Tener embeds into your team and runs your entire top of funnel. Sourcing, outreach, screening and first interviews happen automatically, so you only talk to candidates worth hiring.
Live demo
Below is a hiring team's Slack channel during a real search. Mike, Josh and Rachel are the client's team. Freya is the Tener agent working alongside them: she asks, challenges the brief, sources, screens and books the interviews.
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How it works
Share the role, the must haves and the context around the team. One short kickoff call is enough for Tener to start the search.
The system maps the market, finds people who actually match, writes personal outreach and answers candidate questions in any language, day and night.
Shortlists arrive in your Slack channel with resumes, screening answers and match scores. You pick who moves forward with one click.
Every review and every interview outcome calibrates the search. The pipeline gets sharper each week until the offer is signed.
Results
Reviews
"Our candidate pipeline grew more than tenfold in the first month. Tener reached people we could never get a reply from."
"Tener brought us more qualified candidates in three weeks than two agencies did in a quarter."
"We tried nearly every sourcing tool on the market. Tener is the first one that actually understands who we need."
"It feels like a senior recruiter joined the team on day one, except it never sleeps and never loses context."
"Tener let us scale hiring across three countries without adding a single recruiter to the team."
"We moved from a recruiting marketplace to Tener and closed two critical roles in five weeks."
Case studies
Four months open, two agencies failed. A niche stack of Go and high load payments, with a budget sitting below market.
Freya flagged the budget gap with market data, widened the pool to strong engineers from adjacent stacks and recalibrated the search after the first shortlist review.
A rare mix of hydraulics, treatment processes and SCADA automation. The specialists sit inside a handful of utilities and plant builders and never read job boards.
Freya mapped the engineers across utilities, EPC contractors and consultancies, then reached them with outreach written in their own technical language, in German and English.
A tiny certified talent pool. Functional safety, ISO 13849 and CE marking expertise, plus consulting skills and travel. People like this are almost never on the market.
Freya built a map of certified experts across Europe, opened conversations through the projects rather than the perks, and screened for client facing experience.
Why teams switch
Engineering, GTM, Product, Design and rare critical skills. Tener learns each domain deeply enough to tell a strong profile from a polished one.
Pause a search, swap a role or double the volume in a day. No new contracts, no lost momentum, no awkward calls.
A fraction of traditional agency fees, with a subscription that stays predictable as your hiring plan grows.
Slack, your ATS and your calendar. Candidates show up where your team already works, with full context attached.
Gets better every month
A great recruiter spends their first months learning your company. Tener does the same, then it never forgets and never leaves.
Studies your product, team, culture and past hires. Builds a picture of who actually succeeds at your company, not just who looks good on paper.
Every shortlist review, interview outcome and piece of feedback sharpens the search. Precision grows with every role you open.
Knows what your hiring managers want before they say it. Each new search starts from everything Tener already knows about you.
FAQ
Tener is an AI native recruiting service that lives in your Slack. We embed into your team and run the entire top of funnel: sourcing, outreach, screening and first interviews, to deliver faster, more accurate and cost effective hiring.
Engineering, GTM, Product, Design, Operations and rare critical skills. If the role can be described, Tener can search for it, screen for it and learn from your feedback on it.
Agencies send you resumes and invoices. Marketplaces send you a database and a login. Tener sends you interviewed, screened candidates inside Slack, learns from every decision you make and costs a fraction of an agency fee.
A flat monthly subscription per active role. No placement fees, no percent of salary, no surprises. You can pause or scale at any time.
Yes. Tener takes over sourcing, outreach and screening so your recruiters and hiring managers can spend their time on interviews, offers and closing. Most teams treat Tener as an extra pair of hands that never burns out.
The first outreach usually goes out within 48 hours of the kickoff call. First shortlists typically land in your Slack within the first week.
The best people never read job boards. Tener finds them, starts the conversation and brings them to your Slack.
Prefer email? Write to us at hello@tener.ai
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# Tener.ai Tener is an AI native recruiting service that lives in Slack. It embeds into a company's team and runs the entire top of funnel: sourcing, outreach, screening and first interviews. The team only talks to candidates worth hiring. Website: https://tener.ai Contact: hello@tener.ai Address: Tener.ai, 1 Ferry Building, Suite 201, San Francisco, CA 94111 Demo: https://tener.ai/workflow-demo ## What Tener does * Learns what exceptional looks like at the company: product, team, culture, past hires * Maps the market for each role and finds people who actually match * Writes personal outreach and answers candidate questions in any language, day and night * Screens every candidate against the company's bar, not a keyword list * Collects screening answers and runs first interviews * Delivers shortlists to the company's Slack channel with resumes, answers and match scores * Learns from every review and interview outcome, so each search gets sharper ## How it works 1. The company describes its priority roles. One short kickoff call is enough to start. 2. Tener runs the entire process: market mapping, sourcing, outreach, screening, interviews. 3. The team reviews candidates in Slack and picks who moves forward. 4. Tener keeps improving the search until the perfect hire signs. ## Results * 4x average reduction in time to hire * 10x growth of qualified candidate pipeline * 63% average savings vs the traditional agency model * 86% of shortlisted candidates reply and engage ## Case studies * Staff Backend Engineer, payments (fintech): four months open and two failed agencies before Tener. Freya fixed the budget vs market, widened the pool and closed in 5 weeks. * Senior Water Systems Engineer: rare mix of hydraulics, treatment and SCADA. 412 specialists mapped across utilities and EPC contractors, hired in 6 weeks. * Machinery Safety Consultant: tiny certified pool (functional safety, ISO 13849, CE marking). 71% reply rate, 2 offers signed in 8 weeks. ## Roles supported Engineering, GTM, Product, Design, Operations and rare critical skills. If the role can be described, Tener can search for it, screen for it and learn from feedback on it. ## How Tener compares * Agencies send resumes and invoices. Tener sends interviewed, screened candidates inside Slack. * Marketplaces send a database and a login. Tener runs the search end to end. * Tener costs a fraction of an agency fee: a flat monthly subscription per active role, no placement fees, no percent of salary. ## Learning curve * Week 1, immersion: studies the company and past hires, builds a picture of who succeeds there * Month 1, calibration: every shortlist review and interview outcome sharpens the search * Month 3 and on, mastery: hires like the company's best internal recruiter ## Getting started The first outreach usually goes out within 48 hours of the kickoff call. First shortlists typically land in Slack within the first week. To book a demo or join as a pilot team, email hello@tener.ai