For multi-site franchise networks

See across every franchisee, automatically.

FranchiseAI combines each site's financial and operational data in one live view. Benchmark your network, spot the issues worth fixing, and bring real intelligence to your head office conversations.

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Network overview
Live
Sites
22
+3 QoQ
Revenue
$1.17m
+8.2%
EBITDA %
22.4%
-1.1pp
Brighton $77,868 +12%
Mordialloc $58,812 +4%
Frankston $32,918 -18%
AI insight
Frankston churn accelerated after Feb. Est. $8.4k/mo recovery if retention lifts to 82%.
Built on the systems your franchisees already use
The problem

Most franchisors are running their networks on spreadsheets.

Multi-site franchisors have no automated way to see across their network. Financial data sits in each franchisee's Xero. Operational data sits in their POS, their payroll system, and their rostering tool. One silo per site.

Benchmarking and performance reports get built by hand every month, one franchisee at a time, on a four to six week lag. By the time head office spots an issue at a struggling site, two months of damage are already done.

The result: head office is reactive instead of strategic. Patterns go unnoticed. Opportunities are missed. The best franchisees never get studied; the worst never get helped in time.

Brighton_May2026.xlsx
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Elwood_May2026.xlsx
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What FranchiseAI does

A live view across your network, with intelligence built in.

Three things every franchisor needs, in one place. No manual data gathering, no spreadsheet reconciliation, no waiting for month-end reports.

Benchmark the whole network

Compare any site against the network median or any peer group. Revenue, EBITDA, wages percentage, cost ratios, dozens of operational metrics. Spot who's leading and who needs help.

Refreshed daily, no manual input

AI insights, not just dashboards

FranchiseAI reads the data for you. It spots patterns across the network, surfaces efficiency opportunities, and translates numbers into plain-English actions ranked by dollar impact.

Prescriptive, not just descriptive

Drill into any site, any number

Click any site to see its P&L. Drill into any expense category to see individual transactions. Everything you need for a monthly operations call or a difficult franchisee conversation, in seconds.

Transaction-level detail available
Integrations

Works with the systems your franchisees already run.

FranchiseAI connects directly to each franchisee's business systems via API. Daily automatic refresh. No manual spreadsheet exchange. No custom integration work for you or your franchisees.

Xero

Each franchisee's financial source of truth. We pull P&L, bank transactions, bills, contacts, and payroll data. Read-only, OAuth2, nothing writes back.

P&L Bank data Payroll

Tanda

Workforce data: timesheets, rosters, hourly rates, per-staff breakdowns. Unlocks real labour analysis, not just a wages percentage.

Timesheets Rosters Per-staff

Hapana

For fitness networks. Members, classes, attendance, billing, and retail POS in one integration. Replaces three separate connections.

Members Classes Retail POS

Square

Point of sale data for QSR and retail. Item-level sales, daypart analysis, transaction detail. Combines with Xero and Tanda for the full picture.

Sales Item mix Daypart
Coming next: Lightspeed, MyPOS, Deputy, ServiceM8. Have an integration we should prioritise? Tell us when you book a demo.
Built for your vertical

Vertical-aware, not just a generic BI tool.

FranchiseAI knows what matters in your sector. The metrics, the benchmarks, the operational patterns worth watching. Two verticals ready at launch, more coming.

QSR and food service

Restaurant and food franchisors

Benchmark food cost, wages percentage, daypart performance, and site-level profitability. Spot waste, understaffing, and the operational patterns that separate top-performing sites from the rest.

Metrics
Food cost %, wages %, revenue per labour hour
Stack
Xero + Tanda + Square
Boutique fitness

Fitness and studio franchisors

Track active members, retention, class utilisation, trial conversion, and ARPU across every studio. Catch retention issues before they compound. Spot capacity opportunities before franchisees do.

Metrics
Member counts, retention %, class fill, LTV
Stack
Xero + Hapana
Why we built this

Built by advisors who work with franchisors, not by generic BI vendors.

FranchiseAI is a product of Accario, part of Axelo. Accario spent years advising Australian franchisors on operations, financial performance, and growth, and kept running into the same wall: franchisors needed to see across their networks but had no way to do it.

Reports came in once a month, in different formats, from different systems. Patterns went unnoticed. Opportunities were missed. Benchmarking took so long it was out of date before it was finished.

Generic BI tools can display data, but they're not built for franchise structures and they're not built by people who understand what franchisors actually need to decide every week. FranchiseAI is the product we wished existed. We built it, and we're using it ourselves to deliver better advisory to our own clients.

If you run a multi-site franchise network, we built it for you too.

Franchise-native
Franchisor-parent, franchisee-child architecture built in from day one. Not a retrofit of a generic BI tool.
Advisory heritage
Built by Accario's advisory team who work with franchisors daily, not a tech vendor guessing at requirements.
Financial + operational
The only platform combining Xero data with workforce and POS data in one view. Competitors do one or the other.
Common questions

Everything you'd want to know before a demo.

Daily, automatically. Every connected franchisee's data is pulled from their Xero, Tanda, Hapana, or POS once per day, with no manual input from your side. There's also a manual refresh in the app if you need the latest numbers for a specific meeting or decision.
Franchisees connect their own systems through standard OAuth, the same way you'd connect any modern business app. It takes about five minutes per franchisee. We've designed onboarding so you can roll the whole network out in a week or two.
All data is encrypted at rest and in transit using AWS KMS. Our multi-tenant architecture uses row-level security, which means every franchisee's data stays isolated from every other customer's. Hosted entirely in the AWS Sydney region for Australian data sovereignty. SOC 2 certification is in progress.
FranchiseAI is SaaS: a base platform fee per franchisor, plus per-integration charges based on which systems you connect. Pricing is set at the franchisor level, not per-seat, which means you can roll out to as many of your franchisees as you like without paying more per user. Book a demo for a specific quote for your network.
QSR, food service, and boutique fitness at launch. Our architecture is vertical-agnostic, which means we can add new verticals (retail services, health and beauty, automotive) by configuring metrics and benchmarks rather than rebuilding the platform. If you run a different franchise category, talk to us.
FranchiseAI is a product of Accario, part of Axelo, a Melbourne-based holding company. Accario is an advisory firm that has worked with Australian franchisors for years. We're not a venture-backed startup looking for a quick exit; we're a serious operating business building for the long term.
No, and we never will. FranchiseAI only reads Xero data. Your franchisees' bookkeepers remain in control of their books. Our value is in analysis and insight, not automation of accounting. This is a deliberate product posture, not a limitation we plan to remove.

See what your network really looks like.

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll walk through a real customer deployment and show you exactly what FranchiseAI can tell you about your franchise.

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