There are three types of relationships businesses will have with AI: AI-absent, AI-integrated, and AI-first.
The taxonomyThree states, one arrowPartners / Builders / AI Transformation
Our mission: help your business reach its potential. End up on the right side of history, post-AI.
We're an AI transformation partner built by operators who've shipped AI at scale. We embed inside your org, map the highest-leverage bets, and build production systems your people use on Monday.
the sorting has already started — only question is which side you're on.
What we believe
Four things we've stopped arguing about so the work can start.
Every engagement starts here. If these beliefs don't land, we're probably not the right partner, and that's okay.
The only way to build a long-term successful business is by embracing the AI wave and getting as close to AI-first as possible.
The verdictThere is no middleMost companies won't have the knowledge or bandwidth in-house to build custom AI solutions that integrate with their systems, processes, and people.
The gapWhere we come inThe partners who get there first will compound for a decade. The ones who wait will spend that decade catching up, if they get the chance.
The clockIt's already running Fig. 01 / Three relationships with AI only one compounds
AI-absent.
No AI in the business. Maybe a ChatGPT tab on someone's second monitor. The org looks and runs like it did in 2022.
OutlookBeing replaced
AI-integrated.
AI is bolted on: a chat box in the app, a copilot in the CRM, a few automations behind the scenes. It helps, but the business was not redesigned around it.
OutlookKeeping pace
AI-first.
The business is architected around AI from the workflow up. Every function is a candidate for an AI system as the operating logic.
OutlookDefining the decade
The goal is not to "use AI." It is to become the kind of company that could only exist because of it.
The masthead
The partners who run the work.
No associates, no junior teams, no off-shored delivery. When you hire Tenex, you get the partners: the people who've built companies and now build AI systems inside yours.
Managing Partner Alex Lieberman.
Alex is a serial entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Morning Brew, a multiplatform business media company that grew from a college newsletter to a $75M sale to Business Insider in 2020.
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Managing Partner Arman Hezarkhani.
Arman founded multiple venture-backed AI companies, helped Google scale its Cloud and AI platforms to millions of developers, and taught as an adjunct professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
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