AXIONARI
Pre-Seed · 2026

Every guest
remembered.

Axionari turns customer conversations into persistent memory that understands, acts, and learns.

Pre-Seed · Raising $275K
SAFE · YC post-money
01 · The problem

Businesses record transactions.
They lose conversations.

They know — what happened.
POS
Reservations
CRM
PMS
Payments
They lose — why.
Preferences · Intent · Requests · Friction · Opportunities
“It’s our anniversary.”
“We loved the room last time.”
“Do you have somewhere quieter?”
The richest customer data disappears the moment the conversation ends.
02 · The insight

What if every conversation made the business smarter?

ListenConversation enters.
UnderstandWho · context · intent.
ActRecommends · reserves · orders.
LearnThe outcome returns.
Axionari intelligence
Memory compounds
This is not conversational AI. Every interaction improves the next one. The same models are available to everyone — accumulated memory is not.
03 The wedge · Restaurant Companion

Start with restaurants. Just say what you want.

“Dinner for four. Nothing too heavy. One vegetarian. And somewhere outside around 8.”

4 guestsLight dinner1 vegetarianOutdoor8 PM
Recommendation ✓Reservation ✓

Restaurant Companion is the wedge. What compounds is the company.

Guest journey
Discover · Book · Arrive · Stay · Depart · Return
L1
Guest-facing
Booking · Messaging · Digital key · Loyalty
L2
Systems of record
PMS · POS · CRS · CRM · Payments
L3–4
Axionari
Guest memory · Intent · Coordination · Revenue
L6
Restaurant Companion · live UI
See it work

Watch a Companion host a guest.

One conversation, start to finish — recorded from the real interface.

Every surface

One conversation. Every screen in the guest’s world.

One system, both venues — Restaurant Companion live today, Hotel Companion on the same memory layer.

MARAZUL.COM/BOOK 0% COMMISSION
Ocean-View Suite
$250 · night — $71 less than the OTA
Private terrace · 2 nights left in March
Book direct
LAPTOP & WEB · BOOKS BEFORE THEY ARRIVE
MARAZUL
Best cenote near here?
Cenote Oxman
Rope swing · glass-clear blue
Book a taxi Directions
LISTENING — JUST KEEP TALKING
IN-ROOM TABLET · THE ANSWER IS A PICTURE
MARAZUL
Best spot for sunset cocktails?
IN TOWN · GOLDEN HOUR 6:48
Cielo Rooftop
a mezcal list the hotel bar can’t match
Leave by 6:15 for the light — back in time for your 8:00 table.
Taxi at 6:15 More spots
Ask anything… ↑
SMARTPHONE · CONCIERGE THAT BOOKS
20 min
SPA IXCHEL
WATCH
GOOD AFTERNOON · SUITE 214
Welcome, Maya
Your terrace faces the sunset · golden hour 6:48
IN-ROOM DISPLAY · GREETS ON ARRIVAL
VOICE ONLY · DESCRIBED ALOUD

Five screens. One memory. She never repeated herself once.

Hospitality remembers.
The software doesn’t.

03B The operating layer

The guest experience creates the signal. The operating layer turns it into accountable action.

Restaurant Companion is the customer-facing wedge. Axionari turns permitted guest context into operator-approved actions and measurable outcomes.

01 · GUEST SURFACECONSENTED SIGNALS
“Terrace if possible. One vegetarian.”
Perfect. I have taken that into account.
TERRACEVEGETARIAN8 PM

A restaurant-branded Companion makes the conversation useful without asking the guest for an account or an extra flow.

02 · IDENTITY LAYERCONTINUITY
AX
ANONYMOUS→KNOWN→VERIFIED

Context is strengthened only when the guest gives it naturally.

PERMISSIONED · CONFIDENCE-BASED · SAFE MATCHING
03 · OPERATOR COMMAND CENTERPILOT-READY
WHAT CHANGEDREVIEW

An opportunity is detected. The operator sees the evidence before it acts.

PROPOSED ACTION

Test a contextual pairing for eligible orders.

REQUIRES APPROVAL
CONTROL / TREATMENT · REVERSIBLE
BUILT TODAYIdentity, operator workspace and the first foundation for measurable actions.
PILOT MILESTONEComplete one controlled experiment and convert evidence into multi-location expansion.
04 Why now

This wasn’t possible three years ago.

Four technologies crossed the threshold.

01ConversationNatural voice interfaces now work.
02ReasoningModels can understand context and intent.
03ActionAI can interact with operational systems.
04MemoryEvery interaction can become persistent intelligence.

Conversation is becoming an interface to the physical world.

05 · The platform

One memory layer.
Multiple Companions.

Restaurant Companion is the initial product. Hotel Companion follows on the same identity, governance and learning layer.

The platformCompanion OS
Conversation intelligenceIdentity & persistent contextGoverned business knowledgeStaff-approved actionsOutcome learning
● Now
Restaurants
Restaurant Companion, in production
◐ Next
Hotels
Hotel Companion, on the same memory layer
→ Later
Resorts · Cruises · Clubs
The same layer, new venues
◇ Horizon
Every enterprise
A live model of its own reality
We are not launching multiple products at once. Restaurant Companion proves the layer. The platform expands from there.

The seat is empty. We already have the relationships.

06 Competitive landscape

Most hospitality software records an interaction. Axionari links interaction, approved action and outcome.

Memory and coordination AXIONARI Conversational automation Slang AI · ConverseNow · Kea HiJiffy · Asksuite · Quicktext Transactions and workflows Toast · Olo · OpenTable Parrot ° · Fudo ° · Cluvi ° · Hostie ° Mews · Cloudbeds · Canary CRM and guest data Revinate SevenRooms — acquired by DoorDash, 2025 Operations Actabl · ALICE Restaurant Hotel One owner
Axionari does this Axionari acts through — does not replace ° Latin America–native
Not hospitality-specific, benchmarked but not plotted: PolyAI · SoundHound. Layer model and placement from Axionari's competitive review, August 2026. SevenRooms acquired by DoorDash, ~$1.2B, May 2025. Slang AI raised a $36M Series B in February 2026. ALICE is Actabl's operations platform. Named players are the funded companies we track, not an exhaustive census.
07 Go-to-market

Land. Prove. Expand.

LAND — nowRestaurant groups. One operational wedge.
PROVEGuest adoption. Repeat usage. Word of mouth.
EXPANDMore locations. More workflows. More verticals.
1 location → group → portfolio → platform Annual SaaS — per location → multi-location → enterprise.

Entry runs through existing executive relationships with restaurant and hotel groups — conversations today, not contracts. Detail in the appendix.

Access gets us in the room. Product quality earns the pilot.

The team

Operators with access. Engineering with depth.

Operators who open the doors — with the systems, capital and engineering to deliver behind them.

Eduardo Vertiz
Eduardo Vertiz
Founder & CEO
Mexico City
DreamWorksAdForce2Can MediaAdSmartNetFuerzaWinfire & Octive TechnologyHavasPlataforma TVGlobal Entertainment Awards
Strategy · Enterprise sales · Product
Omar Rosario
Omar Rosario
Co-Founder · Enterprise Strategy & Business Development
Miami
The OlympicsThe OscarsSuper BowlWorld Cup 2026
Enterprise partnerships · Luxury experiences · Live events
Luis Sierra
Luis Sierra
Founding Partner · Capital & AI Systems
New York
Salomon Smith BarneyDominion CapitalManova CapitalRPI
Capital markets · AI systems · Secure deployment
Yadir Sánchez
Yadir Sánchez
Founding Partner · Data & Capital
Mexico City
InmersdataMaven7Sensei SoftwareBANSEFI
Data governance · BI · Machine learning · Knowledge systems
Andrés Dapena
Andrés Dapena
AI Engineering & Platform Architecture
Medellín
Smart SolutionsMinTICRedValleyU. de Envigado
Production AI · MLOps · Cybersecurity · Cloud
Juan Pablo Rojas
Juan Pablo Rojas
Founding Partner · Projects & Partnerships
Medellín
Banco ItaúExpoCryptoInversiones Laje
Financial strategy · Partnerships · Blockchain/Web3
Selected experience across the founding team
GoogleCoca-ColaNetflixMetaDreamWorksAdForceNFLFIFAThe OscarsNBAAdSmartLatin GrammysAB InBevSony MusicNetFuerzaNational GeographicHavasAlcaldía de MedellínNCAAMTVWinfireOctive TechnologyMinTICDiscoveryStarzPlayNissanCMGiCámara de Comercio de MedellínSummitArt With Me2Can Media
08 The round
$275K
To turn a working product into commercial proof.
TODAYRestaurant Companion MVP
THE MILESTONECommercial proof
NEXT ROUNDSeed · Scale
ShipRestaurant Companion ready for founding-partner deployment
BaselineConsented identity and operational baseline
TestOne controlled, reversible action
ProveConvert evidence into paid multi-location expansion
RepeatRepeatable commercial demand
Next-round milestone
A founding-partner deployment. A consented baseline. One controlled action. Evidence strong enough to expand.
Raising $275K · Pre-Seed · SAFE — terms and use of funds in 10.
09 Financial projections

The gap closes every quarter.

Internal Year-1 projection on real Founding Partner pricing — 4 partners in Mexico, 1 in the U.S. Fixed burn, compounding revenue.

$5K $10K $15K Monthly burn — flat at $22,917 Break-even ~month 15 $1,944 $6,743 $13,887 MRR Gap · $20.6K/mo Gap · $6.9K/mo Q1 · M3 Q2 · M6 Q3 · M9 Q4 · M12 Locations 1 8 27 53
Monthly recurring revenue Monthly burn Operating loss
$166,644
Exit ARR, month 12
67%
Of monthly burn covered by MRR, month 12
53
Active locations, month 12
Internal pro-forma on published Founding Partner pricing. Assumes 4 MX partners + 1 U.S., zero Hotel Companion revenue, implementation excluded (creditable), flat $22,917/mo burn. Curve plotted on quarterly exit MRR; intra-quarter points interpolated. Break-even is projected. Modeled, not achieved. For discussion purposes only — not an offer to sell securities.
10 Terms & use of funds

$275,000 · SAFE, pre-seed. Milestones in 08 · The round.

Use of funds
Team — founders and engineering
$150,000
55%
Payroll burden, benefits, fractional CFO
$63,200
23%
Tools, platforms and infrastructure
$22,000
8%
Legal, accounting, payroll and third-party services
$28,000
10%
Travel and commercial meetings
$5,800
2%
Compute infrastructure for local AI inference
$6,000
2%
Average burn $22,917/mo. $275,000 fully allocated. No office. Mexican payroll includes IMSS, housing fund and state payroll tax.
InstrumentSAFE · YC post-money
Target$275,000
Valuation cap$6,000,000 post
DiscountNone
Dilution4.58%
IssuerAxionari · Delaware C-Corp (in formation)
CloseRolling, single cap

Every conversation should make the business smarter.

Every business has systems of record. Axionari is building the system that remembers what those systems never could.

Every guest remembered. Every opportunity understood. Every interaction learned from.

Eduardo Vertiz
Founder & Chief Executive · Axionari
AXIONARI
APPENDIX

The investor argument ends here. What follows is diligence material — structure, architecture, pricing, market, pipeline and team in detail.

APPENDIX ACorporate structure

One entity governs capital. Two initial markets, with two execution paths.

HoldingAxionari, Inc. · Delaware C-Corp — issues equity, holds funds, owns the IP
Operations · USDirect under Axionari, Inc. — US contracting and billing
Operations · MexicoMexican subsidiary — hiring, billing, deployment
Cap tableClean — no offshore, no trusts, no operating-level minorities
ReportingMonthly financials · quarterly investor letter · fractional CFO from month 1
Why it matters
Nothing needs to be unwound at an acquisition or institutional round. Simplicity is a control mechanism — and a signal to whoever invests first.
APPENDIX B · Identity, governance & architecture

We built the governed orchestration layer.

Human conversation
AXIONARI
UNDERSTAND → REMEMBER
PROPOSE → APPROVE → LEARN
Orders
Reservations
CRM
Operations
Axionari owns the orchestration layer, not the models inside it. Providers change. The guest memory, governance and business logic do not reset.
APPENDIX CEconomics — Founding Partner Program

Recurring subscription per location, priced in market today.

Published founding-partner pricing, live today. All economics below are modeled — Axionari is pre-revenue.
Founding Partner ProgramMexicoUnited States
Implementation
One-time · creditable against expansion
MXN 55,000$5,000
90-day pilot
One location · unlimited voice
MXN 3,500 / mo$299 / mo
Subscription · singleMXN 4,900 / mo$399 / mo
Subscription · per location, 3+MXN 4,500 / mo$349 / mo
Voice
1,500 minutes included, then
MXN 4.50 / min$0.25 / min
Public reference rate ~2×. Founding partners trade the discount for reference rights and two referrals.
01
Group is the account, not the venue.
02
Implementation credits back.
03
Fixed for 24 months.
Modeled · one multi-brand restaurant group, stated volumes
7.2×
Year-one ROI
1.7 mo
Payback
~1
Break-even order
per location per day
Modeled, not achieved — at a 20% menu markup, 4.4×. Internal pilot-economics model.
APPENDIX DMarket context

The category just spent $712.6 million — and skipped the layer it says it needs.

Where the money went · last 12 months
Property management systems
$408.1M
AI-led guest experience
$152.6M
Tech-enabled operators
$151.9M
Latin American operating layers
$0
"Unify your guest data in one place before doing anything else."
David Mezuman · CEO, Duve · Forbes, 2026
"Most hoteliers are trapped in silos, each system hoarding its own partial truth."
Tata Crocombe · hotel owner · via PhocusWire
"Managers are spending hours fighting with technology instead of doing what they love — serving guests."
Nicola Longfield · Access Hospitality · Hospitality Net
Abode Worldwide Hospitality Tech Investment Index 2026 — three categories of 40 companies, Apr 2025–Mar 2026
Adjacent · restaurant labor productivity
+15%
U.S. restaurant labor productivity, after nearly 30 years of stagnation — accelerated by pandemic-forced automation.
Goolsbee, Syverson, Goldgof & Tatarka (academic study); cited in The Economist, 30 Jul 2026.
APPENDIX ECategory timing — the market

The next interface isn't a screen. It's a voice.

$47.5B
Voice-AI agent market by 2034 — from $2.4B today, compounding 34.8% a year.
40%
of enterprise apps embed task-specific AI agents by end of 2026 — from under 5% in 2025.
Market.us · Gartner, 2025
IdleListeningThinkingSpeaking

Axionari is AI-native — voice-first, memory-first. Built for the interface that's arriving, not bolted onto the last one.

APPENDIX FPipeline & access — conversations, not contracts
242
Eleven first-target groups. Warm executive relationships — not cold leads. Four already engaged; the network runs deeper still.
$0 Subscription revenue to date. No free pilots — every deployment is paid.
Eureka Restaurant Group Restaurants · US
37
Grupo Carolo Restaurants · Mexico
22
Cinbersol Restaurants · Mexico
50
Grupo Hunan Restaurants · Mexico
30
Fishers Restaurants · Mexico
25
Namron Hospitality Boutique hotels · Mexico
18
Grupo Pangea Restaurants · Mexico
16
Archipiélago Restaurants · Mexico
15
Grupo Habita Design hotels · Mexico
15
Walther Meyenberg Restaurants · Mexico
10
Ahau Collection Resorts · Mexico
4
205 restaurants · 37 hotels · ● four engaged, seven in close relationship
From executive conversations
"You can't beat Uber or DoorDash at their own game — but own the guest relationship, and the margin comes back to us."
Guillermo Mascareñas · CIO, Grupo Carolo · 19 Jun 2026
"Could you build a demo like Blanco Castelar's — but for Eureka? That's our big business."
Guillermo Mascareñas · CIO, Grupo Carolo · 19 Jun 2026
Pipeline · August 2026 — executive conversations, not signed contracts. Engaged first: Eureka Restaurant Group, Grupo Carolo, Grupo Habita, Ahau Collection — with a far deeper network behind them.
APPENDIX GFull team biographies
Eduardo Vertiz Founder & CEO Mexico City

Founder of Axionari and creator of its vision for organizational intelligence. 25+ years building companies, leading complex operations and strategic partnerships across hospitality, technology and entertainment. Leads corporate strategy, product direction and platform evolution.

Omar Rosario Co-Founder · Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Miami

Entrepreneur and enterprise operator with 20+ years across hospitality, luxury experiences and the world's largest live events and brands. Leads enterprise partnerships, strategic growth and international business development.

Luis Sierra Founding Partner · Capital & AI Systems New York

25+ years in financial services and enterprise technology, at the intersection of markets, systems design and capital. RPI engineer (BS/MS, with distinction) and founder of Manova Capital. At Axionari, leads implementation strategy and AI integration for secure deployment.

Yadir Sánchez Founding Partner · Data & Capital Mexico City

20+ years spanning technology consulting, enterprise software and knowledge management. A leader in big data, business intelligence and machine learning. Focuses on strategic partnerships and capital formation.

Andrés Dapena AI Engineering & Platform Architecture Medellín

Software architect with 18+ years and a master's in computer security, and a university professor of ethical hacking and forensics. Ships production AI on Python and FastAPI — LLM reasoning wired into WhatsApp and the systems a business already runs — and has led mission-critical platforms end to end.

Juan Pablo Rojas Founding Partner · Projects & Partnerships Medellín

5+ years across finance, technology and commercial roles — administering liquidity-risk systems and directing nationwide credit agreements at Banco Itaú's employee fund, then leading commercial strategy at a blockchain venture. Business administrator (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana) with Scrum and blockchain/Web3 training; at Axionari leads projects and partnerships.