The Studio OS,against the alternatives.
Xyzios is the Studio OS for boutique fitness: one live board for every number, goals that pace daily, and an AI staff that drafts the follow-up work for your approval. It works with the booking platform you already run. The honest alternatives aren’t other software so much as other ways of doing the same job — the reports you have, a spreadsheet, or a person. Here is how each one holds up.
vs Mindbody’s built-in reports
When the reports are enough, when they aren’t, and what the Studio OS adds on top — question by question. Mindbody stays the system of record either way.
Read the comparison →vs retention CRMs
Comparison pages for named vendors are being written from their public pages.
vs studio analytics vendors
Comparison pages for named vendors are being written from their public pages.
vs a spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet is the honest incumbent, and it deserves respect: it is free, it is yours, and every owner who keeps one understands their studio better than the owner who doesn’t. If you have one location and a Sunday hour you don’t mind spending, it works.
Its weakness isn’t the math. It’s that the spreadsheet is only as current as the last export, and it is only ever a picture. Someone still has to pull the report, paste the column, notice that three regulars haven’t been in for two weeks, and then write to them. By the time the sheet says a member is fading, the fade is two weeks old — and the writing still hasn’t happened.
The Studio OS keeps itself current night and day, reads the ad accounts and the books alongside the attendance record so the margin isn’t a second sheet, and turns what the numbers say into drafted work — the save list, the failed-payment notes, the weekly brief — waiting on your approval. The spreadsheet tells you what happened. The Studio OS tells you, then hands you the next move.
vs hiring a studio manager for the numbers.
Hiring someone is a real option, and for some studios the right one. A good manager brings judgment no software has: they know which regular is going through a divorce and which instructor is quietly carrying the 6am. Nothing on this site replaces that.
The trouble is what the numbers job actually costs. For reference, the U.S. median receptionist wage is about $37,000 (Bureau of Labor Statistics) — before you add the time a manager needs to build the reports, keep them current, and follow up on every fading member and missed auto-pay, on top of running the room. In practice the numbers are the first thing to slip on a busy week, because the room can’t wait and the spreadsheet can.
The Studio OS doesn’t replace the manager; it gives them the staff they never had. The board is already current when they open it, the at-risk list and the payment follow-ups are already drafted, and the manager spends their judgment on approving and improving the work instead of assembling it. A person and the Studio OS together cost about what the person costs — and the numbers stop slipping.
What owners ask when comparing.
Does Xyzios replace my booking platform?
No. Your booking platform stays the system of record for classes, memberships, and payments. Xyzios is the Studio OS that connects on top of it and turns the record into live boards, plain-English answers, and drafted follow-up work waiting on your approval.
How do you write the comparison pages?
From the other product’s public pages — pricing, feature lists, help articles — described by the job each feature does, hedged as “at the time of writing,” and never from anything private. Where the other side does a job well, the page says so; where a job isn’t theirs to do, we say that rather than score a point.
What does the Studio OS cost?
$99 for your first month, every location included. Then, at the Founders Rate, $149 a month for your first location and $99 for each additional one (standard rate $299 and $149). Everything included, month to month, no contract.
The honest comparison is your own numbers.
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