VALET is an agency-search service for hospitality brands. It runs the entire process — shaping the brief, building a curated shortlist, managing pitches and scoring, checking references and supporting the contract.

How much does VALET cost?

VALET is free for hospitality brands. Agencies in the network pay a success fee only when they win business.

What kinds of agencies does VALET search for?

Branding, creative, marketing, digital, media, social, PR & comms, experiential, content, web & product, revenue management, CRM & loyalty, data & analytics, and technology & AI.

How does the VALET agency search work?

Four steps: shape the brief, curate the shortlist, run and score the pitches, and choose with confidence — with references checked and the contract supported.

VALET is founded and run by David Rayner, who has 20+ years in hospitality across client, agency and technology roles.

Yes. There is no pay-to-play and no preferred lists. Agencies are recommended on fit and merit.

VALET — Agency Searches for Hospitality Brands

You give us the brief. We handle the rest.

One conversation gets it started. We take it from there.

No. 01

Shape the brief

We turn what you need into a brief agencies can actually respond to: scope, budget, timeline, criteria.

No. 02

Curate the shortlist

A handpicked few, genuinely suited to your brief. Curated, never padded.

No. 03

Run & score the pitches

We manage timelines and questions, then score every submission against your criteria.

No. 04

Choose with confidence

References checked, contract supported. You pick the winner; we handle the rest.

Who runs your search

Two decades in hospitality, from every perspective.

I’m David Rayner. I’ve worked across the table: the brand that hires, the agency that pitches, and the partner that builds. I’ve written the briefs, won the pitches, and shipped the technology hospitality brands run on.

10⁺Years experience

Client side

Led marketing and operations, wrote the briefs, held the budget, and lived with the results.

10⁺Years experience

Agency side

Pitched for the work, built the teams, shipped the campaigns for some of the world’s best hospitality brands.

5Years experience

Vendor side

Helped build the technology hospitality brands actually run on, and led the company behind it.

Expertise Branding Marketing Media Digital Web & Product CRM & Loyalty Technology AI

Selected experience A sample of two decades alongside hospitality’s most distinctive brands

Client side

Kimpton Hotels / Morgans Hotel Group / Crunch Fitness

Agency · Hotels

Ian Schrager Company / EDITION Hotels / PUBLIC Hotels / The NoMad Hotel / LINE Hotels / Proper Hotels / Sydell Group / Sixty Hotels / Arlo Hotels / Gansevoort Hotel Group / Gramercy Park Hotel / 11 Howard / Chelsea Hotels / Grandlife Hotels / Hollywood Roosevelt / Gurney’s Resorts / Hersha Hospitality / KHP Capital Partners / Yotel & many more

Agency · Restaurants

Jean-Georges Restaurants / Le Bernardin / Eleven Madison Park / Daniel Boulud / Charlie Palmer Group / NoHo Hospitality / Fourth Wall Restaurants / Fig & Olive / Michel Richard / Ozumo Concepts International & many more

Vendor side

Selfbook

For agencies

Real briefs. Warm intros.

Join the Valet network and get matched to hospitality brands actively hiring: qualified briefs, warm intros, no cold pitching.

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Briefs

Real & budget-backed

Fit

Only what suits you

Intros

Warm, never cold

Process

Fair & fully managed

Membership

Free to join

Get in touch

Tell us what you’re looking for.

Share a few details and we’ll be in touch to scope your search. No cost, no obligation.

Hand us the keys. We’ll find your agency.