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

Why It Matters

Boom’s AI‑driven PMS could dramatically lower operating costs and boost occupancy for fragmented short‑term‑rental portfolios, accelerating consolidation and profitability in a traditionally labor‑intensive sector.

Key Takeaways

• Short‑term rentals are highly fragmented, complicating operations for property managers
• Boom built an AI‑driven PMS to unify disparate tools
• AI agents automate communication, bookkeeping, and proactive maintenance tasks
• Investors provided $12M funding, impressed by tech and expertise
• Platform aims to deliver tenfold efficiency versus traditional SaaS solutions

Summary

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.

Original Description

Shahar Goldboim is the Founder and CEO of Boom (https://www.boomnow.com/), an AI-enabled property management platform for short-term rental portfolios built by operators. Shahar is an entrepreneur and builder, and he launched Boom with his two sibblings after identifying real-world operational pain points inside a large South Florida property management company as it scaled. Under his leadership, Boom delivers comprehensive software that simplifies workflows, increases revenue, and reduces costs for property managers.

(02:15) - Why Short-Term Rentals Are the Hardest Asset Class

(02:44) - Fragmentation and the Review-Driven Revenue Trap

(04:13) - The Spark: A Miami Airbnb Experiment

(05:30) - From Airbnb Host to Property Manager

(07:31) - Software Fragmentation in STR Ops

(07:55) - From SaaS to Baas (Business-as-Software)

(09:09) - Boom, the AI PMS

(12:47) - Enabling Proactive Ops

(13:51) - The $12M+ Fundraise

(14:47) - Winning Investors with Hospitality & Tech Credibility

(16:53) - Feature: Blueprint Vegas 2026 (https://bit.ly/3PCeczM)

(17:46) - STR Market Context and the Vacasa Lesson

(21:03) - Replacing Point Solutions

(23:47) - ROI, AI Moats, Future of STR Ops

(32:06) - Collaboration Superpower: Tony Robbins (Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Robbins))

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