Sean Lang didn't need convincing that a channel manager would help his business. He already knew it. What he needed was the right moment — and the right platform.
Sean runs Property Finders Montenegro, a short-term rental management company based in Zelenika, Montenegro. When he first started exploring channel managers in early 2025, he had five to eight listings and a clear-eyed view of where things were headed. He reached out to three or four platforms, including Jurny, had a great demo — and then told Jurny's sales team he wasn't ready yet.
"At that stage it didn't make financial sense for us to have a dedicated channel manager," Sean explains. "We were still quite a small company."
So he asked for something most operators never think to do: he asked the sales team to follow up in a year.
They did. And when they called back, Sean had 25 properties — and he was ready.
The Problem: Everything Was Manual
Before Jurny, Sean and his three-person team were running the business the hard way.
Every morning meant bouncing between Airbnb and Booking.com to see what bookings had come in overnight. Owner reporting meant opening Excel spreadsheets and building them by hand — every single day. Cleaning coordination happened separately, tracked manually against a calendar that was always one step behind.
"Before it was literally everything was manual for us — and we couldn't do it anymore," Sean says. "The finances and the reporting was the hardest part for me to keep control over. I was doing Excel spreadsheets every single day for our owners and I just couldn't anymore."
With 25 properties and a growth trajectory that wasn't slowing down, the manual approach wasn't just inefficient — it was a ceiling.
Why Sean Chose Jurny
When the sales team followed up a year later, Sean did his due diligence. He looked at other options. Nothing came close.
"I did look into other options and nothing came close to what we were able to actually find on Jurny. Just with the systems, the reporting, the fact that we didn't actually need to hire anybody new to be doing our admin stuff."
Three things sealed it:
1. Reporting that actually works. Jurny's reporting and financial tools replaced the daily Excel grind entirely. Owner statements that used to take hours now happen inside the platform.
2. Channel management that unifies everything. With Jurny's channel manager, Sean no longer had to check Airbnb and Booking.com separately every morning. Everything landed in one place.
3. Cleaning automation built in. Jurny's housekeeping tools connected the cleaning calendar directly to checkouts — so the moment a guest checks out, the cleaning is automatically scheduled. Sean's cleaning company is linked directly to the platform.
"Jurny's been able to integrate everything for us. Automatically the cleaning gets booked into the property straight away from the checkout. We've got a cleaning company that's linked to Jurny. It just works."
From 5 Properties to 25 — Without Adding Headcount
The most remarkable part of Sean's story isn't the growth. It's that the growth happened without hiring anyone new for admin.
"We didn't actually need to hire anybody new to be doing our admin stuff. We could put a lot of stuff directly into the system."
For a three-person operation managing 25+ properties across Montenegro, that's not a small thing. That's the difference between a business that scales and one that drowns in its own complexity.
"Without Jurny, we would never have been able to grow from the five to eight apartments we had at the beginning to now sitting at about 25 properties. We would never be able to run them as effectively as we do just by having this platform."
NIA: 95% Ready to Send
Sean describes himself as "a little risk averse" when it comes to AI — which makes his experience with NIA, Jurny's Network of Intelligent Agents, all the more telling.
He has NIA set up to pre-write guest messages — so he reviews before sending, rather than letting it respond fully automatically. A sensible approach for someone who cares about the guest experience. And what he found surprised him.
"NIA has been fantastic. I would say 95% of the time I'm already happy with the automatic responses from it. So I just hit send most of the time with what NIA comes up with."
NIA also serves as Sean's first line of support. Before reaching out to the Jurny team with a question, he asks NIA first.
"If there's anything I'm stuck with before I get in touch with the support team, I just ask the AI on board and it generally walks me through it. And if not, it automatically creates a ticket for me with the support guys."
A Sales Team That Plays the Long Game
One detail in Sean's story stands out — and it says something important about how Jurny operates.
When Sean told the sales team he wasn't ready in 2024, they didn't push. They didn't discount. They asked when to follow up — and then actually did it, twelve months later, exactly when Sean said he'd be ready.
"She reached out to me a year later and we were ready. It was just the right fit at the right time."
That relationship has continued since onboarding. The sales team still checks in regularly — asking about new properties on the horizon, offering information about upcoming features.
"The sales team is always chatting with me because we are looking at expanding the whole time. She's asking about projects we have on the horizon, if there's any information she can give us."
What Sean Would Tell Other Operators
"I can honestly say I've been super happy with everything from start to finish with Jurny. The support team brought us on really, really well — really easily. They took over as much as possible and got involved as much as possible for us. It's just been fantastic working with them from start to finish."
Property Finders Montenegro continues to grow. And Sean's focus — now that the operational chaos is behind him — is exactly where it should be: on building the business.
"That's what our focus has been this year — growing. And that's what bringing somebody like Jurny on has actually helped us with a huge amount."
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