Tourism and vacation rentals
Oceanfront and Sandbridge rental owners, small hotels, charters and attractions that need direct bookings instead of paying platform fees on every stay.
Home baseVirginia Beach, VA
Business and AI consulting for Virginia Beach companies, from right here.
I live and work in Virginia Beach, and the companies I run started here too. Frangoules Enterprises helps local owners find where time and money leak, then builds the internal apps, websites and automations that fix it.
- Based in Virginia Beach
- Meet in person across Hampton Roads
- Free 30-minute consultation
Virginia Beach, VA
Running a business here has its own rhythm.
Virginia Beach businesses live with swings most of the country never sees. Summer at the Oceanfront is a different company than February. Military families arrive and leave on orders, so customers, staff and referral partners turn over every few years. Owners end up running on spreadsheets, group texts and five subscriptions that do not talk to each other, because there is never a slow enough week to fix it.
That is the exact spot I was in. My mortgage brokerage and my vacation rental company both outgrew the tools on the market, so I built our own. Now I do the same for other owners in Hampton Roads.
Industries
Who we help in Virginia Beach
Military and defense support
Veteran-owned firms and subcontractors serving the bases, plus the many businesses whose customers are military families on the move.
Maritime and port services
Shops, marine contractors and service firms tied to the shipyards and the port, where scheduling, paperwork and crews never stop.
Real estate and lending
Brokerages, teams, property managers and loan officers. This is our home turf, since East Coast Mortgage runs on software we built.
Home services and trades
HVAC, roofing, cleaning and remodel companies juggling crews, photos, estimates and seasonal rushes.
Services that fit
Where we usually start
Consult first, then build what moves the needle, then stay on to run it. See services and prices
Direct booking websites
A premium site that takes real bookings and payments and feeds your calendar, so summer revenue does not leak to platform fees.
Internal apps for seasonal teams
One login for the office, the crew and the cleaner. Easy enough that a summer hire can learn it in a day.
AI consulting with Claude
Claude set up on your own documents to answer guest questions, draft replies and turn notes into tasks, with guardrails.
Automations
Texts, reminders, schedules and reports that run on their own, the way 50+ automations run our companies every day.
Example projects
Ideas we would build for Virginia Beach businesses
These are examples of the kind of work that fits here, not past clients.
- Idea
A direct booking site for a rental group
The same playbook we used for Wander Luxe Lodgings: your homes, live availability, split payments and a private trip page for every guest. Ours went live in 10 days.
- Idea
A crew app for a home services company
Jobs, photos, hours and supplies captured on the phone, and a dashboard for the owner that shows which crews and jobs actually make money.
- Idea
A move-ready client portal
For businesses that serve military families: one private page per customer with documents, dates and status, so a PCS move does not mean twenty phone calls.
- Idea
A proposal and paperwork assistant
For a small defense or marine contractor: a library of past proposals, certifications and expiration dates, with Claude drafting first versions for your review.
Proof, not promises
Real software, running real companies.
Every project below was designed, built and run from Virginia Beach. Two companies run on this software every day, and three products of our own are in beta: Run The Deal is open to everyone, and Hoaly and Livelihood, our money app for families, are invite-only.
10 days
From first line of code to a live direct booking site for a 7-home rental company.
63
Automations running every day across our own two companies.
3,293
Changes shipped to our companies and products, two of them running our own companies every day.
- Portal and websiteEast Coast MortgageLoan officer portal with an AI assistant, a daily call list, commissions and borrower presentations, plus the public site.Read the case study
- Booking site and ops appWander Luxe LodgingsDirect booking with split payments, a trip page for every stay and the ops app behind seven homes.Read the case study
- Website and adsLuxury listing websiteA cinematic listing site and ad campaign, live the same day we started.Read the case study
- Our own productHoalyAn HOA platform with open books, live building work, weighted e-proxy votes and dues. Live at hoaly.app.Read the case study
- Our own productRun The DealA real estate deal analyzer with 50 strategies, backed by 3,152 automated tests.Read the case study
How we work together
Local when you want it, remote when it is faster
Because we are based here, we can meet at your office, a job site or a coffee shop anywhere in Hampton Roads, from Virginia Beach and Norfolk to Chesapeake, Suffolk and the Peninsula. Most of the week-to-week work still happens on short video calls and a shared roadmap you can check any time, so nothing waits on a meeting.
- Step 1 · Free
Free Consultation
A 30-minute call about the part of your business that eats the most time. You get a short written list of your three biggest leaks.
Start your free consultation - Step 2 · About 2 to 3 weeks
Operations Review
A deep look at how work flows through your team and tools, ending in a roadmap with dollar estimates.
- Step 3 · Weeks, not months
Build
The app, website, automations or AI rollout from your roadmap, with a working version early.
- Step 4 · Monthly
Run
Hosting, monitoring, fixes and new features as you grow, with one lead accountable.
FAQ
Questions from Virginia Beach owners.
Can we meet in person?
Yes. Frangoules Enterprises is based in Virginia Beach, so in-person meetings anywhere in Hampton Roads are easy. Most projects mix one kickoff visit with video calls after that.
Do you only work with Virginia Beach businesses?
No. We work with owners nationwide. Virginia Beach is home, so local businesses get the option of face-to-face time.
We are a small company. Is custom software overkill?
Not always, and the free consultation is where we say so honestly. Sometimes the answer is a better setup of tools you already pay for. When custom makes sense, we start small and grow it.
Can you help a vacation rental owner get more direct bookings?
Yes. We built and run the direct booking site, guest pages and operations app for Wander Luxe Lodgings, so we know that business from the inside.
How do we get started?
Book your free consultation. It is a 30-minute call, and you leave with a short written list of your three biggest leaks.
Let’s find your three biggest leaks.
A free 30-minute consultation for Virginia Beach business owners. No pitch deck, no obligation.
Claude is made by Anthropic. Frangoules Enterprises is an independent consultancy and is not affiliated with Anthropic.