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Eqolux – From Idea to $100K ARR in Three Weeks with Xano & HelloLeo

$100K

ARR in two weeks

3 weeks

to production-ready platform

Overview

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Eqolux is an AI solution for finance & sustainability that helps hospitality and luxury food & beverage brands cut costs by analysing their purchasing, tracking suppliers, and measuring environmental impact. By combining ESG expertise with modern software, Eqolux enables businesses to make sustainability goals profitable.

Co-founded by Benoît de Montecler & Marine Pescot. Benoît as the CTO is a serial entrepreneur and founder of more than three successful ventures. Marine as the CEO with 10 years of experience in the hospitality field. Eqolux quickly proved market demand by turning a vision into a revenue-generating product in record time.

Industry

AI/SaaS

Company type

Startup

Solution

Finance & sustainability platform

Use case

AI-powered data automation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Challenges

Solutions

Why Xano

Results

Challenges

As a technical founder and primary developer on the project, Benoît needed to deliver more than a prototype. His customers expected a production-ready platform that could handle real data, integrate with procurement systems, and scale as adoption grew.

Speed to Market

Launch quickly to validate the business and close early customers.

Enterprise-Grade Reliability

Ensure the backend could support growth, compliance, and complex integrations.

Frontend Flexibility

Provide a polished user experience without spending months on frontend development.

Solutions

Backend Confidence with Xano

Xano's scalable, secure infrastructure, and proven track record gave Benoît the confidence to launch in production immediately, rather than waiting months to harden the system.

Frontend Speed with HelloLeo

HelloLeo is context-aware of the Xano backend via its native Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration. This means dashboards and workflows are generated correctly from day one, with the right data structure and already connected to API endpoints. This avoids the common problem of developing "blind" frontends and saves weeks of alignment work.

AI-Powered Data Automation & Governed Intelligence

Eqolux's core value is turning messy supply-chain documents into verified, actionable data — e.g. scanning invoices and delivery notes to extract item-level details, compute CO₂ scores, supplier compliance metrics, and more.

By leveraging Xano Agents, Eqolux embedded intelligent logic directly into backend workflows: parsing OCR output, enforcing business rules, routing data for review, and triggering downstream automations — all while maintaining auditability and governance. With built-in logging, versioning, and governance control, the AI workflows are reliable and transparent, not black boxes.

Vibe Coding, Production Ready

By coupling HelloLeo with Xano, Eqolux could vibe code new features at startup speed while still delivering a production-grade platform. HelloLeo's XanoScript integration turned backend structures into front-end experiences instantly, with the power to extend custom backend logic on the fly.

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Why Xano?

Benoît chose Xano for its enterprise-grade capabilities that enabled immediate production deployment, avoiding the typical months-long hardening process required with traditional development approaches.

Production-ready infrastructure from day one
- Xano's scalable, secure infrastructure gave Benoît the confidence to deploy to production immediately with real customer data.
Seamless integration with HelloLeo for rapid frontend development
- The native MCP integration between HelloLeo and Xano enabled context-aware frontend generation, eliminating weeks of alignment work between frontend and backend.
AI Agents for governed intelligence
- Xano Agents provided the foundation for embedding intelligent automation directly into backend workflows with built-in logging, versioning, and governance controls.

Results

$100K ARR in Two Weeks

Eqolux onboarded early customers almost immediately after launch, securing six-figure annual recurring revenue in less than a month.

Production-Ready in 3 Weeks

Despite a challenging start on Bubble, the transition to Xano and HelloLeo enabled Eqolux to deliver a client-ready platform in record time.

Founder Confidence

Benoît cited Xano's backend maturity as the key factor in deploying confidently and securing real contracts early.

Scalable Architecture

Eqolux is built to support growth without re-platforming, positioning it to expand across hospitality and luxury markets.

Enterprise Validation

Large organizations, including Dorchester Collection and a group of over 80 luxury resort hotels across EMEA, began exploring Eqolux, echoing the confidence Eqolux had in the stack.