00About the firm

AI is forcing every industry to recalibrate. We make sure you come out ahead.

Every company has to decide how to respond to the AI wave. There's no sitting out. Burying your head in the sand is a decision, and an expensive one. So is moving too fast, betting on the wrong tools, or spending money and people where they won't pay off.

The thesis

There's nothing more expensive than a bad technology decision, except indecision.

01How we work

The good decision puts your resources where they earn their keep.

That takes a guide who sees the whole landscape and understands the messy reality of your operations.

Someone who stays with you from the first decision through the working result, and answers for both.

Four commitments

01 / Independence

We do what's right for you

We're vendor-neutral and don't resell software, so our advice isn't shaped by what we'd make selling it to you. If something isn't worth doing, we say so.

02 / Depth

We hold every discipline

Strategy, engineering, data science, governance and compliance, change management, and machine learning. Most firms give you one and leave you to assemble the rest. We bring all of it and connect it, so a decision holds up technically, legally, and operationally at once.

03 / Accountability

We own the outcome, not the handoff

We identify where AI belongs, deploy it, and get your people using it. We stay accountable as your architect of record while your business and needs change.

04 / Ownership

You own what we deploy

The systems, the data, and the knowledge to run them stay with your team. When we're done, the capability is yours to operate.

02What's in a name

Talbot

The harbinger

A medieval hound that caught a scent early and signaled what was coming. We do the same, seeing where your industry is heading before it forces your hand.

West

The frontier

The American frontier: new ground that rewarded the prepared and the well-guided, and punished everyone else. AI is that kind of ground for most companies right now. We've crossed it before, and we get you across it.

03The founding team

Sets the firm's direction and the frameworks for sequencing AI into an organization.

Portrait of Stephen Karafiath

SVP, AI solutions architecture

Stephen Karafiath

Leads solution architecture, data engineering, and custom development.

Team

Across law and compliance, machine learning, healthcare, and clinical data. Decades of hands-on work in data, operations, and AI.

Meet the team ↗

04The one rule

One rule governs everything: do right by the client, and leave them better off than they would have been without us.

Where to start

When you're weighing AI for your company, our services show what we do, and the assessment tells you where you stand and what to tackle first.