The world is full of capable machines sitting idle — Macs with powerful GPUs that spend most of the day asleep. Meanwhile, compute keeps getting more expensive and more centralized. Tender bridges the two.
Tender turns ordinary personal computers into a single, coordinated compute fabric. If you have capable hardware, you can share its spare cycles and get paid for the work it does. If you need compute, you can tap that fabric — through a drop-in, OpenAI-compatible API — for a fraction of what a hyperscaler charges.
It isn't a data center. The work comes to the hardware, not the other way around: a job runs inside a sealed sandbox on the owner's machine, and your data and models never leave it. The cloud only coordinates — it decides which machine should run a job, wakes it if it's asleep, and meters the result. Machines that aren't needed simply sleep, and wake on demand, so owners aren't burning power to be available.
For owners, idle silicon becomes income. For builders, it's the cheapest honest compute available — real GPUs, real models, pay only for the tokens you use, with a hard stop so you never get a surprise bill. Same account, same network, two directions.
Tender is built by Nomio. We think personal devices — the ones people already own and trust — are the right substrate for the next layer of computing. Say hello.