AI parking management — private lots & apartment buildings
Your parking lot,
run by AI.
An AI agent rents out your spots over WhatsApp — answering enquiries, booking viewings, drawing up contracts, chasing rent and opening the gate. Nothing for your residents to install. Nothing for you to keep in a spreadsheet.
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Who it's for
Two lots, the same admin problem
You own the tarmac and let it out
A yard, a garage block, a strip beside a building. The spots earn well but the admin — viewings, contracts, chasing late rent, handing out fobs — costs more evenings than the rent is worth. The AI runs the letting so the lot pays for itself without paying you in hassle.
You manage parking for residents
Bays belong to flats, tenants change, and there are always more cars than spaces. The AI handles the waiting list, moves bays between residents, keeps gate access tied to who's actually paying, and gives the syndic a record instead of a group chat.
The tenant journey
Enquiry to gate code, without you
Every step below is handled by the AI, in one WhatsApp thread — exactly what the lot map above is playing out. You're pulled in only when something genuinely needs an owner.
They message the lot
A prospect asks what's free. The AI answers with fitting sizes and prices — never the exact bay numbers.
Books its own slot
Mon–Sat, 10:00–18:00. The visitor gets a gate code valid for their one-hour window only.
Signs on their phone
Details collected in chat, contract generated, signing link sent. Built in — no DocuSign licence.
Rent reconciles itself
Pro-rata first month, then monthly cycles. Incoming transfers are matched to tenants automatically.
Their phone becomes the remote
A personal gate button lands on their home screen when payment does — revoked when rent goes unpaid, restored when it's settled.
Access
Their phone is the remote
No fob to hand over, no app to install, nothing to lose. On activation each tenant gets a personal gate link they add to their home screen — and it behaves like a native button from then on.
- iPhone Added to the home screen, and assignable to the Action Button — a squeeze opens the gate without unlocking the phone.
- Android The same button, added from Chrome — and on phones with a programmable shortcut key, the same one-press open.
- Tied to rent The same link stops working the moment access is revoked for non-payment, and works again once it's settled.
- Per person Partners get their own link, so gate history still shows who actually opened it.
- Keypad too The personal code still works for anyone who'd rather punch it in.
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The AI in the thread
AI that talks like a letting agent, not a form
The AI agent speaks Dutch by default and switches to English on its own when a tenant does. It knows your prices, your rules and your calendar — and it holds back what a prospect shouldn't see, like how full the lot actually is.
Anything it isn't allowed to decide alone, it escalates to you in your own WhatsApp thread, with the detail you need to answer in one word.
What's in the box
Everything a small lot actually needs
Not a parking app with a rental bolt-on. Every part below is here because a lot can't run unattended without it.
AI front desk on WhatsApp
One number, answered by AI, handles every enquiry in Dutch or English around the clock. Tenants install nothing.
Self-service visits
Slots inside your opening hours, one-hour temporary gate codes, and automatic no-show handling.
Built-in e-signature
Generate, send, sign and store — with a correction flow when details need fixing. No third-party licence.
Pro-rata and monthly cycles
Calendar-month model with a pro-rata first month, generated automatically for every active contract.
Payments matched to tenants
Bank transactions matched on reference, IBAN and amount, with a dashboard to resolve the leftovers.
Chasing, on a timeline
Reminders before the due date, escalating after it, and gate access revoked once rent is far enough overdue.
Their phone is the remote
A gate button on the tenant's home screen, iPhone or Android. It stops working when rent does, and comes back when it's settled.
Waiting list that works
A full lot still captures demand. When a bay frees up, the next in queue gets 48 hours to take it.
The owner's view
Occupancy, contracts, payments and gate history in one place — for the days you do want to look.
Empty bays earn while their owner is out
A bay that's only used at night or at weekends can be let by the hour or by the day in between. The owner sets the windows, the AI takes the bookings, issues temporary gate access for exactly that slot, and closes the bay again the moment the owner needs it back. Same contracts, same billing, same gate — a second income on space that was already paid for.
Proof
Running a real lot, in production
Bot for Lot is the product behind Eikelbot, whose AI agent has been letting and billing a private facility in Berchem, Antwerp — with real tenants, real contracts and real money moving every month.
The fine print
Built for European landlords
| Area | What you get |
|---|---|
| AI | Conversations run on a large language model (Anthropic's Claude), given your lot's rules, prices and calendar. It can only take the actions you enable — every booking, contract and payment change is a checked operation, not free text. |
| Channel | WhatsApp Business, on your own number. Templates for anything sent outside the 24-hour window. |
| Languages | Dutch and English, detected per tenant. Further languages on request. |
| Contracts | Belgian rental law out of the box, including notice periods and cancellation windows. |
| Data | Hosted in the EU. GDPR-aligned: tenant data stays yours, and is exportable and deletable. |
| Banking | Read-only transaction feed for matching. Bot for Lot never moves money on your behalf. |
| Hardware | Works with an existing keypad and gate relay. No proprietary barrier to buy, and no fobs to hand out. |
| Tenant access | The same home-screen gate button on iPhone and Android — mappable to the Action Button on iOS and to a shortcut key where Android phones have one — plus a personal keypad code as fallback. |
| Deployment | Hosted for you, or on your own infrastructure for larger operators. |
Take it for a spin
See the AI running your lot
Twenty minutes, screen shared, on a real lot with real contracts — not a slide deck. Bring your own awkward edge case and we'll put it to the bot.