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Building Tendos AI: How an Agent Swarm Turns Construction Emails into Quotes
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- Just Now Possible
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- Jan 15, 2026
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- 3946
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Summary
When a construction company receives a bid request, someone has to open that email, parse the attached PDF (sometimes 1,800 pages describing an entire building), figure out which products are relevant, look up pricing, and draft a quote—all before the deadline. It's tedious, error-prone, and surprisingly manual. In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Daniel Kappler (CTO, Product & Design) and Matthias Hilscher (CTO, Engineering) from Tendos AI about how they're automating this entire workflow for manufacturers in the construction industry. What started as a narrow prototype matching radiator requests to product catalogs has grown into a full agentic system that handles everything from email categorization to offer generation. You'll hear how they validated the opportunity with a design partner, spent a week on-site watching users work, and built a multi-agent architecture where specialized agents collaborate—complete with a "review agent" that checks the work of other agents before anything reaches a human. They dig into why they evaluate each agent independently (not just the whole chain), why they built custom observability tools when off-the-shelf solutions fell short, and how human-in-the-loop feedback is pushing them toward a self-learning system.