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AI for hospitality and leisure that improves experiences, transforms operations and creates new ways to grow.

Updated October 12, 2026 • 7 min read

We help hospitality and leisure businesses identify where AI can create real commercial value, then design and build the products, platforms and workflows to make it happen. From more intuitive customer experiences to smarter operations and entirely new propositions, we turn AI opportunity into something that works in the real world.

Our work spans customer-facing ordering and payment experiences, complex operational and finance platforms and AI-powered tools that help hospitality teams understand and act on their operational data.

Hospitality businesses have to deliver great customer experiences while managing increasingly complex operations behind the scenes. AI creates opportunities on both sides, making information easier to access, reducing operational friction and creating simpler ways for people to interact with increasingly sophisticated systems.

Where AI creates advantage in hospitality and leisure.

AI can create value across the customer experience and behind the scenes, from making information and services easier to access to improving operational visibility, automating repetitive work and helping teams make better use of the data their businesses already generate.

We start with where technology can make a genuine commercial difference.

That could mean improving an existing customer journey, reducing operational friction, helping teams interrogate complex information or creating an entirely new digital proposition.

The technology follows the opportunity, not the other way around.

What AI looks like in practice.

The opportunity goes beyond adding AI features to existing hospitality platforms. AI can create fundamentally simpler ways for people to interact with complex operational systems and the data within them.

For Telsen, we built and deployed an AI assistant in production across its web and mobile products. Using Claude Haiku and Telsen’s existing MCP tool layer, users can ask questions in plain English about sensors, devices, alerts, HACCP checks, workflows and sites rather than navigating multiple screens and reports.

We deliberately combined AI with deterministic software.

Common questions use quick actions that bypass the language model entirely, while more complex free-text questions use an agentic loop across approved read-only tools. On day one, 83% of logged-in customers interacted with the AI assistant, with 55% making cross-statistics analytical queries that weren’t previously possible.

That’s the kind of AI-native product we look to build: AI used where it genuinely improves the experience, with conventional software doing the job where it’s the better answer.

Who we work with in hospitality and leisure.

We work with established hospitality businesses and ambitious technology companies looking to improve customer experiences, transform operations or build entirely new propositions.

For Telsen, we embedded conversational AI into an IoT monitoring platform used across hospitality and other sectors, giving customers a simpler way to understand operational and compliance data.

For Peckwater Brands, Europe’s leading virtual food brand operator working with more than 800 partners, we designed and built a bespoke digital platform spanning operations and finance, replacing manual processes and creating the foundations for greater operational efficiency and scale.

For OrderPay, we helped create a customer-facing ordering and payment platform across iOS and Android, supporting table service, order and collect, self-service and pay-at-table experiences across hundreds of UK venues.

Together, the projects give us experience across customer experience, ordering and payments, operational platforms, compliance and AI-powered operational intelligence.

Why Studio Graphene.

AI-native isn’t a feature we add. It’s how we work.

We bring product strategy, design and development together, combining commercial thinking with product, design and engineering expertise to take an opportunity from idea through to production.

Our hospitality experience spans high-volume customer-facing products, complex operational platforms and AI systems already deployed in production.

That means we understand both the customer experience and the operational reality the technology needs to work within.

300+ high-impact products delivered. Studios in London, Delhi, Lisbon and Geneva. In-house expertise across strategy, design, engineering and emerging technology.

Built for today, ready for what’s next.

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Ready to build what hospitality and leisure looks like next?

Studio Graphene is headquartered in London and works with ambitious businesses across the UK and globally. If you’re exploring where AI could improve your customer experience, operations or digital products, we can help identify the opportunity and turn it into something that works in the real world.