Utalkia

About

Six people who punch like thirty.

Three principals lead the firm. Two permanent engineers and two half-time DevOps engineers run delivery. A senior bench — ex-EY, BNY Mellon, Bank of America, Facebook — joins for depth when an engagement needs it. We don't pretend the bench is full-time staff. They're a bench, and they're there if we need them.

The story we usually tell new clients

Two years ago we had a team of seven engineers and five analysts. Today we have four engineers and we ship more. The reason is simple: we run on AI. Not as a product. Not as a chatbot in the corner. As the power source for the firm itself.

A big city doesn't run on its reactor by replacing what the city does. The reactor sits underneath everything — invisible, constant, and at a scale you only notice when you compare what's possible now to what was possible before. We use AI the same way. Every engineer here works alongside it on every system we ship. The output is the firm.

That's the meaningful difference between us and a consultancy that sellsAI services. We live inside the same operating model we'd build for you. By the time we're recommending an orchestrator pattern to a buyer, we've stress-tested it on our own work for years. The strategy is grounded in what we've actually had to make work — at our scale, on our own bills.

What makes Utalkia rare is the combination. Strategy and engineering in the same room. The people who design an engagement are the same people who write the code that ships it. We don't sell AI projects — we build orchestrated platforms where deterministic code, AI components, and human judgment are stitched into a capability that does the work the way a senior operator would. Only faster, more consistently, and with the receipts attached.

We don't have certifications most procurement teams check for. We're three years old, with a growing client-base. By some metrics in some RFPs, we don't exist. By the metric of can Utalkia ship the miracle, we're exactly the kind of firm a serious buyer is looking for.

Principals

Alex Galustyan

Business development & strategy

Twenty years in financial services and regulatory operations before starting Utalkia. Spent the first half of that career inside the kind of mid-market firms that are now our clients — which is why our briefs read like ops memos, not consulting decks.

Runs the engagement model end-to-end: scoping, pricing, delivery cadence. The principle is the same one we apply to client work: be specific, prove it in 30–90 days, and don't sell what you can't ship.

Aghasi Gasparyan

Technology & product

Full-stack engineer with deep production experience in LLM systems, smart contracts, and workflow architecture. Built the hedge-fund reasoning model that OpenAI rated in the global top 1%, and the on-chain provenance system behind Galileo.

Sets the engineering bar for the firm. Believes the orchestrator pattern — AI where AI is strong, code where code is strong, humans on the irreplaceable parts — is the only way production AI ships at the quality regulated buyers actually accept.

Lloyd Soldatt

Client relationships

Lloyd is the named partner most clients keep on speed-dial. He owns the relationship from first call through production launch and beyond — which means he's also the person who tells us when a scope change is wrong for the client, even when it's profitable for us.

Comes from enterprise software with a long tail of mid-market relationships. The reason our reference list is short is also the reason it's strong: he won't let a client become a logo unless they'd pick up the phone for a reference call without hesitation.

The bench

Two permanent engineers, two half-time DevOps engineers, and senior consultants on call. Pedigree shown by request — names withheld unless they've consented to be listed publicly.

  • Developer #1
    Permanent engineer
    Backend systems, RAG pipelines, evaluation harnesses.
  • Developer #2
    Permanent engineer
    Document-intelligence stack, OCR/layout, entity resolution.
  • DevOps engineer #1
    Half-time, infrastructure
    Production deployments, observability, audit logging.
  • DevOps engineer #2
    Half-time, infrastructure
    Cloud security, secrets, regulated-environment hardening.
  • Senior consultant
    On call · ex-EY financial services
    Risk, controls, regulatory framing for financial-services engagements.
  • Senior consultant
    On call · ex-BNY Mellon operations
    Back-office automation and reconciliation depth.
  • Senior consultant
    On call · ex-Bank of America
    Wholesale-banking workflows and document operations.
  • Senior consultant
    On call · ex-Facebook engineering
    Platform architecture and scaled data pipelines.
  • Senior consultant
    On call · ex-Big-4 audit
    Audit-grade controls and evidence packages.

What we'd love to hear from you about.

A problem one of your clients has — or one of your own teams has — where the big firms have already said no, or said yes and disappointed. That's the conversation we're built for.

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