Teneo
Also known as: Artificial Solutions, Teneo TLML
Mature enterprise agentic AI platform for the contact center, pairing a low code agent builder with LLM orchestration that routes each step of an interaction to a chosen model, output control, and omnichannel reach at massive scale.
Teneo is an enterprise agentic AI platform built for the contact center by Teneo AI, the Swedish company formerly known as Artificial Solutions. Teneo AI cites more than two decades of history, over seven patents, and more than seventeen thousand AI agents in production across global enterprises.
It names Telefonica Germany, which it says handles over nine hundred thousand calls a month, and HelloFresh as customers, and it reports one enterprise saving over thirty two million dollars a month. Teneo pairs a low code AI Agent Builder for composing agents from reusable skills, tools, and goals with a native orchestration layer. Teneo reports ninety percent voice call containment and ninety nine percent intent accuracy across more than eighty languages.
Model orchestration is the center of the platform. Teneo is not locked to any model provider: its native LLM Orchestration routes each step of each interaction to a chosen model, whether from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, or a custom endpoint. High complexity prompts go to advanced reasoning models and routine queries to lean variants. Teneo says this routing, which it traces to Stanford research on FrugalGPT, cuts model costs by up to ninety eight percent while holding accuracy. Enterprises can change or validate their model choices with no code changes and no downtime.
Control is the second pillar. Teneo describes one hundred percent output control, validating every response so that no raw model output reaches a customer, and it maintains a deterministic fallback for critical processes using its proprietary TLML language. Cases that need judgment escalate to human agents.
Agents orchestrate autonomously, select workflows, take actions, and coordinate with one another, while a multi agent architecture lets specialized agents share context and collaborate. Teneo grounds answers with its Knowledge AI retrieval augmented generation across databases, document stores, and data lakes, with control over every retrieval step and enforced personally identifiable information security.
Teneo connects to any business system, from customer relationship management to contact center as a service, through its Public application programming interface with no fixed connector list, and it supports the Model Context Protocol and an agent to agent protocol on open standards.
It runs across voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp, web, and social channels with native contact center integrations, and it documents immutable audit trails, protection against prompt injection, and unified customer memory across channels. Certifications are not documented on any Teneo security, trust or compliance page, so buyers should ask for the SOC 2 report directly. Computer use and customer controlled deployment are not documented: Teneo runs on its own containerized platform on Microsoft Azure.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://teneo.ai
Category
Agent builder
Subcategory
Enterprise contact center agent platform with per-step LLM orchestration and deterministic fallback
Funding status
Independent. The company issues press releases as Teneo AI AB, a Swedish company, and previously operated as Artificial Solutions. Over two decades of history in natural language technology with more than seven patents. CTO Andreas Wieweg. The vendor cites more than seventeen thousand AI agents in production, customers including Telefonica Germany handling over nine hundred thousand calls a month and HelloFresh, and one enterprise saving over thirty-two million dollars a month. Sold sales-led with quote-based enterprise pricing; the vendor states LLM orchestration carries no additional cost.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Deployment options
Integrations
Connection is through a Public API with no fixed connector list, which the vendor presents as deliberate: any business system can be reached rather than only those on an approved roster, spanning CRM, EHR, global distribution and contact-center-as-a-service systems, with native integrations into major CCaaS platforms. Model Context Protocol provides tool access and an agent-to-agent protocol allows interoperability with agents built elsewhere, both on open standards. Development runs on two tracks: a low-code AI Agent Builder composing agents from reusable skills, tools and goals, and pro-code TLML for deterministic logic. Knowledge AI ingests, indexes and queries databases, document stores and data lakes, running against AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, OpenSearch, AI Search or any custom endpoint. Models are switchable across GPT-4o, Claude 3, LLaMA 3.1, Falcon, PaLM 2, Stable LM 2, Gemini and Mixtral plus custom endpoints, selected per step of an interaction. Channels cover voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp, web and social in more than eighty languages. Hosting is the vendor's own containerized platform on Microsoft Azure.
In practice
A telecom fields hundreds of thousands of calls a month. Teneo voice agents contain ninety percent of them at ninety nine percent intent accuracy across dozens of languages, routing each conversation step to the most cost effective model and escalating only genuine edge cases.
A bank cannot risk a hallucinated answer reaching a customer. Teneo validates every response before it is sent, falls back to deterministic logic for critical processes, and grounds answers in the bank's own documents through Knowledge AI retrieval.
An enterprise wants to avoid model lock in as new models ship weekly. Teneo orchestrates OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and custom endpoints from one platform, letting the team switch or validate models with no code changes and no downtime.
Sources & related URLs
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Research sources
Agentic Index coverage score
9.5 / 14 capabilities · 68%
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The vendor documents connecting to any business system through a Public API with no fixed connector list, naming customer relationship management, electronic health record, global distribution and contact-center-as-a-service systems, with native integrations into major contact center platforms. Model Context Protocol is supported for tool access and an agent-to-agent protocol for interoperability with externally built agents, both described as open standards. Real-time data integration is documented as personalizing responses from customer sentiment, location and interaction history. No connector inventory is published, so the split between prebuilt integrations and customer-wired API connections cannot be verified. Sourceteneo.ai home, ai-agent-platform and platform/orchestration-of-ai-agents pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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The vendor documents unifying LLM orchestration, agent management and enterprise AI in one platform, with a native no-code environment for creating flexible, goal-driven agents that the vendor contrasts with basic intent recognition. Agents are documented autonomously selecting workflows, breaking down complex tasks, taking actions, escalating, and coordinating with one another, with multi-agent collaboration over an agent-to-agent protocol allowing specialized agents to share context. The vendor states over seventeen thousand agents are in production, with a named telecommunications customer handling more than nine hundred thousand calls per month. No branching, looping or conditional control-flow primitives are named. Sourceteneo.ai platform/orchestration-of-ai-agents, platform/agenticai and ai-agent-platform pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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The vendor documents Knowledge AI connecting to proprietary or public databases, document stores and data lakes to ingest, index and query the customer's knowledge base, with Teneo RAG usable against AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, OpenSearch, AI Search and any custom model endpoint. End-to-end visibility, monitoring and control is documented over every retrieval and augmentation step, with enterprise-grade PII security enforced. Generative entity extraction enhances intent understanding, and Adaptive Answers capture sentiment, conversation history, age and location to adapt output. Sourceteneo.ai platform/teneo-llm-orchestration page, teneo.ai platform/agenticai and orchestration pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Partial |
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The vendor documents guardrails at scale for accuracy, relevance and safety, protection against prompt injection, validation of every response before it reaches a customer, a deterministic fallback in its TLML language for critical processes, and escalation to human agents for cases needing judgment. Those are runtime constraints and agent-initiated escalation. No approval step in the run path, where a person reviews and approves an agent's action before it executes, is documented. Sourceteneo.ai platform pages and home pageread 2026-09-29 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Partial |
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The vendor's platform pages document enforced enterprise-grade PII security across every retrieval and augmentation step, protection against prompt injection and immutable audit trails. Teneo's marketing elsewhere mentions GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA and CCPA, role-based access control and a Security Center, but none of them is stated on teneo.ai's product pages, the site has no security, trust or compliance page, and the homepage names no certification. Teneo's trust material, if any, sits at a separate address, trust.teneo.ai. Sourceteneo.ai platform pages and homepageread 2026-09-29 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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The vendor documents end-to-end visibility, monitoring and control over every retrieval and augmentation step within the RAG pipeline, and visual real-time insight into which models and goals each agent uses and how flows are triggered. Immutable audit trails are documented alongside tracking of every interaction, with a Security Center described as built into the platform architecture. Trace contents, retention, and export to a customer's own monitoring or SIEM system are not documented. Sourceteneo.ai platform/teneo-llm-orchestration and platform/orchestration-of-ai-agents pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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The vendor documents Unified Customer Memory retaining preferences, past interactions and historical data across channels to personalize experiences, with cross-channel context retention. Adaptive Answers capture sentiment, conversation history, age and location during an interaction and adapt output accordingly. No capability is documented for an agent to retain what it learned across cases, carry conclusions between unrelated interactions, or update its own behavior from corrections, and no documentation of what memory stores, retention periods or governance was reached. Sourceteneo.ai platform/agenticai, platform/teneo-llm-orchestration and ai-agent-platform pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Not documented |
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The vendor's CTO describes a self-scaling, containerized platform in the Microsoft Azure Cloud that ensures seamless scalability without manual intervention during peak call volumes, which is the vendor's own elastic hosting rather than customer-controlled deployment. Teneo RAG is documented as usable against AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, OpenSearch and custom endpoints, which is model and retrieval infrastructure choice rather than platform deployment location. No on-premises installation, deployment into a customer subscription, virtual private cloud option, customer-managed encryption keys or selectable region is documented, and the vendor publishes no deployment or architecture page. Sourceteneo.ai platform pages, Teneo AI AB LLM Orchestration launch release; news.cision.com/teneo-ai-ab/r/teneo-ai-unveils-groundbreaking-llm-orchestration-solution-for-customer-service-automation,c4045168read 2026-08-31 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Partial |
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The vendor documents reusable modular skills, tools and goals from which agents are composed in a low-code AI Agent Builder, with those components updatable centrally and deployed instantly across all running agents. Templates are referenced, but no template library, agent gallery, or named set of prebuilt industry-specific agents is published. The building blocks are defined and reused by the customer rather than supplied ready-made by the vendor. Sourceteneo.ai ai-agent-platform, platform/agenticai and platform/orchestration-of-ai-agents pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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The vendor documents deploying agents across voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp, web, social and messaging channels from a single platform, with native contact center integrations into major CCaaS platforms, supporting more than eighty languages. Vendor-reported figures cite over seventeen thousand agents in production, a named telecommunications customer handling more than nine hundred thousand calls a month, and ninety percent voice call containment. Real-time data integration personalizes responses during an interaction. No scheduled or event-driven invocation independent of an inbound customer contact is documented. Sourceteneo.ai ai-agent-platform, home and platform/agenticai pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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The vendor's LLM Orchestration launch states businesses can switch between any generative AI or large language model, naming GPT-4o, Claude 3, LLaMA 3.1, Falcon 180B, PaLM 2, Stable LM 2, Gemini Ultra 1.0 and Mixtral, with the CTO describing seamless switching between models while maintaining performance and cost efficiency. The platform page documents Teneo RAG running against AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, OpenSearch, AI Search and any custom model endpoint. Model selection is documented as operating per step of an interaction with routing by complexity, and the vendor states model choices can be changed or validated without code changes or downtime. Claimed cost reductions of up to 98 percent and the FrugalGPT lineage are vendor marketing figures. Sourceteneo.ai platform/teneo-llm-orchestration and platform/orchestration-of-ai-agents pages, Teneo AI AB LLM Orchestration launch release; news.cision.com/teneo-ai-ab/r/teneo-ai-unveils-groundbreaking-llm-orchestration-solution-for-customer-service-automation,c4045168read 2026-08-31 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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The vendor documents a Public API through which any business system with an API connects to Teneo in days with no approved connector list, Model Context Protocol support and an agent-to-agent protocol on open standards, with development across a low-code AI Agent Builder and pro-code TLML. The API reference sits in a developer portal at developers.teneo.ai behind a sign-in, so the API and its access path are named but its shape is not shown publicly. Sourceteneo.ai home and platform pages, developers.teneo.airead 2026-09-29 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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The vendor documents built-in real-time testing within the AI Agent Builder, a full build, test, deploy, analyze and optimize lifecycle with version control, and the ability to change or validate model choices with no code changes and no downtime. Vendor-reported accuracy figures cite ninety-nine percent intent accuracy and ninety-five to one hundred percent service precision, which are marketing statistics rather than a customer-operated measurement surface. No test suite, scoring, pass rate, judge verdict, simulation or documented comparison of one agent or model configuration against another is published. Sourceteneo.ai platform/agenticai, ai-agent-platform and platform/teneo-llm-orchestration pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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The vendor documents agents operating across conversational voice and digital channels including voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp, web and social, acting on business systems through a Public API with Model Context Protocol and an agent-to-agent protocol, and retrieving through Knowledge AI against databases, document stores and data lakes. All are programmatic interfaces. No browser control, navigation, form filling, screen interaction, desktop automation or interface-level operation of third-party software is documented, and the vendor makes no such claim. Sourceteneo.ai home, ai-agent-platform, platform/agenticai and platform/teneo-llm-orchestration pagesread 2026-08-31 |
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