About Viqal

We’re rebuilding the front desk for the AI era.

Viqal is the AI Operator for hotels. Built in Amsterdam, trusted by hotels throughout Europe and GCC.

01 · Why we built Viqal

Guests moved. The industry didn't.

Walk into any hotel reception and you’ll see the same scene: phones ringing, an inbox of generic emails, and a receptionist switching between tabs to answer the same five questions.

What time is breakfast? Can I check in early? Where do I park?

Meanwhile, guests have moved. They book on their phone. They message friends on WhatsApp. They expect a reply in minutes. The friction between the way hotels run and the way guests live is the single biggest tax on hospitality, and the cost falls on overworked staff.

For a long time, the tools to close that gap weren't good enough. Chatbots sounded like chatbots. Translations were clumsy. Integrations were fragile. So hotels did what they've always done: they absorbed the work into already-stretched teams.

That's changed. AI is now good enough to handle the repetitive, connected to the systems hotels already run on, without sounding robotic.

Hospitality should operate smarter, not harder. The right answer at the right moment, every time, without burning out the people delivering it.

That's why we built Viqal. The AI Operator handles the questions hotels answer a thousand times a year, so staff can focus on the moments that actually need a human. Everything else we've built (Team Inbox, Journey Campaigns, Upselling) flows from it.

02 · What we believe

Four convictions that shape every decision.

01

The guest experience is the product.

Hotels don’t sell software, they sell stays. We obsess over the guest’s experience first: speed, clarity, native language. If a feature makes the back-of-house tidier but the guest reply slower, it doesn’t ship.

02

AI assists. Humans decide.

Our AI handles the repetitive, operational tasks with confidence. The moments that matter (the complaint, the special request, the unhappy guest) get a clean handoff to a human with full context. We refuse to automate everything just because we can.

03

Infrastructure should be boring.

Hotels need uptime, GDPR-grade data handling, and PMS integrations that just work. We keep the foundations stable and predictable, so the product on top can be bold.

04

Trust is earned in milliseconds.

A guest sends a question and waits. The shorter the wait, the more trust we earn for the hotel and for the category.

03 · Where we work

Amsterdam, with hotels everywhere.

Our team works from Spaces Zuidas in Amsterdam. We stay deliberately close to customers: support is handled by the team building the product, the roadmap is shaped by weekly calls with operators, and our standup happens in front of a screen showing live guest conversations.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Spaces Zuidas, Amsterdam
HQ · Amsterdam
Spaces Zuidas · Barbara Strozzilaan 201 · 1083HN Amsterdam · The Netherlands