Cressco

Cressco is a tech consultancy and operations partner for short-term rental businesses, with offices in Dublin, Barcelona, and Bogotá. The company was founded by Antanas Perez (CEO) and Juan Rey (CTO) and operates a lean team of nine people—five full-stack developers, one data analyst/backend developer, one UX/UI designer, and one marketing specialist. Rather than selling generic software, Cressco builds custom automations and integrations that sit on top of existing property management systems. The company works with STR operators across multiple scales, with playbooks tested from 20 to 200 units.

Cressco's model is straightforward: a free discovery call identifies pain points, Cressco recommends solutions (or tells you upfront if you're not a fit), then the team implements working systems—not documents. A typical engagement requires only 1–2 calls from the client plus async messages; Cressco handles the rest.

Services and capabilities

Cressco offers three core product solutions alongside consulting engagements. The Revenue Management Bot (from $150/month) provides daily analysis of pricing performance, review impact, and booking patterns—the kind of work normally requiring a specialist. The AI Guest Autopilot (from $2,000) sets up AI-powered guest messaging. The Automated Onboarding System ($1,500) creates a complete workflow for new properties to eliminate manual chaos. An AI Readiness Check ($100, 15 minutes) assesses an operator's position and expected ROI before any commitment. For operators needing clarity before implementation, Cressco offers Technology Consulting ($2,000 for three sessions, a full presentation, and a week of follow-up).

Beyond these three products, Cressco builds custom automations. Across eight documented case studies, the company has delivered tools for data cleaning (syncing listing content to Google Sheets with templates), AI-powered review analysis (flagging recurring issues as actionable tasks), listing generation (reducing creation time from 2 hours to 5 minutes), driver and cleaner scheduling (dropping daily coordination from 1 hour to 2 minutes using Google Sheets and Maps API), guest notifications for maintenance (automatic alerts with timing and service details), certificate expiry tracking (syncing dates from PMS with proactive reminders), Slack bots for PMS queries (real-time availability and access code answers), and AI-powered image review for key handovers. One case study noted a 10% increase in review scores in weeks after deploying review analysis automation.

Notable work

Cressco's case studies come from real STR operators, not hypotheticals. The data-cleaning project cut hundreds of manual data entries to a few hours of work by building a Google Sheets interface with templates, which then fed cleaner content into the client's AI workflows. The review analysis tool gave a team immediate visibility into guest pain points and triggered operational tasks directly from feedback, with results showing a 10% increase in review scores within weeks. The listing-creation automation reduced per-property setup from 2 hours to 5 minutes, allowing the client to onboard more properties without hiring. The scheduling tool cut daily driver-and-cleaner coordination from 1 hour to 2 minutes using optimized route generation. A maintenance notification system eliminated the ops team's manual message-writing by automatically alerting guests with job details. Cressco also built a Slack bot that answers basic PMS questions (availability, access codes) without context-switching, and an AI workflow that flags poor key-handover photos in real time, holding agents accountable.

How they work

Engagements start with a free discovery call. If Cressco determines the operation isn't a good fit, they say so upfront rather than selling a forced solution. Once aligned, the team implements working systems directly—they do not deliver strategy documents. A typical engagement requires only 1–2 calls from the client and a few async messages; the rest is Cressco's work. The company works with existing stacks (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com integrations and property management platforms) rather than rip-and-replacing. Solutions integrate on top of what operators already use. Cressco tracks KPIs and measures before/after impact.

Team and credentials

Antanas Perez and Juan Rey founded the company. The team has nine people: five full-stack developers (Julian Pinilla, Rocio Martínez, Arge Niño, Homero José, and one unnamed), one data analyst/backend developer (Yessica Angulo), one UX/UI designer (Julieth Ortegón), and one marketing specialist (Jhonatan Gómez). The team operates across Dublin, Barcelona, and Bogotá. Cressco claims repeat engagements and referrals as evidence of trust but does not list formal certifications, partner badges, or third-party ratings in the source material. The company's credibility rests on case studies showing real work and stated playbooks scaled from 20 to 200 units.