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May 19, 2026

How dozens of resort conversations led to the AI-powered CMS the industry has been missing

Reno, NV (May 19, 2026) /OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ – Over the past year, Corvar spoke with marketing managers, mountain operations directors, and IT leads at more than a dozen ski resorts across North America. The team asked what a typical morning looked like. What broke on powder days. What operators would fix if they could fix anything.

They expected some variety in the answers.

They didn’t get it.

The morning
One marketing director described her routine so precisely it stayed with the team.

Every morning, from December through April, she checks with the ski patrol to see what trails will open. Cross-references the grooming report. Updates the website. Updates the app. Texts the social media coordinator. Then hopes it all lines up before the first chair spins.

Then she does it again the next morning.

She wasn’t frustrated when she described this. This was the job, and she was good at it. But one thing was hard to ignore: every piece of that work already existed somewhere. Lift status in one system. The grooming report in another. Trail counts in a third. All she was doing, every morning, was carrying information from one place to another by hand.

No tool did it for her. So she did it herself.

What else they heard

Corvar heard some version of that story at nearly every resort they spoke with.

One resort had consolidated the hours for every restaurant, shop, and amenity on the mountain onto a single page on their website. Not because that was how they wanted to present the information. Because updating a dozen individual pages every time hours changed wasn’t realistic for a team their size. So they built a workaround, and the workaround became the system.

The tools forced compromises nobody would have chosen if better options had been available.

When asked where all of this information actually lived, most people paused.

“We create all this information about our mountain,” one operations manager said. “We just don’t have a good place to put it.”

That was the moment everything became clear.

What Corvar built
Today, Corvar launches its Mountain Content Management System — a single home for everything the mountain knows about itself, with an AI agent that keeps it current without making it somebody’s second job.

“We knew two things going in: the static trail map was ripe for disruption, and video needed to be part of how guests experience a mountain digitally. What we didn’t know was what resort teams actually needed to make that real. That’s what the year was for,” said Brian Sallee, Co-founder, Corvar.

When conditions change, Corvar’s AI surfaces the update and reflects it across every connected channel: the interactive map, the resort website, the app, digital signage. Every proposed change sits in a queue until a person signs off. Nothing publishes automatically. Every action is tracked in an audit log available in the app.

The morning routine doesn’t disappear entirely. But the part that was carrying information from one place to another by hand? That part does.

Corvar runs on an open API and webhook architecture. A lift goes down at 10 a.m. The team updates Corvar. Within seconds, every connected system reflects it. No one updates five places. No guest finds out the hard way.

Why now
The ski industry built its digital infrastructure before smartphones existed. The manually updated website, the static trail map, the three systems that never quite agree. None of that was a failure. It was what was available.

The resorts Corvar spoke with aren’t behind. They’ve been doing real work with real constraints. But those constraints were never permanent. What’s available now is different.

Corvar is available to ski resorts this season. To see a live demo, visit getcorvar.com.

About Corvar

Corvar is a mountain mapping platform for ski resorts. It combines an AI-powered content management system for resort operators with a rich, interactive map experience for guests, built on more than a year of conversations with resort operators across North America. Learn more at getcorvar.com.

Media Contact: Christine Sallee Director of Marketing | christine@getcorvar.com