About Virafo
A missing bottle of shampoo. A rental that could have been cleaner. And a question that became Virafo.
We’re building a clearer way for short-term rental operators to understand property conditions, without having to be everywhere at once.
Our story
“If I owned this property, how would I know it was ready?”
During an Airbnb stay, our co-founder Gustas noticed that some essentials were missing, including shampoo, and parts of the space weren’t as clean as they could have been.
It wasn’t a major disaster. But it raised a question: if he owned this property, how would he know whether everything was ready for the next guest?
He discussed the idea with his father, who works in real estate and had experience with short-term rentals, including cabins located away from the city.
The challenge was familiar. Communication between cleaners and property operators wasn’t always enough to understand what had really happened. Sometimes, checking a problem meant driving around 40 minutes to a cabin just to inspect the situation.
That conversation helped shape the idea behind Virafo: giving operators a better way to review photographic evidence of turnovers, identify possible issues, and understand property readiness remotely.
Gustas knew building the company properly would require more than one person. He invited Timas Šegžda to join him, bringing experience in building e-commerce businesses and managing business operations.
Together, they began building Virafo around a simple principle: property operators should have better visibility into what happens between guests.
Our mission
Our vision
What we believe
Decisions should be supported by what property photographs actually show.
We won’t promise AI can detect what the photographs cannot reveal.
Verification should make life easier for operators without adding unnecessary work for cleaners.
We want to build around real customer experiences, not assumptions.
Meet the founders
We’re a two-founder team bringing together product vision, business development and operational experience to solve a problem we believe deserves a better solution.
Co-founder & CEO
Gustas leads Virafo’s product development, company vision, sales and investor relations. His experience as a guest inspired the original idea, and conversations with people familiar with short-term rental operations helped turn that idea into a business.
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Co-founder & COO
Timas leads Virafo’s business operations, finance and business development, while also working on sales. He brings experience building e-commerce stores and managing business operations, helping turn the company’s vision into a functioning business.
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From our first working alpha to a broader property-readiness platform, we’re building step by step, guided by the needs of real operators.
A working alpha application built for property setup, cleaner turnover workflows and AI-assisted photo verification. Our focus is testing, learning and improving reliability.
Work toward beta testing with selected property operators, improving usability, verification reliability and the overall workflow through real feedback.
Target a production-ready, paid public release, subject to product quality, security and operational readiness.
Focus on paying customers, measurable operator value, reliable verification and repeatable onboarding.
Improve verification capabilities, strengthen the product and explore integrations that make sense for working property operators.
Evaluate selective expansion into European markets and broader property-readiness opportunities where customer demand and product performance support it.
Our roadmap reflects our current goals. Priorities and timelines may change as we learn from customers and improve the product.
Build with us
We’re working with short-term rental operators to make turnover verification more useful, reliable and easier to manage. If this is a problem you face, we’d like to hear from you.