LenzVU Named One of Canada's Top 100 AI Companies for the Second Consecutive Year

The Canadian-built platform gives growing service businesses one evolving memory of every client -- and an AI that works alongside the team to act on it -- earning repeat recognition at Canada's flagship AI event, ALL IN 2026.

TORONTO, Sept. 15, 2026 /CNW/ -- LenzVU Inc., a Canadian-built AI CRM and marketing automation company, today announced it has again been named to the Top 100 AI companies at ALL IN 2026, Canada's flagship AI event, taking place September 16–17 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal. It is the second consecutive year LenzVU has earned the recognition, having also been named in 2025.

AI Memory Structured in CRM format

At the core of the platform is a simple idea: every ad click, call, text, and visit becomes one evolving memory of each client -- which a business's team can see and correct in a familiar CRM, and which AI uses to draft outreach, run follow-up, and prove what actually drove revenue. The result is a way for owners to grow without losing the personal touch that got them there.

"Local owners are asked to compete for attention and loyalty while juggling rising software costs and disconnected systems," said Afi Aflatooni, Founder and CEO of LenzVU Inc. "We built LenzVU so a business has one memory of every client that its own team keeps accurate -- and an AI that works from that memory alongside the team, never around it. The longer you use it, the more it reflects how your business actually treats its clients. That understanding becomes something you own, and no competitor can buy it."

The Referral That Almost Went Unnoticed

It's a question almost every growing service business owner has asked. A new client walks in, mentions a friend who referred them, and the moment passes. There's no record of it, nothing connecting the dots, and by the time the owner thinks to say thank you, the referring customer has moved on -- sometimes to a competitor -- never knowing their referral was noticed.

Most small businesses run on disconnected systems that make this worse. Phone service lives with one provider and call notes live wherever someone remembered to write them. Booking forms capture a new client's details but rarely how they found the business. Loyalty and referrals get tracked in someone's memory rather than a system of record.

The cost isn't just a missed thank you. It's a missed chance to reward the customers actively growing the business, and a blind spot in understanding which channels -- and which people -- are actually driving revenue. LenzVU closes that gap by giving the business one shared memory of every client, so nothing that matters depends on whoever happens to be at the desk.

One Memory of Every Client, and an AI That Works Alongside Your Team

LenzVU unifies a complete client database with omnichannel communication and AI-driven engagement -- each piece built to hand time and clarity back to the owner rather than add another system to manage:

• Omnichannel communication across phone, SMS, MMS, and email, flowing into a single inbox tied to each client's profile -- the foundation of the shared memory.
• A 24/7 AI receptionist that answers inbound and outbound calls, responds to questions, books appointments, and routes to staff when a live handoff is needed -- so a missed call becomes a booked appointment instead of a voicemail, around the clock, without adding headcount.
• An AI chatbot that engages website visitors in real time, trained automatically on the business's own website, FAQs, and services.
• AI-assisted email that drafts and personalizes outreach and identifies the best time to reach each client -- with the team reviewing and sending, so nothing goes out that the business hasn't approved.
• Marketing automation with native Meta Ads integration, end-to-end attribution, and behavior-driven client journeys.
• Trackable short links that shorten and brand any URL, measure every click, and can trigger automations the instant a client engages -- turning a single link into both a marketing channel and another signal feeding that client's memory.
• A referral engine that attributes each new client back to whoever referred them, so owners always know who to thank -- and can automatically offer a reward or discount.
• Automated 5-star Google review management that identifies clients most likely to rate five stars and asks at the right moment.
• A website builder with drag-and-drop landing pages and embedded forms, a visual sales pipeline, and marketing analytics including ROI, customer acquisition cost, and lead-to-customer conversion.
• Seamless integrations with Gmail, Google Calendar, Stripe, Meta, Zapier, and scheduling platforms including MindBody, WellnessLiving, fitDEGREE, TeamUp, Acuity Scheduling, and MarianaTek.

What ties it together is something no single tool delivers on its own: end-to-end ad attribution and omnichannel conversation memory in one system. Plenty of platforms bolt on an AI assistant. What they can't do is retroactively connect ad spend, calls, texts, and bookings into a single client memory -- and that join is the product.

Just as important is how the AI earns responsibility. LenzVU is built so trust is granted in stages, not all at once: the AI drafts and suggests while the team reviews and sends; it takes on defined, low-risk tasks under review; and it serves clients directly only in narrow, proven lanes the business chooses to turn on. Nothing acts on a client until the business activates it. The owner stays in control; the AI does the legwork.

Your Data, and the Understanding Built From It, Stays Yours

As a Canadian company with Canadian data residency, LenzVU builds CASL and PIPEDA consent modeling into the platform rather than bolting it on. A business's client relationships and the knowledge its team has vetted remain its own -- a reason to choose LenzVU, not a compliance footnote. Every interaction a team member reviews becomes approved knowledge that makes the AI better at assisting that team, which over time turns the business's own way of handling clients into an asset it owns.

A Transition Your Team Doesn't Have to Manage Alone

For any move to a new platform, the real question is what the transition looks like -- and it matters more than any single feature. LenzVU's team handles it personally, end to end, rather than leaving a business to configure a new system on its own. That includes migrating existing client data and contact history, setting up communication channels and automations, and porting existing phone numbers, with each step clearly divided between what LenzVU handles and what the business does. Support continues after go-live as the setup evolves -- so switching feels like a managed transition, not a technical project the business has to run itself.

Smarter Marketing, Stronger Sales -- On a Loop

LenzVU connects every interaction back to a single client profile, so marketing and sales improve on a loop rather than in isolation. Inbound, every page view, chatbot conversation, form submission, and ad click feeds the client's memory, so campaigns sharpen based on real behavior. Outbound, newsletters, SMS, and targeted outreach are personalized to what LenzVU already knows -- referral history, purchase behavior, loyalty status -- so follow-up runs in the background instead of campaign by campaign.

For sales teams, every prospect, conversation, and referral lives in one view. Whether it's a studio onboarding members, a clinic tracking inquiries, or a team managing a buyer pipeline, LenzVU shows who's coming in, where they came from, and what to do next -- with outcomes feeding back into memory so the system keeps learning what works for this business.

What This Actually Changes, Day to Day

None of it matters if it doesn't change the owner's day. In practice it means fewer things falling through the cracks: a missed call gets answered instead of going to voicemail, a referral gets noticed instead of quietly disappearing, and a five-star client gets asked for a review at the right moment instead of never. The time that used to go into remembering and following up manually goes back to the owner -- along with a clearer picture of what's working. That's the difference between reacting to the business and building it.

Recognition and Traction

LenzVU's place among the Top 100 AI companies at ALL IN 2026 -- its second consecutive year -- reflects measurable, real-world impact for the businesses it serves. LenzVU has also been recognized by MarTech Outlook as a Top AI-Powered Marketing Automation Platform in Canada for 2026. The company serves roughly 100 SMB customers, some for as long as six years, and sent approximately 477,000 automated client communications in a recent 60-day period, with strong month-over-month growth. ALL IN is Canada's largest AI event, bringing together AI companies, investors, and business leaders from across North America.

Get in Touch

Learn more at lenzvu.com. Businesses can book a personal walkthrough at calendly.com/lenzvu/demo -- including what onboarding and transition would look like for their specific setup -- or create an account to get started directly.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is LenzVU, and how does its AI work? LenzVU is an AI-powered CRM and marketing platform that turns every ad click, call, text, and visit into one evolving memory of each client. The business's team maintains and vets that memory in a familiar CRM, and AI uses it to draft outreach, run approved automations, and connect ad spend to revenue.

Does LenzVU's AI act on my clients on its own? No. AI earns responsibility in stages: it drafts while your team reviews and sends, handles defined low-risk tasks under review, and serves clients directly only in narrow lanes you choose to activate. Nothing reaches a client until the business turns it on.

Who is LenzVU built for? Owner-operated service businesses, with deep roots in fitness and wellness -- the coach-owner running the business and serving clients at once, with no marketing team and no appetite for a six-week implementation.

How is LenzVU different from a typical CRM or all-in-one marketing platform? Most are designed either for sales and marketing teams with someone to administer them, or as tooling an agency configures and resells. LenzVU is designed for the owner-operator who does both jobs at once -- no admin, no RevOps, no multi-week implementation -- with deep integrations into other tools like HotSpotVU and CalendarVU. It includes as standard what most businesses assemble from several separate tools: omnichannel communication, a 24/7 AI receptionist, a website builder, marketing automation and attribution, referral tracking, review management, and a sales pipeline -- all joining ad spend and conversation history into one evolving memory of each client the business owns. For the owner-operated service business it's built for, that combination makes LenzVU a standout choice on the market.

Is my customer data mine? Yes. Your client relationships and the knowledge your team has vetted remain your own. LenzVU is built so your data -- and the understanding that accumulates from it -- stays with your business.

Is LenzVU Canadian, and where is my data hosted? Yes. LenzVU is a Canadian company and customer data is hosted in Canada, with CASL and PIPEDA consent requirements built into the platform rather than added on. For businesses that are subject to -- or simply prefer -- Canadian privacy and data-residency standards, that means client data stays in Canada, on a platform designed around Canadian rules from the start. Many of the largest CRM platforms are US-based and host data outside Canada, which can raise data-sovereignty questions LenzVU is designed to avoid.

What does the transition look like, and will my existing tools still work? LenzVU's team manages the move directly -- migrating data, setting up channels, and porting phone numbers -- with support continuing after launch. Native integrations include Gmail, Google Calendar, Stripe, Meta, Zapier, and scheduling platforms including MindBody, WellnessLiving, fitDEGREE, TeamUp, Acuity Scheduling, and MarianaTek, so LenzVU fits your stack rather than replacing it.

About LenzVU

LenzVU is a Canadian AI-powered CRM and marketing automation platform built for owner-operated service businesses, with deep roots in fitness and wellness. LenzVU turns every ad click, call, text, and visit into one evolving memory of each client -- maintained and vetted by the business's own team in a familiar CRM, and used by AI to assist the team, run automations the business approves, and connect ad spend to revenue. As a business uses it, that understanding compounds into an asset it owns. Headquartered in Canada, LenzVU has been named to Canada's Top 100 AI companies at ALL IN in 2025 and 2026, and recognized by MarTech Outlook as a Top AI-Powered Marketing Automation Platform in Canada for 2026.

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Media Contact: Afi Aflatooni, Founder and CEO LenzVU Inc., [email protected], www.lenzvu.com