Utalkia

AI consulting & engineering — boutique, mid-market, lean

From “we should do AI” to working solutions.

We help mid-market financial services, due diligence, and document-intensive operations apply AI where precision, scale, and control matter most. Three principals. Eight engineers. A senior bench. We deliver what the Big-4 quotes for ten times the price.

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OpenAI ranking
Top 1%
hedge fund reasoning model
Document review
4 hrs → <1 min
background investigation
Team
3 + 8 + bench
principals, engineers, on-call
First quick win
30–90 days
not 12 months

What we build, hands-on

  • Intelligence platforms
    Orchestrated systems that replicate how a senior operator thinks — not chat wrappers around a model.
  • LLM orchestration
    AI, deterministic code, and human judgment conducted as one system. Bounded autonomy, not autonomy theatre.
  • Retrieval (RAG) for regulated work
    Grounded answers over your real corpora. Citations precise enough to survive an examination.
  • Agentic systems
    Planning, tool use, verification, and escalation — with the routing logic owned by the orchestrator, not the model.
  • Document intelligence
    Extraction, classification, cross-referencing — replacing manual review without losing the audit trail.
  • Custom workflow engines
    Durable, replayable spines for the parts of the system that have to be exactly right, every time.
  • Smart contracts & on-chain logic
    Multi-chain Solidity work, non-custodial flows, custom royalty and provenance primitives.
  • Audit-grade logging
    Per-decision provenance and evidence packages on demand — built for procurement and regulators, not for blog screenshots.

Estimate your ROI

Drag the sliders. Watch the math.

A directional estimate for what automating one document- or research-heavy workflow could save you in a year. Based on engagements where Utalkia has implemented document intelligence on similar work.

Industry preset
12
18 hrs
$75/hr
75%

Default 75% reflects typical document-intelligence engagements.

$250K
Today vs. After Utalkia
Today$778K
After$194K
Annual savings
$583K
Payback
5.1 months
3-year net benefit
$1.50M
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Directional estimate. Actual outcomes depend on workflow complexity, data quality, and integration scope. We deliver firm projections during scoping.

How we get to these numbers: our background-investigation client compressed 4 hours of document review to under 1 minute. Our hedge fund investment model was rated by OpenAI in the global top 1%.

The proof, with numbers

Three engagements that show what we mean.

All case studies →
Hedge funds
Top 1% globally (OpenAI rating)
The fund's analysts were drowning in unstructured research — earnings calls, regulatory filings, broker notes — and the portfolio team wanted a reasoning system that could draft, defend, and revise investment theses without the analysts losing control of the process.
LLM orchestrationAgentic systemsAudit-grade logging
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Due diligence
4 hours → under 1 minute, end-to-end
Investigators spent four hours per file: manual review, manual extraction, manual cross-referencing across thirty-plus document types. Tech firms ten times our size had told the client what they wanted wasn't possible at their price point.
Document intelligenceRAGCustom workflow engines
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NFT / Web3
On-chain logic across 4 EVM networks, non-custodial
Creators wanted to mint and manage NFTs across multiple chains without learning the chain-specific tooling, and the team wanted on-chain logic that could enforce royalties and provenance without a centralized backend.
Smart contractsCustom workflow engines
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From the lab

Working notes, not marketing.

All insights →
  • Strategy··6 min

    Orchestration is the strategy. Tools are just tools.

    Most companies that say they're 'doing AI' have rolled out chat licenses. That's adoption. Strategy is when the business runs on it — outcomes, not tasks.

    — Alex Galustyan
  • Engineering··5 min

    Human-in-the-loop, by design — not as a fallback

    Every production AI system we ship is engineered to know when to stop and ask. The orchestrator doesn't replace your team. It removes the grunt work so judgment lives where it should.

    — Aghasi Gasparyan
  • Engineering··8 min

    Why RAG alone fails on regulated corpora

    If you can't trace the assertion to the source paragraph, version, and signature, you don't have an audit trail — you have a confident hallucination.

    — Aghasi Gasparyan

Tell us about a problem the big firms have already said no to.

Thirty minutes, no slideware. We'll map two or three candidate workflows in your business, tell you honestly where AI fits and where it doesn't, and you walk away with a sharper map either way.

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