Frontier AI,
on your terms
Tabotec builds production-grade AI products — from enterprise RAG to fine-tuned models for languages and domains the big labs skip — and we partner with teams putting AI into their own products as a consulting practice.
What we do
Two ways to work with Tabotec.
We ship our own products, and we get hired to ship for other teams. Both come out of the same engineering bench and the same opinionated approach to building AI that actually works.
Software you can buy or self-host.
Tabotec Atlas (enterprise RAG), the Tabotec Languages program for the Horn of Africa (speech & LLM), and custom fine-tuning engagements that produce a model you own.
See the product line → ConsultingAn AI team you can rent.
Strategy, architecture, evals, and hands-on implementation for teams adopting AI. We help you pick models, design pipelines, and ship — without lock-in to anyone's stack, including ours.
How we engage →Products
Three product lines.
All built on the same fine-tuning and deployment pipeline. All self-hostable. All designed so you keep control of your weights and your data.
Tabotec Atlas
Self-hosted RAG platform. Document ingestion, vector search, cited answers, and pluggable providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or local). One docker compose up.
Tabotec Languages
A department of Tabotec building speech and language AI for under-served languages, starting in the Horn of Africa with Tigrigna (Tigvoice ASR/TTS and an instruction-tuned LLM).
Inside the program → Custom fine-tuningModels built for you
Bring your data, your domain, your success criteria. We curate, train, evaluate, and deliver a model you can host or call as an API. No black box, no surprise bills.
How it works →Consulting practice
What we get hired for
- AI strategy & architecture reviews
- Model selection, benchmarking, and eval design
- RAG and agent pipelines built into your product
- Fine-tuning roadmaps for proprietary data
- Self-hosted inference and MLOps setup
- Pragmatic second opinions on a system already in flight
Engagements typically run 4–12 weeks. We don't take retainer work that doesn't ship.
Why teams hire us
An AI bench that has actually shipped.
Most AI consultancies sell decks. We sell working systems. The same engineers who build Tabotec Atlas and the Tigrigna stack are the ones who show up to your kickoff — and they'll write code, not just slides.
We're vendor-neutral. If the right answer for you is Anthropic's API, we'll wire that up. If it's a local Llama on your own GPUs, we'll do that. If it's a hybrid, we'll prove out the tradeoffs with real evals before you commit.
See how we engageWhere we come from
An AI company built in Los Angeles.
Tabotec is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Our products and consulting practice serve teams worldwide.
We work where the value is high but the data is messy, the language is small, the hardware is humble, or all three at once. We optimize for systems you can run, audit, and own.
More about TabotecWhat we believe
Three opinions that shape what we ship
Small, owned models beat big rented ones. For most production use cases, a 4–8B fine-tune wins on latency, cost, privacy, and accountability.
Data is the product. The model is downstream of the data. We invest most of our energy in curation and eval design.
Local-first, always. Many of our customers can't ship their data to a US cloud. We design for that constraint and treat it as a feature.
Get in touch
Have a problem worth shipping for?
Tell us what you're trying to do — a product evaluation, a fine-tuning project, a consulting engagement, or a pilot of one of our own products. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.