TenChat (Tenchat Social Network)

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• Social media
• Mobile apps
• Instant Messengers (IM)

TenChat is a social network with superapp architecture, uniting entrepreneurs, employees, freelancers and opinion leaders on the same platform. The application adjusts to the interests of everyone and is equally suitable for both entertainment and work tasks. The social network feed is distinguished by the "smart" Zeus algorithm, which blocks low-quality content. And the TenChat superapp architecture includes dozens of mini-services - from checking counterparties to looking for public procurement (data for 2022).

2025

Launch of the Hermes neural network

TenChat has launched the Hermes neural network, a tool that itself understands who the user needs based on a brief request. The All-Russian Business Center announced this on September 4, 2025.

Search based on artificial intelligence analyzes the request by position, competencies, work experience, career goals, age and geography. Instead of setting up filters, you can describe the desired person in spoken form or specify the purpose. The algorithm itself inserts the necessary filters and shows people with relevant matches. So, at the request to "increase sales" the neural network offers the user marketers and persons who make and influence decisions. According to the developers, the new tool saves the time that users spend filling filters manually. "Hermes" analyzes the meaning of the phrase and issues suitable candidates, even if the user cannot accurately formulate the request.

It's not just a technological upgrade. Until September 2025, the global platforms did not offer the search for People using the neural network. We run it first, "the TenChat team said.

Certification of IT specialists based on ROKIS platform

TenChat is implementing IT certification based on the ROKIS platform. ROKIS announced this on September 1, 2025.

IT professionals and IT recruiters registered on the TenChat social network will be able to access the ROKIS platform. IT professionals will have the opportunity to confirm their competencies, compliance with professional roles. A certificate of ROKIS testing can be fixed in your profile in the "Career" section.

For recruiters, the ability to use the ROKIS functionality will be available directly from the Career interface. Recruiters can view certificates, request decryption, run scores directly without leaving TenChat.

The system allows in-depth competence research based on adaptive testing in real time. The set of questions and their complexity varies depending on the candidate's answers. Each within the framework of testing is offered an individual route of more than 80 questions, the complexity of which adjusts to the pace, accuracy of answers and other platform metrics. In total, there are more than 3,000 calibrated tasks in the database for each specialization. This approach reduces the impact of randomness and achieves high accuracy in assessing technical competencies.

Thus, testing replaces the long and time-consuming stage of the interview, eliminates the need to involve IT specialists in the interview and distract them from the main work profile.

We've seen the recruitment process break down the chain - from recruiter to timlid. As a result, companies hire "grade by eye," and specialists prove the same thing five times. We built ROKIS as a way to stop it. One objective test - and everything is clear. Our goal is to ensure that the IT professional can prove his level once, verify it with certification, and no longer explain the obvious. We not only evaluate, but also show a map of competencies, make the very structure of grads transparent. This is not about checkmarks, it is about mature engineering, "said Andrei Ganin, co-founder and head of ROKIS development, author of the concept.

ROKIS capabilities can be applied not only in the selection, but also in the assessment (assignment) of existing employees, planning their individual development plan. Such certification helps specialists to more accurately understand their level, and companies - to make personnel decisions faster and more confidently.

The introduction of ROKIS-based IT certification is an important step towards a transparent and effective personnel recruitment and development process. Now specialists can once confirm their competencies, and recruiters - evaluate candidates quickly and objectively, without distracting colleagues from the main work. We strive to create an ecosystem in TenChat where experience and skills are appreciated and become visible to the entire business community, helping specialists to develop, and companies to make confident personnel decisions, "commented TenChat founder Semyon Tenyaev.

2024: Adding a business messenger to the web version

TenChat received a large-scale update: a business messenger appeared in the web version

Previously, chats were only in the mobile application, so the update sets a new vector for the development of communication between Russian residents and the audience of entrepreneurs from 26 countries. TenChat is focusing on creating transparent territory for transactions, where opportunities for growth in career and business are always at hand. The All-Russian Business Center announced this on March 14, 2024.

TenChat aims to be there when you're looking for new jobs, orders, customers, investments, discussing multimillion-dollar deals or developing a personal brand. The launch of the messenger for the web version will help the audience stay connected during working hours, when the speed and convenience of communication are most in demand. Companies already note the convenience of processing incoming leads from customers, employees receive offers from recruiters, and entrepreneurs expand business connections and turn them into transactions. The trend of anonymous communication in classic messengers has long passed, in TenChat you know everything about the interlocutor: from the position and the company he represents to the career track, professional cases and publications in the tape, - emphasized the CEO of TenChat Oleg Ratunin.

Earlier, private and public Alliances became available in TenChat - an analogue of classic channels in instant messengers. You can invite new participants using a link or QR code. As conceived by the developers of the social network, Alliances will allow users to effectively unite with like-minded people to achieve common goals.

2023

Ability to make deferred publications

The deferred posting and content generation service SMMplanner and the Russian business social network TenChat announced a partnership on August 25, 2023.

Delayed TenChat posting is available exclusively on SMMplanner. Thanks to this, you can make postponed publications to the first Russian business social network on a par with social networks such as VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Telegram and others, which will significantly facilitate the work of SMM specialists and other TenChat users. As of August 2023, over 2.5 million people are already using the social network.

This function allows you to schedule and automatically publish posts at a certain time. The user can prepare the content in advance and not worry about not posting it on time.

Thanks to the partnership, it became possible to make a single content plan, given TenChat along with social networks such as VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Telegram and others.

TenChat in recent years has managed to gain a foothold in the market as a tool for building business connections and promoting personal brands of experts. The service team managed to solve an extremely difficult task - to load users with a social network. I am sure that the postponed posting in TenChat will be in demand and will contribute to the even more active development of the social network, "said Vasily Krylov, founder of SMMplanner.

Deferred posting in TenChat is available in both the old and new SMMplanner form of posting.

Ability to receive recommendations from employers

The developers of the Russian business social network TenChat have released an updated version of the application. In the Career tab, the Recommendations section has been added, in which users can publish feedback from employers, customers or colleagues.

This function allows applicants to confirm their professional skills, and HR specialists to select high-quality employees by familiarizing themselves with their recommendations. To receive feedback, the user must request it from an employer, customer or colleague in the Career tab - they do not have to be registered with TenChat. A recommendation about a specialist can be left in the format of a video message or text.

TenChat also has QR codes in personal profiles and group chats. This change greatly simplifies the exchange of contacts between users to enhance business relationships. For example, QR codes can be used during a product presentation or during face-to-face meetings.

In addition, the TenChat team continues to improve Business.Tinder is a networking platform. The updated version of the application has updated the design of the cards in the "People" section. Now users can see more data for making a contact decision - common business connections, similar interests, skills and goals.

These functions are available in the latest version of the application, for correct use you need to check the update.

Ability to pin messages and react to them

The Russian business social network TenChat has released an updated mobile version of the application. The parameters for finding the necessary contacts have improved significantly, and the messenger has added the ability to pin messages and set reactions to them. The developer of the All-Russian Business Center, the All-Russian Business Center, announced this on July 17, 2023.

The expanded search for people has been completely updated, parameters have appeared for the purpose of acquaintance, gender, age, employment status, educational institution or specialty, as well as for the presence of a video lens in the profile. You can now find the right people by keywords from the description of the user's biography. It is enough to enter a position or place of work in the search bar to see all professionals who have the desired request in the column "about themselves." This will help users and experts more accurately select relevant business contacts, and HR specialists look for potential candidates for competencies that may at first glance be not obvious to the applicant, but important to the employer.

Adding "Business.Tinder" and the "Career" section to the web version of the social network

On July 3, 2023, the Russian business social network TenChat announced a large update to the web version. The Career tab is now available for personal user profiles, where you can describe your work experience in detail by resume type. On the left, the "People" section appeared in the menu for finding the necessary business connections, inside it there is "Business.Tinder" and a selection of user recommendations for similar goals, interests, education and experience. In addition, by analogy with the mobile version, authors can choose to place entries in the profile with tiles, previously posts were displayed only by tape. This is a more comfortable and understandable format for those who create visual content. And in the updated version, interesting records will not be lost: the function of saving publications to collections has been added.

Also in the mobile version, the search algorithm has significantly improved and additional parameters have appeared: by purpose of acquaintance, employment status, educational institution or specialty. You can now find the right people by keywords from the description of your profile biography. In addition, it is enough to enter a position or place of work in the search bar to see all professionals who have the desired request in the column "about themselves." This will help users and experts more accurately select relevant business contacts, and HR specialists look for potential candidates for competencies that may at first glance be not obvious to the applicant, but important to the employer.

The messenger added the ability to pin messages and react to them.

The Career tab appears

Social network TenChat has launched an updated version of the app for iOS and Android. The profile has a "Career" tab with the ability to add a video view, and each user can now choose the format for displaying their content - the classic "Tape" or "Tile." This was announced on March 21, 2023 by the All-Russian Business Center.

The main feature in updating the social network is the appearance of the "Career" tab in the profile. Here you can tell in detail about your education, career and key achievements. Thus, the TenChat profile serves as a "resume" for users, and makes it possible for HR specialists to quickly find suitable candidates on the social network.

In the updated version of the profile, it became possible to add a video view. This format allows HR to evaluate the candidate's soft skills, and to applicants to present their best qualities.

Among other features of the TenChat update is the ability to choose the type of content display in the profile: classic "Feed" with user publications or "Tile." The solution will be especially relevant for authors of visual content.

It became possible to save important moments from stories to actual. The screen with settings and profile management was also redesigned - the selection of professional goals and the list of fields for contact information were expanded.

In the updated version of TenChat, personal recommendations of people have been improved - algorithms now take into account the "freshness" of collections and offer to subscribe to new authors.

TenChat has been joined by many HR specialists, agencies and career consultants, and there are more and more vacancies from companies in the feed. They come to us not only for new business acquaintances, but also successfully find work and professional candidates among a multi-million audience. The updated version of the application is a strategic step in HR Tech for our product, and the new profile will change the lives of millions of Russians, "said Oleg Ratunin, CEO of TenChat.

2022

Launch a web version with authorization and the ability to publish records

TenChat, a business social network, launched a web version with authorization and the ability to publish recordings. This was announced by the VBC company on November 17, 2022. The key functionality of the TenChat web version has also been improved - attracting search traffic to publications and user profiles. The UGC evaluation algorithm based on the principles of search engines has been launched.

The authorized web version of TenChat has both its own functionality and is available in. mobile application social networks

Key features:

• Text editor - the ability to publish content;
• Viewing and setting the user's personal tape;
• Search for users and records while preserving the history of requests;
• View publications in endless tape format.

Back in June 2022, the social network TenChat launched a public web version to attract search traffic. The UGC evaluation algorithm has appeared in the updated version. Now, based on the information collected, it determines the quality of publications in order to increase SEO traffic.

The evaluation criteria are based on the principles of search engines:

• Compliance with the principles: expertise, authority and reliability. Checking the compliance of the author's position and the type of activity of the company in which he works with the topic of publication;
• Anonymity exception: Profiles that do not provide information about themselves will not be able to index their content;
• Convenience and structure of the text;
• Degree of engagement and citation by users.

The web version of the social network will actively develop. It is planned to launch listings of positions with a rating system - collections of specialist profiles verified by the algorithm, which will also be ranked in search engines. In 2023, a messenger will also be added to the web version.

The main feature of the update that all users were waiting for is, of course, the ability to publish content through the web version of TenChat. The company had to solve difficult technical problems for the prompt appearance of new publications in TenChat in search engines. The developed UGC assessment algorithm has no analogues - unlike other social networks and content platforms, experts analyze millions of pages daily to index the highest quality content,  noted Oleg Ratunin, CEO of TenChat.

The ability to create private group chats

Social network TenChat announced on September 26, 2022 the release of an update for iOS, for Android it was released a little later. The key function of the updated version of the application is the ability to create private group chats with an unlimited number of participants.

In the updated version of the social network TenChat, you can now create private group chats without restrictions on the number of participants. Participants can be added to the chat by their owners and their assigned administrators.

Among other features of the update is the ability to attach questions to stories. The algorithm for promoting hashtag publications that appeared in TenChat in August 2022 was also improved - the quality of formation of known hashtag collections was improved.

This version of the application has expanded the set of user profile settings. You can now manage the memory you are using by setting the maximum cache size and clearing the stored data. In the updated version, you can also control the devices on which you are logged into your TenChat profile - it is possible to end the session on a specific device or log out on everyone.

The company managed to safely unite businessmen, employees of large brands of the country, bloggers and authors. Talents that have been "squeezed" by algorithms in banned social networks are gaining well-deserved fame at TenChat. Here they find clients and partners, work and projects, and also like-minded people to exchange knowledge and experience. The launch of the group chats was welcome for the entire TenChat audience. People want to group by local interests, discuss trends and innovations with colleagues, exchange information about new points of business and career growth, noted Oleg Ratunin, CEO of TenChat.

Ability to add hashtags

On August 24, 2022, the social network TenChat announced that it had released an update for iOS, for Android it will appear in the coming days. The key function of the updated version of the application is hashtags for publications.

When creating a publication, users can add up to 10 hashtags. And through the search bar in the application, it is now convenient to find publications using a specific hashtag.

At the same time, you can view publications according to the selected hashtag in the format of records, photos or thumbnails (with photo, author and post title). The social network algorithm will "remember" the selected mode and in the future display publications by hashtag in the most convenient form for the user.

The format for displaying a selection of publications by hashtag can also be selected - chronological or algorithmic (first - the most "interesting" according to the TenChat record algorithm). You can also subscribe to the hashtag - and then the most popular publications on it will be displayed in the news feed. They will be ranked by a separate TenChat algorithm. A link to any hashtag can be shared - by clicking on it, the user will immediately see a selection of publications on the hashtag.

Other updates include an increase in the download speed of stories, as well as an increase in fonts when displaying publications in the news feed.

The launch of hashtags is an important update for TenChat: grouping publications by hashtags will allow you to quickly find the publications you need - in particular those where images play an important role. For example, choose one among many photographers. Thus, hashtags become a tool for clustering content - especially visual - and increasing the coverage of recordings. And the authors of text publications using the updated functionality will be able to more accurately target the target reader, noted Oleg Ratunin, CEO of TenChat.

The number of TenChat users as of August 2022 already exceeds 1.5 million people.

Zeroing mobile Internet traffic for all its subscribers

On June 9, 2022, MegaFon announced the zeroing of mobile Internet traffic for all its subscribers in TenChat, a Russian business social network. Thanks to the application, MegaFon customers will be able to communicate and find new business contacts without thinking about the account status.

You can use the application without connecting additional options even with a negative balance.

In 2022, TenChat became one of the fastest growing mobile applications on MegaFon's network. In May, mobile traffic in the service grew more than 50 times compared to the beginning of 2022. We want to support our customers who are looking for opportunities to develop their own business or new work, and automatically reset traffic to this increasingly popular service, "said Dmitry Rudskikh, Director of Product Marketing at MegaFon.

On the TenChat social network, users find partners, jobs, investors, new projects, contractors, potential customers and monitor expert content.

TenChat already has more than 1 million users, with about 40% of our audience being MegaFon subscribers. Our partnership is especially relevant in the current situation, when entrepreneurs self-employed are the driving force. economies It is they who make up more than half of TenChat users. Thanks to the zeroing of traffic in our social network from MegaFon, you can solve your business problems without worrying about the state of the account, and at any time find new projects and business opportunities, "said Semyon Tenyaev, founder of the social network TenChat.

According to MegaFon, the largest business activity in the service was recorded in Moscow - the capital of Russia accounted for 18% of the total mobile traffic in TenChat. The rating of the regions with the highest traffic consumption in this application also includes St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Samara and Novosibirsk.

Launch a public web version for free promotion

TenChat, a social network for active people, has launched a public web version - without authorization. The developer company announced this on June 2, 2022. Its key function is the free promotion of publications and user profiles in search engines.

Authorization in the web version of TenChat will be added in the summer of 2022. The main quality of the public web version of the social network for June 2022 is an additional algorithm for ranking publications to obtain search traffic on the network. TenChat already has an AI-based Zeus algorithm that promotes only author's publications in the top news feed of the social network. Now user posts will begin to bring even more views due to their promotion in search engines.

The user profile in the public web version acts as a personal landing: the emerging algorithm promotes not only publications in search engines, but also the most useful profiles in the "opinion" of the algorithm. So, with the launch of the web version, users will be able to advance even more efficiently using content marketing in TenChat.

The principle of the algorithmic solution is the assignment to user profiles of the indicator on the basis of which indexing is carried out in search engines. It takes into account the percentage of uniqueness of text and media content and the degree of satisfaction of the author's audience.

How it works: The user creates an account in the TenChat mobile app. Its page is automatically created in the public web version. If it publishes author's content, without borrowing and plagiarism, then with the corresponding search query, the algorithm promotes publication in the web version of TenChat in search engines for free.

The public web version of TenChat is a source of free traffic and explosive subscriber growth among content makers. Posts with unique content will begin to be indexed by search engines, thereby protecting copyrights and attracting a new audience and potential customers, - said Oleg Ratunin, CEO of TenChat.

The number of active users has exceeded the mark of 1 million people

On May 27, 2022, VBC Lab announced that the number of active users of the TenChat social network exceeded 1 million people. Since January 2022, the audience of the social network has grown 10 times.

According to the company, at the beginning of 2022, the number of TenChat users reached 100 thousand people, and at the beginning of March 2022, the social network exceeded the mark of 300 thousand users. On average, active TenChat users open the application 4 times a day, and the average session duration is 8.5 minutes.

The growing need for users to solve all their tasks on one platform contributes to the development of the trend for applications with superapp architecture in all market segments. At TenChat, we create all-in-one-app solutions both to optimize communications and to achieve any user goal - from business to personal. In less than six months, TenChat's audience has grown 10 times. We are pleased that our values ​ ​ are already responding to more than 1 million people, and we expect that by the end of 2022 the number of users will grow several times more. noted Semyon Tenyaev, founder of TenChat

The ratio of types of users of the social network for May 2022 looks like this: almost half of them (47.1%) are employees of companies, in second place are freelancers - 34.8%, and the remaining 18.1% are entrepreneurs and business owners. The core of the TenChat audience is men and women aged 25 to 44. The main interests of users are business, finance, law, marketing and PR, as well as IT development.

Adding stories

On the social network TenChat, you can now publish stories - short videos and photos that will disappear in 24 hours. This became known on May 17, 2022^[1].

You can add text to a story, mention another user, and attach a link to a third-party site. Stories from people you follow are displayed at the top of the feed.

TenChat stories are similar to Instagram stories (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation). They can be flipped through in a row. You can also respond to stories. The owner of the story can see how many people have seen it.

In April 2022, the TenChat audience approached 1 million people^[2].

2021

Launch of the social network TenChat

VBC Lab, a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, launched the Russian social network for work and business TenChat. The Fund announced this on December 21, 2021. The app is designed as SuperApp and aims to bring together three key business audiences within one platform: entrepreneurs, company employees and freelancers.

TenChat is designed to quickly find partners, customers, contractors, goods, services and content. The application combines the functionality of a business social network and a messenger, supplemented by mini-applications for work and earnings. TenChat services are based on self-learning neural networks, which, based on the analysis of behavioral factors and user profiles, determine how useful and interesting individual users can be to each other, and then create recommendations for building new business connections.

There has long been a "blind spot" in the Russian business community - we do not have a single information environment, a platform for business dating and networking. Social networks available on the territory of the Russian Federation partly close these needs, but there are too many people, services and information noise in them. In the world experience there is an example of such a project - LinkedIn, and in Russia the niche is empty. We are building Russian LinkedIn taking into account the mentality of domestic users. The team of TenChat creators has gone from a small business to a holding with billions of dollars in turnover, so we clearly understand what a Russian entrepreneur and professional needs at every stage of business and career development, said Semyon Tenyaev, Chairman of the Board of VBC Lab.

TenChat users have access to: a social network with profiles and smart tape, selection of business contacts based on neural network analysis, modern fully functional messenger, miniApp of the VBC marketplace, with financial products, a free service for analyzing and monitoring counterparties based on the base for all legal entities of the Russian Federation, aggregator of tenders, combining the data of all official electronic trading platforms of the Russian Federation, and search for lots on all electronic trading platforms for the bankruptcy of Russia, making it possible to purchase real estate, transport, special equipment and other property at a discount of up to 40%.

We are pleased that our participants are inventing not only new technologies, but also practically making life easier for small and medium-sized businesses, through new interaction models. For example, Tenchat allows an entrepreneur to automatically search for orders on marketplaces, apply for a competition, search for contractors and raise funding in one application, noted Pavel Novikov, Director of the Center for Innovation in the Financial Sector of the Skolkovo Foundation.

TenChat's immediate plans include connecting thematic channels and branded pages for companies, launching an aggregator for bidding for municipal property, as well as a marketplace for goods and user services and a service for selecting commercial purchases, work and employees.

Launch of the service "Bidding for bankruptcy"

On June 25, 2021, the VBC group of companies announced the launch of the Bidding for Bankruptcy service in its superapp for TenChat work and business. This miniapp makes it possible to purchase an apartment, vehicles and other property at a discount of up to 50%.

The service aggregates all bankruptcy trading lots from all 46 official electronic trading platforms of the Russian Federation that sell the property of debtors at auctions. Smart search technology based on artificial intelligence makes it easier to match a suitable lot of more than 70,000 objects to multiple swipes.

Filters are available for accurate search in the service: by keywords, amount, region, category, status and type of trading, application deadlines, electronic trading platform, debtor and arbitration manager. In the process of "communicating" with the application, TenChat algorithms analyze and remember the user's interests, so that each next recommended selection of lots becomes more and more personalized.

The detailed card of the lot contains maximum information that gives a detailed idea of ​ ​ the features of the object, requirements and financial conditions. In the next release of the application, a link to the item and a photo of the object will appear in it.

A link to the selected item can be postponed to Favorites or sent in one touch to colleagues and partners through the built-in TenChat messenger.

The Bankruptcy Bidding service is completely free, unlike its existing counterparts, just like the rest of the miniapps in the TenChat application.

An update to the TenChat app for Android and iOs is already available in suites.

We are building TenChat according to the superapp model with dozens of services for earning money, - comments the head of the VBC group, founder of TenChat Semyon Tenyaev. - Users of applications, of which there are more than 60 thousand as of June 2021, are available: the auto selection mode of state tenders "Hotel," a service for analyzing counterparties, a financial marketplace with products for business and personal needs. In the next releases, we will present other miniapps - selection of commercial trades, search for subcontracts, bidding for municipal property, a marketplace for the sale and purchase of goods and services according to the CPA model and, most importantly, on what TenChat will be based - a social network of business contacts.