An open standard for independent stays

Let any AI assistant find, ask and book a home. Directly.

LivStay makes a villa, a flat or a guesthouse readable, bookable and trustworthy to AI agents. No platform sits in the middle, and the host keeps the guest, the rules and the money.

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Villa in Assagao, North GoaAgent-bookable
Host
Named host, replies in about 10 min livscore ★★★
Fit
Quiet stays, remote work, families. Not for parties.
Facts
Full-house inverter, fibre Wi‑Fi, parking for 2 cars, pool not heated.
Terms
Free cancellation to 14 days. Weekly 10% off. Instant book for Trusted guests.
Protection
Deposit by guest level, photo evidence at check-in and check-out, published dispute rules.
Price
Exact quote, held 24 h while the traveller decides.
Example. Every line comes from the host’s own data and is signed.

Why now

The decision is made before the booking, and agents can only recommend what they can read.

A

Travellers ask AI first

Assistants shortlist a handful of places. Being in that shortlist is all or nothing.

B

Agents default to big platforms

Today they are the only inventory an agent can read, price and book reliably, so that’s where agents send people.

C

Hosts are losing the guest

Large platforms increasingly withhold guest contact details, so questions before arrival go unanswered or turn into calls.

How it works

Five things an agent can do with a LivStay home.

  1. facts

    Read it. Plain, citable facts about the home and its named host, served to agents and published on the home’s own page, so AI answers quote the same thing.

  2. enquire

    Ask the host. The agent sends a question; the host answers on WhatsApp as a person; the signed answer goes back to the traveller.

  3. quote

    Get a binding price. A signed quote fixes the price for 24 hours while the traveller decides, with every fee as its own line. Nothing is charged at a price they haven’t seen.

  4. book

    Book on the host’s terms. The booking holds the calendar for 15 minutes and waits for the traveller’s own approval of the exact terms. Minimum guest level, deposit, cancellation and instant-book rules apply to agents exactly as on the host’s own site.

  5. receipt

    Leave a record. Every action an agent takes returns a signed receipt. The host sees what was done, and the traveller’s agent can prove it was allowed.

For hosts

Your home, your rules, on every assistant.

  • Recommended by AI from your own facts page
  • Guests reach you, not a call centre
  • Your deposit, your cancellation policy, your minimum guest level
  • A flat 5% on paid stays through LivAround, the first implementation
  • Works alongside Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com

For platforms and agent builders

One open spec instead of a hundred integrations.

  • Specification, schemas and code under Apache 2.0, like the Personal Agent Protocol
  • Any PMS or booking engine can implement it; LivAround is the reference implementation
  • MCP and OpenAPI for the same operations
  • Identity, consent and sessions from the Personal Agent Protocol
  • Four levels: publish facts first, add quotes, enquiries and booking later
Host platform guideAgent guide

Where it sits

A stay-domain layer on the agent stack, not another identity protocol.

Identity & consentPersonal Agent Protocol: who the agent is, what the traveller allowed
StaysLivStay (Poppy extension livstay.org/stays): facts, quotes, enquiries, bookings, protection, trust
TransportMCP and OpenAPI over HTTPS
PaymentAgent payment rails, as they mature
// /.well-known/poppy.json on a host's operator domain (excerpt)
{
  "protocol_version": "0.2",
  "apis": [{ "type": "mcp", "url": "https://stays.example/livstay/v0/mcp" }],
  "auth": { "custom_scopes": {
    "livstay:book": "Book, change and cancel stays you approve" } },
  "extensions": {
    "operations": { "version": "1", "endpoint": "https://stays.example/poppy/operations" },
    "livstay.org/stays": { "version": "0", "revision": "0.2", "endpoint": "https://stays.example/livstay/v0", "level": 3 }
  }
}

LivStay draft 0.2 is written as an extension to Personal Agent Protocol draft 0.2: identity, sessions and conversations are Poppy’s, and every booking is a Poppy operation that the traveller approves. It is designed to work with that protocol. It is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by that protocol’s authors or partners.

Status

Draft spec, live pilot, one destination first.

NOW

Be recommended

Facts pages, enquiries answered by the host, 24-hour held quotes. Pilot with founding hosts in North Goa.

NEXT

Be booked

Agent-completed bookings for verified guests, signed receipts, the Personal Agent Protocol binding.

LATER

Negotiate and federate

Bounded counter-offers, insurer-backed protection, more implementations and destinations.

Hosts, property managers, PMS teams and agent builders: get in touch to join the pilot or review the draft.

mohit@livaround.com