I'm Mitch, the founder and developer behind HostHive.
Here's what my bookkeeping actually looks like. An invoice shows up — plumber, cleaner, propane, whatever. I pay it. A few days later the charge syncs into HostHive through Plaid. And then it sits there, waiting for me.
Because a synced transaction isn't a finished transaction. I have to open each one, figure out what it was, pick a category, assign it to a property, and approve it. One at a time. Miss a few weeks and there's a queue of a hundred-plus transactions waiting for review.
That's the real workflow. Not glamorous. But it's the truth, and it's where this feature starts.
What I Shipped Today
HostHive now runs an MCP server.
MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is the open standard AI assistants use to connect to outside tools and data. Claude speaks it. ChatGPT speaks it. Cursor speaks it. It's not tied to any one company, and neither is this feature.
Connect your assistant to HostHive, and you can ask questions about your own business in plain language:
- •"What did the Lake house net in June?"
- •"Which of my properties had the best occupancy last quarter?"
- •"Show me profit by property for the last six months."
- •"How many transactions are sitting in my review queue right now?"
And you get answers — not from training data, not from a generic example, but from your actual HostHive numbers. Your transactions, your bookings, your occupancy, your properties.
Setup is one click and one paste. Go to Settings, click Connect, paste the snippet into your assistant. Done.
What It Can See. What It Can't.
I want to be specific about this because it matters.
Your assistant can read financial summaries, individual transactions — including the ones still waiting for your review — bookings, occupancy data, and property details. That's it.
It reads. It doesn't write. It can't categorize a transaction, approve anything, move a booking, or take any action in your account.
It also never sees your guests' contact information or your bank credentials. Plaid holds the bank connection — I never see your login, and neither does your AI.
Where This Is Going
I'll be honest about why I built the read side first.
That review queue I described at the top — invoice, payment, Plaid sync, then categorize-assign-approve, transaction by transaction — is the part of running rentals I most want to hand off. But I'm not going to let an AI write to your books before it's proven it can read them correctly.
So today, your assistant can see everything and change nothing.
What I'm building next: you upload your invoices through the month — photos, PDFs, whatever you have — and when the Plaid transactions land, your assistant matches them up, suggests the category and the property, and you approve the lot in one pass instead of clicking through each transaction.
The data foundation for that shipped today. The approval always stays with you.
Try It
The MCP connection is free and available on all HostHive accounts starting today.
Settings → click Connect → paste into your assistant.
If something doesn't work right, or if there's a question you tried to ask that didn't get a good answer, tell me. I read every message.
Thanks for being part of this.
— Mitch mb@hosthive.io Founder & Developer, HostHive