About
Our values: five principles that decide what Zylio builds, and what it refuses to build
Zylio has five values: transparency, reliability, accountability, accessibility and conviction. None of them is decorative. Each translates into a choice you can see in the product (the evidence shown next to every discrepancy, no hidden calculation, no decision taken on your behalf) and into one of the five refusals we have made public.
Where they come from
Values born from what our customers refused
A procurement department does not hand its contracts to a black box. Our values answer that distrust first, and we find it entirely reasonable.
What a procurement department is worth is its supplier relationships and its credibility in front of finance. The artificial intelligence it is offered often asks for the opposite: let go of control, take a savings promise on faith, let a tool decide. The teams we meet refuse that bargain, and they are right to. Our values describe what a controller, a buyer or a finance director is entitled to demand from an agent that reads their invoices. The full story, the observation, the thesis, the team, lives on the About page.
The observation, the thesis and the team, on the About page.
The five values
What each value means, and what it forbids
Five words, each tied to a concrete consequence. A value that forbids nothing is just a slogan.
Transparency
We show everything: every calculation, every source, every discrepancy. The contract clause and the invoice line appear side by side. Consequence: Zylio hides no calculation.
Reliability
We prove before we promise. A figure always comes with its scope, and the best way to judge us is a diagnostic on your own data. Consequence: Zylio promises no automatic savings.
Accountability
We decide nothing, but we answer for everything: each finding is sourced, traced and defensible. Consequence: Zylio never decides for you and never touches a payment without your approval.
Accessibility
We absorb the complexity so that the result reads as clearly in accounts payable as in the boardroom. Consequence: Zylio asks you to change nothing about your tools or your processes.
Conviction
Full coverage is achievable, and it gives back time, margin and the freedom to decide. We hold that position without arrogance: it is verified on your documents, not in a pitch.
In the product
How these values read on screen
Transparency is not an intention: it is a screen. When an agent flags an off-schedule price, it displays the invoiced line and the contract clause that contradicts it, highlighted next to each other. Every extracted value stays linked to the exact place in the document where it was read.
Reliability shows in consistency: the same case produces the same decision, today and in six months. Accountability shows in the log: the agent records what it did, who, what, how much, when. And nothing is dismissed in silence: whatever matches no rule is raised, with its reason.
Capture, Compare, Compliance, Matching, Exception, Graph, Insight: what each one reads and shows.
The manifesto
Five refusals that follow from them
A company is defined as much by what it refuses. Zylio never decides for you. Zylio never touches a payment or a supplier relationship without your approval. Zylio promises no automatic savings. Zylio hides no calculation. Zylio asks you to change nothing about your tools. These refusals explain most of our product choices, including the ones that cost us: no write access to your ERP, no supplier contacted, no model trained on your data.
Zylio does the groundwork. You make the call.
A 3-week diagnostic on your own documents, billed on success.
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
Why five values, and not the five words of the old page?
Because a value has to forbid something. “Excellence” or “innovation” commit you to nothing. Transparency, reliability, accountability, accessibility and conviction each have a verifiable consequence in the product, and a public refusal that matches it.
Does transparency mean I can see the AI’s reasoning?
Yes, in a useful form: for each discrepancy, the document line and the rule it breaks, side by side, with a link to the page of the original PDF. You are not reading a model; you are checking a piece of evidence, exactly as a controller would.
What happens when an agent is not sure?
It does not decide. Whatever matches no rule is raised as an exception, with its reason and the source document. A human decides. No discrepancy is filed away in silence, and no tolerance is applied unless you defined it.
Do these values also apply to my data?
They start there. Your documents are hosted in France, never used to train a model, never shared between customers. Every analysis is visible, sourced, time-stamped and exportable: that is the audit trail described on the Security and compliance 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.
Your data under high security.
Zylio meets the most demanding standards, and nothing is committed without your approval.
- Certifications
- Hosting
- Encryption
- Access
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