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 "name": "The Apartment-Stay Index",
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 "measures": "published commitments",
 "period": "2026-07",
 "methodology": "Past night three, the hotel room starts costing you — laundry, meals, a desk that isn't. We scored 8 apartment-stay platforms on 15 published commitments for the multi-night business trip. Top score: 87 (Blueground). The gap between operators and marketplaces is the whole story.",
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  {
   "id": "W",
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    "Wi-Fi speed stated or testable per unit",
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    "V": 3
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   "score": 87,
   "note": "Furnished-with-workspace as a stated standard and the exact unit you saw — the month-long onsite's strongest paper.",
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   "rank": 2,
   "name": "Mint House",
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    "K": 3,
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   "score": 87,
   "note": "Built for exactly this reader: workspace in every unit, book-the-exact-unit, corporate program — the operator model with the fullest written promise set.",
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   "rank": 3,
   "name": "Kasa",
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   "score": 73,
   "note": "Professional operations fully committed — 24/7 line, self check-in, business program — without the unit-level workspace promise.",
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   "rank": 4,
   "name": "Landing",
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    "C": 3,
    "B": 2,
    "K": 2,
    "V": 2
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   "score": 73,
   "note": "Standardized furnished units with real stated commitments; the membership model complicates the value math it publishes.",
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   "rank": 5,
   "name": "Placemakr",
   "category": {
    "W": 1,
    "C": 3,
    "B": 3,
    "K": 2,
    "V": 2
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   "score": 73,
   "note": "Hotel-apartment hybrid with on-site staff stated — operational commitments carrying a thinner unit-level promise.",
   "ruledBy": "Editor-in-Chief, The Sales Traveler",
   "ruledOn": "2026-07-22"
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  {
   "rank": 6,
   "name": "Sonder",
   "category": {
    "W": 1,
    "C": 3,
    "B": 2,
    "K": 2,
    "V": 2
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   "score": 67,
   "note": "App-first operations well committed; you book a category, not a unit — the consistency promise stops at the photos.",
   "ruledBy": "Editor-in-Chief, The Sales Traveler",
   "ruledOn": "2026-07-22"
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   "rank": 7,
   "name": "Airbnb",
   "category": {
    "W": 2,
    "C": 0,
    "B": 3,
    "K": 0,
    "V": 2
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   "score": 47,
   "note": "The Wi-Fi speed test is the single best work commitment in the category — attached to a marketplace where every other promise is the host's, not Airbnb's.",
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   "rank": 8,
   "name": "Vrbo",
   "category": {
    "W": 1,
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    "B": 2,
    "K": 0,
    "V": 2
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   "score": 33,
   "note": "Whole homes with total-price display — and essentially no platform-level commitments a business traveler can plan against.",
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