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Beyond Announces AI Innovations to Empower Property Managers & Grow Revenue

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3 hours ago

June 23, 2026

Launch of Beyond’s MCP server and Listing Lens feature, along with rapid adoption of Neyoba, Beyond’s AI pricing assistant, signals new era of AI-powered revenue management

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Beyond, the short-term rental industry’s leading revenue management platform, today announced two new AI-driven innovations that reflect the company’s commitment to transforming how property management companies operate. Listing Lens, the company’s AI-powered listing analyzer, is now available for all Beyond customers and Beyond’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, the first of its kind for revenue management, is now in beta. Together, they mark a significant expansion of Beyond’s AI capabilities, building on the foundation of machine learning and demand intelligence that has powered Beyond’s dynamic pricing engine since the company’s founding.

“AI has always been instrumental in powering Beyond’s revenue management system – from our intuitive automations to our best-in-class pricing,” said Julie Brinkman, CEO at Beyond. “The launch of Listing Lens, our agent-to-agent via MCP server and updated user API now extends our intelligence into new parts of the operator’s workflow. From listing quality to conversational analytics to direct integration with any AI agent – Beyond has expanded the flexibility and impact of revenue management. For property and revenue managers who are evolving in our modern world, this functionality is critical to business and revenue growth.”

LISTING LENS: NOW LIVE FOR ALL

Listing Lens, Beyond’s AI-powered listing analyzer, is now generally available. The feature analyzes Airbnb listings across photos, descriptions, amenities, and reviews, then delivers a prioritized action plan that tells operators exactly what to fix to increase OTA rankings and guest booking conversion rates.

For property managers overseeing large portfolios, listing quality is one of the hardest things to track consistently. There are no alerts when a listing loses search visibility, and no dashboard showing which properties need attention before bookings slow. Listing Lens changes that, giving operators a scalable, repeatable quality audit built for portfolios of any size.

Unlike competitors who charge up to $12 per listing per month for similar functionality, Beyond includes Listing Lens as part of its core revenue management platform, reinforcing the company’s commitment to making sophisticated tools accessible for all. Property managers and hosts who are not yet Beyond customers can also try it for free here.

BEYOND MCP SERVER: NOW IN BETA

Beyond has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and custom enterprise agents to connect directly to Beyond’s dynamic pricing data. This is to complement Beyond’s existing API offering, which already enables revenue managers and property managers direct, live access to Beyond’s pricing, market, and reservation data piped straight into the tools and workflows they already run internally.

The MCP standard is quickly becoming the connective layer between AI agents and business data. In fact, Beyond’s MCP server is also built to support agent-to-agent communication, enabling AI agents to delegate tasks, share context, and collaborate across tools without human intervention. This means a revenue management agent can automatically coordinate with a finance agent, a CRM agent, or a custom operations bot, all using Beyond’s live data as the shared source of truth. As more revenue management workflows run through AI agents and automated pipelines, Beyond’s MCP server is designed to be that foundation for short-term rental operators.

With the MCP server, revenue teams can:

Pipe Beyond’s pricing signals and market benchmarking data directly into BI tools like Tableau or Power BIFeed Beyond’s reservation data into finance forecasting models without manual exportsTrigger automated workflows like occupancy alerts, owner report generation, or rate adjustments using real-time Beyond data

Beyond is the only STR revenue management platform with a live, production MCP server. Operators interested in joining the beta can visit http://beyondpricing.com/str-developers to learn more, and access Beyond’s API documentation.

NEYOBA: AI ASSISTANT DRIVING REAL CUSTOMER TIME SAVINGS

Neyoba, Beyond’s AI pricing assistant, has quickly become one of the platform’s most-used features after being launched in late 2025. In its first six months, more than 15 thousand hosts and property managers had nearly 50 thousand conversations with Neyoba.

Neyoba addresses one of the most time-intensive parts of revenue management: translating portfolio data into action. Tasks that once required multiple hours of manual analysis, like reviewing nightly rates, monitoring booking pace, and auditing competitor pricing, can now be answered instantly through a natural language prompt. Workflows that used to take 2-3 hours are now taking less than 10 minutes to ask the question and action on the information.

Based on this, Neyoba has saved customers more than 100,000 hours of manual analysis time, freeing operators to focus on higher-value strategy and owner relationships.

About Beyond

Trusted by thousands of short-term rental operators to price millions of listings, Beyond’s AI-driven dynamic pricing, market intelligence, and automated revenue management levers is built around one goal: help every portfolio outperform the market by more than 20%. Beyond’s revenue management system gives every operator, from the individual host to the enterprise property manager, the intelligence and control to run a more empowered, more profitable STR business. Learn why Beyond is built for more at www.beyondpricing.com.

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Slope and Velocity Clinical Research Partner to Standardize Inventory Management and Drive Study Feasibility Across 70+ Sites

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48 minutes ago

June 23, 2026

RICHMOND, Va. and DURHAM, N.C., June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Slope, the only end-to-end, vendor-agnostic software provider for managing clinical inventory and biospecimens, and Velocity Clinical Research, the world’s largest organization of fully-owned and integrated clinical research sites, today announced that their strategic partnership has led to a comprehensive roll-out of Slope’s premium inventory management solution across Velocity’s 70+ sites spanning the United States and Europe. The deployment is already enabling Velocity to leverage trial equipment data to inform study feasibility decisions across its network.

This partnership represents a significant milestone for both organizations. Slope further solidifies its position in the clinical research space by standardizing its industry-leading clinical inventory management solution with a premier research site network, while Velocity gains access to an innovative platform that has already been adopted by over 2,400 research sites globally across over two dozen countries.

“Slope’s base inventory management solution had already been independently adopted at 31 of our sites,” said Nicholas Spittal, Chief Operations Officer at Velocity. “This grassroots adoption gave confidence that Slope is easy to use and already providing added value for running efficient sites. With real-time visibility into study equipment and clinical supplies across all of Velocity, we can now make faster, better-informed decisions about operational readiness, prioritization, and allocation of work. We’re already leveraging this data to support our study feasibility and quality assurance processes.”

“From its inception, Slope has championed research sites first and foremost,” said Rust Felix, Co-founder and CEO at Slope. “Research sites are on the front lines of clinical trials, playing the most challenging and critical role in bringing new therapies to patients. When we help them work more efficiently and reduce their administrative burden, the entire clinical research ecosystem benefits. We applaud Velocity for recognizing the value that Slope brings to research sites, and we’re excited that our partnership is already fueling our joint efforts to address one of the industry’s most significant pain points — managing the inventory and study equipment that are essential to running clinical trials.”

By feeding Slope’s equipment data into its broader operational infrastructure, Velocity can now determine at a glance whether a site is operationally ready to support a new study — reducing the time and guesswork involved in site selection. As the partnership continues to scale, both organizations expect these operational gains to translate into faster study startup times, reduced supply waste, and a stronger competitive position for Velocity’s sites in attracting new trials.

About Slope

Slope is the only end-to-end, vendor-agnostic software provider for managing clinical inventory and biospecimens across the entire clinical research ecosystem. Trusted by 2,400+ sites in over two dozen countries, Slope delivers measurable results: 71% average reduction in lab kit waste, 98% site adoption on sponsor-contracted trials, and up to 98% fewer lab queries.

By unifying and tech-enabling the clinical inventory and biospecimen lifecycle — inventory management and supply logistics; sample collection processing, storage, and shipment; and data exchange with core clinical systems like EDCs and lab databases — Slope eliminates the inefficiencies that slow trials, hinder site staff, and inflate costs. The platform serves research sites, sponsors, labs, and CROs with solutions ranging from premium inventory management for sites, to end-to-end biospecimen lifecycle management for all stakeholders. Learn more at slopeclinical.com.

About Velocity Clinical Research

Velocity Clinical Research is the world’s leading organization of fully-owned and integrated research sites. The company partners with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to research new drugs, medical devices, and diagnostics that could improve human health and wellbeing. Velocity’s unified research site solutions deliver the right patients, investigators, and research staff for clinical trials across the U.S. and Europe. For more information, visit velocityclinical.com.

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Bandwidth Launches ‘Build,’ Giving AI Agents Autonomous Access To the Bandwidth Communications Cloud

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48 minutes ago

June 23, 2026

Enables AI agents and developers to autonomously activate communications services and launch voice applications in minutes

RALEIGH, N.C., June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND), a leading global cloud communications company, today announced Bandwidth Build, a new platform enabling AI agents and developers to autonomously provision and launch communications services on the Bandwidth Communications Cloud.

As AI increasingly becomes a builder, operator, and consumer of digital infrastructure, communications services must become as accessible to AI agents as they are to human developers. Bandwidth Build extends the Bandwidth Communications Cloud into this emerging agentic ecosystem, enabling AI agents to provision communications capabilities and launch voice applications through automated workflows. It also gives human developers a faster path from experimentation to production. Bandwidth Build is accessible via a self-serve UI, API, CLI, and SDKs. Once authenticated, AI agents can use Bandwidth’s MCP Server to securely access Bandwidth APIs, provision communications services, and automate workflows.

“AI agents are building, configuring, and operating technology on their own. With Build, we’re extending the Bandwidth Communications Cloud to support that shift,” said John Bell, Bandwidth’s Chief Product Officer. “AI agents and developers can access the same production-grade voice infrastructure that powers mission-critical communications for enterprises worldwide. Build eliminates the friction between an idea and a working application by providing immediate availability.”

Bandwidth Build starts with a trial that includes a pre-configured U.S. phone number, complimentary usage credits, and immediate access to Bandwidth’s Voice API to get started. Agents and developers can build voice applications using the communications capabilities most commonly required for AI-powered interactions, including inbound and outbound calling, text-to-speech, transcription, recording, and conferencing–all on the same global mission-critical infrastructure used by Bandwidth’s enterprise customers.

AI agents and human developers can start building at bandwidth.com/build-sign-up.

About Bandwidth Inc.
Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND) is a global cloud communications company that helps enterprises deliver exceptional experiences through voice calling, text messaging and emergency services. Our solutions and our Communications Cloud, covering 65+ countries and ~90 percent of global GDP, are trusted by all the leaders in unified communications and cloud contact centers–including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, Google, Microsoft, RingCentral, Zoom, Genesys and Five9–as well as Global 2000 enterprises and SaaS builders like Docusign, Uber and Yosi Health. As a founder of the cloud communications revolution, we are the first and only global Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) to offer a unique combination of composable APIs, AI capabilities, owner-operated network and broad regulatory experience. Our award-winning support teams help businesses around the world transform their communications every day.

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Vacuum-Compatible High Load Hexapod, New from PI

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48 minutes ago

June 23, 2026

Vacuum-Compatible 6-Axis Hexapod for Precision Positioning of Heavy Loads up to 80kg

SHREWSBURY, Mass., June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PI (Physik Instrumente), a global leader in precision motion control and nanopositioning technologies, announces the H-850.H2IV vacuum-compatible hexapod, a six-degree-of-freedom positioning system designed for high-precision alignment and motion control in demanding vacuum environments.

Target applications include semiconductor manufacturing, lithography, synchrotron beamlines, optical alignment, aerospace testing, and advanced scientific research.

Key Specifications:

Vacuum compatibility: down to 10⁻⁶ hPaLoad capacity: up to 80 kg (176 lbs)Repeatability: ±0.2 µmSelf-holding force: 200 kg (440 lbs) horizontal; 50 kg (110 lbs) in any orientationMotion axes: X, Y, Z translation + pitch, roll, and yaw rotationArchitecture: parallel-kinematic, six simultaneous actuators

Parallel Kinematics for Superior Performance
Unlike stacked serial-axis systems, the H-850.H2IV uses a parallel-kinematic architecture in which all six actuators move a common platform simultaneously. This delivers higher structural stiffness, lower moving mass, improved path accuracy, and better repeatability across all axes. Because cables remain stationary, the cable management issues common in serial systems are eliminated — a meaningful advantage in vacuum installations.

Self-Locking Drive Improves Safety and Stability
The self-locking drive mechanism in the vacuum hexapod holds loads in position without power, preventing drift during extended measurement cycles, power interruptions, or sensitive alignment procedures. This protects expensive payloads and reduces overall power consumption.

Simulation Software Reduces Integration Risk
PI’s PIVirtualMove software allows engineers to verify workspace limits, payload conditions, force and torque constraints, and center-of-gravity effects before deployment — reducing project risk and accelerating system integration.

Industries Served and Applications
Typical applications of the hexapod include the alignment of optics in vacuum chambers, lithography and inspection systems, beamline instrumentation, and satellite sensor testing.

Specifications, datasheet: H-850.x2IV Vacuum-Compatible Hexapod

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