ZANUS BACK OFFICE — COMPARE

Four kinds of “AI for the office”.
One that runs the company.

A chat subscription answers from the internet. An assistant inside your office suite helps the person typing. An agent kit gives you parts. An AI add-on to your ERP knows the ERP. The Back Office is a different thing: an AI that works from your approved knowledge, does the work across mail, documents, records, orders and deadlines, verifies every answer and keeps your people in charge. No brand names here — only the questions to ask anyone.

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Every answer is verified against your approved sources — and the source is shown.

The left menu is the whole product. Compare it to a chat window.

Side by side

Ask any vendor	Public AI chat subscriptions	AI assistants inside office suites	Agent-building kits	AI add-ons to a suite or ERP	Zanus Back Office
What it answers from	The internet	Your files, when you point at them	Whatever you wire in	The suite’s own data	Your approved libraries, ranked by you
Source shown with every answer	—	partly	you build it	partly	✓
Says “not in our sources” and routes to a person	—	—	you build it	—	✓
Does the work (files, drafts, compares, runs) rather than suggesting	—	partly	you build it	partly	✓
Runs unattended on a schedule	—	partly	you build it	partly	✓
Automation with an AI step that reads and decides	—	partly	you build it	partly	✓
One approval page for everything produced (Output)	—	—	you build it	—	✓
Mail client, intake pipeline and document libraries inside	—	partly	you build it	partly	✓
Customers, suppliers, RFQ, orders, stock, shipments inside	—	—	you build it	partly	✓
Onboarding paths from your own procedures	—	—	you build it	—	✓
Org tree, permissions per domain, audit log of AI actions	—	partly	you build it	partly	✓
Custom apps and robots built to your process	—	—	you build it	—	✓
Choice of models; local models on an owned unit	—	—	partly	—	✓
Can move to a unit you own, license made permanent	—	—	—	—	✓
Who maintains it	The vendor	The vendor	You, or a consultant	The vendor	Zanus maintains the platform; you maintain your rules and approved knowledge
Set-up	Sign up	Enable	A project	A project	Done for you, live in days

“Partly” means the capability exists for some data or some steps; “you build it” means the kit allows it if you design, build and maintain it. Categories, not brands: the question is what the product does with your company’s knowledge and work.

The seven questions to ask before you buy any AI for the office

1. What does it answer from?

The internet, the suite, or the sources we approved and ranked? Can we see the passage?

2. What happens when it does not know?

Does it say so and route to a person, or does it produce something plausible?

3. Does it do the work, or advise the person doing it?

Who reads the mail, files the document, builds the comparison, runs the report at 06:00?

4. Where do results wait for approval?

One page, with preview and sources — or scattered across tools?

5. Can it see across the company?

Mail, documents, records, orders, calendar in one system — or one AI per silo?

6. Who governs it?

Permissions per domain, audit of what the AI did, sensitive fields by role — or a shared login?

7. Can we own it?

Can the same system move to a unit in our building with the license made permanent — or is it a subscription forever?

What the Back Office is, in one line each

Not a chatbot

Chat is one of eighteen chapters. The rest reads the mail, files the documents, runs the automations, compares the quotes, tracks the orders, trains the staff and keeps the records.

Not a copilot

A copilot helps the person typing. The Back Office does the work and hands the person the decision — on Output, with the sources.

Not an agent kit

Nothing to design, build or maintain. Our people configure it from your knowledge and it is live in days; Zanus maintains the platform.

What it is

The company AI operating system: one system in which everything the company receives is understood, worked, verified, decided and remembered — by an AI that has read your documents and follows your rules. Hosted, on a dedicated private environment, or on a unit you own.

The overview → · How verification works → · Own it →

The working system on day one: the dashboard of a company whose mail, documents, records and orders are one system.

Questions, answered

Why no brand names?

Because categories change slower than products, and the questions above apply to all of them. Ask them of anyone, including us — the demo is where we answer.

We already pay for an assistant inside our office suite.

Keep it if your people like it for writing. The Back Office does a different job: it works from your approved sources across the company and produces results for approval. Many customers run both.

Where are the prices?

On one page only: Back Office Pricing.

See it working on YOUR business — the demo IS the product.