Talbot West, Midvale, UT (2026)

02/05/2026

Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra will moderate a panel for the M&A Tech Connect event hosted by ACG Silicon Valley. The panel is February 18, 2026 and addresses the AI bubble, more accurately the LLM bubble, and what’s next.

02/03/2026

On the latest episode of The Applied AI Podcast, joins Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra to discuss the complex nature of enterprise digital transformation projects, and the reason that many AI projects fail to see meaningful ROI.

01/26/2026

Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra will speak at the Naval Postgraduate School on AI and its national security implications.

Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez will lead a fireside discussion with Andra on February 18, 2026 as part of NPS’s APEX program.

The intersection of AI and national security is a broad space; Andra and Nieto-Gomez will touch on a few salient factors and answer audience questions afterwards.

NPS is the nation’s premier defense-focused graduate university, offering master’s and doctoral degrees in more than 70 fields to U.S. Armed Forces officers, Department of Defense civilians, and international partners.

Talbot West is proud to contribute to our nation’s innovation base in the fields of applied AI and ML, especially as it intersects with national security concerns.

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01/09/2026

01/08/2026. Jacob Andra, Talbot West CEO, delivered a presentation on artificial intelligence for Corporate Growth Utah’s Executive Series event. Speaking to M&A professionals and executives, Andra challenged conventional thinking about AI implementation and provided a framework for understanding AI’s true value proposition in enterprise environments.

Andra emphasized the difference between surface-level AI adoption and deep organizational transformation. Using a layered “onion” metaphor, he explained how most companies remain stuck at the outermost layer, where individual productivity tools like ChatGPT subscriptions live, while the real competitive advantage lies in re-engineering core information systems and workflows. This deeper integration, what he calls “total organizational intelligence,” requires substantial architectural work but delivers compounding returns that superficial implementations cannot match.

12/26/2025

“It’s important to bring in someone smarter than you.”

If it’s easy to deploy an AI tool, everyone will do so. Doing so will no longer be an advantage.

The easy-button solutions will be table stakes. Real competitive advantage will come from deep systems integration and value engineering.

Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra and attorney Adam Wardel see eye to eye on this (that’s why we’ve recently appointed Adam to our board of advisors).

In this video, they discuss the real work of AI and ML adoption that goes deep into a company’s systems and processes in a customized way. Also, the need for an overarching plan instead of the “random acts of AI” that many firms commit, and why getting the right partner is so important.

This conversation is in the context of law firms but can be generalized to any industry. The principles are the same.

12/21/2025

Adam Wardel and Jacob Andra ( )discuss legaltech and their shared vision for “invisible AI.”

We need to stop thinking of artificial intelligence as glorified software, and start thinking of it as an intelligence layer that orchestrates work across a law firm or other company.

Jacob and Adam discuss the need for an overarching plan instead of the “random acts of AI” that many firms commit, and why getting the right partner is so important.

Listen or watch the full episode; link in comments.

12/18/2025

Episode 12 of the applied AI podcast explorers the new Lumawarp machine learning model, and how it beat other models in a respected set of benchmarks. Lumawarp delivers 7% higher accuracy than leading ML models while running 300+ times faster. On the AWS TabArena HELOC default prediction benchmark, it topped the accuracy leaderboard while training on a gaming laptop in about an hour. Competing methods required hundreds of hours on large compute clusters to achieve worse results.

This is the breakthrough that breaks the accuracy/speed tradeoff that has constrained machine learning for decades.

In this episode, Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra ( ) sits down with Dr. Alexandra Pasi, CEO of Lucidity Sciences, to explore how Lumawarp achieves these results and what it means for enterprises building AI systems where precision is non-negotiable and milliseconds matter.

https://youtu.be/xJTHZZESOtM
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-best-machine-learning-model-lumawarp-rocks/id1834499760?i=1000741778422
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6bgzzZnYsNJPDIzTrl0eKj

12/15/2025

We’re thrilled to welcome Alexandra Pasi, PhD to the Talbot West advisory board.

Lexi is the founder and CEO of Lucidity Sciences and the architect behind Lumawarp, a machine learning engine that broken through in GPU-parallelizable geometric manifold regularization to overcome long-standing limitations of traditional kernel methods. It delivers higher accuracy than leading models while running 300+ times faster.

Lexi brings deep technical rigor and research-to-production expertise to the Talbot West advisory board

At Talbot West, we’ve always been committed to bringing world-class expertise to our clients, free from the hype of the day and free of vendor bias. Lexi represents the very best of what we want to offer to our clients.

We’re honored to have her perspective shaping our work.

Welcome to the team, Lexi.

12/09/2025

Talbot West is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Lucidity Sciences. Dr. Alexandra Pasi and her team have innovated an amazing machine learning engine. We’ve long advocated that the right AI for a given problem often isn’t a large language model. It’s the technology that actually fits the task. That’s why we’re thrilled to partner with Lucidity Sciences and their Lumawarp machine learning engine.

Lumawarp represents a genuine breakthrough in pattern recognition for structured data.

Built on a mathematical framework grounded in partial differential equations and geometric manifold regularization, it delivers higher accuracy than leading legacy models while running over 300 times faster.

For applications where precision is non-negotiable and milliseconds matter (clinical decision support, fraud detection, predictive maintenance, high-frequency trading) Lumawarp is an absolute power-up over other options.

What makes this partnership powerful:

For our clients: Access to cutting-edge ML technology.

For Lucidity Sciences clients: Talbot West’s full-spectrum AI expertise and enterprise architecture methodology to maximize Lumawarp’s value across the organization.

The future of enterprise AI is about choosing the right tools. This partnership is a step toward that future.

Special thanks to Alexandra Pasi, PhD, Brian Pasi, Alan Mullenix, PhD, and Richard Wellman, Ph.D. for hosting the Talbot West team and for the terrific Lumawarp demo. Stephen Karafiath, Steve Larsen, and Jacob Andra were all duly impressed.

Learn more about Lucidity Sciences: luciditysciences.com

12/02/2025

Lucidity Sciences is the only company to fundamentally innovate within the algorithmic layer of the AI ecosystem.

Plus, Alexandra Pasi, PhD and Brian Pasi are an awesome father-daughter duo.

Talbot West is totally aligned with them on the opportunities for AI to remake organizational intelligence. Especially outside of the well-trodden use cases of LLMs.

Stay tuned for more about Talbot West and Lucidity collaboration.

They’re reshaping the foundations of ML. We’re helping organizations know how to apply it. A perfect synergy.

11/26/2025

Talbot West is pleased to announce that Steve Larsen has joined our team as VP of sales. Steve’s background in enterprise sales, combined with his AI and technical literacy, make him the ideal candidate to communicate the value Talbot West offers to enterprise and mid market organizations.

11/15/2025

Large language models are awesome and they also suck.

Stephen Karafiath and I wrestle with them every day.

We advise Talbot West clients on how to use them and how not to use them.

Not enough people understand that they are just one tool in a very large toolbox.

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