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.
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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
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@odeth_negapatan1 We think it's the perfect scaling tool. You can always tap into our expert pool when you need them on task basis...it's taking the AI productivity gains and adding best possible human experts to the mix....but again biased here :P
@odeth_negapatan1 This is exactly the question we obsessed over while building it. The short answer: the expert layer is what makes it flexible. AI alone plateaus — but a curated expert network that grows and specializes alongside your needs doesn't. We've seen teams start with one task type and expand to five without changing how they work with Tendem. That's the goal.
How are you making money on this given that the work involves the human learning the context of the job, which isn't as fast as an LLM, and therefore how are you able to pay the experts fairly, assuming you take a cut?
A job that doesn't require much getting-up-to-speed would be better done by an LLM. If it requires strategic thinking, it should be packaged and compensated accordingly.
Second question, how do do your experts deal with context-switching? If I had to do 20 different freelance jobs a day, I'd get tired, which would make me reduce them to 10, at which point I won't be making much money, unless they're full projects, in which case I'd rather go to Upwork or TopTal.
And what's special about how you curate quality versus a freelance marketplace? At 10,000 experts, that's a lot of of competition.
@amina_a Thanks.
Let's say someone's day rate is $500 right now. If they worked exclusively with you, will they have full utilisation of their day, without 20 micro jobs?
If I understand correctly, what you do is effectively like an Upwork API/MCP for Cursor, where it launches the jobs, answers questions on context and routes complex Q's to the employer (e.g. a founder sitting behind Cursor). is that correct?
Finally — let's say I ask for a landing page copy and design review. You mentioned 3-8 hour turnaround. I think a job like this is a slippery slope to delegate to someone without vested interest, or the time to really get stuck-in with what my startup does. What would you suggest here? Founders are often unclear on expectations, I know I am, until they see the work. What are your thoughts on handling this? Perhaps the first part of a job is about a human-in-the-loop Q&A so that the expert truly gets what the Founder wants, before starting the job. The expert asks questions to the LLM, the LLM translates to founder-speak and pushes back until it's actually clear, especially when it comes to things that involve a founder's "gut-feel"? If that's how that's done, I'd be down to use it. Otherwise, I'd be worried that the expert began work prematurely and Cursor didn't accurately convey what I wanted.
In other words, I talk to Cursor with stream-of-consciousness, especially since starting to use Wispr Flow. It's a lot. If an expert gets that, I'd be worried their brief is lopsided. The reason is that startups push past the existing knowledge space, so the LLM's stick to what they were trained on to make sense of a topic. So I'd either want to iterate the brief until I've basically done the work, or I'd want the expert to be aware of this and ask grilling "what the F does this mean?" questions until I'm comfortable that my ambitions for the asset/job/project are properly conveyed. It's the same as onboarding a new employee. What do you think?
@ddur How is it a different use case? You're launching it to the ProductHunt community. It's all power users of vibe coding apps.
I'm not asking if it I replaces Cursor at all. I'm asking how does it fit into the workflow of vibecoders and solo founders who need human advice for parts of their work.
Any job needs a clear brief. Good freelancerd always ensure they understand the brief. How is that "obviously" a different use case?
How is that personal to me?
Maybe I'm seeing things a different way, though. What's your target market?
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congrats on the launch team Toloka 👏
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@thepetermick Thank you so much! We’re excited to be live on Product Hunt today 🙌
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@thepetermick thanks Peter, we can't wait to hear how Tendem brings value to your work!
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@thepetermick THANK YOU
@thepetermick Appreciate it ☺️ The team has put so much into this — comments like this make the launch day nerves worth it!
@thepetermick Thank you so much! We're so excited to see how people work in Tendem!
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World class team behind it! 🫰
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@andrew_yaroshevsky Thank you:)
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Exciting stuff! Just one ask: share the most interesting use cases as they're added🙏
@petr_antropov1 Thank you so much! Oh absolutely, we'll be sharing real life user stories all over our socials: LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram
Wow, it sounds like a dream come true for an early-stage founder! Going to check it and come back with the feedback)
@anna_master Yes, please do! We'd love to learn how you work in Tendem