Harmonyze

Harmonyze provides an AI-first platform meticulously engineered for the franchise sector, a market forecasted to reach approximately $5 trillion globally by 2028. Founded in 2023 in New York City by childhood friends Gary Liskovich (CEO) and Jonny Greenspan (CTO), the company, formerly known as Legal Hat, aims to enhance the profitability and operational efficiency of franchise networks. The inspiration for the company stemmed from a personal connection to the industry, as Greenspan's father was a franchisee. The founders combine over a decade of experience in building AI products and leading teams at prominent companies like Deloitte and Salesforce, as well as at high-growth startups.

The company's core business revolves around a subscription-based model, with pricing contingent on the size of a franchisor's network. Harmonyze targets franchisors managing extensive networks, helping them to automate and centralize a wide array of tasks. The platform utilizes custom AI agents that operate within a secure, private cloud infrastructure to interpret the large volumes of unstructured data that flow through franchise systems. This enables the automation of operational and legal compliance, network-wide monitoring, and reporting. By doing so, it frees up franchisor teams from manual, compliance-focused work, allowing them to concentrate on strategic initiatives such as improving franchisee relationships and brand development. A significant milestone was achieved in August 2024, when Harmonyze secured over $2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Bowery Capital, with participation from Focal.VC and other individual investors.

Harmonyze offers two main products: a Coaching platform and a Contracts (beta) platform. The Coaching platform connects to a franchise's existing systems—such as POS, labor, and marketing—and uses machine learning to generate unit-specific action plans. It delivers clear, prioritized recommendations in plain language to franchise coaches and franchisees, focusing on strategies with the highest potential financial impact. The Contracts platform is designed to assist legal, operations, and compliance teams by scanning and flagging risks, inconsistencies, and compliance gaps within franchise agreements and operations manuals. Each client's deployment is isolated to ensure data privacy and security, with the system built in alignment with SOC 2 standards. For instance, The Picklr, a rapidly growing pickleball franchise, utilizes Harmonyze to automate over 200 compliance and legal tasks, which has increased their team's bandwidth by more than 10%.

Keywords: franchise management, AI platform, franchise operations, compliance automation, operational efficiency, franchise technology, legal compliance, AI agents, franchise reporting, business coaching, contract analysis, risk detection, franchise growth, network monitoring, data-driven recommendations, pre-seed funding, Gary Liskovich, Jonny Greenspan, Bowery Capital, franchise profitability