Kodawa Labs · Hospitality Technology

We build the digital guest journey.

Websites, booking systems, AI assistants and custom hospitality technology for restaurants, hotels and travel brands.

From discovery to booking, experience and return.

We work from the hospitality problem outward — understanding the guest, the team and the commercial outcome before deciding what should be built.

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What we build

Technology around the guest.

We design around the guest journey and the operation behind it — helping hospitality businesses attract demand, own more bookings, reduce friction and serve better.

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Hospitality Websites

Websites built around rooms, menus, experiences, reservations and direct conversion.

Restaurants · Hotels · Resorts · Bars & Lounges
02

Booking & Reservations

Direct booking systems for tables, rooms, events and experiences.

Availability · Payments · Confirmations · Waitlists
03

AI Guest Assistants

24/7 guest support for questions, recommendations, booking guidance and service requests.

Concierge · Messaging · Recommendations · Support
04

Guest CRM & Loyalty

Systems that help hospitality businesses remember guests, personalize communication and encourage return visits.

Profiles · Preferences · Loyalty · Retention
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Operations & Automation

Internal tools that reduce repetitive work and coordinate requests, availability and staff workflows.

Guest requests · Dashboards · Workflow automation
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Custom Hospitality Software

When the problem is specific to your operation, we build around the business rather than forcing an off-the-shelf tool.

Custom products · Integrations · Internal tools

Who we help

Built for hospitality.

Different hospitality businesses have different operations, but the same challenge remains: make the experience easier to discover, book and enjoy.

RestaurantsHotelsResortsBars & LoungesTour OperatorsTravel Brands

The digital guest journey

From discovery to the next visit.

We can build at one stage or connect several stages into one hospitality experience.

01

Discover

Websites, destination discovery, local recommendations and DropHop.

02

Book

Direct bookings, reservations, deposits, confirmations and ReserveAI.

03

Arrive

Pre-arrival communication, digital check-in and useful guest information.

04

Experience

Guest requests, concierge tools, recommendations and GuestOps AI.

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Return

Guest CRM, loyalty, follow-up and personalized offers.

Built by Kodawa Labs

Discover somewhere worth going.

DropHop helps travelers discover destinations, experiences and hospitality businesses around them — while making spontaneous travel easier to explore.

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DropHop travel discovery and flight deals interface

How we work

Start with the problem.

You do not need to arrive with a technical specification. Tell us what is happening in the business.

01

Tell us what isn't working.

You do not need a technical brief. Start with the problem, the bottleneck or the opportunity.

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We map the guest and business journey.

We look at what the guest experiences and what is happening behind the scenes for your team.

03

We design the right solution.

That might be a website, booking flow, automation, AI assistant or a custom system.

04

We build and integrate it.

The solution is developed around the tools, workflows and commercial goals of the business.

05

We launch, measure and improve.

We put it into use, learn from real behaviour and improve what matters.

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Selected work

Research turned into working systems.

Hospitality websites, booking journeys, guest technology and operational tools designed around the guest and the business behind the experience.

Avenlo House hospitality website interface
KHDS Synthesis Build 02

Avenlo House

A research-driven hospitality system combining direct booking, differentiated hotel, dining, event and membership journeys, AI guest assistance and an operator decision console.

Attract more guests. Own more bookings. Deliver better service.

Interval House transit hospitality interface
KHDS Synthesis Build 03

Interval House

A 24-hour Nairobi transit hospitality system built around journey state, entitlement, live capacity and named recovery ownership.

When the journey changes, the hospitality system changes with it.

Hospitality Websites

Restaurant Collection

Independent concepts exploring atmosphere, storytelling, reservations and direct action.

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Reservations

ReserveAI

A direct reservation concept for availability, confirmations, waitlists and guest relationships.

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Guest Operations

GuestOps AI

A hospitality operations concept for routing guest requests and helping teams respond faster.

Explore GuestOps →

Avenlo House and Interval House are fictional KHDS research synthesis prototypes. Restaurant concepts are independent design studies. These projects demonstrate our approach and are not presented as commissioned client work or evidence of measured commercial performance.

About Kodawa Labs

Business first. Technology where it helps.

Kodawa Labs is a hospitality technology studio founded by Brian Kodawa.

We combine hospitality, operations, business, analytics and software development to build digital systems around real guest and staff needs.

We work from the problem outward — understanding the guest, the team and the commercial outcome before deciding what should be built.

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Tell us what you want to improve.

Whether you need a better website, more direct bookings, smoother guest operations or a custom hospitality system, tell us what is getting in the way.

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Prefer email? Brian.Kodawa@gmail.com