For travel and hospitality businesses

Turn enquiries into bookings. Without the manual follow-up.

Enquiries, quotes, bookings and guest communication often move across email, booking systems and spreadsheets. Zari AI helps travel and hospitality businesses connect their systems, improve lead and quote follow-up and simplify the workflows behind bookings.

A fixed-fee, two-week independent audit. Businesses with up to 10 total staff. More than 10? Request a custom quote.

Farhad Malegam, founder of Zari AI Led by Farhad Malegam
Founder-ledWSABE 2026 finalistAnthropic partner
$5,000 + GSTFixed fee, up to 10 total staff
Two weeksFrom kickoff to action plan
Founder-ledFarhad runs every audit
IndependentNo platform to sell you
The gap

Your service is better than your follow-up makes it look.

Most travel and hospitality businesses deliver a memorable experience. The systems behind the booking have grown up one tool at a time, and they have not grown up together. When nothing connects the pieces, it tends to look like this:

  1. Enquiries and quotes are followed up late or inconsistently.
  2. Guest and booking details are entered more than once.
  3. Confirmations and pre-arrival communication are sent manually.
  4. Past guests are rarely re-engaged in a structured way.
  5. Booking, CRM and email tools are not delivering their full value.

The frustrating part? You may never see exactly what it costs.

A guest sends an enquiry. A quote is prepared in another system and follow-up depends on someone remembering. After the booking, confirmations and details are sent by hand.

As bookings grow, these small gaps become harder to manage.

One guest, from enquiry to return visitDisconnected
Enquiry arrivesWaits in an inboxWaiting
Quote preparedDetails retyped into the quoting toolRe-keyed
Quote follow-upDepends on someone rememberingManual
Booking confirmationSent by handManual
Return visit invitationRarely sentMissed

Illustrative example.

What the audit looks at

Six places your systems may be holding you back.

For a travel and hospitality business, the audit follows the work from first enquiry to final invoice and looks hardest where information is retyped, delayed or lost.

Lead capture and follow-up

Bring enquiries into one consistent process, with clearer ownership of who responds and when.

Quotes and bookings

Create clearer workflows for preparing quotes, following up and confirming bookings.

Guest communication

Improve confirmations and pre-arrival communication with less manual effort.

Systems integration

Connect your booking, CRM and email tools where technically appropriate, reducing duplicate entry.

Practical automation

Automate repetitive steps where doing so improves reliability, efficiency or the guest experience.

Re-engagement

Create a structured way to invite past guests back.

If this is you

If you are ready to…

Then the audit is for you.

You have already built the business. Now it is time to get the systems behind it working as well as you do.

  1. Acknowledge every enquiry quickly.
  2. Follow up quotes without relying on memory.
  3. Send confirmations and pre-arrival details automatically.
  4. Stop entering guest details more than once.
  5. Bring past guests back in a structured way.
  6. Know what to fix first, and roughly what it will cost.
Questions from Travel & Hospitality

Before you decide.

Will this work with our booking system?

We assess the booking, CRM and email tools you run today and confirm what each can connect to before we recommend anything.

Do you replace booking engines?

Not by default. We only recommend replacing a platform when the case is clear.

We are seasonal. Does timing matter?

The audit runs over two weeks from an agreed kickoff, so you can choose a quieter period to give us access and time with your team.

Why this exists

A decade of technology work. One clear approach.

Growing a business should not be held back by systems that no longer fit it. You have built the expertise, the reputation and the client relationships. The technology behind them simply needs to catch up.

I have spent more than a decade in technology management, systems development and digital transformation, with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering and a master’s degree in International Business. That mix matters. A technical answer has to make commercial sense, or it does not get used.

A CRM, an automation or a new platform on its own is rarely the answer. The opportunity is in how the pieces work together, and in building them around your business, your people and your goals.

That is why the Business & Technology Audit comes first. Before anything is built, we look at your systems, your processes and your customer journey. We work out what is working, what is holding you back and where the biggest opportunities are. Then you decide what to do about it.

No cookie-cutter recommendations. No platform to sell. No unnecessary complexity.

The offer

The Business & Technology Audit. Two weeks. One clear plan.

An independent, fixed-fee assessment of your sales, marketing and operational systems, led personally by Farhad. You finish with independent recommendations, a prioritised roadmap and indicative costs, whether or not you build with us.

$5,000 + GSTTwo weeksUp to 10 total staffMore than 10: custom quote
Systems→Processes→Opportunities→Roadmap→Decision

01

Kickoff and discovery

We establish your objectives, confirm the scope and gather what we need to understand your business.

02

Systems and software review

Your CRM, sales and marketing platforms, integrations and relevant operational technology.

03

Process and workflow assessment

How information, leads and work move through the business, including manual steps, handoffs and bottlenecks.

04

Commercial opportunities

Gaps in lead management, customer journeys and pipeline visibility that may be costing revenue.

05

Prioritised roadmap

Improvements ranked by likely value and effort, with indicative implementation costs and business impact.

06

Findings presentation and strategy workshop

A walk-through of the findings, recommendations and next steps, so you can decide with confidence.

The audit is valuable on its own. You are free to implement the recommendations internally, with another provider or with Zari AI. If you proceed with Zari AI, 50% of the audit fee is credited towards that engagement, subject to the agreed terms.

The two weeks

What to expect over the next two weeks.

This is not a report you commission and hope for the best. We take the time to understand the business, then tell you plainly what to do about it.

DAYS 1 TO 3

Understand

Before we assess anything, we learn how the business runs.

A kickoff call and discovery session with you, then short conversations with the people who do the work. We look at:

  • Your CRM and sales tools
  • Marketing platforms
  • Operational and finance systems
  • How an enquiry moves through the business
  • Manual steps and handoffs
  • Reporting and visibility
  • Existing integrations and automation

DAYS 4 TO 9

Assess and prioritise

Findings become a plan.

We review your platforms and workflows directly and test the customer journey. We turn what we find into a prioritised roadmap, with indicative effort, cost and business impact for each recommendation.

DAY 10

Readout

You leave knowing what to fix first.

We walk you and your team through the findings and next steps in a strategy presentation and workshop, so you can decide what to do, in what order and why.

The two-week timeframe begins at the agreed kickoff and depends on timely access to the required information, systems and people.

After the audit

Then it is your call. Nothing is locked in.

The audit is the diagnosis. What happens next depends on you.

OPTION 1

Implement it yourself

Take the roadmap to your own team. It is written so someone else can act on it.

OPTION 2

Use another provider

The recommendations are independent of any vendor, so any capable provider can deliver them.

OPTION 3

Build with Zari AI

Bespoke implementation, planned from the roadmap we wrote. 50% of the audit fee is credited towards the engagement, subject to the agreed terms.

Ongoing strategic advisory and optimisation is available if you want it, and optional if you do not.

Meet Farhad

Hi, I’m Farhad Malegam. I help businesses make technology work together.

For more than a decade I have worked in technology management, systems development and digital transformation. My professional background includes work with Ernst & Young, NSW Health, iOmniscient and Greenstone Financial Services.

I founded Zari AI to give businesses honest advice about their technology, and the ability to act on it.

  • You work directly with me. Not an account manager relaying everything to someone else.
  • Independent advice. No platform to sell, so the recommendation follows your requirements.
  • Strategy that can be built. The person who writes the roadmap can also deliver it.
  • Small and accountable. Direct accountability from assessment through to delivery.
WSABE2026 Finalist, Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence
PartnershipRegistered Anthropic Partner
EngineeringBachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering
BusinessMaster’s, International Business

In our clients’ words. Unedited, from Google.

Getting started

You do not need to have it all worked out. That is the point of the audit.

01

Check the fit

Read the audit page. If you have up to 10 total staff, you can buy the standard audit. Larger businesses can request a custom quote.

02

Purchase your audit

Purchase through the audit site, then book your kickoff call. Nothing is built without you knowing what and why.

03

We assess

We confirm the requirements and information we need, then assess your systems and processes over two weeks.

04

Decide with a plan

You receive the findings, the roadmap and the indicative costs, and choose what to do next.

Simple. Independent. Done properly.

The outcome

Your business has outgrown its systems.

Perhaps the biggest change is not in the report. It is how it feels to know where you stand, what is worth fixing and what is not, instead of guessing.

By the end of the audit you will have
  • A clear picture of how your systems and processes really work.
  • The inefficiencies and revenue gaps, identified.
  • A prioritised roadmap with indicative effort, costs and impact.
  • Independent recommendations on tools, including what to keep.
  • A findings presentation and strategy workshop.
  • The confidence to decide what to do next.
Is this you?

The audit is not for everyone.

It is right for you if:

  • You run an established business with CRM, sales, marketing or operational software already in place.
  • You have up to 10 total staff, or you are happy to request a custom quote.
  • You suspect your systems are not delivering their full value.
  • You want an independent view before you buy, build or replace anything.
  • You value a clear strategy over a quick fix.
  • You can give us access to your systems and time with your team.

It may not be for you if:

  • You want a specific platform installed, with no assessment first.
  • You are looking for the cheapest possible option.
  • You expect guaranteed revenue, leads or rankings. No one can promise those.
  • You expect unlimited scope inside a fixed-fee, two-week audit.
  • You cannot provide access to your systems or time with your team.

We are not trying to be the right fit for everyone. We are trying to be the right fit for businesses that want to understand their systems before they invest in changing them.

Questions

Got questions? We have answers.

How much does the audit cost?

$5,000 + GST for the standard two-week audit, for businesses with up to 10 total staff. Businesses with more than 10 total staff receive a custom quote. If you proceed with a Zari AI implementation engagement, 50% of the audit fee is credited towards it, subject to the agreed terms.

Does the staff count include people who will not be involved?

Yes. The threshold is based on your total staff, not only the people taking part in the assessment.

Do we have to replace our existing software?

Not necessarily. We assess what you already have and recommend improvements based on your needs. That may mean optimising existing tools, connecting systems or introducing new technology where it is justified.

Will Zari AI implement the recommendations?

We can. Implementation is a separate engagement and you are under no obligation to proceed with Zari AI. The report is yours to take to your own team or another provider.

What happens after I purchase?

You are directed to book your kickoff call. We then confirm the engagement requirements and the information needed to begin.

What access do you need to our systems?

Read-only access to the platforms in scope, for the length of the assessment. We make no changes, and access is removed when we finish. We are happy to sign your NDA.

Can I get a refund once the audit has started?

Because the assessment begins before you receive anything, fees are not refundable once work has started. If anything in your findings is unclear, we will work through it with you until you know what to do next.

Your next step

Better business performance starts with a clearer picture.

Find out what is working, what is holding you back and which improvements deserve your attention first.

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