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Tensai

The execution engine of every programme.

Where development finally makes impact.

Tensai is the AI coach that powers the Execute stage of our method. It turns what happens in a workshop into an execution plan, supports your managers the moment they are stuck, and holds them to it between sessions. The part of development that usually evaporates is the part Tensai owns.

Inside every focus area · Tensai powers Execute

Prime

Initial workshop in a focus area, to confront the real problem and commit to action.

Execute

Day-to-day execution by every manager, through execution plans Tensai holds them to.

Powered by Tensai

Elevate

Final workshop in a focus area, to troubleshoot, scale what worked and kill what did not.

Knows your context

In the platform, Slack and Teams

Built into every programme

The gap Tensai fills

The reason your previous programmes haven't worked isn't the content. It's the structure and accountability between the sessions.

You have seen it before. The workshop is brilliant. People leave energised. Then a manic Monday arrives and there is nobody there. No cadence. No accountability. No support outside the room. Within a fortnight it has faded back to business as usual.

It is the same reason most online learning goes untouched. Not because the material is poor, but because nobody is engaged and nobody knows how to make it work for their own job, with the real pressures on their own plate.

Tensai is the answer to that gap. It is the layer that makes follow-through happen day to day.

Training is not the scarce resource. Execution is. Without execution, training is theatre.

Meet Tensai

Not a chatbot. An execution partner that knows you.

Tensai is the AI management and leadership coach inside a 10X programme. Its whole job is to support your managers and hold them accountable across their development, and to keep going between the rooms. The idea is simple: world-class coaching, on demand, that already knows your context.

01

Knows your context

Tensai holds knowledge on your business, your goals and your challenges. Every answer is grounded in your real situation, the work actually on your plate, not generic advice off the shelf.

02

Always on

In the platform, or right inside Slack and Teams. The moment you are stuck, not three weeks later at the next session. One continuous conversation across every surface.

03

Holds you to it

Tensai turns talk into an execution plan and nudges you until it is done. It is the cadence, accountability and follow-through the workshop alone never had. Action becomes the default, not the hope.

The Execution Plan

Initiated post-workshop

From a great workshop to a plan you are actually held to.

The moment a workshop ends, Tensai opens a debrief. It is a guided conversation, built exclusively with you, that turns what landed in the room into a clear roadmap for solving the problem in front of you.

Tensai proposes the activities. You approve each one and set a date. You walk away not with notes, but with committed, time-boxed actions, an Execution Plan, that Tensai will hold you to.

Your Execution Plan

Built with Tensai

Map the root cause with a structured 1-to-1

Day 2

Draft and rehearse a firm-but-fair feedback script

Day 4

Hold the conversation, then debrief with Tensai

Day 5

Agree a 30-day improvement plan together

Day 8

Not just for programme days

Any manager can open Tensai and hit Solve a Challenge to build an execution plan for whatever is on their plate right now. A stalled project, a tricky hire, a team that is not gelling. The same guided plan, on any problem, whenever they need it.

Coaching Connect

On-demand, wherever you work

Stuck on a Tuesday afternoon? Just ask.

On top of the support and accountability Tensai carries across the whole partnership, it is also an on-demand coach your managers can reach the moment they need one. Through Coaching Connect in the platform, or right inside the tools they already live in. Message Tensai in Slack or Microsoft Teams and pick up the same conversation, with the same context, wherever you are.

It stays on what matters: leadership and management, grounded in your situation. Real coaching, not search results.

In-platform

Microsoft Teams

Slack

Real questions managers bring to Tensai

I have a top performer who has started missing deadlines. How do I get to the root cause without knocking their confidence?

Act as my report and role-play a performance review with me, then debrief and tell me what I could do better.

I am inheriting a team through a restructure. Their roles are changing and they will need to drop work. How do I lead them through it?

I need to give some hard, constructive feedback and I am nervous about it. How do I build my confidence for the conversation?

I find delegation hard. How do I decide what to hand over instead of just doing it myself?

How do I manage up and influence my own manager more effectively?

How do I support someone who wants to progress but has no idea where they want to go?

I have a new exec starting today. What is the best way to onboard them well in their first weeks?

What managers actually work on with Tensai

Difficult conversationsGiving feedbackDelegationManaging upPerformance managementDeveloping talentTeam conflictChange and restructuresPrioritisationOne-to-onesOnboardingMotivation and engagement

Tensai · The Execute engine

Most development is a moment in a room. Tensai makes it momentum.

See how Tensai turns a workshop into action that compounds, day after day, between the sessions. Let us show you it working inside a programme.

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