Zluri vs Fathom
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Zluri is hardening into an access governance product, with SaaS spend management increasingly playing supporting role.
Zluri's recent releases are almost entirely identity-governance work: user-based access reviews, a revamped certification creation flow, customizable access request forms per application. The November 2025 App Insights release reframed the product as a 'governance-grade intelligence layer' surfacing orphaned admin accounts, SSO coverage gaps, and shadow IT in actionable cards. SaaS license and spend features still ship but no longer set the agenda.
The product is moving from SaaS spend tracking toward full IGA territory — competing less with Productiv or Torii and more with SailPoint and Saviynt at the lighter end. Each iteration on certifications, reviews, and request flows narrows the gap with enterprise IGA incumbents. The 2026 releases all sit in that lane.
Expect role-mining or risk-scoring next — the natural follow-on once certifications and request flows are mature. A 'least-privilege recommendation' agent layered on top of App Insights would also fit the trajectory and the broader market push toward AI-assisted governance.
Fathom adds FreeAgent and refines its Pro reports — steady iteration without directional pivots.
Fathom is a financial reporting and forecasting tool for accountants and advisory firms. The most recent product addition in the input is the FreeAgent integration (January 2026), continuing a steady pattern of bringing new accounting platforms into the same workflow. Earlier 2025 work focused on report flexibility — embedded images and PDFs in Pro reports — and forecast operations like forecast snapshots that enable actual-vs-forecast reporting. The recent feed is also heavy with customer stories and educational content rather than fresh product releases.
Within the visible product entries, Fathom is widening accounting-platform coverage (FreeAgent joins Xero, QBO, Sage and others) and gradually upgrading the Pro report surface — saved views, downloadable insights, embedded files, forecast snapshots. There's no sign of a directional pivot in the input; the cadence reads as a mature product steadily extending its existing surfaces, with marketing weight increasingly on customer stories rather than feature launches.
Expect continued accounting-platform additions (the Sage 50 import in beta from late 2024 will likely graduate at some point) and more Pro-tier report-flexibility work. Without a clear directional move in the input, the most likely next year looks like more of the same steady cadence.
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