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MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL

What is MCP?

We explain hotel technology companies like we're talking to a 10-year-old. No buzzwords. No next-generation anything. Just what the company actually does.

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL

MCP

Imagine AI is a really smart hotel helper — but everything it needs is behind a different locked door. Reservations behind one, restaurant bookings behind another, guest information behind a third. Brilliant helper, no keys. MCP is like giving every one of those systems the same kind of doorway the AI already knows how to open. Once it's let in, it can actually go find the answer — or get the task done.

MCP — Model Context Protocol — is a shared, standard way for AI to connect to the tools a business already uses, so it can look things up or complete tasks instead of only talking about them.

AI gets far more useful when it can plug into real systems. Instead of only answering "what time is check-in?", it could answer "do I have a reservation tonight?" by checking the reservation system itself.

EP 03

AEO & MCP

SEP 22 · 2:38
AEO & MCP
ALSO EXPLAINED IN EP 03
What does AEO do? →
FOR HOTEL TECH COMPANIES

Want us to explain your company?

If someone has ever asked what your product does and you watched their eyes glaze over halfway through the answer, this is for you. We take what you do and explain it the way you would to a ten-year-old — which, it turns out, is also how most people want to hear it.

We made the first episode ourselves, to prove the format works. Tell us about your company and we will take it from there.