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Tenor launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

AI that own jobs end-to-end and learn from every outcome

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
3
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

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See their funding details ↗

Tenor on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Your AI spend becomes accountable labor: every AI worker gets a job, persistent context, a budget, guardrails, and outcomes you can measure. Tenor deploys AI inside businesses to run entire jobs across their existing tools, not isolated tasks. Companies define the outcomes and KPIs; every result improves how the worker makes decisions over time. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "AI that is measured against its outcomes and improves its decisions over time to drive better results." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Hamze Al-Zamkan, Founder/CEO: Co-Founder @ Tenor. Building accountable AI workers that connect business outcomes to token spend, so companies can measure ROI and scale what works. As President of TUM.ai, he scaled it into Europe's largest student-led AI initiative. Spent his university years at TUM and CDTM working at venture-backed startups to apply those learnings to a company of his own. (source)
  • Amgad Al-Zamkan, Founder/CPO: Co-founder @ Tenor. Previously at Amazon, studied CS at UC Berkeley and TUM. As a grad student, Amgad's research focused on optimization objectives in recommendation algorithms and shaping adaptive decision systems. (source)
  • Muhtasham Oblokulov, Founder/CTO: Co-founder @ Tenor. Early contributor to DeepSeek and co-author of the highly cited StarCoder series and CodeClash with Stanford University. Previously deployed large-scale AI systems across global reinsurance markets. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch Tenor

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • ProductLed ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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