Zilos vs Tenzo: reports vs actions
Last updated: 2026-05-05
TL;DR. Tenzo describes itself as "one place for all your restaurant data" and a "best-of-breed stack" intelligence layer. Beautifully built dashboards, demand forecasting, scheduled reports, and an LLM you can ask hard questions. Zilos starts where Tenzo stops. We surface the same data, then propose and execute the actions that follow from it, with a human approval step in the middle. If you have an analytics team and want a dashboarding platform, Tenzo is excellent. If you want the dashboarding and the action loop in one place, that's Zilos.
At a glance
| Zilos | Tenzo | |
|---|---|---|
| Core claim | AI Operating System (truth → intelligence → action) | One place for all your restaurant data |
| Dashboards & reporting | ✓ | ✓ (their flagship: drag-and-drop, deep customisation) |
| Demand forecasting | ✓ | ✓ (weather + events + holidays + history) |
| Scheduled reports | ✓ | ✓ (mature) |
| LLM Q&A on your data | ✓ | ✓ (their AI claim: "ask the hard questions") |
| Action execution with approvals | ✓ (Tier-3 propose, guardrail, approve, execute) | ✗ (by design: they're an intelligence layer) |
| Marketing, social, reviews, GBP | ✓ | ✗ |
| Integration count | 10+ active two-way integrations (POS, accounting, social, comms) — depth over breadth | 80+ (their stated figure, mostly read-only feeds) |
| Languages supported | English, Spanish, Arabic | English |
| Geography focus | Spain + UAE (and global English) | UK + global |
| Pricing model | Per account (€89 / €169 / €299 per month, transparent) | Sales-led, no public pricing |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | Demo required |
| Customer scale | Early-stage commercial | Mid-to-enterprise (IHG, TGI Fridays, Honest Burgers, JKS) |
What's different (and why it matters)
1. They tell you what's wrong; we fix it
Tenzo's homepage frames the product as "one place for all your restaurant data" and a "best-of-breed stack". They explicitly position against all-in-one platforms. Their AI claim is "use your favourite LLMs to ask it the hard questions and get answers that used to take a data team days, in seconds." The product surfaces insight. The action lives downstream of the product.
That positioning is honest and consistent. It also defines the gap.
Zilos surfaces the same kinds of insights (daily anomalies, margin drift, forecast variances, vendor price changes) and then proposes the action that follows from each one: a price change, a schedule edit, a review reply, a stock transfer. Each proposal goes through a guardrail layer (does it conflict with brand rules, regulatory limits, manager preferences) and waits for human approval before executing.
So if Tenzo's "answers in seconds" leads to "…and then I have to log in to four other tools to act on it," Zilos closes that loop in one system.
When this matters most: Your team has dashboards but the gap between seeing a problem and fixing it is where the time leaks. The action loop is built for that gap.
2. Sales-led vs flat published pricing
Tenzo's pricing is sales-led. Their /pricing URL returns a 404. Pricing isn't even publicly linked. For enterprise customers like IHG, that's appropriate. The buyer has procurement bandwidth.
Zilos publishes three flat per-account prices: €89, €169, €299/mo. 14-day free trial. No demo required to see the number.
When this matters most: You're 1–20 locations and you want to evaluate before scheduling sales calls. Self-serve evaluation is faster.
3. Pure analytics surface vs full operating loop
Tenzo is intentionally narrow: analytics, forecasting, dashboarding. They sit on top of POS + labour + inventory + reservations + reviews data, but they don't replace any of those. They are explicit about being a "best-of-breed stack" layer.
Zilos's surface area is broader: the same analytics layer, plus the marketing/social/reviews surface, plus an action layer that crosses domains, plus the back-office reconciliation between POS and accounting. If you want intelligence, you can run Tenzo and stop there. If you want intelligence + execution + marketing + the truth layer between operations and accounting, Zilos is the bundled answer.
When this matters most: The consolidation case. If your stack is Tenzo + a marketing tool + a review tool + a back-office tool + a forecasting layer, the math of buying one platform vs five is the case.
4. Integration count: breadth vs depth
Tenzo claims 80+ integrations: Lightspeed, Square, Planday, Workforce.com, MarketMan, and dozens more. That's a real moat. For an enterprise customer with a heterogeneous stack, an integration that already exists is worth more than a feature that doesn't yet.
Zilos ships 10+ active two-way integrations today: Square (POS), QuickBooks Online and Holded (accounting, both with full reconciliation), Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, and Google Business Profile (marketing surface), Gmail (comms), and ElevenLabs (voice). Each one is a working bidirectional flow with reconciliation, not a read-only data feed. We add integrations carefully, prioritising depth over count.
If your stack lives entirely in Tenzo's integration list and breaking any one of those connections is a non-starter, that's a real consideration. If your stack is one POS, one accounting tool, and a marketing surface, the integration-count gap matters less than the depth of the few that do exist.
When this matters most: You have a complex, heterogeneous integration footprint that took years to wire up. Switching to a smaller integration list creates real switching cost. Don't underestimate that cost.
5. What Tenzo does better than Zilos
Five honest ones:
- Drag-and-drop dashboard depth. Their dashboards are mature, customisable, and well-loved by data-savvy operators.
- 80+ integrations. Real moat, especially for the enterprise market.
- Role-based product views. They publish separate value propositions for CEO, Ops Director, Finance Director, GM, and IT. That role-granularity is more developed than ours.
- Logbook-as-context. Tying narrative shift notes to numerical anomalies is a thoughtful feature we're catching up on.
- Enterprise reference network. IHG, TGI Fridays, Honest Burgers, JKS Restaurants. That logo set took years and is genuine social proof.
If those are your priorities, Tenzo is a defensible choice and we'd tell you that.
Who Zilos is best for
- Operators who have lived with dashboards and learnt that dashboards alone don't change behaviour. The action loop is for you.
- 1–20 location groups that want analytics, intelligence, and execution in one stack instead of five.
- Spain or UAE operators who need native-language support.
- Teams that want consolidation rather than another best-of-breed addition.
- Operators who care about back-office truth reconciliation between POS and accounting. That's a category Tenzo doesn't claim.
Who Tenzo is best for
- Mid-to-enterprise multi-brand operators (50+ locations) with mature data teams.
- Operators with a heterogeneous integration stack that absolutely needs Tenzo's 80+ list.
- Buyers who specifically want a best-of-breed dashboarding layer and prefer to keep their stack composable.
- Operators with a chief data officer or analytics team who will use the drag-and-drop depth.
Migration: switching from Tenzo to Zilos
If you're already on Tenzo and considering Zilos:
- What transfers: POS connection (re-authorise), labour data, historical sales data (CSV import), reservation feeds, review feeds.
- What needs reconfiguration: Dashboards (we'll help rebuild your top 3–5 in the first week), scheduled report cadence, brand-voice rules for Zi.
- What you'd run in parallel: If you have a Tenzo dashboard your CEO opens every morning, keep it running for the first 30 days. Switch off only when the Zilos daily briefing has earned that habit.
- Integration check first: Before committing, list every Tenzo integration you actually use. If any are not in Zilos's roadmap, raise it before migration. Don't discover it after.
What our customers say
“The system that lets restaurant owners finally take control.”
“Restaurants run on disconnected systems. Zilos turns them into one AI brain.”
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