Tenure
Fall 2026 pilot

Every org. And the office that stewards them.

Tenure’s first deployment runs in Fall 2026 with Simon’s Office of Student Engagement, across the organizations it stewards and the office’s own administrators, the record below and the oversight above on one system. What follows is the operating detail: who does what, what you hand over to onboard, how support works, and what the term is measured against.

01Status

Fall 2026. The first deployment.

Simon’s Office of Student Engagement runs Tenure across the organizations it stewards for the Fall term. This page is the operating detail: scope, who does what, what we need from you to onboard, how support works, and what the term is measured against.

Where this stands today

7 questions a reviewer asks first

Status
Going ahead for the Fall 2026 term with Simon’s Office of Student Engagement.
Commercial terms
None. The first term is unpaid, no fee, no purchase order, no invoice, and nothing to procure.
Scope
Every organization the office stewards, and the office’s own oversight seats above them, on one record.
Term
One academic term, beginning Fall 2026, then a review against the measures at the foot of this page.
How organizations join
Through the office. Nothing is applied for separately, the office decides the roster and the seat map comes from it.
Cost
Free for the pilot term, see Terms, Fees. Beyond it, pricing is per portfolio rather than per organization, and any figure would be a separate written agreement signed in advance, not an update to a page. A walkthrough costs nothing.
Who would sign
The pilot term runs on a written scope agreed with the office rather than a purchase order. When pricing begins it is a separate written agreement, signed in advance.
02The proposal

The operational detail, section by section.

Open whichever answers the question you arrived with. A pilot fails on the work nobody agreed to do, so all of it is written down rather than left to a conversation.

Pilot proposal

seven sections · nothing here is a commitment

7 sections
  • Who takes part

    5 parties

    The five parties and the real obligation attached to each, including what we would owe you.

    • The office

      Director and staff seats in the administration console

      Decides whether the pilot happens at all, names one staff owner for the term, and says which approvals genuinely route through Tenure instead of email. Everything else follows from those three decisions.

    • Each organization in scope

      President, treasurer, and the other seats the organization actually runs on

      Does its ordinary work inside Tenure for the term: spending, events, members, documents and decisions logged where they happen rather than reconstructed afterwards.

    • Incoming officers

      The same seat, held in shadow before the term begins

      Reads the seat’s record before taking it over. Read-only until the start date, then write access follows automatically, nobody hands over a password.

    • Advisors attached to organizations

      Advisor tier, one capability of the sixteen in the console

      Read the limit before provisioning them. The Advisor tier’s one capability is reading the institution-wide audit log, and an institution account can currently read every organization’s budget, roster and documents, not only the ones it advises.

    • Us

      Almamy Diaby and Satvik Adyanthaya

      Build the first version of the record with you, answer at one email address for the whole term, and own it when something does not work.

  • Who does what

    6 ours7 yours

    The split we would propose, in two columns, so nobody discovers it halfway through the term.

    Tenure provides

    Us, and the product as it is actually built today.

    The setup itself
    We stand up the institution, the organizations, the seat map and the first version of the record with your staff in the room. Nobody is handed an empty account and a manual.
    A workspace per organization, and a console above them
    Finance, events, members, documents and decisions in one place per organization; sixteen named capabilities across three nested staff tiers for the office, where both allows and denials are written to the audit trail.
    Approvals that leave a record
    Every approval runs the same two gates, across all seven request types. Each decision permanently records who decided, the seat they held at that moment, what the request moved from and to, and whether someone acted on another seat’s behalf.
    The handoff packet
    Assembled from the record, seats, current and previous holders, open approvals, deadlines and budget position, rather than written by the outgoing officer. It contains no AI.
    Deadlines and reminders
    A deadline the office publishes once reaches every organization, and reminders fire from scheduled infrastructure without anyone opening the app. Delivery is in-app only: no email, no push notifications.
    Import, not data entry
    Budget spreadsheets are matched column by column however your treasurers named them, with a preview before anything is saved. Documents open inside Tenure rather than downloading to a laptop.

    The office provides

    The parts nobody outside your institution can do for you.

    A decision, and the authority behind it
    Somebody who can say yes for the office, and route it through whatever security review and procurement your institution requires. /trust is written for exactly that review, send it before you send us.
    One named owner for the term
    A staff member we can ask questions and who can answer for the office. Without a name, a pilot stalls in its second week and nobody notices until the term is half gone.
    The roster
    Which organizations are in scope, what seats each one carries, and who holds them right now.
    The material that already exists
    The drives, folders, budget spreadsheets and handbooks the office and its organizations already keep. In whatever shape they are in, cleaning them up first is our job, not yours.
    A decision about approvals
    Which request types actually run through Tenure this term. Approvals that stay in email do not appear in the record, and that is a choice the office makes deliberately rather than a defect it discovers later.
    A judgement about data
    Which record types are in scope for the first term, and which stay out until institutional SSO lands. Agreed up front rather than at the security review.
    Officers who use it
    The record fills because the work happens inside it. If a board keeps running on a group chat and a shared drive, the next board inherits a group chat and a shared drive.
  • What you would hand over

    6 inputs

    Concretely, and in the shape you already have it. Nothing has to be tidied up first.

    • A roster of organizations and seats

      Shape: A spreadsheet, an export from wherever you keep it, or an hour on a call with someone who knows it by heart.

      Who does the work: Office staff supply it. We build the seat map from it.

    • Current officers and how to reach them

      Shape: Names, the seat each one holds, institutional email.

      Who does the work: Office staff supply it. Accounts are created by us in advance, against a named person, there is no self-service signup.

    • Each organization’s existing drive or folder

      Shape: A folder export, a shared-drive link handed over with the organization’s agreement, or files dragged in by the officers who own them.

      Who does the work: Whoever holds it today exports it. We do the first import alongside them rather than sending instructions.

    • Budget spreadsheets

      Shape: Excel or CSV, columns named however the treasurer named them, subtotal rows and all.

      Who does the work: Officers upload. The importer matches the columns and shows a preview before anything is saved.

    • The office’s handbooks and policy documents

      Shape: PDF or Word.

      Who does the work: Office staff supply. They are stored and findable by title and description, file contents are not indexed, and the assistant cannot answer policy questions out of them.

    • The deadline calendar the office already publishes

      Shape: The dates, and what each one is for.

      Who does the work: Office staff supply. Published once, then every organization sees it and each person is reminded once.

  • The sequence

    not dates

    Five moves in order, an order of operations, not a schedule. No calendar exists yet.

    There is a new system to learn. It is where the work happens, or the record does not fill, and no page on this site is going to tell you otherwise. What there is not is a migration project: we do the first import from your existing drives with you, and after that the record fills as officers do the work they were already doing.

    1. 01

      Decide, and write it down

      Before anything is built: the office decides whether to run this, and the scope, the organizations, the data, the support expectations and the measures below go into one document both sides sign. Nothing on this page is a substitute for that document.

    2. 02

      Stand up the record together

      We build the institution, the organizations and the seat map from your roster, import the drives and budget spreadsheets with the people who own them, and load the office’s deadlines. This is the heaviest stretch for your staff, and the part we do most of.

    3. 03

      Run the term in it

      Spending, events, members, documents and the approvals the office chose to route here happen in Tenure. What is not done in Tenure is not in the record, that is the mechanism, and it is also the risk.

    4. 04

      Rotate

      As officers turn over, the incoming holder joins the seat in shadow before their term starts and reads it; the outgoing holder moves to alumni, keeping the record and losing the access. The handoff packet is assembled from what is there.

    5. 05

      Review against the measures

      At the end of the term we go through the counts below with the office, and the office decides whether anything continues. If the numbers are bad they are still the numbers, and we bring them either way.

  • Support

    no SLA

    Direct access to the team that builds it, and the response times that come with that.

    You would work directly with Almamy Diaby and Satvik Adyanthaya for the whole pilot. One address reaches both of us, and we answer the same day, most days , which is a description of how we work, not a service level anyone has agreed to.

    The people who wrote the code are the people who answer, and what your office needs shapes what gets built next. Response times and a named escalation contact are agreed in the written scope, where they belong, rather than asserted on a web page.

    • Onboarding is done with you, live. It is not handed over as documentation and a login.
    • A bug goes to the same inbox as everything else, and is answered by one of the two people who will fix it.
    • What the office needs during the term is what we work on during the term, ahead of our own roadmap.
    • An automated suite runs against a real database on every release, so a regression is caught before it ships rather than during your term.
    • Anything above that matters to you goes into the written scope, which is what the term actually runs on.
  • How data, access and approvals work

    8 areas

    The entries a pilot decision actually turns on.

    The parts an office and its security reviewer ask about first. Security carries the full control register with its sources.

    • Who can read what

      Access attaches to the seat, not the person: shadow before the term, active during it, alumni after. Institution staff work through a console of sixteen capabilities across three strictly nested tiers, and the tier decides which actions are even offered.

    • How approvals are decided

      Two gates across seven request types. Every step permanently records the deciding seat, what the request moved from and to, and whether a backup approver acted on another seat’s behalf. Requests show how long they have sat in a gate, flagged at three days and again at six.

    • What gets written down

      Privileged actions append an audit row, and refusals are recorded alongside successes, which is what lets an office prove that something did not happen. Rows are only ever created: no update, delete or upsert against the audit table exists anywhere in the application.

    • Where the record lives

      The database and the document store are encrypted at rest, and no document is served from a raw URL: every download is a signed link that expires in ten minutes.

    • What leaves our infrastructure

      Tenure AI assembles its corpus under the asking person’s own permissions before anything is ranked, then sends the retrieved record text to the model provider’s API to compose the answer. the model provider is the only model subprocessor, and no records are used to train any model by us.

    • Signing in

      Accounts are created by us in advance against a named person. There is no public registration and no self-service signup.

    • What connects to what

      Files, decisions and documents live in Tenure itself. The one link outward is a signed calendar feed that Outlook, Google Calendar and Apple Calendar can subscribe to, showing each person only what they can already see.

    • What happens at the end of the term

      The record stays, and history is not deleted by design: a seat carrying assignments, holdings or knowledge refuses deletion and is retired instead, and an outgoing officer is revoked to alumni rather than removed.

  • How success is measured

    6 targetsnone measured yet

    Six targets we would accept being judged on, each countable from the record itself.

    Every line below is a target, not a result. No pilot has run, nothing here has been measured, and any outcome number on this page would be invented. Each one is countable from the record itself, which means each one can fail visibly , that is the point. They would be agreed and written down before the term starts.

    • Target

      Every organization in scope has a seat map that is actually populated

      Counted as: seats created and held by named people, per organization, before the first rotation. If the roster never gets built, this fails in public and early.

    • Target

      Incoming officers are in the seat before their term starts

      Counted as: the share of rotating seats carrying a named shadow holder who has opened the record before the handover date.

    • Target

      The approvals the office agreed to route here are decided here

      Counted as: approval decisions with a recorded deciding seat, against the volume the office expected for the term. The approvals that stayed in email are the measure of what did not work.

    • Target

      Decisions do not sit

      Counted as: the share of approvals cleared before the three-day flag, using the flags the product already applies at three and six days.

    • Target

      The handoff happens without anyone writing a handoff document

      Counted as: packets opened by incoming officers, and, separately, whether an outgoing officer still felt they had to write a document anyway. The second half is a conversation, not a number, and we would report it as one.

    • Target

      The office would run it again

      Counted as: the office’s own written answer at the end of the term, whatever that answer is.

    A measure that cannot be counted out of the record does not go on the list. If we miss one, you get the number rather than the narrative.

Nothing in these seven sections is a substitute for the written scope in step 01 of the sequence. Read them as the detail we would put into that document, not as the document.

03 · The decision

The next step is a conversation, and then a document.

There is nothing to sign on this page and no button that enrols anyone. If the office decides not to run a pilot, the honest cost of having read this far is an hour.

  1. 01

    A walkthrough

    On one of your own organizations and its real handoff, not a canned demo.

  2. 02

    A written scope

    Organizations, data, the dates you set, support expectations and the measures above, in one document.

  3. 03

    Your review

    Security and procurement, with /trust as the input. Ask us for whatever it does not answer.

  4. 04

    A decision

    Which can be no. Nothing on this page enrols anyone, and nothing here has to be undone.