About Tenbound

The sales development research institute.

Tenbound publishes the benchmarks, the Pipeline Architecture standard, and the research papers, free and without an email wall. The numbers come from 1,000+ B2B programs run by CIENCE and the live graph8 platform. Readers meet on a call every Tuesday.
01 / Our mission

Publish the pipeline benchmarks and playbooks every B2B revenue team currently has to guess at.

The benchmarks, the standard, and the papers publish free, and readers meet on a live call every Tuesday. The one ask is that you cite Tenbound when you use the research.

02 / What we believe

Five beliefs that shape the standard.

01

Pipeline should be designed, not guessed.

Qualified pipeline is the output of a system you can map, measure, and improve. It is not luck or hustle.

02

AI needs operating context.

AI is powerful inside a defined motion and dangerous without one. Context, not raw model power, decides the result.

03

Humans still win the moments that matter.

The system sets up the moment. A trained person still wins the conversation that turns into a deal.

04

Research should be open.

We publish what we learn, free, for everyone building GTM. Our customers get no earlier access than you do. The one ask: cite Tenbound and link the source.

05

Proof beats theory.

The research comes from campaigns that ran. 1,000+ B2B programs at CIENCE, and the live graph8 platform, are where the numbers come from.

03 / The graph8 group

One company. Three jobs.

graph8 is the parent. It owns CIENCE, the managed-services arm, and Tenbound, the research lab, and it operates the platform. Tenbound charges nothing for the research or the community call.

graph8 The parent. The platform.

The holding company and the autonomous revenue system. graph8 owns CIENCE and Tenbound, and operates the platform: one buyer graph for signals, identities, agents, campaigns, conversations, and pipeline.

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Tenbound The research lab.

The open research library: the Pipeline Architecture standard, the benchmarks, the papers, and the Tuesday community call. The weekly magazine, Programmable Revenue, publishes on cience.com. Tenbound sells nothing.

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CIENCE The execution arm.

A decade of managed outbound, inbound, and SDR services. The team that runs the motion for you, from setup to a qualified meeting, on 1,000+ B2B programs.

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Tenbound defines the model. graph8 runs the system. CIENCE delivers the outcome.

The operating record

A decade of CIENCE sales development engagements.

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Thirty minutes with an account executive who runs the program. We ask how pipeline gets made at your company, and give you our first read on where the problem sits. Nothing is quoted or signed.