Számlázz.hu and the Hungarian AI platform Azta.ai, which focuses on tax and business law research, have launched a strategic partnership, Forbes.hu reported first. Both companies describe the agreement as the initial step in a longer-term collaboration rather than a one-off project.
Who are the parties?
Azta.ai was founded by 25-year-old Máté Márk. According to Forbes.hu coverage, Márk began the project after encountering an unanswerable tax question related to his sole proprietorship in November 2024; existing AI models at the time did not provide sufficiently reliable answers, which motivated him to build a research tool that supplies answers with source references.
Márk’s startup closed a 150 million forint investment round in April 2024 led by an angel investor who also participated in the Barion pre-seed round.
Számlázz.hu is Hungary’s market-leading fintech company and serves several hundred thousand businesses. In June 2024 the company’s founders announced the launch of the BinX neobank. Számlázz.hu’s platform allows users to settle incoming invoices with a single click.
What does the partnership include now and what are the future plans?
In the initial phase of the agreement, subscribers to Számlázz.hu’s paid plans will receive free access to selected Azta functions via the Számlázz.hu interface until further notice. After activation, users may submit 100 questions per month to Azta’s AI model and gain access to Azta’s research and exchange-rate query tools.
Both companies emphasized that this arrangement is only the beginning: Számlázz.hu and Azta plan to work on additional AI-related joint developments. Future plans include the option for Számlázz.hu customers to incorporate their own data into Azta’s processing, and the partners expect to roll out new features in early 2025.
What is Azta.ai and who should use it?
Azta.ai is an AI-based research tool tailored to tax and business law queries. The system breaks down a user’s question along multiple dimensions and searches its own index of relevant statutes, decrees, rulings, court and Curia decisions, and NAV (Hungarian Tax Authority) opinions. The tool attaches sources to its answers and can account for changes in law up to ten years back.
Máté Márk has said in past interviews that Azta is best used to quickly surface tax issues for businesses and to do preliminary exploration of more complex cases. He describes the product as a research tool and stresses the importance of clearly indicating what the system can and cannot do.
Numbers and business impact
Azta’s user base has grown gradually: the company previously reported 14,000 users and now approaches 18,000. The number of questions posed to the platform has doubled from an earlier figure of around 150,000. The company had forecast 100,000 euros in revenue by September 2024, a target reached in October 2024; the U.S. market opening was also planned for that month.
Azta currently maintains legal data structures for more than 28 countries and was accepted into the 500 Global Eurasia accelerator program. The startup aims to close its next funding round at the accelerator’s December Demo Day.
Through the partnership, Azta aims to reach a customer segment that was previously harder to access: domestic businesses. Márk stated that their ambition is for one in ten Hungarian companies to use Azta in some form to support business and legal decisions. Given Számlázz.hu’s several-hundred-thousand-strong client base, the collaboration opens a new channel to the local enterprise segment and shifts some focus toward large corporate legal teams.
Practical implications
Initially, Számlázz.hu customers will be able to submit tax and legal questions directly through the Azta interface via the fintech platform; later, the service will offer the possibility to process customers’ own data for more tailored, source-backed answers. The partners say the collaboration is meant to help make AI a genuinely usable part of everyday operations for Hungarian businesses.
