Wheelhouse MCP - Workshopping Automations

In this recorded live training session, John DeRoulet, Head of Revenue Management Education at Wheelhouse, walks a group of revenue managers through building and automating workflows with the Wheelhouse MCP, Claude skills, and Cowork. Starting from the basics of connecting the Wheelhouse MCP and building a skill from an ad hoc analysis, John moves into a full live build: using Cowork and Python to pull listings and KPI data straight from the Wheelhouse Revenue Managers API (RM API) onto a local machine, running calculations without burning Claude tokens, and writing tags back into Wheelhouse based on custom-defined criteria.

Along the way, John covers practical tips for keeping automation costs low (separating reads from writes, choosing the right model tier, scheduling dependent skills in sequence), the value of organizing your work in a project for persistent memory and instructions, and how to think about breaking a manual, repetitive process into a chain of reusable skills. He also fields live questions on real-world use cases, like automating rate drops for unbooked inventory as a booking deadline approaches.

Whether you're just getting started with AI tools or looking to build more advanced automations on top of your portfolio data, this session is a hands-on look at what's possible with the Wheelhouse Revenue Managers API (RM API).