You know you need to “adopt AI.”
But driving real results with AI requires rethinking your culture, processes, and systems…not just buying another AI tool.
Talas brings a structured approach to assessing AI adoption to help your team find the highest-leverage opportunities, and then acts as a partner to help you capture those opportunities through training, co-managed AI implementation, and custom app development to build out real workflows for your team.
The AI innovator's dilemma: you have a mandate to transform your business with AI while you're still trying to run the current one.
In every board meeting, someone asks how you're using AI. It's tempting to reach for a quick, impressive story: a pilot or two you can point to.
But AI really is transforming how companies work, from how software gets built to how sales teams sell. This isn't the time to present a good story about AI pilots just to satisfy the board.
Whether your team is just starting to use ChatGPT or already building complex sales workflows with AI agents, Talas is your partner in making sure the business captures all of the operational upside AI can bring to your team.
“Right now I'm just trying to keep my team above water. I want to be spending more time looking at the metrics that will influence our exit value, but my priority is on hitting our immediate projections and navigating the changes that have come with being acquired.”
What you get from working with us
You can engage Talas directly, or your PE sponsor can bring us in to work with you. Either way, we're an end-to-end partner for your team: finding the AI opportunities worth pursuing, working alongside your people to capture them, and measuring what they delivered.
Identify AI opportunities
AI Value Creation Assessments
We work with you and your teams to rank AI maturity in each function, map every opportunity to the value creation levers by impact and complexity, and hand back a Now, Next, Later roadmap.
Capture AI opportunities
Forward-Deployed Engineering
Our product and engineering leaders, who have taken companies through a private equity acquisition, work alongside your team to capture what the assessment found, while the business keeps running. Your team directs the work.
Measure results from AI
The Talas AI Portfolio Ops Platform
Talas tracks what the work delivered, using the reporting you already produce.
You stay in control of what your sponsor sees.
When Talas runs an analysis in your company, you see it first. You add your own context, and you decide what gets shared with your PE firm. Your sponsor can see that the work happened, but not its results until you choose to share them.
We've been in your seat.
Jessica co-founded Packback, led its product organization as CPO, and saw it through its sale to Providence Strategic Growth in 2024. Craig built and led engineering teams from seed stage to a private equity acquisition. We know what it's like to answer to a sponsor while you're trying to ship.
That's why we'd rather help you build something that works than hand you a presentation about AI.
Meet the team