Tangent – Proptech

Can an AI PMS Run Your Short-Term Rental Portfolio?, With Boom Co-Founder & CEO Shahar Goldboim...

The episode of Tangent PropTech features Shahar Goldboim, co‑founder and CEO of Boom, discussing how an AI‑powered property‑management system can run a fragmented short‑term‑rental portfolio. Goldboim explains that vacation‑rental assets are scattered across different locations, sizes and furnishings, making consistency and review‑driven revenue hard to maintain. Traditional PMS stacks require separate tools for bookkeeping, task management, marketing and guest communication, leading to manual data transfers and errors. Boom responded by building a single platform topped with an AI agent called BEM. The agent pulls data from the PMS, answers guest requests, creates bookkeeping reports, flags utility leaks and even drafts hurricane‑response plans, cutting up to 80 % of routine communications. Goldboim cites his own experience converting a family home into an Airbnb and the subsequent need to stitch together multiple software solutions as the catalyst. With $12 million raised from Avenue Growth Partners, former Hilton CEO Ian Carter and other strategic backers, Boom aims to scale the AI‑first model, promising ten‑times the efficiency of legacy SaaS providers. If successful, property managers could reduce overhead, improve guest ratings and accelerate portfolio growth, reshaping the economics of the short‑term‑rental market.