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William Horschak

About

Builder first. Visionary always.

A builder and visionary at the core — turning hospitality leadership, revenue strategy, a legal path forward, and open-records and civic-technology work into systems and ventures people can actually use.

Who William Is

A career built where the property has to perform every night

William Horschak is a hospitality executive, revenue strategist, legal-pathway student, and civic-tech builder. His career has centered on high-pressure hospitality environments, including Yellowstone and Yosemite National Park markets, nightly-capacity hotels, diverse teams, demanding guest operations, and analytical revenue strategies built around RevPAR, rate discipline, inventory control, and profit maximization — measuring the signals that matter and letting the numbers, not hunches, decide.

He is now pursuing a future in the legal realm with sights on law school while continuing to develop online ventures focused on open records, open governance, civic transparency, and data-driven public information systems.

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William Horschak

Hospitality Revenue Strategy • Legal Pathway • Open Records • Civic Technology

President’s List of High Distinction · Spring 2026 & Fall 2025

Recognition

Academic honors

William's legal coursework has earned consecutive President's List of High Distinction recognition at Western Technical College — the institution's top academic honor, awarded to students in the Legal Studies/Paralegal program who meet its highest standard.

William J. Horschak V — Merit verified achievements (opens in a new tab)

Three Pillars

Where the work happens

One executive’s discipline, applied across three connected bodies of work.

Foundation

Hospitality Operations & Revenue

Leadership of branded, nightly-capacity properties in Yellowstone and Yosemite destination markets — large seasonal teams, guest-service recovery, PMS-based systems modernization, and revenue decisions made under real operating pressure.

Inside the operations

Path Forward

The Legal Pathway

Currently studying for a future in the legal realm, with sights on law school. The documentation, deadline, and standards habits that ran hotels now power structured legal research and writing.

Follow the legal path

Mission

Open Records & Civic Technology

Requester-side work in lawful records access — custodian identification, precise drafting, deadline tracking, organizing productions — and civic-tech ventures that turn public information into usable civic knowledge.

The transparency work

The Through-Line

One discipline, three arenas

William’s legal and civic-transparency work is not a departure from hospitality; it is an extension of the same discipline.

Hospitality operations taught him to document, track, forecast, communicate, manage pressure, protect standards, and solve problems in real time. Revenue management taught him to read signals, identify patterns, and make decisions based on evidence rather than assumption. Those same skills now inform his legal education, public-records research, and open-governance work.

  • Document
  • Track
  • Forecast
  • Communicate
  • Manage Pressure
  • Protect Standards
  • Read Signals
  • Decide on Evidence

How William Works

Operating principles that hold in any arena

The habits below were forged in hotels that had to perform every night. They now shape his legal study, records research, and product work.

01

Evidence over assumption

Rate decisions, records requests, and legal research all start the same way: gather as much relevant data as the problem allows, read the signals honestly, and let the evidence — not instinct — set the direction.

02

Documentation discipline

If it matters, it gets written down, dated, and filed where it can be found again. Hotel operations, records organization, and legal study all reward the same habit.

03

Systems thinking

One-off fixes decay. William builds repeatable systems — checklists, workflows, operating views — so good outcomes survive busy nights and seasonal turnover.

04

Calm under pressure

Nightly-capacity operations leave no room for panic. Pressure is information: triage, communicate, resolve, then improve the process so the next night runs cleaner.

05

Detail compounds

Profit and accountability both come from detail. Small, consistent corrections — a rate fence, a precise request, a clean citation — add up to outcomes.

06

Standards travel

Brand standards, citation discipline, records organization: different arenas, one expectation. The standard holds whether or not anyone is watching.

Beyond the Work

The person behind the builder

What I believe, where I’m from, and where you’ll find me on a good day.

Politics is a genuine passion of mine, not a hobby I picked up to sound interesting. On the questions that shape daily life I’m firmly libertarian — civil liberties, free speech, privacy, gun rights, local autonomy, and the freedom to start and run a small business — with a standing distrust of bureaucratic overreach. My default is simple: the burden falls on government to justify intruding on a person’s liberty, not on the person to justify keeping it.

And yet I hold an older, FDR-era belief with equal force. When the country faces a severe national crisis — economic collapse, mass unemployment, the kind of emergency that grinds ordinary families down — I believe the federal government can and should act aggressively: stabilize the economy, protect workers, rebuild infrastructure, and keep people out of poverty. Liberty is the everyday rule; decisive collective action is what genuine, nation-scale emergencies demand. The two instincts argue constantly, and I think that argument is the point.

I love this country plainly, and I see the work ahead as restoration rather than blame — lifting it back to its full stature and helping every American, whatever they believe, feel there is a place for them in it.

The United States is the greatest country on the planet, and restoring its prestige is a job that belongs to all of us. Every American, regardless of ideology, deserves to feel great about being one.

The American flag flying against a clear blue sky
The downtown San Antonio skyline under a cloudy Texas sky, with the Tower of the Americas at right
Downtown San Antonio — home.

San Antonio, and one perfect night

I’m a San Antonio native, which means two loyalties were settled before I had a say in either — the Spurs and the Texas Longhorns. I’ve stayed faithful to both. Ask for my favorite moment in sports and I don’t hesitate: January 4, 2006, the Rose Bowl, the national title on the line. Fourth-and-five. Vince Young takes the snap, finds the corner, and the whole season narrows to a single sprint toward the pylon — gliding untouched into the end zone before USC can lay a hand on him. Texas over the Trojans. I’ve watched it more times than I’ll admit, and it still gets me in the chest.

Open country

I golf, I hike, I travel for the chance to stand somewhere I’ve never stood. Most of all I want to be outdoors with nothing to prove — open ground, the long quiet of a trail, the only traffic whatever wildlife happens by. I have a soft spot for animals and tend to make friends with whatever wanders into view. That’s where the noise falls away and the good ideas show up uninvited.

  • Political advocacy
  • Libertarian, FDR pragmatist
  • Golf
  • Hiking
  • Travel
  • Nature & animals
  • San Antonio Spurs
  • Texas Longhorns

A few moments

William Horschak as a young boy looking up at a horse and holding its lead
Me as a kid — partial to animals from the start.
William Horschak crouched beside a giant tortoise on the grass
Black Hills Reptile Gardens, outside Rapid City, South Dakota, 2016.
William Horschak and his mother on the shore of Lake Hebgen, with mountains across the water
With my mom at Lake Hebgen — West Yellowstone, Montana, 2018.
William Horschak with his hotel team gathered in the lobby
My first general-manager role and team — 2014.
William Horschak with his team in holiday sweaters at a Half Moon Bay community
My team — Half Moon Bay, California, 2019.
William Horschak seated between his great-grandmother Stella and his life partner D’Mytria
My great-grandmother Stella, me, and my life partner, D’Mytria.

Professional inquiries

William is available for professional inquiries related to hospitality revenue strategy, open-records research, civic-transparency tools, web ventures, and business-development concepts.