Madhur Jain
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An operations agent for property general managers

PRISM (Parent Company of OYO)

Building a general-manager operations agent for daily property operations, scoped across five operating functions and piloting at 40 UK and Europe properties against efficiency and accuracy criteria I defined.

Role
Product Manager III
When
In pilot
Product area
AI PM, Agentic Workflows, Operations

The business situation.

Give property general managers one daily operating assistant across finance, ground operations, vendor management, compliance, and revenue, instead of five separate workflows.

Pilot footprint

40

UK and Europe properties running the agent

Operating functions

5

Finance, ground operations, vendor, compliance, and revenue

Status

In pilot

Measured against efficiency and accuracy criteria I defined

In pilot across 40 UK and Europe properties. Pilot results, the acceptance criteria themselves, and property-level data are confidential.

The business situation

A property general manager's day spans finance, ground operations, vendor management, compliance, and revenue. Each has its own systems, reporting, and escalation path, and the work of holding them together lands on one person.

The decision I owned

Rather than one general assistant, I scoped the agent by operating function. Each function can then be specified, evaluated, and released on its own timeline, and a weak function does not hold back the rest.

How I made it measurable

I defined the efficiency and accuracy criteria the agent is held to before the pilot started. It is the same principle as the NL-to-SQL workflow: the evaluation is part of the product, not a review after it.

Where it is now

The agent is in pilot across 40 properties in the UK and Europe, covering all five functions. I own deployment and release validation for it alongside the analytics agent.

What the pilot is testing

Whether function-scoped agents hold their accuracy in daily operating use, and where a general manager still needs to be in the loop rather than reviewing after the fact.