FRAME

Future-Readiness Assessment & Modernization Engineering. A robust framework to support the evolution of your company to total organizational intelligence.

1. Assess

The FRAME Assessment is a comprehensive deep dive into business systems, process, technology stack, applied AI opportunities, and bottlenecks. Talbot West brings robust expertise in data architecture, privacy and security, governance, solutions architecture, AI, ML, and more, which is why we're uniquely qualified to evaluate how to take your company to the next level.

2. Roadmap

Based on the findings of our FRAME assessment, we'll create a roadmap in collaboration with your internal stakeholders. The roadmap identifies a sequential path from your current state to a desired future state of organizational intelligence, and accounts for all of the interdependencies that always come into play with deep digital transformation. Unlike the strategy decks produced by other firms, this is an actionable blueprint for you to deploy new capabilities from.

3. Deploy

The FRAME roadmap identifies lowest-hanging fruit that are foundational for subsequent initiatives. In the third FRAME phase, Talbot West enables new capabilities that involve AI, ML, or related technologies. We can serve as the orchestrator to organize and direct your internal resources, or we can handle it all end to end. It's all about what's best for your company's bottom line and what gets you the biggest bang for your buck, the fastest.

Industry leadership

Our clients trust Talbot West because we lead the world in pragmatic, applied AI expertise.

Seated, in front row: Alexandra Pasi, Ph.D, CEO of Lucidity Sciences, and Jacob Andra, CEO of Talbot West. Talbot West & Lucidity Sciences Announce Partnership, Joint Advisory Board Appointments

Talbot West & Lucidity Sciences Announce Partnership, Joint Advisory Board Appointments

Jacob Andra, Talbot West CEO, and Adam Wardel announce Wardel's appointment to the Talbot West advisory board

Talbot West Adds Legal & Compliance Expertise to Advisory Board With Adam Wardel

Digital transformation strategy: how to do it the right way

Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra at age 13 and age 50 for an article penned by Stephen Karafiath

From blowtorches to boardrooms: why I partnered with Jacob Andra

What is neurosymbolic AI?

Big Consulting is realizing that they can't continue to justify their billable-hour model for strategic analysis when AI delivers better analysis in minutes.

McKinsey in WSJ: how Big Consulting is adapting to the age of AI, and how Talbot West is already there

Composable AI is AI architecture built from modular, interchangeable components that can be rapidly assembled, updated, or reconfigured. In short, it’s another term for Talbot West’s Cognitive Hive AI (CHAI) architecture that we’ve been championing for a long time now.

Composable AI: the future of intelligent enterprise

Most treat “build vs buy” as a straightforward choice between speed and customization, cost and control. They're wrong. It’s a complex optimization problem disguised as a simple choice. Organizations think they're weighing two options when they're actually navigating dozens of variables they don't know exist.

Buy or build an AI solution? How to evaluate your options.

APEX (AI Prioritization and EXecution) cuts through the noise. Our process identifies your single best AI opportunity and hands you the blueprint to deploy it.

AI Prioritization and Execution (APEX): a decisionmaking framework

Total organizational intelligence is inevitable by 2030, according to digital transformation advisory Talbot West

The Talbot West 5-year thesis

AI efficiency for mergers and acquisitions lifecycle

AI across the M&A lifecycle

BizForesight is an AI-powered business assessment platform that serves two distinct audiences while creating value for both. For business owners, it delivers sophisticated valuation insights and strategic guidance based on proprietary data from thousands of actual transactions. The platform helps owners understand their company's worth and identify optimal paths forward—whether growing, transitioning management, or planning an exit. Simultaneously, BizForesight functions as a qualified lead generation engine for professional service providers in the M&A ecosystem. The platform intelligently matches business owners with relevant professionals who can help implement their chosen strategies. Led by Bill McCalpin, Chair of the Alliance of Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors, and powered by Talbot West's AI technology, BizForesight has 400 business owners queued for its summer 2025 launch. This positions the platform to become the industry's largest deal flow driver by year-end 2025.

BizForesight: an AI-powered business assessment tool

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What is reinforcement learning in CHAI?

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Build an efficient sales engine with AI capabilities

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Why do professional services firms love to refer their business clients to Talbot West?

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An AI central nervous system for your organization

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Physical AI: Where gen AI, natural language, and robotics meet in the physical world

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Invisible AI for law firms: a new paradigm for legal tech

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What is vector embedding and why does it matter?

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What is AI middleware and how does it make my business more efficient?

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Invisible AI: the evolution of SaaS and why your team doesn’t need another “product” to learn

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Use AI to turn fixed-fee legal work into a profit center for your firm

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How to fight advanced persistent threats (APTs) with AI

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AI and law: the opportunity of AI for the legal profession

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What is a variational autoencoder and what is its usefulness for enterprise?

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AI and cybersecurity: How AI can help us defend ourselves

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AI-powered OSINT: A system of systems approach to intelligence

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What are hyperparameters in neural networks?

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What is a small language model?

Stephen Karafiath Talbot West thoughts on AI

The future of AI and the power of modular systems: thoughts from Stephen Karafiath

Government building motif in art deco style with lots of circuitry AI for government efficiency an article by Talbot West

How AI can make government more efficient while unlocking new capabilities

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Gray zone warfare part 5: We need better detection capabilities

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Gray zone warfare part 4: Deterrence in the gray zone

$A close-up, minimalist art deco illustration of a nautilus shell with spiraling, nested chambers, each chamber representing a different AI module in a system of systems approach. Larger outer chambers symbolize high-level systems, while smaller inner chambers represent specialized capabilities. Fractals with cyber fusion, data streams and circuitry fusing the different fractals. Art deco style, muted colors, non-psychedelic. Really fuse nature and cyber elements.$

Why system of systems is the future of AI deployment

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Gray zone warfare part 3: Gray zone attack vectors

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Gray zone warfare part 2: Gray zone vulnerabilities and solutions

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Gray zone warfare part 1: What is gray zone warfare?

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Gray zone warfare: an article series by Talbot West

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What is a recurrent neural network (RNN)?

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What is a deep neural network (DNN)?

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Cognitive hive AI (CHAI) and agentic AI: a beautiful collaboration

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Retrieval-augmented generation in healthcare

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Why AI change management fails: The missing link between vision and execution

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CHAI: MOSA-aligned AI deployment for defense and enterprise

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Modular open systems approach: what is MOSA and how does it relate to AI for the defense sector?

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Retrieval-augmented generation in the pharmaceutical industry

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What is interactive AI?

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What a knowledge graph is and how it can enable neurosymbolic AI

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Cognitive hive AI: The future of adaptive defense technologies

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Knowledge graphs and Cognitive Hive AI: A powerful synergy for enterprise intelligence

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RAG vs. LLM fine-tuning: Which is right for you?

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What is agentic AI?

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How is AI changing warfare and the defense sector?

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What is explainability in AI?

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What is cognitive hive AI (CHAI)?

A minimalist depiction of stacked layers, where the top layer is a web of interconnected nodes (the knowledge graph) and the bottom layer is a smooth vector plane (the vector database). Thin, elegant lines link the layers, suggesting their interconnected roles in RAG. The art deco style will be sleek and refined, with soft colors and geometric balance.

Knowledge graphs vs. vector databases: which is better for AI implementations?

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What is human-in-the-loop in AI?

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How can RAG impact retail operations?

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How can RAG benefit IT ops?

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What is overfitting in LLM fine-tuning?

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Vector databases and their role in AI applications

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What is feature engineering in document prep?

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What is synthetic data and how can it help my AI instance?

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What is a neural network in AI?

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What is deep learning in AI?

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What is data transformation in data preprocessing?

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What is data augmentation in data preprocessing?

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What is data reduction in data preprocessing?

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What is a large quantitative model?

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What is data imputation in data preprocessing?

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What is generative engine optimization?

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What is data standardization in data preprocessing?

What is natural language processing?

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What are foundation models in generative AI?

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What is LLM fine-tuning?

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What can RAG do for my business?

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What is retrieval augmented generation?

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What is data preprocessing?

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What is data normalization in data preprocessing?

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What is machine learning?

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AI regulatory compliance is complex

When we’re performing data preprocessing on your knowledge base, data cleaning (or data cleansing, or data scrubbing) is an important step. We don’t want to feed bad info into an artificial intelligence system. Data cleaning ensures that the AI is getting the best information so it can deliver the best outputs.

What is data cleaning?

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What is an AI governance framework?

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How will AI be used in healthcare?

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How will AI disrupt the automotive industry?

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What is generative AI?

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What is a large language model?

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How AI enhances predictive analytics

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AI and blockchain: all you need to know

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AI ethics: balancing progress and principles

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What is Cognitive Hive AI (CHAI)?

AI Prioritization and EXecution (APEX)

A system-of-systems approach to AI

The Talbot West 2030 thesis

Buy vs build AI solutions

What is composable AI?

AI in mergers & acquisitions

What is neurosymbolic AI?

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