Franchisors face a critical challenge

How do you leverage AI's benefits without risking your valuable IP? What will franchising look like in the AI era?

Ask Astro protects your franchise IP in a secure environment, while franchisees can accelerate their business performance with AI.

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Securely share IP

Create and share operational manuals, SOPs, and proprietary data without handing it over as AI training data - store in your system and share with connected franchisees. The full benefit of AI with your own encrypted, local data warehouse. 

Proactive support

Use common playbooks and reporting structures to help franchisees be successful. Customise these to suit your business and frameworks for compliance and capability development

Benchmarking

Business performance reporting across your franchise group becomes instantaneous, and benchmarking as simple as clicking a button. Monitoring goals and trends are easily created, with private or shared dashboards

Market analysis

Research your market, your competitors, regulatory changes and industry movements with one easy query. Set up weekly or monthly updates so you always know whats happening. Internal topics and trend, external research or both!

All the benefits of AI while protecting your franchise IP

Ask Astro delivers a collaborative business performance platform ensuring franchisees can safely leverage your proprietary knowledge, increasing confidence in decision making and their success.

Offering deep insights, market analysis, emerging risks and opportunities, as well as easy-to-use monitoring, franchisees gain a full picture of their business performance!

Running a franchise network shouldn't mean choosing between control and empowerment.

Every franchisor faces the same challenge: How do you maintain consistency across dozens of locations while protecting your hard-earned systems and processes?

The traditional approach means endless manual reporting, fragmented data across multiple systems, and sleepless nights wondering which locations might be underperforming.

Here's what's changing:

Smart franchisors are moving beyond spreadsheets and monthly reports. They're giving every franchisee real-time insights while keeping proprietary IP secure—automated dashboards that replace days of manual work.

The result?

  • Compliance risks spotted before they become problems
  • Franchisees empowered with data-driven insights
  • Your systems protected, not exposed to public AI tools
  • More time for strategic growth, less time firefighting

Your franchise network is your legacy. Protecting it while helping every location thrive shouldn't require an army of analysts.

Ready to see how leading franchisors are scaling oversight without scaling headcount?