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—from scheduling and routines to training, exceptions and manager review.
Restaurant operations run on paper, group chats and memory. Managers spend their shift reconstructing what happened instead of running the floor.
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.
A local-first AI workspace exploring how models, agents, software projects and human decisions can operate as one accountable system.
AI tooling is fragmented and unaccountable. Work happens in scattered chats with no record of who decided what, or why.
And whatever earns the right to come next.
Games. Infrastructure. AI. Operational software. New categories are allowed. Permanent distractions are not.
A 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 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.