The same record, across the whole life of the asset.
Every party in the FF&E chain has a rational excuse to drop the data: the designer's job ends at handover, the procurement firm's at delivery, the manufacturer's at sale. The lifecycle loop closes that gap by putting both the design phase and the operational phase on one platform.
One relationship grows both sides of the market.
The designer builds
During the project, the design firm populates the property's full FF&E specification on the platform, for free.
The handover
At opening day, they share the live property record with the hotel group instead of emailing a 500-page PDF.
The hotel inherits
The hotel starts day one with a searchable, queryable asset database, and the team that built it is one message away.
The waiver
If the hotel subscribes, the designer's £250 export fee is waived, so designers actively want their clients on board.
Why it's a moat, not a feature.
No competitor spans both ends of the lifecycle. Spec-building tools stop at the handover; maintenance systems never knew the original specification. By carrying the designer's work straight into live hotel operations, Controlbook makes the handover the stickiest moment in the whole chain. It also builds a proprietary dataset of real specs, failures and replacements that compounds over time.
For the designer
A faster spec build, a clean export, and a warm introduction into every hotel they hand over to.
For the hotel
A live database from day one, introduced by a trusted partner rather than a cold sales pitch.
For both
Aligned incentives: the waiver only pays off when the hotel actually adopts the platform.
See it running on your own property's data.
Give us 30 minutes. We'll report a real fault, identify the item, check availability and draft the supplier email, live, on a sample of your own data.
Built by Max Beech, who led product at Yahoo Finance and Revolut, and Stuart Anderson, who has spent 30+ years in hotel FF&E.