Talbot West

I founded Talbot West to bridge the critical gap between technical AI capabilities and real-world business needs. Our mission: guide organizations through successful AI implementation while delivering measurable value and maintaining security, ethics, and human oversight.
We excel at spanning technical, strategic, and executive realms—translating complex AI capabilities into practical business solutions. Our team combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen, ensuring AI implementations that drive efficiency and align with organizational goals.

* Innovative approaches to enterprise AI implementation
* Cognitive hive AI (CHAI), a modular architecture for enhanced security and flexibility
* Comprehensive AI governance frameworks for enterprise clients
* Advanced practical methodologies for retrieval augmented generation (RAG)

Our value proposition:

Practical, ROI-focused solutions that solve real business problems
Deep understanding of both technical requirements and business strategy
Expert guidance in AI governance and ethics
Flexible implementation options for various security needs
Efficient resource utilization that reduces operational costs
Clear communication across technical and executive levels

Vision for Talbot West:
While others chase AI trends, we focus on practical solutions that deliver real value. Our approach combines technical mastery with deep business understanding, ensuring AI implementations that drive measurable results.
We specialize in bridging gaps: between technical capabilities and business needs, between strategic vision and practical implementation, between current operations and future possibilities. This unique positioning allows us to guide organizations through successful AI adoption at all levels.
We serve organizations across all sectors, to deliver practical AI solutions that drive efficiency while maintaining security and ethical standards.

Founder and Chief Innovation Officer | AI solutions | Cognitive Hive AI

Industry Advisory Board Member

CustomerFaucet.com

CustomerFaucet.com drives organic traffic for growing brands using search engine optimization (SEO) strategies that work.

SEO is much more than title tags and keywords. SEO is about demonstrating to search engine algorithms that your brand is a topical authority within its industry. 

While demonstrating your authoritativeness to algorithms, we simultaneously create a seamless user experience for customers.

Algos are happy, customers are happy, traffic is flowing to your site, conversions are happening. 

Done well, SEO can be the greatest growth strategy there is.

We do SEO well.

✅ SEO for ecommerce brands
✅ SEO for B2B companies
✅ SEO for SaaS / software companies

We take a content-first approach to search engine optimization, meaning that we prioritize the production and publishing of high-authority, relevant content at scale as the biggest lever we can pull to grow your brand's authority.

This goes way beyond regular old "blogging"—companies can blog endlessly without significantly elevating their brand authority—because we reverse-engineer content to correspond to user search intent and send the right signals to tickle the algorithms.

Think about it: if someone approached you speaking an unfamiliar dialect, their utterances would be meaningless to you. Signs and symbols—the basics of language: bits of sound, shapes, etc—are meaningless unless they have a specific structure you've been trained to recognize. 

Similarly, your beautiful blog posts probably don't count for much to the algorithms that decide brand authority because they aren't structured in a way that the algorithms have been trained to recognize. 

Even beyond the individual article, library of content across your entire site and beyond creates a map  of your expertise. Structured properly, it signals authoritativeness. Unstructured, it does nothing much at all.

Founder

SOMA blockchain ecommerce

• Grew 20K community of early adopters in the luxury watch industry for the SOMA social marketplace product launch
• Managed public-facing brand image, social profiles, corporate communications, online presence
• Built strategic partnerships in the luxury goods space and leveraged those to advance SOMA's goals
• Onboarded 150+ watch brands to the early-stage product

One Click Retail (now Edge by Ascential)

Launched ABM-focused digital initiative that exceeded KPIs for leads, sales, and revenue for 2017. 

Worked in Salesforce & Marketo to generate high-conversion email campaigns.

Awarded Marketer of the year at the yearly gala of Ascential plc (parent company of One Click Retail) in London, January 2018.

Marketing Director | Ecommerce | Account-Based Marketing | Marketing Automation

U.S. Translation Company

Account-based B2B sector-specific marketing. 

Planning, management, and execution of targeted content marketing campaigns, email marketing, customer segmentation, PPC.

Web content production, blogging, SEO, PPC, social media marketing, paid social, video ads, graphic design, Analytics, Google Search Console, Adwords, and more. Create content marketing internship syllabi, manage interns.

Research, analysis, writing and publishing on key sectors of focus: aerospace, pharma, medical devices, defense.

Web content production, blogging, SEO, PPC, social media marketing, paid social, video ads, graphic design, Analytics, Google Search Console, Adwords, and more. Create content marketing internship syllabi, manage interns.

Digital Marketing Manager | SEO | SEM | B2B Marketing | Inbound Marketing | ABM

Advanced Composites, Inc.

Web content management, web design, SEO, sales, copywriting, PPC, Analytics, advertising, photography, videography for Advanced Composites Inc. and its two subsidiary brands.

Digital Marketing Manager | Web Content | Web Development | SEO

Dr. Robert Hitchcock Research Lab, University of Utah

Under Richard Lasher, Dr. Hitchcock's PhD student, I learned cell culture fabrication, cardiomyocyte isolation, and cell electrostimulation.

Laboratory Intern

Talbot West: forecasting trends and guiding clients through new frontiers. 

In medieval Europe, the Talbot was known as a harbinger—one who announces or signals what is to come. 

Like the Talbot, we help organizations see around corners and prepare for emerging technologies that will reshape their operations.

"West" speaks to the pioneering spirit of American expansion. Just as the western frontier represented both challenge and opportunity, artificial intelligence opens new territories for enterprise innovation. 

We guide organizations through this technological frontier, helping them stake their claim in the AI landscape while avoiding common pitfalls.

Together, these elements—the foresight of the Talbot and the pioneering spirit of the West—define our approach to AI implementation. 

We combine deep technical expertise with practical business guidance to help organizations thrive in an AI-enabled future.

This combination of ancient wisdom and frontier spirit drives everything we do at Talbot West. 

We're not just implementing AI—we're helping organizations chart their course through a transformative era in human history.

A dynamic engine of positive change. 

Talbot West develops real AI solutions that drive efficiency and bring dramatic new capabilities to American defense, enterprise, and governmental organizations. 

As founder of Talbot West, I help organizations navigate the complex landscape of artificial intelligence, turning cutting-edge technology into practical business advantages.

Our mission is to drive value for our partners through AI deployments that deliver unprecedented efficiency and emergent capabilities.  

We're championing cognitive hive AI (CHAI), a modular architecture that overcomes the limitations of black-box large language models. CHAI offers  configurability, explainability, and security in AI deployments.

The AI landscape evolves daily. I stay immersed in emerging technologies, separating hype from reality to ensure our partners get solutions that drive actual value. My team and I bridge the gap between AI developers and executives who need clear, practical paths to implementation.

Let's connect if you're interested in:

Strategic AI implementation
Efficiency through automation
Enterprise AI governance
Responsible AI deployment
Knowledge management at scale
Workforce AI training and education

The future belongs to those who can harness AI's potential while maintaining control of their systems and data. I'm here to help organizations claim that future.

Zero Gravity Summit day 2 was even better than the first day. 

Kudos to Aaron Starks and the entire 47G: Aerospace & Defense team for pulling off an amazing event. 

It was great to catch up with old friends such as Teri, Jared, Jeremy, Hailey, Chase, Max, Spencer, David,  and many more. 

I also made a lot of terrific new connections, like David Graff (thanks for having me on the podcast!), Mike Nyborg, Charles Adelman, and so many others. 

Cheers to Nicole, Domonic, Craig, Chris, John, Gerritt, Kori Ann, Matthew, Cathy, Ian, and the entire 47G team. You set a high bar for next year. Terrific work.

It’s inspiring to see all the dynamic companies that are part of this ecosystem, pushing the boundaries of hardware and software and innovation forward.

#aerospace #defense #robotics #ai #machinelearning #robotics

Jacob Andra

AI leadership | Applied AI | Digital transformation consulting | Ensemble AI/ML deployment | M&A dealflow via BizForesight.

Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra poses for a selfie with Aaron Starks CEO of 47G at the 2025 zero gravity Summit at the salt Palace in Salt Lake City Utah 


Talbot West CEO, Jacob Andra poses for a selfie with  Teri LaSpina of Big D Construction at the zero gravity summit 2025 at the salt Palace in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah

Bennett B. Borden is the CEO of Clarion AI Partners, a law practice that does AI enablement. 

Bennett and I discussed the ways AI is moving the needle for companies in our experience, with a special emphasis on ensemble approaches that team multiple large language models and pair LLMs with other types of AI/ML.

A fascinating conversation, and well worth the time. Links in comments. 

#digitaltransformation #genAI #AI #LLMs #ensembleAI

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