HIA—a subsidiary of Hotel Investor Apps—has added four new AI-powered capabilities to its hospitality-focused enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting platform.
The newly expanded automation and analytics tools from HIA are designed to support finance teams with reporting, reconciliation and property onboarding. The new capabilities include AI Assistant, Anomaly Detection, AI Agent Studio and PMS Mapping AI, all of which are integrated into HIA's existing platform.
The new functionality is intended to streamline accounting workflows, including portfolio performance analysis, expense management, operational benchmarking, audit oversight and onboarding of new hotel properties.
“We built HIA as a single hospitality database from day one—one chart of accounts, one vendor structure, one source of truth across the portfolio,” Charlie Fritsch, CEO and founder of HIA, said in a statement. "That foundation is what makes native AI capabilities so powerful. When the data underneath is unified, AI doesn't just give finance teams faster answers—it gives them answers they can trust and act on, in seconds instead of days.”
AI Assistant is designed to enable users to query live ERP data using natural language to retrieve information on bills, vendors, expenses and other financial data. Anomaly Detection, meanwhile, looks to identify unusual transactions and financial outliers to support internal controls and performance monitoring.
AI Agent Studio is designed to provide a no-code environment for creating AI-driven workflows using a preferred large language model (LLM) connector. PMS Mapping AI uses AI-generated recommendations to map charts of accounts during property onboarding, with the goal of reducing implementation time.
According to the Glenwood, Md.-based company, the AI capabilities operate within the same hospitality database as the ERP platform, using existing security controls and user permission structures.