FRONT OFFICE AI FOR MEDIA — THE COMPARISON

Compare us to anything a media company is offered.

Media companies are sold one of two models: advertising-sales and subscriber software your sellers and your audience desk operate, or AI agents you assemble and configure per channel and per line. No logos needed, because the same packaging habits dominate the market. Front Office was built on three different principles — and every answer to an advertiser or a subscriber comes from your approved information only; anything editorial goes to a person.

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REAL AI - the whole Front Office is AI, not old software with an AI button. Give it your website: it learns your company, works from your approved knowledge and gets better with every answer you approve.

Live on this site right now — the assistant in the corner is the product · Award-winning AI — CES · ISE · TMCnet

Zanus Front Office dashboard — the AI at work

One dashboard doing the jobs the others only track.

Three habits of the market — three different principles here

1 · Pricing scales per seat

Across most of the market, every hire raises the software bill — the price follows your headcount, not the work getting done.

2 · The AI is often metered on top

Credits, "AI actions", per-conversation fees, usage tiers. On many platforms the AI arrives as a second bill on top of the seats.

3 · Most AI was built to assist teams

Enrich, draft, score, summarize, coach — designed to make YOUR people faster. Newer autonomous agents go further, but are typically configured per channel and priced per usage.

Front Office was designed from the start on three different principles: one integrated product, priced by plan — not by seat-math · the AI performs complete front-office workflows, not only assists them · every answer grounded in your approved knowledge, with Protection capping the spend.

The scoreboard: how each model delivers the job

Thirteen media company jobs, three delivery models. The difference isn’t whether a capability exists somewhere — it’s what you must assemble, license and operate to get it. Descriptions reflect typical published product models, Aug 2026.

The job	Traditional CRM model	Agent & copilot platforms	Zanus Front Office
Answer the sales line and the audience line 24/7	Your sellers and desk answer, with a CRM, a call center and a phone system	Configure a voice agent, channels and usage separately	✓ Built in — both lines, your media kit and help pages, 40 languages, 6 AM and 10 PM included
Send the media kit	A PDF a seller attaches on Monday	An agent you train and maintain per channel	✓ Sent in the conversation, or presented as an interactive media kit the advertiser can question
Quote the rate	Improvised from memory, or a configure-price-quote module your sellers operate	Agent invokes pricing processes you configure	✓ Native: from your approved rate card and packages, tracked, one-click acceptance, polite follow-up
Work the “advertise with us” form	Routed to a seller’s queue by workflow rules	Enriched and scored, then handed to a seller	✓ Answered in minutes: market, budget and timing confirmed, media kit sent, sales call booked
Take the pause, the delivery miss and the login problem	A call center that closes at 6 PM; voicemail until morning	Support agents and a chatbot configured separately, per channel	✓ Filed complete, phone and chat, 24/7 — the login walked through from your help pages, the delivery miss routed to circulation
Book the guest and the sales call	An email chain; the studio never confirmed	Agent invokes calendar actions you connect	✓ Booked inside the conversation — right seller, right studio, reminders sent, producer alerted on a cancellation
Chase the proposal and renew the flight	Templates your sellers remember to send	AI drafts; sending policies vary	✓ Sequences you approve — day 1, 3 and 7, renewal opened before the flight ends, stopped when the agency replies
Win back the paused subscriber	A churn dashboard someone should read	Scored and handed to a person	✓ Renewal and win-back sequences with only the offers you approved in writing; a reply hands over to a person
Map the agency, the brand and the holding company	Fields your sellers fill and maintain	Inferred from calls your team recorded	✓ Auto-mapped from the AI’s own conversations; the agency going quiet flagged before commit season
Brief the sales manager and the audience lead	Dashboards you open and read	A to-do list for your sellers	✓ A did-it-for-you list: overnight inquiries, proposals opened, requests filed, the three agencies needing a call
Keep tips, corrections and political orders with people	Depends on who picks up the general line	Best effort, disclaimers apply	✓ Your rules: tips to the newsroom, corrections to the editor, political advertisers to your political sales contact, every time
Call your advertisers and subscribers before they call you	Reminder calls made by staff when there is time; otherwise a text	Build an outbound flow, connect telephony, meter the minutes	✓ Auto-Call: an event, a funnel or a list triggers the call; the AI announces or converses, on your rules — Hi Gary, this is WKLM Radio: your spot schedule for next week is confirmed and the affidavit is in your inbox.
The bill	Per seat; grows with every seller and desk hire	Per seat and/or per usage: credits, actions, conversations	✓ One plan, chosen by outcome — your advertisers and subscribers are never counted or charged

Already running a big CRM suite? Read the story: the old way vs the AI way — keep the CRM, add the AI Front Office → And the chat below will compare us to any product you name, from its published pages.

Comparing something specific? Ask the Zanus AI below — it compares us to any vendor you name, point by point, from their published pages. Our plans are public: see pricing → Then do your own math →

The one question that cuts through every comparison: after you pay, who answers the advertiser and serves the subscriber? With Front Office the answer is: the AI does — from your approved information — and your sellers take the handshake, your newsroom every tip and correction.

Questions, answered

Why don’t you name the other products?

Because the comparison is about the model, not the logo. Software your sellers and your audience desk operate plus metered AI is the norm across the market; naming brands adds nothing. If you are evaluating a specific product, ask the chat — it compares us to any vendor you name, point by point, from their published pages.

Is this comparison fair to media software vendors?

Every description of other models comes from typical published product pages, read August 2026, and describes what a media company must assemble, license and operate to get the job done — a sales suite, a subscription platform, a contact center, agents per channel. Where a vendor differs, the chat will show you.

Do we have to replace our traffic, ad-server or subscription system?

No. Your traffic and order system, your ad server and your subscription and billing platform stay the record; the Front Office is the system of work in front of them. Calendars and a general CRM sync natively; webhooks, a read-only API and an MCP server feed what you authorize. The AI files the subscriber request — it does not change billing on its own.

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