Chord Expands into Enterprise AI With Zenlytic Acquisition, Adding Verizon, J.Crew, Domino's, and Stanley Black & Decker as Customers

NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Chord, the AI native data platform for commerce, announced its acquisition of Zenlytic, an AI-powered business intelligence platform, doubling its revenue and adding a customer portfolio that includes Verizon, J.Crew, Domino's, and Stanley Black & Decker.

The acquisition accelerates Chord's expansion beyond commerce brands to address a growing challenge in enterprise businesses: giving agents access to data is easier than ensuring they understand the business. As definitions, metrics, and financial goals change, Chord keeps that context current, enforces permissions, and gives companies oversight of the answers their agents produce as AI scales across teams.

This was a strategic acquisition as Chord and Zenlytic went to market to solve the same problem: making AI reliable on company data. Chord built an end-to-end context layer for commerce brands, while Zenlytic developed an approach that works across industries on existing enterprise data warehouses. Bringing Zenlytic's technology and key team members into Chord accelerates that shared mission, helping more companies adopt and scale AI across the organization.

As AI becomes central to how enterprises and brands operate, companies need a reliable way to move from individual experiments to agents that work across the business. Without shared definitions and controls, teams can receive conflicting answers from the same data, spend time verifying results, and struggle to turn AI adoption into measurable business value.

"As enterprises and commerce brands make AI core to their operations, they're facing a critical decision about who controls the data and knowledge that make their businesses unique," said Bryan Mahoney, co-founder and CEO of Chord. "We saw what happened in commerce when brands became dependent on Facebook and Google to reach their own customers. Now, as OpenAI and Anthropic become central to how businesses use AI, there's a risk of repeating that same dependency with enterprise data and intelligence. Companies shouldn't have to hand over control of their most valuable business context to benefit from AI. Bringing Zenlytic into Chord gives them the infrastructure to own that context, keep it current, and use it across whichever AI models they choose."

Chord addresses this data challenge by giving teams and agents a shared, governed understanding of the business that stays current as it changes. This foundation helps companies expand AI across functions while retaining control of their data and the flexibility to adopt new models as the technology evolves.

"We built Zenlytic to help enterprises get answers they can trust from their own data, with a developer-first approach to keeping business context accurate," said Ryan Janssen, CEO at Zenlytic. "Joining Chord allows us to build on that work, combining our analytics engine with their data infrastructure and activation capabilities so customers can move from asking questions to acting on the answers."

About Chord

Chord is the analytics harness between AI and company data, helping enterprises across industries scale AI with answers and actions they can trust. Combining data ingestion, AI-powered analytics and activation, Chord works with companies' existing data warehouses to turn natural-language questions into reliable answers and enable agents to act across business channels. The platform maintains business context and governed metrics, applies existing permissions, validates queries, and gives data teams visibility into agent activity. Founded in 2021, Chord is based in New York.

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