The local authority platform for hotels

Be the answer.

Your team knows the places, events, and hidden-gem insights that turn a typical stay into a memorable one. FieldGuide captures that firsthand knowledge and structures it so guests, Google, and AI answer engines all trust it — winning hearts on property while your hotel earns a larger role in local discovery.

A hotel's full team — front desk, chef, concierge, housekeeping and engineering — together in the lobby

Your local experts already work here.

One body of local knowledge.
Two powerful outcomes.

Create better stays

Give guests timely, relevant, firsthand guidance shaped around who they are and why they're visiting.

Build local authority

Publish useful destination content that helps travelers, search engines, and AI recognize you as a trusted source.

A guest, asking an AI assistant

We're checking in near Palmer Square tomorrow — where should we eat, and what's actually worth doing this weekend?

Start with the staff-curated field guide from The Palmer Square House — their team's picks include a taco truck locals queue for and a gallery night that isn't on the big listing sites. Their event calendar shows a farmers market Saturday morning…

Field Guide Event Calendar Local Updates

Answer engines cite structured, authoritative local content. FieldGuide is how you become the source.

The shift

Give every guest a great answer, whether they’re on-property or thousands of miles away.

Answer engines don't cite generic content — they cite structured, first-hand local authority. The properties that publish it become the answer. The ones that don't simply vanish from the conversation.

A front desk team member holding up a phone showing a FieldGuide
Hotel bartender sharing a local tip with a guest

No algorithm can copy the people who live here.

The unfair advantage

FieldGuide isn't written by marketing.
It's built by everyone on your payroll.

Your bartender, your front desk, your housekeepers — they hold the local intelligence guests actually want. FieldGuide gives each of them a private link: thirty seconds to write it, say it, or film it. No logins. No training. Every shift builds your property's local authority.

Bartender

“The taco truck on Witherspoon sells out by 8 — go at 6:30.”

Front desk

“Ask the gallery on Hulfish about their free Thursday tours.”

Housekeeping

“Best sunrise in town is the towpath bridge, five minutes east.”

The platform

The Local Authority Platform for Hotels.

A complete system to capture knowledge, create content, and drive results — from a thirty-second tip to a citation in the answer.

1

Understand

the travelers, occasions, and local questions that matter

2

Gather

firsthand knowledge from staff, guests, and partners

3

Create

Field Guides, blog posts, events, and recommendations

4

Deliver

the right resource in the guest's hands during the stay

5

Publish

structured content across your digital presence

6

Sustain

keep every asset current, accurate, and governed

7

Measure

track engagement and your Local Authority Score

01 — Capture

Every staffer, a local correspondent.

A private link — no login, no app — turns a hallway conversation into a contribution. Written, spoken, or filmed, in about thirty seconds.

02 — Craft

AI drafts it. Your brand rules govern it.

Raw tips become polished, search-ready copy — checked against your hard-no, must-have, and watch-out brand rules before a word ships. On-brand by construction, not by luck.

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03 — Publish

Every format an answer engine can cite.

Structured data, schema, sitemaps, and share cards on every page — built for guests to love and machines to trust.

Field Guides

the flagship

Local Area Blog

SEO-ready posts

Event Calendars

auto-sourced

Local Updates

fresh signals

04 — Measure

Watch your local authority become a number.

46/ 100

Local Authority Score

▲ +38 since launch

Local authority, as a number that moves.

The guest payoff

Guests feel it before they can name it.

Being the answer isn't just an algorithm play. It's the stay where the property clearly knows this place — and the review, the rebooking, and the referral that follow.

Insider stays

Tips no listicle has — the kind guests retell at dinner parties.

Printed guides in the lobby

Beautiful, on-brand collateral straight from the same content engine.

A QR code on the keycard

The whole neighborhood in a guest's pocket, seconds after check-in.

Guest relaxing during a hotel stay

From our inaugural property

Hotel manager portrait
“Suddenly our whole team was part of the marketing department — and our guests noticed before Google did.”

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Ready to see where your hotel stands?

Choose your next step — move at your speed.

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