Independent advisory and hands-on work for hospitality operators, and the technology businesses that serve them.
Operators know AI matters. Founders building in this space know they're moving into a market that's reshaping faster than they can plan for. Very few of either have a framework for what to do about it.
The technology stack is being reshaped faster than commercial teams can evaluate. Vendors are repackaging old features under new labels. The people advising on it are usually selling something, or theorising from outside the industry.
Inverisla exists to close that gap.
Each is offered independently. Most relationships start with the audit or an advisory conversation and grow from there. Pricing on application.
A structured assessment across seven domains: data foundation, technology stack, AI visibility, operations, commercial and pricing, people and skills, and security.
Delivered as a written report, a prioritised roadmap, and a working session with your leadership team. The output is what to do next, not what to buy next.
For founders and leaders building hospitality SaaS and AI software businesses. Drawing on a decade running ResDiary through scale and two acquisitions, and ongoing platform and commercial leadership inside Access Group, the UK's largest PE-backed vertical software business.
Engagements run from informal sounding-board through to board roles, depending on stage and need. Earlier-stage founders typically want monthly bandwidth and pattern recognition. Established businesses sometimes want governance.
Senior AI and platform thinking for hospitality groups working through vendor decisions and integration strategy, and for SaaS businesses shaping their AI roadmap.
Scope set up front, reviewed quarterly. The cost of a fractional engagement against the cost of a wrong vendor decision tends to settle the question.
MCP server design and build, AI agent workflow design, integration architecture, and proof-of-concept work that moves an idea out of slideware.
Delivered solo for focused projects, with trusted collaborators for larger pieces. The technical work is mine, not subcontracted.
Inverisla is led by Colin Winning. Fifteen years in hospitality technology, including a decade at ResDiary as CTO and then CEO, where the business doubled in ARR and went through acquisitions by Reef in 2022 and Access Group in 2023.
At Access Group, Colin held commercial accountability for the combined reservations portfolio, and most recently led platform integration work — moving Access Hospitality's products onto the Group platform, unifying third-party integrations into a common framework, and building a developer portal and app marketplace for third-party developers.
The technical side is current rather than retrospective. Day to day that means building with Claude, Claude Code, Windsurf and Devin, running MCP servers in production, and shipping workflows that automate real operating tasks rather than demoing them. That combination is the position Inverisla works from.
A weekly series on LinkedIn covering what AI actually means for hospitality operators, and how to evaluate what your vendors are selling. Operator-to-operator, not consultant-to-prospect.
Use the form for any enquiry. For an AI Readiness Audit specifically, you can book a 30-minute discovery call directly.