>>>> AI-Powered Operations for American Manufacturers
Automating Procurement, Sourcing, and Supply Chain to Cut Costs by 20%+ and Source Raw Materials 9x Faster, Without Hiring a Single New Employee, Ripping Out Your ERP, or Paying a Dime for Software.
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You spend 3 hours every morning manually reviewing quotes because vendors can’t hold a price.
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Half your week disappears into compliance paperwork - COAs, SDSs, ESG reports.
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Your operators are buried chasing quotes and shipments instead of running production.
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Every time a key employee leaves, the operational knowledge walks out the door with them.
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One shipping delay, one port backup, and your entire production schedule unravels.
You didn’t build your plant to spend your days buried in administrative drudgery.
You built it to make things.
Tariffs shift overnight. Material costs swing 20% in a quarter. Compliance requirements multiply every quarter. The manufacturers who’ve automated procurement, freight, and vendor management are reducing costs by 20%+ and sourcing 9x faster. The ones still running on spreadsheets and phone calls aren’t falling behind because they lack skill - they lack leverage.
Tenkara exists because its founder, Ben Stern, spent a decade building two manufacturing plants from scratch and learned the same painful lesson most owners learn: the tools don’t exist for the problems you actually face.
ERP systems record what happened yesterday. AI dashboards give you charts but don’t take a single task off your plate. Tenkara was built with a single conviction: American manufacturers deserve an operational brain that works as hard as they do.
This isn’t software you manage. It’s the full operating brain your plant has been missing.
Before Tenkara:
3 hours every morning reviewing volatile quotes
One late vendor shuts down production
$100K ops manager doing $20/hr data entry
Compliance docs scattered everywhere
Key employee leaves, knowledge is gone
You find out about delays after they hit
Monthly software subscription nobody uses
After Tenkara:
AI agents collect and shortlist quotes automatically
52 vendors identified, 14 qualified, 11 quoted - before you finish your coffee
1 operator does the work of 9
100% of COAs and SDSs tracked automatically
Everything stored in one foundational system
Real-time tracking flags problems before your supplier admits them
We earn only when transactions flow
75+
AI Agents working around the clock
5,000+
Materials managed across the platform
20%+
Average procurement cost reduction
9x
Faster raw material sourcing
These aren’t chatbots. They’re specialized manufacturing agents built with real supply chain logic. There’s an agent that calculates true landed cost. An agent that requests payment terms on your behalf. An agent that flags delays before they become crises. The kind of workforce you’d need a dozen hires to replicate.
Imagine three new vendors qualified overnight - certs verified, capacity confirmed, competitive quotes in your inbox. You didn’t make a single phone call.
Imagine your ops manager spending the full day on strategic work instead of buried in emails chasing a late shipment.
Imagine knowing your true landed cost on every order before you commit. No surprise fees. No margin guesswork.
Imagine a key employee gives notice and nothing breaks. Every vendor, spec, and compliance doc is in the system.
That’s not a fantasy. That’s what Tenkara is already delivering.
Margins improve
No more over-buffering quotes or getting blindsided by cost swings.
Teams get sharper
One operator does the work of five. Hire to grow, not to fill gaps.
Stress drops
The system holds the knowledge and manages the follow-ups. You manage the business.
Supplier relationships improve
Consistent, professional communication that never drops the ball.
Compliance becomes airtight
Every COA, SDS, and certification - tracked and audit-ready.
Time comes back
Hours lost to procurement drudgery become hours spent on growth.
Growth stops meaning more chaos
More output, same lean team.
Result: 20% cost reduction across managed products.
“Tenkara allows us to run a procurement team of 5 with basically 1 single operator. Everyone here gets much more done per person.”
Connor Blakley, CEO, The Dropout Companies
Result: 8x increase in approved suppliers. 10 hours/week saved.
“Tenkara saves SOOO much time, and ends the supplier back and forth time wasters. Saves us a ton of money too on material costs.”
Lani Lazzari, CEO, Simple Sugars
Result: Recovered 4 weeks of lead time from an 8-week delay. Net 60 terms.
“Tenkara is a must-have for chemical manufacturers. This really helps manufacturers understand the effects of delays and better yet, combat them.”
David Zamarin, CEO, Impermea Materials
Result: Hundreds of thousands saved via alternative supplier identification.
“We’ve saved hundreds of thousands with Tenkara. Their software has identified alternative suppliers that help offset price hikes from tariffs.”
AJ Agrawal, CEO, Elm & Rye
Result: Expects 20% more revenue. 3-day average quote turnaround.
“The proof is in production.”
Nathan Stern, Director of Operations,
Fuel Kitchens
Result: Full automation of quality and compliance documentation.
“Tenkara helps us automate and digitize quality and compliance documentation. It’s an unbelievable time saver.”
Deep Patel, CEO, Ulo
Tenkara is different. It sits inside the actual flow of money and goods through your operation. Because the platform manages procurement, freight, and vendor communication in real time, it has both the data and the authority to make decisions on your behalf - before problems become crises.
This is why the platform is free. Tenkara earns only when transactions flow through the system. Your success and Tenkara’s success are structurally the same thing.
No subscription. No seat licenses. No implementation fees.
Step 1
Move your vendor, spec, and compliance data into Tenkara. One source of truth that doesn’t depend on any one person.
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75+ agents begin managing procurement, freight, vendor outreach, and compliance - around the clock.
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Your back-office bottleneck disappears. Your team stops firefighting and starts building.
No six-month implementation. No consultant army. No ripping out your existing systems.
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