Hotel development consulting, run on Claude.
Stonebridge Partners is a Dallas consulting firm for hotel owners and developers. We handle feasibility, capital, owner's representation, and asset work for select-service and extended-stay projects - and we run every engagement on an AI operating stack, so a small team delivers what used to take a department.
Four services, one team, the whole arc of a hotel.
From the first site walk to the refinance, the work is continuous and the records never leave the project. Engage us for one phase or for all of them.
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Development advisory
Site and brand selection, feasibility, franchise application, entitlements coordination.
We test a deal before you commit to it: market and comp-set research, brand fit against the franchisor's development pipeline, a first-pass pro forma, and a clear read on what the city will and won't approve. If it works, we carry the franchise application and the entitlements calendar.
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Capital and finance
Pro forma modeling, lender and investor packages, debt and equity sourcing support.
Underwriting built to the standard lenders actually review, with sensitivity cases ready before they ask. We draft the lender package and the investor memorandum, support the sourcing process, and work comfortably across SBA, conventional construction debt, and C-PACE structures.
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Owner's representation
Pre-development through opening: budget, schedule, GC and architect coordination, FF&E, PIP execution.
We sit on the owner's side of the table through design, bidding, construction draws, FF&E procurement, and brand inspections. Weekly budget and schedule tracking, draw reconciliation, and a running decision log mean you always know where the project stands and why.
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Asset and portfolio support
Post-opening performance review, refinancing analysis, disposition preparation.
After opening, the same records become an asset file. We review operating performance against underwriting, model refinance and hold-sell cases, and prepare the package when it's time to sell.
AI-native means the work itself runs on Claude.
Not a chatbot bolted onto a consulting practice. Every engagement is built on an assistant layer that reads the deal documents, maintains the project record, and does the first draft of nearly everything. The principal reviews, decides, and signs.
Ingest
Franchise agreements, PIPs, appraisals, lender term sheets, meeting transcripts, and emails are read into a structured project file on day one and kept current automatically.
Model
Pro formas, comp sets, draw schedules, and sensitivity cases are built and re-run by Claude against the live project file, so numbers update when the facts do.
Draft
Lender packages, investor memos, brand correspondence, and board updates start as Claude drafts grounded in the project record, then get the principal's judgment and edits.
Track
Deadlines, open items, contacts, and decisions are maintained by an always-on assistant that briefs the team every morning and closes the loop on every meeting.
Faster turnaround on underwriting and packages, a complete and searchable record of every decision on your project, and senior attention on the parts that need a human - negotiation, judgment, and relationships - rather than on formatting spreadsheets.
Who we work for
Owners who want institutional-quality execution without an institutional overhead.
- Hotel owners and ownership groups
- Family offices adding hospitality
- Franchisees expanding their portfolio
- Developers entering hotels from other asset classes
- Lenders and investors needing an owner-side review
- Operators planning a PIP or a refinance
Principal
Samit Patel
Managing Partner, Stonebridge Partners LLC
Samit has spent his career on the owner's side of hotel development - as Director of Finance and Development and as a development consultant for hotel ownership groups building select-service and extended-stay properties under the Hilton, Marriott, and IHG brand families. His work spans site selection and franchise approval, underwriting and capital sourcing, construction oversight through opening, and the financing and disposition decisions that follow.
He founded Stonebridge Partners to deliver that experience through an AI-native operating model: the depth of a full development team, the responsiveness of a principal who knows every file on your project.