21 October 2026

Tenex pays engineers for outcomes and scales that model to 75 staff

• Tenex, an applied AI consulting firm, pays its engineers for delivered results rather than hours worked.
• The firm has grown to 75 people while keeping this outcome-based pay model.
• Its leaders argue pay should also reward work that never shows up as a ticket, such as understanding customers and designing architecture.

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