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The World's Most Versatile Video Answering Engine
Tenyks (YC S21) is a Cambridge University spin-out building the World's Most Versatile Visual Intelligence Platform—think Snowflake for Vision or GPT for Video. Problem: Companies today collect oceans of visual data (from cameras, drones, and satellites), but struggle to extract actionable insights. Current solutions rely heavily on manual analysis by call centres in locations like the Philippines or AI platforms narrowly focused on security rather than deeper operational insights. This leaves critical improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, and revenue growth unrealised. Solution: Tenyks unlocks unprecedented insights by applying advanced multimodal Vision-Language Models (VLMs) capable of comprehensive video summarisation, retrieval, and visual question-answering. These VLMs are seamlessly combined with specialised analytics for emotion detection, activity recognition, object tracking, and even gait analysis. Our platform transforms ordinary visual footage into extraordinary operational intelligence. Initial Focus: Starting with Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), we enable operations leaders to instantly understand customer flow, kitchen efficiency, staff productivity, and quality of service using their existing security camera footage—turning previously inaccessible data into direct operational improvements and clear financial ROI. For instance, insights from Tenyks can accelerate the speed of service significantly; even a 1-second improvement in service speed could generate $30,000 additional annual revenue per restaurant. For a multi-unit owner of 100 restaurants, that's an additional $3 million per year. Traction: We've recently secured our first Fortune 500 customer, joining other major enterprises, global system integrators, and high-growth startups trusting Tenyks for powerful, data-driven decision-making. Why Tenyks: Our patented technology originates from the founders' PhD research at Cambridge University. Previously, we helped world-leading teams scale high-performing Vision AI in production. Recognition: Recognised as a Rising Star in Gen AI by Sifted, Best Product of the Year by Vision AI Alliance, and Company of the Year by Cambridge University (previously awarded to DeepMind).
Tenyks offers Visual Intelligence and Video AI Agents designed to optimize restaurant operations. Their platform leverages existing surveillance cameras to deliver real-time insights, improving service speed, labor optimization, guest experience, and order accuracy without new hardware.
The product turns existing security cameras into business intelligence tools, providing real-time analytics and alerts that optimize drive-thru flow, staffing, guest satisfaction, and order precision. It tracks wait times, queues, and customer experience metrics, automatically analyzes historical traffic to suggest staffing levels, automates scheduling, and flags issues to staff immediately so corrective actions can be taken before impact on sales.
Who it’s for: Restaurants and quick-service establishments seeking operational excellence, with emphasis on drive-thru, throughput, and labor optimization.
Customers: McDonald's (reference quote in materials)
Customer case studies and testimonials, multiple restaurant/operator references, onboarding and real-time monitoring emphasis
Dr. Botty Dimanov, CEO & Co-Founder of Tenyks, holds a PhD in Explainable AI for Vision from Cambridge University, invented US Patent for extracting concepts from visual information, and is a Forbes 30U30 honouree. Tenyks is an award-winning Cambridge University spin-out backed by YCombinator. We are building probably the world's most advanced Visual Intelligence Platform – think Snowflake for Visual data.
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