Executive Summary

Short-term rental hosts and property managers increasingly face municipal mandates to collect guest IDs and submit police/municipal registrations, but current approaches are manual, error-prone, and expose hosts to fines and friction that hurt operations. This problem affects both independent hosts and the roughly 2.0M global hosts who could be willing to pay for a compliance solution. Build a mobile-first system that uses on-device AI OCR, liveness verification, multilingual parsing and a localized rule engine to capture IDs, create legal-ready records, and automatically file registrations with municipal or police systems, while offering secure storage and audit trails. Integrations with PMS platforms and configurable compliance templates would make this a turnkey workflow that reduces per-check time from minutes to seconds. The market is attractive now: estimated addressable spend is about $800M (2.0M hosts × $400 ACV), Market Score 80/100 and Revenue Potential 84/100, driven by regulatory tightening and the professionalization of hosts who increasingly adopt automation. Those trends create both urgency and clear distribution channels through PMS partners and host marketplaces. You can stand out by delivering end-to-end compliance (capture → verification → automated filing) with high accuracy OCR and a municipal integration playbook—features general-purpose KYC vendors typically don’t provide. Realistic challenges are varied legal/privacy rules across jurisdictions, the engineering effort for reliable global ID support, and the need for municipal partnerships, but a phased regional rollout and strategic PMS integrations make them manageable.

Market Opportunity

Automate guest ID capture and police registration for short-term rentals targets a $800M = 2.0M short-term rental hosts × $400 ACV (global hosts who would pay for annual compliance/identity tooling) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 7% YoY — adoption of proptech and short-term rental tools growing moderately as professionalization increases (industry estimates).

Key trends driving demand: Regulatory tightening — more municipalities require structured guest registration, increasing urgency for compliant software.; Professionalization of hosts — growing adoption of PMS and automation tools creates readiness to pay for compliance features.; Mobile-first capture and AI OCR accuracy — improved OCR and on-device capture reduce friction for identity collection in local languages.; Platform partnerships — channel managers and PMS vendors are expanding partner ecosystems, creating B2B2B distribution opportunities..

Key competitors include Superhog, Guesty (and other PMS like Hostfully, Smoobu), Local/manual solutions (WhatsApp/Excel + small freelancers).

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Automate guest ID capture and police registration for short-term rentals

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