🏨 For Hotel Operators

Your reviews drop
before you know why.
Stop guessing what guests don't say.

LTEA Scout sends real travelers through your hotel — from check-in to checkout — and tells you exactly what's broken before the public review does. The recovery plan lands in your queue automatically. The next mystery stay verifies it worked.

🛎️
Real travelers. Verified stays. Live data.
mystery travelers as guests · GPS + photo evidence · real-time submission feed
📋
Recovery plans, not 40-page audits
templated by area · scaled by severity · assigned to your duty manager, automatically
Mark done · next stay verifies
action items with photo evidence get validated by the next mystery stay
🏆
Show the climb — not just the score
"+0.4★ in 60 days" is the story you tell at the owner review
🆚See how we compare with the marketSurprise yourself.
My Property · The Madison
12 stays · last 30 days
88 EXCELLENT
12 weeks ago ↑ 8.7 pts trend
🎯 Coaching Plan · Active
Assigned to you
Recovery Plan — Front Desk · 4 of 5 done
Re-train night shift on greeting protocol VERIFIED
Fix late check-out friction at billing
Walkthrough of housekeeping turn process DUE FRI
🏆 Network ranking
You moved up to #2 of 18
Was #7 last month · biggest climb in portfolio
↑ 9
positions
Two Ways to Work with LTEA

We run it for you. Or you run it yourself.

✦ Managed Service

LTEA runs everything

We recruit, brief, schedule, and review every scouter. You receive validated intelligence — not raw data. Zero operational effort on your side.

LTEA-managed scouter network
Mission design & cover story
Quality review before you see it
Custom proposal — no lock-in
Talk to our team →
⚡ SaaS Platform

You run it yourself

Use the LTEA Scout platform with your own field team — promoters, supervisors, or auditors. Full platform access with all features from $99/month.

Full platform — mobile app included
Custom missions & observation areas
Analytics dashboard & location map
From $99/month · No lock-in
Get Started →
Transparent Pricing

Choose how you
work with LTEA.

Custom Proposal

Every program is unique.
So is your proposal.

Mystery shopping pricing depends on several variables — mission type, region, volume, and urgency. We build a custom proposal that fits your operation and budget. No surprises.

📅 Talk to our team — Get a proposal
Response time
24h
guaranteed
What influences your proposal
🎯
Mission Type
Quick Check 20–30 min
Standard Visit 45–60 min
Deep Audit 90–120 min
Specialized 2h+
🌐
Region
🇺🇸 USA & Canada
🇬🇧🇩🇪 Europe
🇯🇵🇦🇺 Asia-Pacific
🇧🇷🇲🇽 Latin America
🇦🇪 Middle East
📦
Monthly Volume
Small program
Medium program
Large program
Enterprise / Network
Urgency
🔵 Normal — standard window
🟡 High — prioritized scheduling
🔴 Urgent — fastest available scouter
🌍 New region — onboarding required
🕵️
LTEA-managed scouts
📍
GPS anti-fraud verification
LTEA quality review
📊
Dashboard + PDF reports
🚫
No lock-in contracts

No long-term contracts · No cancellation clauses · Cancel anytime

✦ CX Consulting

Turn data into transformation.

Based on LTEA Scout intelligence, our CX Division designs and delivers concrete improvements — from quick wins to full CX transformation programs. Engagement scope and investment are custom-built for each client.

🧠 Neuroscience-backed 🏗️ Property design 📋 Action plans 📊 Measurable outcomes
Investment
Custom proposal
Tailored scope · Tailored investment
📅 Talk to our team →

🌐 Available in 30+ countries · New regions onboarded in 2–4 weeks · International coverage available — regional onboarding fee applies

Why Hotels Stay Stuck

You don't need more reviews to read.
You need a plan that gets done.

Most hotels learn what's broken from TripAdvisor — five guests too late. By the time the review hits, four others left silently. The diagnosis is the easy part. The fix is where the time, the money, and the rating go.

👻
73% of unhappy guests don't tell you
They smile at checkout, leave a 2-star review on the bus to the airport, and never come back. By the time you see the complaint about housekeeping, 4 other guests already noticed and didn't say a word.
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The night clerk is your brand at 2am
A grumpy front desk can erase a $300/night experience. You won't see it on the camera. You'll see it on TripAdvisor 11 days later, when someone writes "the staff didn't care."
🥐
Breakfast is your real review driver
Cold coffee, empty trays, slow service: it's where most reviews start. And it's the easiest thing to verify objectively — but only if someone's actually checking, on a Tuesday, at 9:14am.
The LTEA Loop

Detect. Coach. Verify.
You execute.

Other tools dump data on your desk and walk away. LTEA Scout closes the loop — turning observation into a plan you can actually do, and the next mission proves it worked. Your job stops being "figure it out alone" and becomes "make it happen."

01 · PREDICT
🔮
You see the dip first
Your dashboard shows where each property is heading — score plus trend. You don't wait for the corporate review to surface a problem. You see it 30 days before TripAdvisor would, and the system already flagged the band change.
You see: Health bands · sparklines · proactive alerts before TripAdvisor
02 · AUTO-COACH
🎯
The plan lands in your queue
Templated by area: display, customer service, stock, cleanliness. Each item has priority, due date, and an "evidence required" flag if the next mission needs to verify it. No more PowerPoint sessions — just check items off as you execute.
You execute: Action checklist · priority items · staff assigned
03 · VERIFY
The system proves it worked
When the next mission lands, it's compared against your trigger snapshot. Items with photo evidence get marked VERIFIED. Your score climb is now a documented story — not "trust me, we got better."
You show: +0.4★ in 60d · 5/5 items verified · owner-review capital
No other operator tool closes this loop. They give you a report and walk away. We give you the plan, the proof, and the story to tell at renewal.
The Opportunity

Become the property whose ratings
always recover fastest.

In every portfolio there's one property known for one thing: when ratings dip, they're back up before the regional director even calls. That reputation gets you renewals, expansion, peer respect. LTEA Scout makes that reputation systematic — not luck.

🎯
Detect drift before reviews hit
Catch service drops 2-3 weeks before they show up in your TripAdvisor or Google score. The system flags the band change. The plan is in your queue before the review is in the public.
Outcome: +0.4★ avg in 90 days
Standardize across properties
If you run multiple hotels, identify which property is dragging the brand down — and which one's pulling everyone up. Compare the same observation areas across the portfolio with one click.
Outcome: Cross-property visibility
🏆
Verify staff training actually worked
Send mystery guests after every training cycle to confirm behavior changed. No more "I think they got it." Now you have photo + GPS evidence of greeting protocol, room turn quality, and F&B execution — verified.
Outcome: Training ROI proven
How It Works

From observation to verified recovery.
Starting at $99/month.

01
📱
Set up your properties & areas
Add hotels to LTEA Scout. Pick the observation areas that matter — check-in, room cleanliness, F&B, common areas, checkout. Configurable to your operation, not a generic checklist. Less than 30 minutes total.
You
02
🕵️
Mystery stays land · scores update live
Use LTEA's vetted traveler network or your own field team. Real overnight stays, GPS-verified, photo evidence of every observation area. Submissions stream into your dashboard in real-time — not week-old PDFs.
Scouter
03
🎯
Dip detected → plan auto-generated
If a property slips into Watch / Risk / Critical, the system creates a coaching plan automatically — checklist by area, priorities, due dates, evidence flags. Lands in the duty manager's queue without you having to write it.
LTEA Scout Platform
04
Staff execute · next stay verifies
Mark items off as they're done. When the next mystery stay happens, the system compares new score against the trigger and marks evidence items as verified. Recovery is documented. Your reputation is built — one closed loop at a time.
You → Loop

Four ways to verify.
One platform.

Different stays answer different questions. Full Stay covers end-to-end experience. Check-in Audit covers arrival friction. F&B Audit covers breakfast and restaurant. Property Walkthrough covers common areas and amenities. Pick the mission that matches what you need to know.

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01
Full Stay Mystery
End-to-end guest experience

Real overnight stay, full audit. Booking flow, check-in, room cleanliness, in-room amenities, F&B, common areas, checkout. Cover-story driven, GPS verified, photo-evidence required for every observation area.

· Real overnight stay
· Photo + GPS evidence
· All observation areas weighted
🛎️
02
Check-in Quality Audit
Arrival friction & front desk

Tightly scoped to the arrival flow: greeting timing, name use, key handoff, room readiness, lobby ambient, complaint response if scripted. 30–45 minute mission, often paired with a 1-hour bar visit for evening shift.

· Greeting protocol verified
· Time-stamped friction points
· Day & night shift coverage
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03
F&B Experience Audit
Breakfast, restaurant, room service

Verifies the highest-impact review driver. Buffet temperature, refill cadence, table service quality, menu execution, billing. Photo-evidence of plate presentation, item availability at peak, and waste behavior.

· Buffet temp + refill rhythm
· Service timing per course
· Plate-level photo evidence
FLAGSHIP
🏊
04
Property Walkthrough
Common areas, pool, gym, spa

Mid-stay walkthrough of every public space: lobby, pool deck, gym, spa, hallways, elevators. Cleanliness, ambient, lighting, scent, music. Catches the slow-drift issues guests notice but never report.

· Cleanliness + ambient checks
· Equipment / amenity status
· Per-area photo evidence

See the dip 30 days early.
The plan writes itself.

Every approved mission feeds a Predictive Health Score per location. When a property slips into Watch, Risk, or Critical, the platform auto-generates a coaching plan — assigned to the right operator, scoped to the dimension that's slipping. The next mission verifies recovery.

Health Bands
Forward-looking score per location
Trend delta: 30-day score vs. 60–90 day baseline. Up · Stable · Down.
85+
Healthy
85+ · 7d / 30d / 90d windows · trend stable or up
70-84
Watch
70–84 · early signs of slip · monitor closely
55-69
Risk
55–69 · sustained decline · coaching auto-triggered
<55
Critical
<55 · operational failure · escalate now
Auto-Coaching
Plans generated when scores slip
Scope-matched checklist · Auto-assigned to the right operator · Severity-scaled action items · Verified by next mission
Sample plan · The Madison
Auto-generated 4 days ago
Risk ↘ -0.6★ (30d)
Score dropped from 88 to 72 over 30 days. Plan auto-generated, owner assigned to duty manager, deadline 14 days. Verified by mystery stay scheduled for next week.
Status
Active · 4 of 7 actions complete
Owner
Duty Manager · auto-assigned
📅
Next verification
Mission scheduled · 7 days

Built to ship.
Built to comply.
Built to evolve.

Three layers most platforms ignore: a real operations engine that keeps scouts moving, security enforced at the database layer, and a roadmap that's contractual rather than aspirational.

Field Operations
SMS keeps the network moving
Six automatic SMS triggers + manual blast from the SMS Center. Auditable delivery logs, business-grade carrier compliance.
🎯 New mission in your radius
⚡ Urgent mission broadcast
✅ Mission approved
⚠️ Rejected · needs revision
💰 Payment released
👋 30-day inactivity nudge
Security & Privacy
Live in production today
Not a roadmap. Already enforced.
✓ Tenant isolation at the database
Row-level access control on every table that holds client data. One tenant cannot read another's rows, even by mistake.
✓ Encryption at rest + in transit
Industry-standard symmetric encryption on storage. TLS for every API call, no exceptions.
✓ DPA + LGPD-aligned by design
Data Processing Agreement on enterprise contracts. Subject access requests, retention, and erasure supported.
→ SOC 2 / ISO 27001 — contracted, not claimed
Certifications committed against scoped client SLAs. We don't claim what we haven't shipped.
Roadmap
Contract-bound, not aspirational
Every item below has scope, owner, and a delivery window — when contracted.
🤖 F&B Vision QC
PHASE 2
Photo → buffet temp · refill cadence · plate presentation · brand-asset compliance, all from a single F&B photo.
🔌 PMS Integration
30–90 DAYS
Open REST API + connectors for Opera · Mews · Cloudbeds. Match guest-experience signal to PMS data, close the loop on the recovery plan.
📊 Compliance Scoring Engine
6 MONTHS
Per-property, per-region, per-brand scoring. Auto-coaching plans triggered by score drops.
How we ship: a roadmap item moves only when at least one client contracts the feature. We don't ship demoware — we ship paid work.

How LTEA compares.

One platform — built for hotel operators who can't wait for TripAdvisor to tell them what's broken. Mystery stays, photo evidence, predictive scoring, auto-coaching. Below: how we stack up against guest survey platforms, traditional mystery-shop firms, and public-review aggregators, capability by capability.

Capability
LTEA Scout
This platform
Medallia / Qualtrics
Guest surveys
Coyle / LRA
Traditional mystery shop
TripAdvisor / Google
Public reviews
Verification method
✅ Real overnight stays + GPS + photo evidence
🟡 Post-stay survey from guest
✅ Mystery stay + written report
🟡 Voluntary public reviews
Anonymous mystery guest (cover-story driven)
✅ Vetted travelers, full cover story
❌ Identified guests
✅ Standard for category
❌ Identified posters
Photo + GPS evidence per observation area
✅ Required for every area
❌ Text-only
🟡 Photos in PDF report
🟡 Photos optional
Coverage of full guest journey (booking → checkout)
✅ Every touchpoint scored
🟡 Sampled at checkout
✅ Full audit per stay
❌ Whatever guest mentions
Front-desk audit (day + night shift)
✅ Both shifts coverable
🟡 Single survey response
✅ Possible at premium tier
❌ Random
F&B execution audit (breakfast peak)
✅ Buffet temp · refill cadence · plate evidence
🟡 Generic F&B question
🟡 Possible if scoped
❌ Anecdotal
Property walkthrough (pool · gym · spa · halls)
✅ Per-area photo audit
❌ Not in scope
🟡 Possible at extra cost
❌ Not structured
Real-time data (no batch latency)
✅ Submission → KPIs update → coaching triggers
🟡 Daily / weekly digest
❌ Report 2-4 weeks post-stay
❌ Reviews land days/weeks after
Predictive Health Score per property
✅ 4-band · trend delta · auto
🟡 NPS rolling avg
❌ Single-stay score
❌ Star rating only
Auto-generated coaching plans when score slips
✅ Auto when band drops
❌ Not in scope
❌ Recommendations in PDF only
❌ Not in scope
Action checklist assigned to duty manager
✅ Auto-routed · evidence flagged
❌ Not in scope
❌ Not in scope
❌ Not in scope
Verification by next mystery stay (closed loop)
✅ Auto-compares trigger vs new score
❌ Independent surveys
🟡 Manual re-scoping
❌ Not in scope
Multi-property dashboard with cross-property comparison
✅ Same areas, same scoring, one click
✅ At enterprise tier
🟡 Spreadsheet rollups
🟡 Per-property only
Configurable observation areas + task templates
✅ 20+ areas · 325 task templates · 8 question types
🟡 Survey question library
✅ Custom rubric per engagement
❌ Not applicable
Multi-property mission cloning (1 → N)
✅ One-click cloning
🟡 Per-survey setup
❌ Per-engagement scoping
Auto SMS triggers to scouts
✅ Six automated triggers
❌ Email reminders only
❌ Email / phone scheduling
Setup time to first audit
✅ Excel upload · hours
🟡 Weeks of survey design
🟡 4-6 week scoping
❌ Always-on, no setup but no signal either
Cost per insight
✅ From $99/month · scout-priced
❌ Enterprise license + per-survey fees
❌ $400-$1500/visit + retainer
✅ Free — but you only see what guests volunteer
Data privacy by design (GDPR / LGPD ready)
✅ RLS · DPA · live
✅ Enterprise compliant
🟡 Per-engagement NDA
❌ Public posts
Sources: Vendor websites and product documentation as of May 2026 — Medallia (medallia.com); Qualtrics (qualtrics.com); Coyle Hospitality Group (coylehospitality.com); LRA Worldwide / Ipsos (lraworldwide.com); TripAdvisor (tripadvisor.com); Google Reviews. Comparison reflects publicly described capabilities. We invite competitors to challenge any row — and will update accordingly.
Time to Act

Stop reading reviews after the fact.
Start auto-piloting your guest experience.

Other hotels get a quarterly TripAdvisor recap and figure it out alone. You'll get the recovery plan written, assigned to the right manager, and verified — every time something dips. Become the property whose ratings always recover fastest. Starting at $99/month. No lock-in.

✓ Platform from $99/month  ·  ✓ The full loop, not just dashboards  ·  ✓ No lock-in