Notes on hotel invoices, spend, and procurement.
Short, practical pieces on the problems Atrium was built to solve — supplier price creep, duplicate invoices, billed-but-not-received items, and the pre-payment review that catches them before money leaves.
AI Can Read an Invoice. It Can't Run Your Hotel's Procurement.
AI won't take procurement jobs — used right, it makes hotel teams faster. Why one PDF at a time isn't a workflow, and what a structured layer looks like.
Why Did Breakfast Spend Go Up? Price Creep vs. Volume
Food cost went up — more guests, or did supplier prices quietly creep up? How to separate price changes from volume without digging through PDFs.
Ordered, Arrived, Invoiced: The 3-Way Check Hotels Skip
A hotel orders, the supplier ships, the invoice arrives — and mismatches slip through. A 3-way check catches short deliveries and price creep before payment.
Hotel Invoices Contain More Than Totals
Every supplier invoice holds the story of your spend — price changes, duplicates, budget pressure, leakage. How to read it before month-end, not after.
Hotel Procurement Is Broken. Here's What Rebuilding It Looks Like.
Three quotes by email. A 2019 spreadsheet. A PO approved because it's Tuesday. Why hotel procurement is stuck — and what it looks like rebuilt from scratch.
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