About KAIBA
Built inside a venue, not a boardroom.
KAIBA didn't start as a software idea. It started as a Tuesday-night problem in a 6,000 square foot warehouse in Seattle.
The venue
1712 Studios, SODO, Seattle
We're Armando Garzon and Will Brambila, co-founders and co-owners of 1712 Studios, an industrial event space at 1712 1st Ave S in Seattle's SODO district. Fifty to four hundred guests, three configurations, a full sound system, events until 2am. Birthdays, corporate parties, weddings, product launches, pop-ups, photo shoots. The kind of venue where we're on the floor mid-event when the next booking messages in.
6,000
sq ft of warehouse
50–400
guests, three layouts
2 AM
events run late here
The problem
The leads didn't keep business hours.
Instagram DMs at dinner. Website inquiries at midnight. Texts during load-out. Every slow reply was a lead comparing venues, and the follow-up always lost to whatever event was happening that weekend. So instead of hiring a front desk, we built one: an AI booking manager for 1712, wired into the venue's real calendar and real pricing. Her name is Jade.
The founders, on the record
“Honestly, without our agent we wouldn't be able to do what we do.
She books pretty much all of our tours.”
Armando Garzon · Co-founder & co-owner, 1712 Studios
2,900+
conversations on record
59s
to answer a bride at 5:53 AM
5s
to confirm an 8 PM tour request
From 1712 Studios' live conversation logs, July 2026. Anonymized, not invented. Read the full case study
Then KAIBA
The same agent, rebuilt so any venue can hire one.
KAIBA is that booking manager, productized. Paste your website, and it builds your venue's brain: your spaces, your pricing, your rules. It answers website chats, Instagram DMs, and texts in seconds, qualifies every lead, and books tours onto your real Google Calendar. You build her yourself in about 15 minutes, talk to her before you pay anything, and it costs $199 a month, on the website, where pricing belongs.
No demo call. No sales team. The live agent on our homepage is 1712's real front desk, and the receipts section is pulled from its actual logs. That's the whole pitch: we use the thing we sell, every night.
● Running live at 1712 Studios, Seattle
The refusals
Five things we refuse to do.
This category is full of AI booking tools built like enterprise software: gated, vague, and sold instead of shown. We run a venue. We built the one we would actually buy, which meant refusing the industry defaults.
The demo call.
If software needs a salesperson to show it to you, it isn't ready. Our agent answers strangers on the homepage, unsupervised, right now. That is the demo.
Hidden pricing.
“Book a demo to learn pricing” means the price depends on you. Ours is $199 a month, printed on the website, where pricing belongs.
Channel upsells.
A front desk that only answers one door is a doorman. Website chat, Instagram DMs, and SMS come in every plan. The bigger plans buy scale, never channels.
Weddings only.
Real venues host birthdays, corporate off-sites, quinceañeras, product launches, and pop-ups. Your agent books all of it, because ours has to.
Borrowed proof.
No stock testimonials, no mockups of dashboards nobody runs. Receipts from real conversation logs and $101,186 of pipeline, pulled from our own CRM and dated.
If you ever catch KAIBA doing one of these, email us at contact@hirekaiba.com. We wrote them down so you could hold us to them.