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title: A Two-Person Startup Is Using AI Agents to Book New York's Hardest Restaurant Tables
description: Spot, an invite-only restaurant reservation app, books hard-to-get New York tables for $15 or $50 a month without logging in as its members.
author: Darie Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-09-28T09:43:27.354Z
updated: 2026-09-28T09:43:27.374Z
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Since August, at least two New Yorkers have been banned from Resy after sending AI agents to hunt for a table at 4 Charles Prime Rib, a West Village steakhouse whose Resy tables go within seconds of release. In September, the assistant Instinct pinged Resy "hundreds of times every hour of the day" on behalf of J.C. Bahr-de Stefano, a New York venture capitalist, he told [CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/23/tech/ai-agent-restaurant-reservations-instinct-resy-cec). "Of course I got banned," he said. "Resy figured it was a bot which is a totally fair response." His account has since been reinstated.

Spot, an invite-only restaurant reservation app with two founders, Brian Wagner and Andreas Larsen, says it books the same kind of tables without putting its members' accounts at risk. Alex Konrad, who writes the startup newsletter Upstarts, [reported on Sept. 27](https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/inside-the-invite-only-app-for-booking) that Spot's AI agents have booked tables at places such as Via Carota and Le Veau d'Or for months without getting users banned. A member since May, Konrad got a four-top at Le Veau d'Or for a double date, a short-notice primetime table at Don Angie, and a table at Semma that Spot then rescheduled twice by transferring his booking to other users, so he paid no cancellation fee.

Every time someone goes viral for a Resy ban, Wagner's phone blows up, Konrad wrote. "It shouldn't only be people who know how to code, or who pay for ChatGPT Pro, who can get all the tables in New York," Wagner said.

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