Security

How Tenean looks after your records.

Your customers' calls, texts and details run through Tenean. This page says plainly what protects them today, and what is not built yet.

Checked against the product in September 2026.

The short version

  • Your business's records are kept in a database in the United States.
  • The app opens only over an encrypted connection.
  • Each business sees only its own records, and a test checks that on every change to the database.
  • Call recordings and the photos customers text you are private, opened through links that expire.
  • Call recording is off until an owner turns it on.
  • Tenean never takes your customers' card payments.

Where it runs

Where your records live.

Your business's records (customers, conversations, the calendar, jobs and money) are kept in one database in the United States: Supabase's managed Postgres, in Amazon Web Services' US East region in northern Virginia. It is backed up every day.

The web app runs on Cloudflare, which also keeps the files the app stores, such as call recordings.

What protects them

Encrypted, walled off, signed in.

Encrypted on the way

Sign-in and every screen of the Tenean app load only over HTTPS. Type a plain http address and you are sent to the secure one. Older, weaker versions of the encryption protocol are refused, and the iPhone and Android apps will not make an unencrypted connection.

Walled off from other businesses

Every record carries the business it belongs to, and the database itself refuses to hand one business's records to another business's login. That rule (row-level security) is on for every table the apps can reach.

An automated test tries to read across two test businesses on every change to the database, and a change cannot merge until it passes. A second test plants a deliberate leak to prove the first would catch it.

Signing in

Sign in with a one-time link or code sent to your email, with Google or Apple, or with a password of at least 12 characters. The pass that keeps you signed in is replaced every hour.

Owners and staff see only the locations they have been given.

Recordings and photos

Private files stay private.

Call recordings, voicemails and the photos your customers text you are not public files. The app opens each one through a signed link made for someone signed in to that business, and the link stops working after a few hours. Pictures meant to be seen, like the ones on your website, stay public.

Call recording is your decision

Recording is off until an owner turns it on, line by line, in the phone settings. When it is on, people who call the business hear “This call may be recorded.” before the call is recorded. That notice is on by default and is also the owner's setting.

Voicemails are always recorded, because that is what a voicemail is. Tenean deletes its copy of call and voicemail audio after 90 days; the written transcript stays with the conversation.

The assistant

You decide how much it does.

Replies and call summaries are written with Claude, Anthropic's AI model. Each business chooses whether the assistant's replies wait for approval or send on their own. When someone on your team replies to a customer, the assistant steps back from that conversation. On the phone, it tells callers it is an automated assistant.

Tenean never touches your customers' cards

Tenean does not take card payments from your customers and does not hold your money. You are paid the way you are today and record the payment in Tenean, so your bank stays your bank.

Not done yet

What we have not built.

We would rather you hear it here than find it later.

  • Two-step sign-in (a code from an authenticator app) is not offered yet.
  • Tenean has not been through an independent security audit or certification.
  • There is no button to delete a whole account. Email support@tenean.com and it is done by hand.
  • A small Tenean team that sets up and supports businesses can see a business's records. We do not yet log each time they look.

Report a problem

Found a security problem? Tell us.

Email support@tenean.com with “Security” in the subject. Tell us what you found and how to see it, and please give us the chance to fix it before telling anyone else.