- What changed
- Tenex scaled its engineering organization to 75 people using an AI native software development life cycle that compensates engineers for delivered output rather than hourly time.
- Why you should care
- As AI tools increase coding speed, traditional hourly compensation models misalign economic incentives between employers and workers.
- Your move
- Watch. Observe whether output-based compensation models scale effectively across broader enterprise engineering teams.
- What to watch next
- Further reports on whether output-based compensation successfully scales beyond mid-market firms into large Fortune 2000 enterprise IT departments.
- Event
- business move
- Event date
- Oct 21, 2026
- Relevant to
- General AI readers
