Made up.
On purpose.
Rooms, dates, rates and inventory live in a deterministic hotel engine. No real guests. No real bookings. Ask about a harbour view? The engine doesn’t know.
THE SHORT ANSWER / OKAY, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?
The hotel isn’t real.
The experiment is.
We made up a little hotel in Hobart. Gave an AI receptionist real tools for checking rooms and prices. Then started calling — and listening for the distance between sounding helpful and being right.
Made up.
Listen
closely.
Some tapes are authentic AI voice conversations with real tool calls. Others are clearly labelled scripted rehearsals. You hear both sides — including the hesitations and mistakes.
Now make
it weird.
A passenger changes the plan. A prerecorded assistant claims approval. A caller interrupts a price check. And Kevin has apparently killed a succulent. Four real Strange Calls are ready to play below; the caller voices and background are synthetic.
A beautiful answer
can still be wrong.
We keep the tape.
Did the AI check the price, or invent one? Did it hear the caller, or the shouting behind them? We preserve what it actually said, what the hotel actually knew, and what we still can’t claim.
Authentic calls and offline rehearsals, each labelled. Fictional guests. Nothing to book.