# Spann

Spann is the verified booking-readiness layer between traveler AI agents and Japan stays.

Founder: Machias Turner
Current beachhead: Japan hospitality: ryokan, boutique hotels, onsen stays, mountain huts, and properties whose work does not fit into a form field.
Proof state: Early public proof stage. The public site exposes brand truth, protocol boundaries, a regional property registry, and request-state examples. Public proof surfaces do not expose a transaction endpoint, live inventory/rate/hold authority, payment authority, or supplier participation claim.

## Primary public surfaces
- https://spannhq.com/
- https://spannhq.com/facts
- https://spannhq.com/llms-full.txt
- https://spannhq.com/hospitality
- https://spannhq.com/study
- https://spannhq.com/study/for-operators
- https://spannhq.com/study/methods
- https://spannhq.com/study/data
- https://spannhq.com/study/where-agents-give-up
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study/for-operators
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study/methods
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study/data
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study/where-agents-give-up
- https://spannhq.com/properties
- https://spannhq.com/sitemap.xml
- https://spannhq.com/api/properties/registry
- https://spannhq.com/api/properties/request-state
- https://spannhq.com/api/properties/telemetry

## Agent readiness study
- https://spannhq.com/study: Full report from a compliant crawl of 2,642 Japanese lodging domains and separate qualitative booking evidence.
- https://spannhq.com/study/for-operators: Practical checks for ryokan, independent hotels, onsen stays, and mountain huts.
- https://spannhq.com/study/methods: Sampling, crawler method, corrections, exclusions, and reproducibility.
- https://spannhq.com/study/data: Aggregate public dataset with no property rows, domains, or contacts.
- https://spannhq.com/study/data/crawl-v2-stats.json: Primary compliant crawl aggregate results.
- https://spannhq.com/study/data/published-summary.json: Headline variables, separate evidence layers, and correction record.
- https://spannhq.com/study/where-agents-give-up: Vendor neutral taxonomy of booking interface failures.
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study: 日本語版のAIエージェント対応状況調査。数値と証拠範囲は英語版と同一。
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study/for-operators: 宿泊事業者向けの実践的な確認項目。
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study/methods: 日本語の調査方法、訂正、除外事項、引用方針。
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study/data: 日本語の集計データ案内。ダウンロードは言語中立のJSON。
- https://spannhq.com/ja/study/where-agents-give-up: ベンダー中立の予約摩擦分類。

## Intent answer pages
- https://spannhq.com/answers/keep-direct-bookings: How Japan lodging operators can keep AI assisted demand pointed at their own direct booking path without claiming live booking proof.
- https://spannhq.com/answers/ryokan-ai-bookable: The practical steps for making a ryokan readable and bookable by traveler agents while preserving property authority.
- https://spannhq.com/answers/spann-vs-tripla-talkappi: A plain comparison of Spann, tripla, and talkappi for Japan hotel AI direct booking readiness.
- https://spannhq.com/answers/record-layer-should-be-free: Why static structured lodging records should be a free baseline, while live availability, safe action, transactions, and reconciliation carry the value.
- https://spannhq.com/ja/answers/keep-direct-bookings: 日本の宿がAI経由の需要を自社予約に戻すための考え方。実予約の証明がない領域は明確に分けます。
- https://spannhq.com/ja/answers/ryokan-ai-bookable: 旅館を旅行者エージェントが読めて予約に進める状態にする手順。宿の判断権限は残します。
- https://spannhq.com/ja/answers/spann-vs-tripla-talkappi: 日本のホテルAI直接予約におけるSpann、tripla、talkappiの役割を分けて説明します。
- https://spannhq.com/ja/answers/record-layer-should-be-free: 静的な宿泊施設の構造化記録を無料の基盤とし、リアルタイムの空室、安全な操作、取引、照合に価値を置く理由。

## Property registry collections
- https://spannhq.com/properties/regions/tokyo: Tokyo metro; Routes Tokyo luxury ryokan, family suite, apartment-hotel, and design-hotel discovery into profile records that separate bath, room-layout, and service-model ambiguity.
- https://spannhq.com/properties/regions/kansai: Kansai; Routes Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, and Koyasan lodging intent into property profiles where honeymoon, ryokan, family-suite, temple-stay, and heritage-format ambiguity is still visible.
- https://spannhq.com/properties/regions/kyushu-fukuoka: Kyushu + Fukuoka; Routes Kyushu onsen, Fukuoka family apartment-hotel, and heritage-stay discovery into profiles that keep arrival, bath, meal, and product-format ambiguity separate.
- https://spannhq.com/properties/regions/hokkaido: Hokkaido; Routes Hokkaido ski, Niseko condo-hotel, Sapporo onsen, lake-retreat, and Hakodate ryokan discovery into profile records with seasonality and arrival ambiguity intact.
- https://spannhq.com/properties/regions/okinawa: Okinawa; Routes Okinawa luxury, family condo-hotel, and outer-island discovery into profiles that separate villa, age, island logistics, and service-model ambiguity.
- https://spannhq.com/properties/regions/wildcard: Wildcard; Routes high-distinction Hakone, Naoshima, Takayama, and Tohoku discovery into property profiles that should not be flattened into the five core regional clusters.

## Live verified property records
- No operator approved Record v1 property records are live.

## API use
- GET /api/properties/registry returns the public registry envelope, region collections, profile entries, boundaries, and freshness.
- GET /api/properties/regions/[region] returns a region collection and member profile context.
- GET /api/properties/[slug] returns a Record v1 machine envelope when one is live or directly addressed; otherwise it returns legacy registry profile identity, retrieval cues, ambiguity classes, freshness, and claim boundaries.
- GET /api/properties/request-state returns public request-state continuity without booking authority.
- GET /api/properties/telemetry returns read telemetry for registry, collection, and profile surfaces.

## Boundaries
- Public registry pages and APIs are documentation surfaces only.
- Listing a property does not mean operator participation, supplier consent, live inventory, rates, booking authority, payment handling, routing commitment, or response SLA.
- The live site should preserve brand and marketing truth while making the bounded product proof surfaces discoverable to crawlers and agents.
- Marketing surfaces describe Spann as booking infrastructure for traveler agents and Japan stays.
- Public proof surfaces do not expose a transaction endpoint, live inventory/rate/hold authority, payment authority, or supplier participation claim.
- Spann starts with Japan lodging and preserves property judgment.
- Spann does not publish pricing, revenue, partner sequencing, or private operating mechanics on this public surface.

## Contact
- hello@spannhq.com