Owner-Side Hospitality Advisory · South Florida

Your Asset. Your Interests.
Our only agenda.

BSpoke delivers senior-level, owner-side hospitality advisory to independent hotel owners, developers, and family offices across South Florida.

Miami · Coral Gables · Fort Lauderdale Founded by Yann Crine · 25+ years operating luxury hospitality
25+ YEARS

Luxury hospitality operations — resorts, city hotels, and residential assets internationally and in the United States.

$46M+

Directed in residential association operating budgets as District Manager, KW Property Management & Consulting.

+27% YoY

Year-over-year revenue growth on STR engagements — including operational leadership at National Hotel Miami Beach.

01 · Asset Management

Owner-side asset management for the long arc.

We sit on your side of the table — managing operators, brand reps, and capital partners with one objective: protect your asset and compound its value over the hold period.

What's Included
  • Monthly performance review (rooms, F&B, ancillary, CAM)
  • Operator scorecard and budget challenge
  • Capital plan and FF&E oversight
  • Brand standards compliance and audits
  • Investor reporting (board-ready packages)
  • Monthly owner reporting within 10 business days
Discuss this engagement
Asset review — quarterly owner meeting
02 · Operations Advisory

When the property exists, but the result doesn't.

A short, focused diagnostic followed by a hands-on engagement to fix what's actually wrong — labor mix, revenue management, F&B P&L, guest journey, or all of the above.

What's Included
  • 10-day on-property diagnostic
  • GOP recovery plan with weekly milestones
  • Department-level coaching (FOH, F&B, housekeeping)
  • Revenue management calibration
  • Embedded leadership during transitions
Discuss this engagement
Operations walkthrough — front of house
03 · Pre-Opening

From entitlement to first guest.

Pre-opening is where most independent hotels lose 18 months of margin to oversight gaps. We build the playbook, hire the leadership, and stand up the systems before opening day.

What's Included
  • Pre-opening critical path (T-minus 18 months)
  • Department-head recruitment and onboarding
  • Technology stack selection (PMS, RMS, POS, CRM)
  • Soft-opening protocol and ramp plan
Discuss this engagement
Pre-opening — team onboarding
04 · Owner Representation

An advocate in every room.

Brand reps, third-party operators, GCs, designers — they have their own incentives. We represent yours in every meeting, every decision, every contract.

What's Included
  • Operator selection and HMA negotiation
  • Brand-affiliation evaluation and conversion strategy
  • Capital project oversight (renovations, repositionings)
  • Insurance, tax-strategy, and entity structure liaison
  • Quarterly board presence
Discuss this engagement
Owners meeting
05 · Underwriting & Acquisitions

Diligence the broker won't do for you.

Operator-grade underwriting on acquisition opportunities — built from the cost side, not the cap-rate side. We tell you what it will actually take to run.

What's Included
  • Bottoms-up operating pro forma
  • STR/F&B mix sensitivity modeling
  • Capital needs assessment (T-12 vs forward)
  • On-property diligence (3-day site visit)
  • Go/no-go memo with operating assumptions
Discuss this engagement
Underwriting — ocean-front boutique
06 · Condo-Hotel & HOA Advisory

For boards navigating the operator equation.

South Florida is full of condo-hotel projects where the residence association inherits the operating headache. We bring operator literacy to the board table.

What's Included
  • Operator/license-agreement review
  • Owner-occupancy vs rental-pool economics
  • Board presentation on operator alternatives
  • Vendor consolidation and CAM rationalization
  • Reserve study integration with operating plan
Discuss this engagement
Ocean-front condo-hotel, Miami Beach
About · BSpoke Hospitality & Asset Group

Twenty-five years inside the rooms. Now on your side of the table.

BSpoke was founded by Yann Crine after two and a half decades operating luxury hotels in Europe, the Caribbean, and South Florida — to give independent owners the senior-level perspective they used to get from the brand, before the brand became the problem.

Yann Crine
Founder & Principal
Founder · Yann Crine

The work I do now is the work I wished my owners had access to twenty years ago.

I started in the kitchen of a small Montreal restaurant and spent the next quarter-century in hospitality operating roles as a Manager or Director at the heart of the operations or, pre-opening across luxury independent and flagged properties in Mauritius, St. Barths, the French Alps and Miami.

The pattern was always the same. The owner trusted the operator. The operator was incentivized to maximize their fee, not the asset. Six months later the GOP slipped, the CapEx schedule slipped, the brand reps showed up with a "soft-rebranding" pitch — and nobody around the table was actually representing the owner.

BSpoke exists to fix that. We don't run hotels. We don't get paid by the brand. We work for the person who owns the building, and we bring twenty-five years of operating literacy to every decision that touches the asset.

"The best operators I worked with all had one thing in common — they were never the smartest person in the room, just the most honest about what was actually broken."
Operating principles

How we make decisions when the table is loud.

Five non-negotiables that show up in every engagement, every memo, every quarterly board meeting.

01

Owner-first.

Every recommendation passes one filter: does this serve the owner's hold-period objective? If not, it doesn't ship.

02

Operator-literate.

We've sat in every operating seat. We know which numbers the operator is hiding and which ones they're proud of.

03

Quiet authority.

We don't sell decks. We send memos. The work is in the work, not the storytelling around it.

04

Independent of brand.

We hold no franchise relationships. No referral fees. No conflicting compensation. Period.

05

Long arc, not the deal.

We turn down engagements that won't survive a five-year hold. The compound matters more than the close.

Where we work

South Florida, deeply. Selectively beyond.

We're based in Miami and most of our active engagements are within ninety minutes of the office — from South Beach to Palm Beach to the Keys. We selectively work outside the region when the founder personally knows the property or operator.

Proximity matters. Asset management isn't a Zoom job. We walk the property regularly.

Office
Aventura, FL
Active markets
Miami · Miami Beach · Fort Lauderdale · Palm Beach · The Keys
Founded
2021
Currently advising
10 properties
The four chairs at every owner's table

And whose interests each one is paid to defend.

A reductive but useful map. Every voice your asset hears has incentives. Here is how they line up — and where we sit.

BSpoke
Brand
3rd-party Operator
Big-4 Consultant
Whose interests they serve
Yours, exclusively. We are paid by the owner, period.
Their brand standards and royalty stream.
Their management fee and incentive structure.
Whoever signed the engagement letter — usually not the owner.
How they're compensated
Flat or retainer. No deal-based fees, no referrals.
Percentage of revenue, royalty fees, marketing levies.
Base fee (% of revenue) + incentive (% of GOP).
Hourly or project; bigger deck wins more billable hours.
Who shows up to the property
Founder + senior advisor. Same two faces, every visit.
Rotating regional reps. Quarterly at best.
GM and corporate, but they live there — and answer to corporate.
Senior on the pitch, juniors on the work.
What they're optimizing for
Asset value at the end of your hold period.
Brand consistency and royalty maximization.
GOP this quarter (because that's the incentive trigger).
The next engagement.
Engagement length
8 weeks to 5+ years. We stay as long as the work needs us.
10–20 year licensing agreement (locked in).
5–10 year HMA, often hard to exit.
8–12 weeks, then they're gone.
The short list of things we won't do

Discipline is a feature.

Most advisory firms are defined by what they're willing to take on. We're defined by what we turn down.

01

Take operator referral fees.

Not from brands. Not from PMS vendors. Not from designers. Not ever.

02

Sell you a deck and disappear.

Every engagement is structured around an outcome the owner can audit, not a binder on a shelf.

03

Compete with your operator.

If you have a good operator, we make them better. If you don't, we say so and help you find one.

04

Accept work outside our circle.

We don't take engagements where we can't show up in person within 90 minutes.

05

Hide behind 'industry standard.'

Every recommendation is reasoned from your asset's economics, not a benchmark deck.

Right fit · Wrong fit

We work better when both sides are honest about it.

A short read on whether a conversation with BSpoke would be a good use of your time.

Right fit
  • You own an independent or boutique-flagged hotel in South Florida.
  • You're a family office or developer with one or two hotel assets in the portfolio — not enough to justify a full-time in-house team.
  • You're holding the asset for 5+ years and care about value at exit, not just this quarter.
  • You suspect your operator or brand isn't optimizing for your interests, but you don't have the operating literacy to prove it.
  • You want a single, accountable voice in the room — not a 12-person consulting team.
Probably not the right fit
  • You own a flagged hotel in a 20-year HMA and have no intent or ability to revisit the agreement.
  • You're flipping the asset within 18 months and need a story rather than a result.
  • You're looking for a service-level agreement with KPIs and a procurement team to manage us through. (We are too small and too senior for that workflow.)
  • You want an advisor whose first move is a 60-slide opening deck. Ours is a site visit.
  • You believe brand consistency is the highest value an asset can offer. We do not; operations, pricing, labor discipline and revenue strategy drive asset value.
Reviews · Owner Voices

The shortest pitch we know: the people we work for, in their own words.

Names are abbreviated and properties are described categorically out of respect for the engagements. References available on request, owner-to-owner.

Results · across active engagements
27%+
Average STR growth across active engagements
$46M
Operating budgets directed
10
Properties currently advised
100%
Owner-paid. No referral fees.
Engagements

A representative slice of who we work with.

Categorical descriptions used where confidentiality applies. Full reference list owner-to-owner on request.

Hotel Owners
Commercial Property Management
Family Offices
Real Estate Developers
Short Term Rental Owners & Operators
Independent Owners Associations
Blog · Insights & Operator Perspectives

Perspectives from twenty-five years inside the rooms.

Industry insights, operating principles, and candid reflections on what actually moves the needle for independent hospitality assets.

Contact · Start with a conversation

No obligation, no pitch. A direct read of where your asset stands.

We typically respond within one business day. The first conversation is a 30-minute call directly with the founder.

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Typical agenda
10 min context · 15 min Q&A · 5 min next steps
No deck on the call
We read the property, not slides.
Confidentiality
Everything on the call is privileged. NDA on request.
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Office
Aventura, Florida
Hours
Monday–Friday · 8:30 to 18:30 ET
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