Stay Staged was founded by people who lived the problem before they built the solution.
Most platforms in this space are built by people who have never operated a property. They don't know what it costs when a sofa fails mid-season, what a ten-week lead time means to occupancy revenue, or why a designer's commission structure matters to the quality of product that ends up in a listing.
Stay Staged is different. We built this because we lived the problem first.
Hospitality Operator & Industry Educator
Jeni is a former short-term rental operator who scaled to 22 units across two states. She is a contributing author to the bestselling Hospitable Hosts Volume 3 and the bestselling Hospitable Hosts STR Sisterhood Edition, an educator within The Global Hospitality Collective's accreditation program, and a speaker at industry conferences. She has operated properties at scale, educated within the industry, and knows firsthand what it costs when the furniture fails, the lead time stretches to ten weeks, or the commission program quietly disappears.
Technology Executive & Platform Architect
Bryan brings over a decade of digital transformation experience at Microsoft, Alaska Airlines, T-Mobile, and Starbucks — where his work included the premium Reserve Roastery concept, immersive retail environments where physical space, digital interaction, and brand storytelling converge into a single standard of quality. That same discipline is what he brings to Stay Staged. As a frequent Airbnb guest across dozens of markets, he experienced firsthand the gap between what operators pay for furnishings and what guests actually encounter — mismatched furniture, worn-out essentials, and decor that led to poor reviews. The procurement layer was broken, and fixing it required someone who understood both the technology infrastructure and the guest experience it was failing.
Together, that is something the industry has not seen before: real on-the-ground hosting experience combined with the retail, technology, and global travel depth to actually build what hosts and designers have needed all along.
The hospitality furnishing market has a trust problem. Hosts are buying residential furniture that fails under commercial use. Designers are watching commissions quietly disappear from programs that used to pay them well. Operators are navigating dozens of partner relationships with no unified standard, no warranty guarantee, and no pricing transparency until after they have already committed.
We have experienced every one of these failures directly. That is why Stay Staged exists: not as another discount aggregator, but as the procurement infrastructure the industry actually deserves.
Every product in our catalog meets a hospitality-grade standard before it is listed: 3 to 5 year commercial warranties, cleanable with standard products, assembleable by one person with standard tools. That is not a marketing claim. It is a minimum requirement.
We believe designers should earn real commissions again. We believe hosts should not have to pay to see what they are getting. And we believe verified B2B access — the kind that actually protects the integrity of the network — is what makes a procurement community worth joining.
"By Hosts, For Hosts" is not a tagline. It is the only reason this platform exists.