Salt Lake City, Utah – April 15, 2025
Based on Salt Lake Talbot West is cutting a niche in artificial intelligence advice by helping mid-term organizations to adopt modular and scalable AI systems. Founded by entrepreneur Jacob Andra and former director of Oracle Stephen Karafiath, the firm focuses on the practical integration of long -term AI – without luggage of rigid software license or roadmaps of products focused by VC.
The company intentionally operates as a consulting firm rather than a product company. “We are booted by design,” explains Andra. “This allows us to stay focused on solving real problems, not to drive out the assessments.”
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Andra launched Talbot West after using AI to rationalize operations in its previous marketing company, Customerfaucet. This experience revealed a wider market need: helping organizations navigating the implementation of AI with agility and clarity.
Karafiath, a 20-year-old oracle veteran who managed his team of innovation developers, joined Andra to co-found the business. “At Oracle, Steve worked with huge teams to build solutions in a closed technological battery,” explains Andra. “Now we can choose what is best for the customer-neural or opens, SaaS or personalized networks.”
Together, they provide a Fortune 500 AI Council to organizations that generally work without this level of access or expertise.
Modular architecture on the monolithic AI
What distinguishes Talbot West is his commitment to the design of the modular system. “We do not believe in monoliths,” explains Andra. “We create AI systems like Lego sets. Each module fulfills a defined function and can be replaced, upgraded or deleted independently. ”
This design philosophy underpins its owner architecture: Chai (cognitive hive ai). Inspired by the distributed intelligence of bee colonies, Chai breaks down complex tasks into specialized subtaches, manipulated by a network of AI agents.
These sets often use smaller and specially designed models – for publishing, criticism or analysis – which surpass large unique models when combined. Chai’s architecture aligns with the approach of the modular open systems of the Ministry of Defense (MOSA), which makes it adapted to customers with infrastructure development, including in the government and defense sectors.
“The LLM are only a corner of the AI universe,” explains Andra. “For complex use cases, we build sets that integrate different types of models, orchestrated by a central neural network.”
Value of the cross industry, conception centered on humans
Talbot West serves a range of industries – legal, insurance, HR – avoiding the constraints of vertical solutions. The company emphasizes “human -in -loop” systems which require human surveillance at critical decision points. “The AI will not replace people,” says Andra. “But people who know how to work with AI will replace those who do not.”
Their systems are designed to evolve according to user feedback, encouraging continuous co-adaptation between human operators and AI agents. The objective is a sustainable and evolving implementation with a clear assessment of the return on investment at each stage.
Build a public-private pipeline from Utah
In addition to his work in the private sector, Talbot West is engaged in the wider UTAH innovation ecosystem. By its affiliation with 47gThe strategic technological coalition of the State, the company works to extend the capacities of AI in the public sector.
This week, Talbot West is organizing a round table with Wendy WhitcombFormer Docusign leader who has evolved the company’s public sector division in a source of revenue of $ 100 million. The event aims to help UTAH companies to sail in the complexities of government partnerships. “Public sector sales require different strategies,” explains Andra. “Wendy’s experience with Oracle, Salesforce and Docusign is invaluable.”
A future system system
For the future, Talbot West plans that AI works like the nervous system of a company – modular, adaptive and integrated between the departments. “We help companies starting small, with a user case,” explains Andra. “But ultimately, everything connects. Inventories speak to sales. Sales speak to marketing. One day, you will have an AI that knows your whole business.”
With deep roots in UTAH and increasing national growth, Talbot West built and innovates a plan for the integration of AI, a modular part at the same time.
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