Design · Build · Procure — One Partner
Hotels, built and furnished at the speed of intelligence.
Powered by our own proprietary AI
Lee Hospitality builds new hotels, renovates existing ones, and furnishes both — an AI-powered general contractor and procurement office. Every project runs on artificial intelligence we built and train ourselves: it reads the drawings and spec books, works the vendor market, levels every quote, gates every dollar, and watches your schedule around the clock. That software is the edge no competitor has — and our people own every decision it proposes.
A dramatization of one afternoon on our AI — reading, bidding, checking, and holding every decision for a person.
The Edge, In Brief
The edge is the software. Nobody else has it.
A proprietary AI runs the work
While competitors add headcount, we built intelligence: an in-house AI platform that reads, drafts, checks, and forecasts across the entire project — trained on our own work, sharper with every hotel it runs, and available to exactly one firm in this industry. Meet our AI →
One project, not two
Everyone else runs your building and your FF&E as separate projects with separate firms. We are the GC and the procurement office — one team, one AI, one schedule, one ledger, on the hook for the building, the furniture, and the date. The build → The furnishing →
AI proposes. Our people approve.
Nothing consequential leaves this firm on autopilot. Every award, every payment, every schedule call is reviewed by a human who signs their name to it. You get machine speed with professional accountability.
In Plain Terms
The old way, and the Lee way.
What Speed Looks Like
Figures drawn from live projects on our platform. Every number above was produced by the system and verified by a person — which is exactly how your project will run.
"Your property deserves an unfair advantage."
The advantage is structural: one accountable partner, running on an AI no competitor has, with a human hand on every decision. See how that compares →
Construction
A general contractor with a nervous system.
Complete GC delivery for ground-up hotels — the only general contractor whose jobs are watched, checked, and forecast by its own artificial intelligence, around the clock. The AI prices the budget against the live market, verifies every trade's insurance, holds every payment until the work and the paperwork are proven, and recomputes your critical path continuously. Our superintendents and PMs run the field — with a machine that never misses a detail behind them.
Our AI on a live build — every dollar gated by proof, every date rechecked daily. Dramatization.
The Scope, In Full
First budget to closeout binder.
Takeoff and budget, straight from your drawings
The AI reads your drawings and counts the work — rooms, doors, fixtures, finishes — then prices it against our purchase history and live commodity indices. Every quantity is verified by one of our estimators before it touches a bid, and your pro forma starts from where the market is going, not where it was.
Scopes written by machine, refined by estimators
The AI drafts each trade's scope of work from your drawings and specs — quantities attached — and our estimators refine and approve it before it goes to market. Bids come back level, trades are qualified and insured before award, and payment runs gated to the last lien waiver.
RFIs, submittals, daily logs
Field questions tracked to their answers, submittals tracked to approval, and daily logs feeding the schedule — so the paper trail is a live record of the job, not an archaeology project at dispute time.
The right material, on the right day
Long-lead items flagged the moment they threaten a date, order windows watched automatically, framework supply agreements for repeat materials, and every delivery received against the install schedule.
Draws, waivers, and WIP
Owner draws on G702/G703 discipline, statutory lien-waiver compliance, and bank-ready work-in-progress reporting generated from the live ledger — the money side of the build, always current, always audit-grade.
Finished means finished
Punch lists worked to verified completion, inspections passed and documented, and a closeout package — warranties, as-builts, O&M documentation, and the full reconciled money trail — handed over with the keys.
The Control Room
Software tracks what happened. Ours governs what happens next.
Six disciplines the platform enforces on every job — automatically, continuously, with a person approving every consequential call.
Subcontractors, gated before award
No trade is awarded until qualification clears — insurance certificates verified (read by machine, confirmed by a person), scope packages leveled across bidders with holes and overlaps flagged. Substitutions, when they happen, are managed transitions — not chaos.
No lien surprises. Ever.
Lien waivers are collected on statutory forms with statutory deadlines tracked automatically. A subcontractor is paid only after the work is verified in place and the paperwork is signed — a hard gate, not a checklist item somebody remembers at closing.
Industry-standard pay applications
Progress billing on the AIA G702/G703 idiom, with schedule-of-values discipline, retainage computed exactly, and carry-forwards that always tie out. Your lender's draw reviewer will notice the difference.
A critical path that watches itself
Every trade and every delivery carries a live schedule signal — green, yellow, red — rolled up from the task level to the whole project, with the critical path recomputed continuously. Slips are absorbed or escalated while options still exist.
Change orders with a closed loop
Every change order carries its cost and its schedule impact through the ledger the moment it's approved — budgets revise themselves, nothing lands in a drawer, and the running total is never a surprise at month-end.
Bank-ready WIP, any day of the week
Work-in-progress and cost-to-complete schedules — the reports banks and sureties require — are generated from the live ledger, not reconstructed quarterly. Over- and under-billing positions are visible continuously, per job and across the portfolio.
Renovating, Not Building New?
Renovation is its own discipline. We treat it that way.
Brand-mandated PIPs, guestroom refreshes, and repositioning work run under the same control room you see above — with the added disciplines an operating property demands. See the renovation practice →
Renovation — PIPs & Repositioning
Rooms back in service on the date promised.
A renovation is a race against lost room-nights — every day a floor sits dark is revenue that never comes back. That's why our AI runs the clock: it prices the brand mandate the week it arrives, orders the long-lead items before demolition starts, and watches every delivery against every floor's turnover date. Construction and furniture on one synchronized schedule, machine-checked daily — so the rooms and the FF&E are ready on the same day.
Our AI on a live PIP — the mandate priced, the clock watched, the guests undisturbed. Dramatization.
Why Renovation Is Different
The hotel stays open. The clock never stops.
The brand mandate, translated
A PIP arrives as a brand document; it leaves our intake as a CSI-coded budget and a structured spec book in one pass — construction scope and FF&E scope priced together, against our price history and the current market, so you know the real number before you commit to the franchise agreement.
Floors out of service in waves
The schedule takes rooms down in phases and brings them back sellable — demolition, trades, and installation choreographed floor by floor, with the critical path recomputed as each wave turns over. Revenue keeps flowing through the property while the work moves through it.
Nothing waits on a container
Case goods, lighting, and long-lead materials are identified and ordered before demolition starts — order windows watched automatically against each floor's install date, lead-time risk flagged weeks out. A renovation schedule is only as good as its slowest delivery, so we manage that delivery first.
Guests next door, every day
Working in a live hotel means logistics the platform tracks and our field team enforces — deliveries staged to the day, floors isolated, daily logs recording exactly what happened where. The general manager gets a partner who runs the job around the guests, not through them.
Furnished at turnover, not after
Because we buy the FF&E and build the rooms, installation is sequenced to construction turnover — furniture arrives as each floor comes ready. No warehouse full of case goods burning storage fees, no finished floors sitting empty waiting on a truck.
The same audit-grade spine
Renovation money runs through the identical discipline as new construction: gated payments, statutory lien waivers, closed-loop change orders, and a live ledger — so a fast-moving job never becomes a loose one. Change orders get answered with numbers, not surprises.
Renovation is where the industry's two-project split hurts the most — finished floors waiting on furniture, or furniture in storage waiting on floors. Running both tracks on one schedule is not a convenience here; it's the whole game.
Furnishing — FF&E / OS&E
The purchasing office that reads everything.
Competitive FF&E and OS&E procurement at a scale no manual purchasing team can match — because an AI does the reading. It takes in the designer's spec book the morning it arrives, puts the whole vendor market in competition at once, reads every quote the minute it lands, and levels them line by line with every gap flagged. Our buyers negotiate from total information; the machine never gets tired of checking. And because we're also the builder, everything lands on the install schedule.
Our AI on a live bid — the whole market read, priced, and leveled while others schedule calls. Dramatization.
How the Machine Buys
Three stages, each one faster than the industry believes possible.
Spec books, read by machine
Designer spec books arrive messy — scanned pages, mixed formats, hundreds of items. The platform reads them, structures every line, and has them bid-ready the same day. A person reviews the read before a single vendor sees it.
The whole market, at once
Qualified vendors and manufacturer reps are matched to your items from our living vendor intelligence, then solicited simultaneously — each in its own thread, tracked to the reply. No serial phone-tag, no forgotten follow-ups.
Every quote, leveled honestly
Quotes come back as PDFs, spreadsheets, and email prose. The machine extracts every line, prices it against our history, and levels bids apples-to-apples — flagging scope gaps, overlaps, and missing freight before anything is signed.
The Numbers
Awards are negotiated from total information — our people walk into every vendor conversation knowing the market price, the freight reality, and the lead-time risk. That's what the machine is for. The relationship, the judgment, and the signature stay human.
Our AI
The AI is the edge.
Most firms in this industry bought their software; none of them have AI that actually runs the work. We built ours — a proprietary artificial-intelligence platform that reads documents, drafts the work product, checks the money, and forecasts cost and schedule across the build and the furnishing as one connected operation. What it does is below. How it does it stays our advantage — and yours.
The Rulebook
Most AI guesses. Ours is governed.
We taught the machine the formal rules of hotel construction — how a payment, a subcontract, a delivery, a change order is allowed to move from start to finish — and then made breaking those rules impossible. Not discouraged. Not flagged for review. Impossible.
Watch what happens when anyone — human or machine — tries to take a shortcut with your money:
One rule of hundreds. Every lifecycle in our company — money, materials, schedules, paperwork — runs on the same governed rulebook. It's why "AI proposes, our people approve" isn't a slogan: the system is built so it can't work any other way.
The Shared Spine
Three things every dollar and every date pass through.
The build drives the buying
Install dates set order dates. Quoted lead times and vendor track records are checked against the critical path continuously, so a slow delivery is caught while there's still time to expedite, substitute, or resequence — weeks before it could become a late opening.
Audit-grade, every day
Every commitment — a subcontract, a purchase order, a change order — and every actual land in one CSI-coded ledger, reconciled continuously. Committed, actual, and forecast are current daily; WIP and cost-to-complete reports generate themselves.
Cost intelligence that compounds
We keep our own price history on thousands of items and watch published commodity indices — steel, copper, lumber, concrete. Every new project starts with everything the last one learned, and your budget carries a forward view, not last quarter's guess.
The machine does the heavy work. Our people own the outcome.
Every consequential action — an award, a payment, a schedule change — passes through a named person with the authority and the accountability to approve it. That is a design principle, not a disclaimer.
A Note on What We Don't Show
The recipe is the moat.
You'll notice we describe what the platform does, not how. The models, the data, and the methods behind it are proprietary — built over years of live projects and not available to license, to competitors, or to the vendors bidding your work. When you hire Lee, that entire accumulated edge goes to work for exactly one party: you.
The Edge
Your property deserves an unfair advantage.
The hospitality construction and procurement industry is served by two kinds of firms: agencies with people but decades-old tooling, and software vendors with tools but no accountability for your outcome. We built the third kind — an AI-native firm, where proprietary artificial intelligence does the industry's manual work and our people deliver the project. That software is the unfair advantage.
| Traditional purchasing agents | Procurement software | Lee Hospitality | |
|---|---|---|---|
| One project or two? | FF&E only — your general contractor is a stranger to them | A tool for one silo | The build and the furnishing on one schedule and one ledger — one accountable partner |
| Accountability | Agent fee for purchasing only; construction is someone else's contract | A license and a help desk — the outcome is entirely yours | One firm accountable for the build, the FF&E, and the opening date |
| Speed to bid | Weeks of manual spec take-off and serial vendor outreach | As fast as your own staff can type into it | Spec book to simultaneous, market-wide RFQs in hours |
| Quote analysis | Spreadsheets assembled by hand, as time allows | Manual entry, then arithmetic | Every quote machine-read, priced against history, leveled line-by-line with gaps flagged |
| Cost foresight | Last project's pricing, adjusted by feel | A reporting module | Living price history plus commodity-index forecasting on every open budget |
| Schedule risk | Discovered when the truck doesn't arrive | Not their department | Lead times and vendor track records checked against your critical path, continuously |
| Payment protection | Not their contract — lien exposure rides with your GC | A document folder | Statutory lien waivers + verified work in place gate every payment, automatically |
| Owner reporting | Monthly status decks | Dashboards of what you typed in | G702/G703 billing discipline + bank-ready WIP schedules from the live ledger, any day |
| Money trail | Reconciled at month-end, if requested | Exports a CSV | Audit-grade ledger — committed, actual, forecast — current every day of the job |
We respect the firms that built this industry — several have been at it for decades and move real volume. Our point is narrower: nobody else combines delivery accountability with a proprietary intelligence platform, and nobody else runs the building and the furnishing as one synchronized project. A competitor could buy software; they cannot buy that combination — it compounds on every project we run.
How It Works
Two tracks. One spine. One opening day.
Everyone else runs your building and your FF&E as two separate projects — different firms, different schedules, different spreadsheets, and a hand-off gap where openings go to die. We run them as one. Four phases, each with the build and the furnishing moving together on our AI platform's single schedule and single ledger.
Define
machine: reads & structures — person: locks scope & budgetThe AI reads your drawings, counts the work, and builds a working schedule and a CSI-coded budget grounded in our price history and live commodity indices — quantities verified by our estimators, a pro forma that starts from where the market is going.
The designer's spec book — whatever shape it's in — is machine-read and structured the same day, every line item reviewed by our team and locked against your budget targets.
Buy out
machine: solicits, levels, gates — person: negotiates & awardsTrade scopes — drafted by the AI from your drawings, refined and approved by our estimators — go to market competitively. Bids are leveled with holes and overlaps flagged; no subcontractor is awarded until qualification clears — insurance verified, scope complete.
The full vendor market — manufacturers, reps, alternates — is solicited simultaneously. Every quote is machine-read on arrival, priced against history, and leveled apples-to-apples.
Build & buy
machine: checks, reconciles, warns — person: approves every dollarField discipline runs daily — RFIs tracked to answers, submittals to approval, daily logs to the schedule. Pay applications clear only against verified work in place and signed statutory lien waivers. Change orders post cost and schedule impact the moment they're approved.
Orders are placed against the install schedule, not a warehouse calendar. Deliveries are tracked door to dock; lead-time risk is flagged weeks out, while expediting and substitution are still cheap options.
Finish & open
machine: verifies & reconciles — person: hands you the keysPunch lists are worked to verified completion, inspections passed and documented, and the closeout binder assembled — warranties, as-builts, O&M documentation.
Rooms are furnished as they come ready — installation sequenced to construction turnover, floor by floor, so nothing sits in storage burning money and nothing arrives after the ribbon is cut.