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The launch

Zest, a restaurant app founded in November 2024 with $1.8 million from Alexis Ohanian's 776 and Kindred Ventures, launched a concierge on Friday that works over text message and books through OpenTable, Resy and SevenRooms.

The card link

It links to a user's credit cards through Plaid and says it uses only food and drink transactions to build recommendations. Bookings and food orders are its first revenue.

What it means

An agent that reads spending to decide for you is the model every consumer agent is reaching for, and this one asks for the bank link on day one.

Sources and the full story

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Zest's restaurant agent reads your credit card history to pick where you eat

Zest, a restaurant app founded in November 2024 with $1.8 million from Alexis Ohanian's 776 and Kindred Ventures, launched a concierge on Friday that works over text message and books through OpenTable, Resy and SevenRooms. It links to a user's credit cards through Plaid and says it uses only food and drink transactions to build recommendations. Bookings and food orders are its first revenue. An agent that reads spending to decide for you is the model every consumer agent is reaching for, and this one asks for the bank link on day one. SourcesB

Sources

• BZest's AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text (TechCrunch)techcrunch.com

This story ran in the Morning Brief of November 1st 2026.