Business Central is the system of record.
We are the system of answers.
Lens is the financial reporting and analytics layer for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: statements, margins, cash and trends, live from the ledger.
The demo runs on sample data. Culinary Ventures Group and its brands are invented; none is a Zfense Labs customer.
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Lens, for Business Central. Lens turns your ledger into answers. Live from Business Central, nothing rebuilt. How are my gross margins against the same month last year? Which unit is best, and which is worst? The numbers sit in Business Central. But getting them out is the hard part.
Nothing exported, nothing rebuilt. So we built Lens on top of that ledger. Income statement. Revenue. Cost. Balance sheet. Trends. Everything you'd assemble at month end, we calculate continuously.
Every axis, every period. Every view can be sliced. By brand, by location, by outlet. This year against last. Or month against month. The filters are already there. No Analysis Views, no pivot tables.
Ask it like a person. When a number looks off, open Investigate and ask, in plain English. It shows every step of the calculation, and explains why it's right.
Bring your own AI. Want Claude or ChatGPT in the loop? We ship an MCP server, so they reach the same semantic model that powers Investigate.
Who sees what. You sign in with Microsoft. Admins set access. A brand manager or a branch head sees only what their job needs. And we never write back to Business Central.
Running in production today. 2 days to close, down from two weeks. 8 business groups, around 125 outlets, one finance team. One group we work with used to close in two weeks. Now it's two days, and the time they got back goes right into decisions.
One question away from knowing. Book a 30-minute guided demo at zfenselabs.com. The guided demo runs on the Ember & Oud sandbox. Sign in with Microsoft, read-only, never writes to Business Central, unlimited users. That's Lens, by Zfense Labs. Give me half an hour, and I'll show you how it works in our sandbox.
Eight brands, one finance team, on Lens and Xtract
Your ledger by brand and outlet, every day. Not rebuilt in Excel at month end.
Posted in Business Central
- Revenue, COGS, and opex as GL dimension entries by brand
- Budget entries and actuals as separate ledger records
- Customer invoices in AR with due dates and settlement terms
- Brand P&L from revenue to EBITDA, for any period
- Actuals versus budget by brand or cost center, period on period
- Receivables by brand, with aging and expected settlement
Connect once, and every statement follows, by brand and outlet.
Connect once
Sign in with Microsoft and connect Business Central once. Lens reads the ledger and never writes back.
We map your chart of accounts to brands and outlets
Before go-live, we take the accounts and dimensions you already post to and turn them into views by brand, cost center and entity.
Drill from group to outlet to cost line
Start at the group, open a brand, then open an outlet. Compare any level with the last period or last year.
Answers come from the ledger, and each person sees only their part of it.
Investigate
Ask, in plain English, why margin dropped two points. Lens answers from the ledger and shows the rows behind every figure.
Claude and ChatGPT on the MCP server
Claude or ChatGPT connects through the MCP server and reads the same data under the same rules as the dashboard. It sees only what its user can see.
Access by brand, location and outlet
Grants follow the hierarchy the statements already use. A branch manager's view stops at the branch.
Five Thirty, on Lens and Xtract
Five Thirty, a Dubai restaurant group, has the month's statements two days after month end instead of two weeks, live for every brand and outlet. The same group runs Xtract, which codes each vendor invoice line to its location and cost center with nobody keying it in.
About Zfense Labs
We built Zfense Labs on one idea: an analytic result should carry its own proof. Lens applies it to the ledger, where every figure resolves to the rows that produced it.
About Zfense LabsRead-only, encrypted, audited
Encrypted in transit and at rest
Role-based access control
Every query logged with user and timestamp
Hosted on Azure
Microsoft AI Solutions Partner
We are a Microsoft AI Solutions Partner and build for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.