We built this because the spreadsheet won.
Assigning pricing zones to a few thousand hotels is a geography problem being solved in a grid of text. GroundZones puts the hotels on a map, where the answer is something you can see - and then keeps the file for you.
Our mission
Turn a week of data entry into an afternoon of looking at a map.
Every airport has thousands of hotels. Every hotel needs a zone. Every zone has a price. That work is repetitive, error-prone, and - done in Excel - almost impossible to check. We wanted the fastest possible path from an Expedia hotel file to a correctly zoned one, and a place for that file to live afterwards so the job never has to start from scratch again.
What we value
The principles behind every screen.
Show it, don't describe it
A hotel in the wrong zone is obvious on a map and invisible in a spreadsheet. Every design decision here starts from that: if you can see the mistake, you can fix it in seconds.
The file is the product
Zoning is not a one-time import. Rosters change, markets change, rates change. So your hotel files live here permanently - openable, editable, exportable, whenever you need them.
Nothing should be scary
Preview before you apply. Undo when you get it wrong. Restore an older version of the whole file if you have to. Bulk power is only useful when a bulk mistake is cheap.
Calm software
No dark patterns, no inbox spam, no nagging upgrade modals. Every account starts with a 30-day free trial, you can export everything at any time - even after it ends - and cancelling takes one click.
The story
How we got here.
A spreadsheet, 4,000 hotels, and a lot of guessing
It started where most software does - a ground transport ops team assigning pricing zones to 4,000 Expedia hotels, one row at a time, by reading addresses and estimating how far each one was from the airport. It took days, and nobody could tell which rows were wrong.
Put them on a map
The first working version did one thing: it plotted the hotel file on a map and coloured each pin by its zone. The mistakes stopped being a mystery. Then came box-select and batch re-zone, and a job measured in days became one measured in an afternoon.
Somewhere for the files to live
The last piece was the one nobody asked for out loud: keeping the file. Every hotel association file now stays saved with its zones, its map, and its full version history - so the next roster update is a merge and a delta, not a fresh start.
Who it's for
If any of this sounds familiar.
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