Zerobeat

What Zerobeat does

Zerobeat operates an offline-first mesh point-of-sale platform built specifically for live events, festivals, stadiums, concerts, and pop-up venues where network connectivity is unreliable or unavailable. The system runs on consumer iOS hardware (iPhone and iPad), uses Apple MultipeerConnectivity for peer-to-peer state synchronization between terminals, and relies on Ditto's CRDT-based edge database to keep transactions consistent across a self-healing mesh. On-device AI inference runs through Apple's Foundation Models framework introduced in iOS 26, powering the Pulse AI co-pilot — a conversational operator interface that handles natural-language queries, voice mode, anomaly detection, demand forecasting, menu generation from photos and PDFs, and post-event reports. Multi-uplink failover across cellular, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet keeps payment authorization alive when any single path degrades, and PCI-DSS-compliant, EMV-certified readers tokenize card data at capture so sensitive data never lives on the iOS device or in the mesh.

The platform is delivered as a core stack plus modules: Pulse AI co-pilot, Zerobeat Register (Mobile and Fixed terminal form factors), Loyalty & Tickets, Reporting & Insights, Staff Operations, Enterprise (multi-site SSO and SCIM), and one-time SMS Text Receipts. The same engine is offered as industry-vertical configurations — Festival POS, Stadium POS, Concert POS, and Pop-up POS — plus white-label and OEM licensing for partners that want to rebrand the stack. The company monetizes through per-event or per-month POS subscriptions (no setup fees, no long-term contracts), payment-processing fees on each transaction, paid add-ons (SMS receipts, ticketing, advanced analytics, white-glove support), and bundled hardware (EMV-certified readers from WisePOS E and BBPOS, plus Star/Epson printers and iOS devices).

Zerobeat Inc. is a private, founder-led company incorporated in Delaware with operational references to Miami. Leadership is led by Founder Nick (identified in internal data as Nick Delaney, CEO). Distribution is demo-led with a prominent "Get a Demo" CTA across the site, enterprise direct sales for multi-site operators, inside sales for mid-market venues, a self-serve starter kit for SMBs, and white-label/OEM for partners. The company is actively raising private capital from checks under $100K to $10M and up, with no completed round or lead investor disclosed. Current deployment footprint is 4 active sites and 8 total referenced, with the two largest pilots — Harbor Stadium (162 terminals, $5.42M settled in a single Saturday) and Mainstage Fest Day 2 (84 terminals) — anchoring the case-study narrative.

Name

Zerobeat

Legal name

Zerobeat Inc.

Website

https://zerobeat.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Zerobeat operates an offline-first mesh point-of-sale platform for live events, festivals, stadiums, and pop-up venues. Built on peer-to-peer CRDT synchronization with on-device AI via Apple's Foundation Models, it processes payments reliably when network connectivity fails.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Event Point-of-Sale Software

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYFSAGABAO

POS, SoftPOS & In-Person Acceptance Infrastructure

Financial & Insurance/Financial Technology (Fintech)/Payment Orchestration & Fintech Infrastructure (APIs, Issuing, Processing)

SECONDARYFSAMADAF

In-Store Contactless & NFC Acceptance (Tap-to-Pay, EMV Contactless)

Financial & Insurance/Payments & Transaction Processing/Point-of-Sale (POS) Payments & Terminals

SECONDARYFSAMADAG

EMV Chip, Magstripe & PIN Debit Acceptance

Financial & Insurance/Payments & Transaction Processing/Point-of-Sale (POS) Payments & Terminals

Keywords

• Live event POS
• Offline point-of-sale
• Mobile payment terminals
• Mesh network payments
• Festival payment systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Operations

Revenue model

1. Per-event / per-month POS subscription: Recurring subscription priced per-event for seasonal or one-off deployments (festivals, pop-ups, races) or per-month for ongoing venues (stadiums, amphitheaters, taprooms). No setup fees and no long-term contracts — billing cadence flexes with the operator's event calendar, enabling land-and-expand as a venue rolls out more locations or more terminals.
2. Payment processing / transaction fees: Standard interchange and processing fees on each card transaction, with rates 'in line with the major card networks'. Generates usage-based revenue that scales directly with the operator's GMV (e.g., $5.42M settled in a single Saturday at Harbor Stadium across 162 terminals).
3. Add-on modules (SMS receipts, ticketing, analytics, white-glove): Optional paid add-ons layered on top of the core subscription: SMS receipts (transactional only — explicitly not a marketing channel), ticketing integration, advanced analytics, and white-glove on-site support. These expand ARPU for higher-touch operators.
4. Zerobeat starter kit hardware (card readers, printers, iOS devices): Hardware revenue from the bundled starter kit: EMV-certified card readers (WisePOS E, BBPOS WisePad 3 and equivalents), receipt printers (Star, Epson), and iPhone/iPad devices. Sold and/or leased as part of deployment, often with a white-glove option.
5. White-label and OEM licensing: Operators and partners can white-label the POS and on-device AI stack for their own brand or embed it under their own product. Generates licensing/royalty revenue distinct from direct operator subscriptions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Zerobeat is an offline-first, mesh-native point-of-sale (POS) platform purpose-built for live events, festivals, stadiums, concerts, and pop-up vendors. The platform runs on iOS/iPadOS hardware and uses peer-to-peer CRDT-based mesh synchronization so transactions continue to settle and reconcile when WAN, Wi-Fi, or power fails. It bundles the Pulse AI co-pilot (on-device inference via Apple Foundation Models), Zerobeat Register terminal software, Loyalty & Tickets, Reporting & Insights, and Staff Operations, and is sold with EMV-certified card readers, printers, and iOS devices as a starter kit.

Product overview

Zerobeat is a single AI-native commerce platform organized as a core platform plus modules. The core Zerobeat Platform is an offline-first, mesh-native POS built for live events; on top of it sit the Pulse AI co-pilot, the Zerobeat Register hardware form factors (Mobile and Fixed), the Loyalty & Tickets module, Reporting & Insights, Staff Operations, and the Enterprise tier. The same platform is delivered as industry-vertical configurations — Festival POS, Stadium POS, Concert POS, and Pop-up POS — each tuned to a specific venue type. Optional add-ons include one-time SMS Text Receipts. The platform exposes a REST API, outbound webhooks, SAML/OIDC SSO, and white-labeling so the same engine runs across single trucks, single venues, and multi-site promoter portfolios.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Zerobeat Platform Core offline-first mesh POS platform for live events, festivals, stadiums, concerts, and pop-ups. Combines the Pulse AI co-pilot, Zerobeat Register hardware terminals, Loyalty & Tickets, Reporting & Insights, Staff Operations, and Enterprise capabilities in a single AI-native commerce platform that survives network and power outages.
• Pulse AI Co-pilot AI co-pilot for live event operators that accepts plain-English questions about venue state and returns streaming answers with staff names, terminals, recommendations, and action chips. Combines conversational AI, anomaly detection, declining-item trends, weekly summaries, demand forecasting, and knowledge retrieval. Lightweight inference runs on-device via Apple Foundation Models; heavier reasoning and forecasting run server-side.
• Zerobeat Register iOS-based POS terminal software available in two form factors — Mobile (iPhone 11+ in a Zerobeat case with integrated EMV reader) and Fixed (iPad on a stand with external EMV reader, printer, and cash drawer). Every Register runs on standard iOS hardware and acts as a peer in the self-healing mesh.
• Festival POS Vertical configuration of the Zerobeat platform optimized for multi-day music festivals with 50,000+ attendees per day, temporary staff, and unreliable infrastructure. Provides same-day setup, AI menu builder, mesh-native uptime, and live revenue dashboards across every stage and zone.
• Stadium POS Concession POS for stadiums, arenas, and ballparks engineered for halftime peaks when 40,000+ phones saturate venue Wi-Fi. Rated 10+ tap-to-pay transactions per terminal per minute; designed to scale to two hundred terminals clearing two thousand transactions per minute across a stadium.
• Concert POS Bar and venue POS for live music built for the encore rush at general-admission shows. Supports drink tickets, comps, opener/headliner pricing tiers, and per-bartender AI benchmarking. Provides same-day deployment for amphitheaters, theaters, and warehouses.
• Pop-up POS Mobile POS configuration for food trucks, farmers markets, and pop-up vendors that operate in a different location every day. Pulse scales down to a single truck; mesh routes through whichever peer device finds an uplink first, reducing store-and-forward exposure by roughly 60% in pilot deployments.
• Loyalty & Tickets Rule-based ticketing, coupons, and redemption tracking native to the POS. Supports sponsor activations, drink tickets, meal vouchers, comp bundles, and time/zone/item-scoped coupons. Rule engine evaluates in milliseconds at the terminal, even when the venue is dark.
• Reporting & Insights Live dashboards and natural-language queries against the operational store. Includes sales, items, staff, payments, and tax reports plus CSV export. Pulse generates structured queries from plain English; reports drop same shift, exportable to QuickBooks, NetSuite, and Xero.
• Staff Operations PIN-based clock-in/out, breaks, performance benchmarking, and role-based permissions. The 4-digit PIN ties every transaction to a specific cashier. Includes role ladders (cashier, lead, manager, org admin), bulk staff import, and per-shift labor reporting exportable to CSV.
• Enterprise Tier Multi-site, multi-org, multi-event operations tier with SAML 2.0 and OIDC SSO (Okta, Azure AD, OneLogin, JumpCloud, Google Workspace, Auth0, Ping), SCIM 2.0 user sync, full REST API and webhooks, audit log, white-labeling, per-org custom themes and receipts, and a 99.9% SLA on the operator console.
• Text Receipts (SMS) Optional one-time SMS receipt delivery at the point of sale. Includes point-of-sale opt-in flow with on-screen consent language, one message per transaction, STOP/HELP opt-out handling, and data retention limited to delivery and opt-out obligations. Numbers are shared only with the telecom/SMS provider for delivery and never used for marketing.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces store-and-forward (deferred authorization) exposure by roughly 60% in pilot deployments
• +8 more outcomes

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability16 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered flagship / core infrastructure, flagship / core platform and core.

• Dittoflagship / core infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationPowers Zerobeat's mesh layer with its edge-first, CRDT-based peer-to-peer database. The same Ditto technology is referenced as already running point-of-sale at Chick-fil-A, Japan Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and the U.S. Air Force. Without Ditto, the offline-first mesh claim is not technically credible.
• Appleflagship / core platformTechnology or IntegrationZerobeat is built on iOS/iPadOS, uses Apple MultipeerConnectivity for the mesh layer, runs on iPhone/iPad hardware, and uses Apple's Foundation Models framework (introduced in iOS 26) for on-device AI inference in the Pulse co-pilot. Apple is a platform dependency, not a commercial reseller.
• Star MicronicscoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerStar receipt printers are referenced as supported peripherals in the Zerobeat hardware stack, alongside Epson.
• EpsoncoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerEpson receipt printers are referenced as supported peripherals in the Zerobeat hardware stack, alongside Star.
• BBPOS (WisePad 3)coreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerBBPOS WisePad 3 is one of the named EMV-certified card readers supported via Bluetooth/Wi-Fi/Ethernet as part of the Zerobeat starter kit.
• WisePOS E (Wise)coreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerWisePOS E is the other named EMV-certified card reader supported via Bluetooth/Wi-Fi/Ethernet as part of the Zerobeat starter kit.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Billfold: POS and cashless payment solution for festivals, fairs, and pop-up events. Comparable as a specialized live-events POS competitor named in Zerobeat's own competitive set, with overlapping festival and pop-up customer segments.
• atVenu: POS and sales-reporting platform purpose-built for live entertainment venues (arenas, theaters, amphitheaters, festivals). Directly comparable to Zerobeat's festival/stadium/concert verticals, with overlapping barcode scanning, settlements, and same-day deployment positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Lightspeed Commerce: Cloud POS for restaurants and retail with multi-site and enterprise capabilities. Comparable on enterprise multi-location feature set and reporting; does not target the live-events outage niche.
• Toast: Major cloud POS and payments platform for restaurants and food-and-beverage operators with an expanding live-events footprint. Comparable on payment processing, hardware, and reporting, though Toast's offline mode is store-and-forward rather than true mesh.
• Shopify POS: POS extension of the Shopify commerce platform, strong in retail and pop-ups. Comparable on subscription-plus-transaction-fee model and consumer-hardware-based terminals; not optimized for live-events outage conditions.
• Stripe Terminal: Developer-first POS hardware and payments offering from Stripe targeting software-led commerce platforms. Comparable on tap-to-pay hardware and transaction processing economics; offers white-label potential but not offline-first mesh.
• Clover (Fiserv): Large incumbent POS and merchant-services platform via Fiserv's distribution. Comparable on hardware (EMV terminals, printers, cash drawers) and transaction-based revenue, but cloud-dependent.
• SpotOn: POS and payments platform with growing presence in stadiums, arenas, and live-event venues. Comparable on multi-site operator positioning and merchant services, with overlapping event/venue customer segments.
• Square (Block): Dominant SMB POS and payments platform with broad hardware and software ecosystem. Comparable on subscription-plus-transaction-fee pricing and hardware starter kits; lacks Zerobeat's offline-first mesh architecture.

Others

• Ditto: Edge-first CRDT peer-to-peer database provider that powers Zerobeat's mesh layer. Comparable as the underlying infrastructure substrate; not a competitor but a critical enabling partner whose roadmap directly shapes Zerobeat's capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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