Tenir creates software, systems, and companies around problems worth solving.
We research. We build. We put the work in front of people. Evidence decides what happens next.
Tenir is a venture studio. We develop companies ourselves—from the first uncomfortable question to the first customer, the first release, and the systems required to go further.
The work earns its future.
Identify an operational problem or underserved group.
Study the existing workflow, user and market.
Create a real product quickly.
Put it in front of real users.
Study behaviour, outcomes and willingness to pay.
Scale, maintain, license, separate, sell—or stop.
Conviction gets something started. Evidence determines what survives.
An operating system for the work behind every restaurant shift—scheduling and routines, training, exceptions, and the manager review that closes the day.
Restaurant operations run on paper, group chats and memory. Managers spend the shift reconstructing what happened instead of running the floor.
A local-first engineering control plane designed to turn human intent into bounded agent work and return evidence-backed decisions.
Agentic engineering work is fast and unaccountable. There is rarely a record of what was attempted, what was verified, or who decided to ship it.
A local-first personal AI system and research project exploring durable user-owned context, local-first intelligence, and accountable human/machine systems.
Personal AI keeps your context on someone else's servers, and loses it whenever the product changes. We are researching the opposite arrangement.
Practical websites and digital systems for local businesses that need their online presence to produce something useful.
Small operators are sold brochures and subscriptions. What they need is a working system that brings in calls, bookings and orders.
And whatever earns the right to come next.
Games. Infrastructure. AI. Operational software. New categories are allowed. Permanent distractions are not.
Visit RelayA product should solve something real.
AI accelerates the work. Humans remain responsible for what ships.
We listen to customers and behaviour, not merely our own enthusiasm.
Speed matters. So do security, maintainability and trust.
Tenir uses modern models and agent systems throughout research, engineering, testing, design and operations. Humans still define the problem, decide what matters, review consequential work and take responsibility for what reaches customers.
Tenir began with a small group of people building together in Edmonton, Alberta—coming from different disciplines, learning quickly, challenging one another and discovering that the work was better when it was shared. The team now works across Edmonton and the San Francisco Bay Area.
The company is Canadian-built and Indigenous-led. That identity matters to us, but it is not a substitute for making excellent products. We intend to earn attention through the usefulness of the work.
We want to build an organization capable of repeatedly turning difficult problems into durable products.
The long game is not to chase every idea.
It is to become exceptionally good at knowing which ideas deserve to survive.
Build.
Learn.
Keep what works.
Customer, collaborator, operator, engineer or simply someone working on a difficult problem—we’re interested in people who care about making useful things.