAs, security questionnaires — that a founding-stage product shouldn't pretend to satisfy. We built Sherpa precisely because enterprise hospitality tools didn't fit us; the mirror image is that we don't fit enterprise.
What we'd do instead: build on your warehouse, or buy the enterprise suites and negotiate hard. Steal our ideas — the open dashboard concept transfers.
3. Your PMS isn't one we integrate with yet.
Sherpa's data model is fed by your property management system. If yours isn't on our integrations list, most of the suite runs blind — and a dashboard without your bookings in it is furniture. We'd rather tell you that here than after onboarding.
What we'd do instead: check the integrations strip on our homepage; if your PMS isn't there, ask us — the answer will include a real timeline or a real "not soon."
4. You own every door and answer to no one.
Our flagship product, SherpaFolio, exists to make property owners trust their manager's numbers. If your portfolio is entirely your own, that flagship matters less to you — the revenue and conversion tools still earn their keep, but you'd be buying a suite for half its value.
What we'd do instead: if RateAlpha, Vantage, and RatePulse alone would move your numbers, take a founding seat with eyes open — but if you're mostly here for reporting, you have less to gain than a manager with 40 owners does.
5. You want a vendor you never have to talk to.
During the founding cohort, we expect a 20-minute conversation a month, and you should expect rough edges in exchange for the founding price. If what you need right now is mature, self-service software with a support portal and no relationship — that's a fair need, and we're honestly not there yet.
What we'd do instead: wait for our standard release later this year, priced and published on the pricing page like everything else.
Who it is for
An operator running roughly 10 to 500 doors — especially managing for owners — who's hit the wall where the PMS, the pricing tool, the OTA dashboards, and the owner-report spreadsheet all disagree with each other. That was us. It's who every product in the suite was built for, on our own 80 doors, before we ever sold a seat.