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Why Tenka — and not one more off the shelf?

The question every buyer asks deserves an answer that is not a slogan. This page is the answer: who the competitors are, what they do well, where they stop — and what we prove on screen, not in speech.

The right question: native breadth or stitched breadth?

Everyone says they "have it all". The difference is HOW: suites built from acquisitions and community apps charge the price at integration time — each module with its own database, login and support. In Tenka, the 40+ modules are born on the same base: one database, one permission model, one audit trail. The number on your dashboard is the ledger's number — because it IS the ledger's.

The four kinds of competitor — and where each one stops

Respect for what they do well: they are mature products within their slices. The point is that each slice covers a third of the problem of those who sell work — and 3 tools + a spreadsheet is the patchwork you already know.

Service operations managementRunrun.it · Artia · Operand✓ Mature projects, kanban and time tracking; good experience for the delivery team.✗ Cost is simplistic (no payroll charges) and finance is shallow or absent — real margin per client lives in a side spreadsheet.
Finance and light ERPConta Azul · Omie · Bling · Nibo✓ Competent Brazilian finance: accounts, billing, reconciliation, product invoices.✗ They do not know what a worked hour is: without contract→hour→cost→margin, service sellers glue a project tool on the side.
FP&A and controllingTreasy · Accountfy · Cube · Mosaic✓ Sophisticated planning, consolidation and management reporting for the CFO.✗ They live off connectors: operations happen elsewhere, and true intercompany elimination — at posting time, not in the report — none of them does.
Textile and fashion ERPSystêxtil · Audaces · Linx✓ Shop-floor depth: spinning, knitting and apparel planning, color recipes, tech pack and nesting, and fashion retail with omnichannel POS.✗ The chain comes in pieces: each product covers one stretch (spinning to apparel, garment design or the store) and the link between them is an integration. Payroll, customer portal and an AI assistant do not appear in the published features.

What they do not have — and we prove on screen

Each pain below is real, has a name, and the screen next to it is how it ends. Not promising: showing.

Proven on screenWhile you were sleeping, collections were working.The pain: collecting is hard, awkward and postponed — and delinquency grows in silence. No competitor has a digital employee with defined authority, a cost cap and a public scoreboard, with every conversation auditable.See the screen and its documentation ›Proven on screenEvery number has a source.The pain: the dashboard says one number, the spreadsheet says another, and nobody knows where either came from. Here every total opens the list that formed it, and the list opens the document — even the Tenkai answer carries its source link.See the screen and its documentation ›Proven on screenForecasts that sign their name.The pain: every forecast is an act of faith — nobody publishes how much they missed. Tenka publishes it: forecast versus actuals, month by month, on screen. Whoever signs their own history can be held to it.See the screen and its documentation ›Proven on screenEach client's profitability, live.The pain: the client that looks good loses money, because hourly cost without payroll charges lies by ~40%. The x-ray crosses contract, logged hours and real cost per regime — and points at who to renegotiate.See the screen and its documentation ›

The comparison, line by line

Grouped by subject, against the six product families we compete with most. It includes the rows where we lose — a table where one side never loses is not a comparison.

CapabilitytenkaProductive · ScoroRunrun.it · Artia · MondayConta Azul · Omie · Bling · NiboTOTVS · Sankhya · OdooTreasy · Accountfy · CubeSystêxtil · Audaces · Linx
Sales
Opportunity pipeline with proposal and acceptance by link✓✓—partial✓——
Prospecting with ideal customer profile and cadence✓———partial——
Customer 360 on a single screen✓partial—partial✓—partial
Contracts and revenue
Contract with index-based adjustment and amendment✓partial—partial✓——
Hour bank with overage billed automatically✓✓——partial——
Electronic signature inside the contract flowpartial——partial✓——
Recurring billing with dunning schedule✓partial—✓✓——
Service delivery
Projects, requests and SLA✓✓✓—partial——
Timesheet with approval✓✓✓—partial——
Gantt with dependencies and critical path✓partial✓—✓——
Field work order with checklist✓——partial✓——
Money and Brazilian tax
Built-in payments (PIX, bank slip and card)✓——✓✓—partial
Bank reconciliation✓——✓✓—partial
Automatic bank connection (Open Finance)———✓partial——
Brazilian service e-invoice (NFS-e)✓——✓✓—partial
Brazilian goods e-invoice (NF-e)✓——✓✓—✓
Payroll and eSocialpartial——partial✓——
Margin and controllership
Real hourly cost, with charges by tax regime✓partialpartial—partial——
Margin by customer, contract and project✓✓——partialpartialpartial
Income statement and budget versus actual✓partial—partial✓✓partial
Multi-company consolidation with intercompany eliminationpartial———✓——
Scenario and simulation✓———partial✓—
Spreadsheet both ways (in and out)✓partialpartialpartial✓✓partial
Artificial intelligence
Assistant that answers with the source attached✓partialpartialpartial✓partial—
Agents with authority limits, caps and rollback✓—partial—✓partial—
Public scoreboard of agent error rate✓——————
Measured AI cost, with the customer's own key✓partialpartial—partial——
Investigate the cause of a number ("why did it go up?") step by step✓———partialpartial—
Governance and data
Enterprise login (SAML, SCIM, OAuth and passkey)✓partialpartial—✓——
Traceable numbers (every total opens its list)✓———partial——
Row-level isolation and values masked by role✓partialpartialpartial✓partialpartial
Full data export, with no exit lock-in✓partialpartialpartialpartialpartialpartial
Field-by-field audit trail✓partial—partial✓partialpartial
Textile chain and fashion retail
The whole textile chain, from the cotton gin to the store, in one system✓———partial—partial
Any piece traced back to the cotton bale✓———partial—partial
Store POS integrated with card machine, scale and cash drawerpartial——partialpartial—✓
Currency and hedging tied to the cotton contract✓———partial——
Tech pack with pattern nesting and cuttingpartial———partial—✓
Reach
Multi-currency, multi-language and multi-countrypartial✓✓—✓✓—
Customer portal under your own brand✓partial——✓—partial
API, webhooks and MCP server✓✓✓partial✓partialpartial
No-code for the customer to build their own automation✓—partial—✓——
Native mobile app in the stores—partial✓✓✓—partial

BMCode analysis, based on the features published on the vendors' websites (updated in Oct/2026, subject to change by the vendors). The names mentioned belong to their owners. Every item marked ✓ for Tenka is in production — our rule: sales material does not promise what does not exist.

And what we do not have yet

Transparency is also a differentiator, so here is the list: automatic bank connection (Open Finance) is built and tested, but the provider has not been contracted yet — in practice, reconciliation comes in by file today. eSocial transmission goes through the partner, not directly. Intercompany elimination happens in consolidation, not as a posted entry. Outside Brazil, the local invoice is still simulated. The POS does not talk to the card machine (TEF), the scale or the cash drawer yet, and the tech pack does not do pattern nesting. And we have no native app in the stores: what we have is an app installed from the browser that works offline and receives notifications. We prefer the stated gap to the empty promise — misleading advertising is what destroys trust in our market.
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