ratecla.im

The problem

You pay the booking-platform price because the hotel’s lower direct rate is never published anywhere.

What it does

ratecla.im is designed to ask the hotel for its best unpublished rate and bring back a quote held for 24 hours.

How it works

1. Paste a hotel link, or use the browser extension on the page you are on
2. An AI agent, which says it is one, asks the reservations desk directly
3. You only see a quote that beats the lowest public price found for the same stay

TodayThe backend runs on Cratefield; the browser extension is built but not published; the request agent is not built yet.

The film

Aims

Autonomous operation

A request runs itself: find the hotel’s reservations desk, ask, wait, read the reply, check it beats the lowest public price for the same stay, hold it for 24 hours, and bill the hotel after the stay. A person steps in only when a reply is unclear.

Intelligence

An agent that says it is an AI in every message, drafts the email and reads the reply into a checked quote. It never invents a price: anything uncertain goes to a human. The workflow around it is a plain, durable state machine.

Growth

Traveller-led, with hotels following: every quote is a reason for a hotel to list itself. Growth is accepted quotes at hotels that list with ratecla.im, counted from the first stay.