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Tendem by Toloka
Behind every AI: a human expert
186 followers
Behind every AI: a human expert
186 followers
Tendem is a platform where human experts and AI agents complete high-stakes tasks. Submit a task in plain language. AI agents handle the volume. Human experts level up the the final output. What comes back is complete, accurate, and ready to act on. Built by Toloka.ai, a company that has spent more than a decade building human-in-the-loop quality systems for frontier AI labs. Trusted by founders, operators, and AI-native users who need reliable results.
Tendem by Toloka
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Natalia from the Tendem team at Toloka 👋
The Problem
Builders today have more AI tools than ever, but turning AI output into work you can actually ship is still harder than it should be.
Most options follow one of two flawed approaches:
❌ Pure AI agents. Impressive in demos, then miss things, hallucinate, and leave you doing the last 20% yourself.
❌ Freelance marketplaces. They work, but quality is a coin flip. You end up project-managing strangers, and the ramp kills the speed advantage.
After watching teams burn hours fixing AI output or chasing freelancers, we built Tendem to actually solve the problem.
How Tendem is Different 🚀
Tendem is a task delegation platform where AI and vetted human experts work together to deliver verified output, for work pure automation can't finish.
✅ Backed by Toloka's expert network. 10,000+ vetted specialists across design, dev, copywriting, research and more — the same humans who help train the AI models you're using elsewhere.
✅ AI + human expert in every task. No "AI-only" tier. Every output gets reviewed, corrected, or finished by a vetted human before it ships back to you.
✅ Per-task pricing. Pay for the tasks you send. No seats, no contracts, no committing to volume you don't have.
Who is this for?
If you're a founder, builder, or small team that's tired of copy-pasting AI output and thinking "well, now I have to fix this" — then Tendem is for you. Especially if your work mixes things AI is almost good at with things that absolutely have to land right the first time.
🔗 Get started today: try Tendem at tendem.ai. 20$ for our first task is on us.
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@natalia_mikhailova seriously love AI for how it can pretty much FREE US up so we can focus on more important things
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@thepetermick Couldn't agree more!
Congrats on the launch Natalia and the Tendem team! 👋
This hits a real pain point. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had to spend an hour cleaning up “95% done” AI output that should’ve been shippable.
Love the hybrid approach - pure AI agents are great for speed but fall apart on the last mile, and freelance marketplaces are slow to ramp. The “AI + vetted human on every task” model feels like the middle ground that actually gets you to done.
A couple quick questions:
1. How do you match tasks to the right experts in the 10k+ network? Is it automated based on task type, or is there a human layer there too?
2. What’s the typical turnaround time for something like a landing page copy + design pass?
The $20 credit for the first task is a smart way to let people try it without friction.
Definitely going to test this for some content + research tasks I’ve been putting off. Upvoted 🚀
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@oreofe_oluwatipin Great questions.
1.Expert matching: it's both automated and human-layered. An AI-based classifier first analyzes the task and determines the required skills and qualifications, and then the system cross-references expert performance history and quality scores to select the most suitable specialist. In short, it's automated routing plus QA-backed matching, not manual assignments.
2. For a turnaround, it's typically between 3 to 8 hours depending on the complexity of the required human effort.
ProdShort
Can we keep a specific message for the experts, or is the prompt meant for both the human and the AI when we need something specific to verify, for example?
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@bengeekly Great question! Experts see the full client conversation context, along with the specific request the agent sends based on the expert’s specialty.
So if there’s any information you want to make sure the expert definitely sees and verifies, the best approach is to include it directly in the chat
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@bengeekly At the moment, there isn’t a direct client-to-expert chat. The AI first consolidates the client’s request and starts working on the task, and an expert can be involved when human expertise is needed. If there’s something specific you want the expert to verify, the best way is to include it clearly in the task brief/prompt, so it becomes part of the context. + The client can also choose to pass the task to an expert when human input is needed.
Tendem by Toloka
I used to be just a digital marketer. That used to be enough.
With AI in the game, expectations on marketers grew tenfold.
My clients of the past months wanted someone who could vibecode a whole website from scratch, build a brand design system, create a verified leadlist, set up paid media campaigns, produce video and image ads, and write all kinda organic content.
I became that one person for them, a marketing builder, 'cause they needed speed, no over-explaining and full executional trust.
On my end, it meant hours of advanced AI prompting, setting up Claude Chat, Cowork, Code and Design to work in parallel on Max tier, all while verifying output by Perplexity and humanazing it with Gemini. ChatGPT was there occasionally to support me mentally.
Then I came across Tendem.
Tested it as a founder, and got stunned. I could hand off half of my tasks, and get the final results, ready for my clients' work. Hours saved on my end.
I first got kinda pissed off at them for making it so easy for users to delegate tasks. Who would need my help then?
Then I decided - I could just very well be part of the team scaling this platform, 'cause it's straightforward awesome.
Kudos to the team, and so thrilled to be part of this journey!
Tendem by Toloka
Hey Product Hunt – I'm Egor, Head of Engineering at Tendem by Toloka. 👋
The post you're reading right now? I asked AI to write it for you.
And you know what? It was fast and technically fine.
Clean structure, correct grammar, all the usual launch words: “AI-powered,” “seamless,” “revolutionary.”
It was the kind of text that says everything and makes you feel nothing. The kind of post you scroll past before the second sentence.
And that's exactly the problem.
AI can produce something that looks finished very quickly. But “looks finished” is not the same as “ready to ship.” Real work needs expert judgment, context, human taste, and verification.
That's why we built Tendem.
Tendem combines AI with vetted human experts. AI handles the fast parts. Humans review, correct, finish, and QA the output before it gets back to you. So if you've ever used AI and thought, “Cool… but now I still need to fix this”, Tendem is for you.
We're launching our open beta today, and we’d love your support, feedback, and toughest tasks.
Your first $20 task is on us.
Try Tendem → tendem.ai
Share feedback in the comments – we’ll read everything.
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@elipski well done Yahor, what was the biggest challenge building it?
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@thepetermick Thanks! Honestly – being first. When we started, there was no MCP, no agent tooling to plug into, so we built our own framework and tools from scratch. The harder part is the human side. There's no real playbook for making an agent and an expert genuinely reinforce each other turn by turn — when the agent should ask for help, how context travels, how the result comes back. Most products are either pure AI or pure freelancer marketplaces, and we're trying to build the thing in between. Which is also kind of the fun part.
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One thing I’ve personally been using Tendem for a lot is competitive and market analysis work.
A surprising amount of useful information still lives across fragmented sources, pricing pages, ads, PDFs, gated content, or places agents struggle to reliably interpret. Having a workflow that combines AI research with human review has been genuinely useful for getting a more complete picture instead of just surface-level summaries.
Also worth disclosing: I’m one of the people building it, so I’m obviously biased… but this is genuinely how I use it day-to-day.
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@ddur must have been fun to build 😎
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@thepetermick it's wild! We get to make and break so many things daily and it's kinda great to not hand-hold the agents...also, I don't have to worry about one random claude task eating up my token allocation for the week. Just saying :P
I’ve played with Tendem for a few tasks! Love it, and genuinely happy to see tasks take a bit longer for the human in loop part. Helped me with sales leads, just more precise. Also felt nice to have a handshake with a person
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@jaryd_hermann1 Thanks so much, Jaryd — really glad to hear that! That “handshake with a person” feeling is exactly what we care about: AI speed, but with a human making sure the result is precise, useful, and actually ready to use. Appreciate the support 🙌