About
Made where it runs.
Tendera was built by Oscar Soto, an Arizona assisted living owner-operator, inside the four homes he runs. It is maintained by Diana Software LLC and still runs in those homes every shift.
The problem
A small assisted living home carries a surprising amount of paperwork: medication records, daily care notes, service plans, assessments, incident reports, staff credentials, facility documents, drills, menus, billing. Most of it lived in binders, wall calendars, spreadsheets, and group chats, and most of it depended on someone remembering. Nobody could answer "what is overdue right now?" without opening every file.
The software built for this market was mostly built for larger communities. It either did not fit a home with ten residents or cost what a home with ten residents could not justify.
How Tendera came to be
Oscar Soto owns and operates four assisted living homes in Arizona through Diana Enterprise LLC. He started writing Tendera to run those homes: first for the caregivers charting medications and daily care, then for the managers keeping compliance current, then for himself as the owner who needed to see all four homes without driving to each one.
At first it was only for those four homes. Real caregivers used it on real shifts, real state surveyors reviewed the records it produced, and the product changed whenever the homes found something that did not work. When other Arizona operators started asking about it, Oscar formed Diana Software LLC to offer Tendera as a product, separate from the operating company that runs the homes.
How that shapes the product today
Tendera still runs in the homes it was born in. Most of what is in it started as a problem on a shift in one of those homes, and the person who builds it hears about problems the same day his own staff do. That is why paper charting is a supported choice rather than an afterthought, why medication and ADL charting can go digital separately, and why the compliance pages are organized the way a surveyor asks for records.
It is also why there is no sales team. When you book a demo, Oscar is the one who replies, and the conversation is about whether the software fits your home.
Oscar Soto
Founder, Tendera. Owner-operator of four Arizona assisted living homes (Diana Enterprise LLC). Diana Software LLC builds and maintains Tendera.
How we build
Principles that shape the product.
Built inside, not just for.
The person building Tendera runs homes on it. When something is awkward on a shift, it shows up in his own operation first.
Outcomes, not acronyms.
Nobody wakes up wanting an eMAR. People want confidence that medications were handled and documented correctly. The product exists to deliver the outcome.
Reduce the load on a shift.
Software should make a shift easier, not add another system to remember. Fast charting, the right information at the moment it is needed, workflows that fit how caregivers move through a home.
Meet the home where it is.
Paper is a supported way to chart, not a failure state. Medication and ADL charting move to digital separately, per home, when the team is ready.
Honest about what we don't do.
Tendera does not guarantee a survey outcome, eliminate medication errors, or replace the judgment of a good caregiver. Software supports the work. It does not absorb it.
Owner to owner.
No sales layer between the operators using the product and the person who builds it. If you are evaluating Tendera, you are talking to someone who runs homes too.
The company
Diana Software LLC.
Diana Software LLC
Arizona
Oscar Soto
Tendera
tendera.care
Built inside Diana Enterprise LLC's four Arizona assisted living homes, where it still runs.
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