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About

Our team: three co-founders, three disciplines, and advisors who have done your job

Zylio was founded by three people covering three disciplines: general management, growth, and product together with the technology behind it. One of them comes from AWS. None comes from procurement: that expertise is brought by our customers and our advisors, and they are the ones who validate what we build.

Three disciplines

What each one holds, and why it takes three

Verifying every invoice means reading messy documents, convincing a finance department and holding up at scale. No single profile does all three.

General management carries the thesis in front of customers and partners. Growth covers sales, marketing, channel and finance: that is where the relationship with procurement and finance departments is built. Product turns what those departments ask for into screens and rules, and builds the agent platform that reads, compares and proves.

We come from data, enterprise SaaS and artificial intelligence deployed at scale, not from procurement. We own that: we learn the trade from the teams who open their contracts and invoices to us. It is also why we would rather be verified on documents than believed on our word.

The observation and the thesis, on the About page

Why sample-based control no longer has any justification.

How we work

A team that works on real documents

  • At the customer’s side

    Our engineers do not work on clean datasets. They see forty-line invoices, stapled batches, contracts whose indexation clause points to an index that no longer exists.

  • One flow at a time

    We do not launch eighteen-month programmes. We take one flow, make it work on real data, measure it, then move to the next.

  • Proof before promise

    The product shows the source of every claim it makes. We apply the same rule to ourselves: a team decision is justified by a measurement, not by a hunch.

The people behind us

Advisors chosen for what they have done, not for their names

One criterion alone governed their choice: each has held, in a position of responsibility, the job we sell to or the scale-up we are preparing for. Nizar El Adnani, CIO at AXA Group Operations, tells us when a product will win over a finance department, and on what condition the CIO’s office will say yes. Ilan Benhaim, co-founder of Veepee, tells us when a commercial mechanism will hold at European scale.

Véronique Beaumont sold change to executive committees for twenty years; she arbitrates what gets through them and what does not. Maurice Lévy tells us how a decision is prepared inside a large group, long before it reaches the committee. Both are linked to L’Escalator, the incubator that supports Zylio: she is its COO, he founded it. We say so, because it matters when judging their independence.

What the profession says

A team recognised by the people it sells to

We do not ask to be taken on trust, and we would rather the procurement and finance community speak for us. Challenges named Zylio startup of the year 2026. DAF Night 2026 ranked us first in the Cash, Capital & Efficiency category. The Trophées des achats 2026 awarded us the silver medal for innovative suppliers. Maddyness selected us as a 2026 FundTruck finalist, and Réseau Entreprendre 92 made us a laureate. The Conseil National des Achats, La French Tech Grand Paris and Republik / Hub Achats support us.

Awards, media kit and official boilerplate

The newsroom gathers the verifiable facts about the company.

We’re hiring

Joining the team

We hire experts in engineering, product, procurement and finance, at the pace of customer projects. There is no list of open roles. The people who succeed here have one thing in common: they go looking for the edge case rather than setting it aside. The procurement trade can be learned; curiosity for a problem other people find boring cannot. If the problem interests you, write to us: we answer everyone.

How we work and who we are looking for

The Careers page describes our methods and the forward deployed engineer role.

  • Tarik Aitakkaouali, Co-founder and CEO

    Tarik Aitakkaouali

    Co-founder and CEO

    More than twenty years in enterprise SaaS. Led the French teams of LivePerson (NASDAQ) and Yext (NYSE). Runs the company.

    LinkedIn
  • Bertrand Dumast, Co-founder and CRO, Chief Revenue Officer

    Bertrand Dumast

    Co-founder and CRO, Chief Revenue Officer

    Fifteen years in tech and retail, seven of them at AWS as a Strategic Account Executive on strategic and financial-services accounts, in complex enterprise B2B. Covers sales, marketing, channel and finance.

    LinkedIn
  • Younes Samir, Co-founder and CPO, Chief Product Officer

    Younes Samir

    Co-founder and CPO, Chief Product Officer

    A serial product leader, previously at Duyo and Walgreens, with deep retail and e-commerce experience. Owns the product.

    LinkedIn

Nothing is lost. Everything can be checked, everything can be proven.

  • The contract clause and the invoice line, highlighted side by side.
  • Every extracted value stays linked to the exact place in the document where it was read.
  • The same case produces the same decision, today as in six months: the rules are applied deterministically.
  • No discrepancy is set aside in silence. Anything that matches no rule is raised, with its reason.
  • The agent records what it did, in the order it did it: who, what, how much, when.

Frequently asked questions

Who founded Zylio?

Three co-founders: Tarik Aitakkaouali, CEO; Bertrand Dumast, CRO; Younes Samir, CPO. Their backgrounds are presented below, with their LinkedIn profiles. The company was founded in 2024 and is based in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris.

Are there buyers on the team?

Not among the founders, and we do not hide it. The trade comes from our customers, who open their documents to us, and from our advisors. They are the ones who validate what we build.

Who will I talk to if I ask for a demo?

Someone who has already read framework contracts and invoices from your industry, never a salesperson alone. You describe your scope; we tell you what exhaustive control would find in it, on a concrete case, with agents and evidence on screen.

Are you hiring, and for which profiles?

Yes, in engineering, product and the procurement and finance trades, with no published list of roles. The most characteristic role is the forward deployed engineer, who builds the agents on real documents at the customer’s side. Write to us from the Careers page.

Measurable impact in every environment

More than 5 million procurement documents analysed

Between 1 and 7% of margin recovered

on the scope analysed

From 15 to 45% of time given back to teams, per FTE

depending on the scope and on data maturity

Zylio fits into your existing ecosystem.

The ERP runs the process. Zylio handles the exception and recovers the value that escapes it: invoices without a purchase order, line-by-line price discrepancies, duplicates and overbilling, off-contract spend.

  • SAP
  • Sage
  • Oracle
  • NetSuite
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Pennylane
All integrations

Your data under high security.

Zylio meets the most demanding standards, and nothing is committed without your approval.

Certifications
SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001
Hosting
Hosted in France
Encryption
End-to-end AES-256 encryption
Access
Enterprise SSO · multi-factor authentication · Zero Trust approach
Security and compliance

See what this looks like on your own data

Twenty minutes, on a spend category of your choosing. We show you what the agents detect, with the evidence behind it.

  • No commitment, on your own data
  • Result in 3 weeks
  • 20 minutes, no sales pitch
  • Your data stays hosted in France
  • No change of tool or process