AI agents that do the work
Voice, chat, and workflow agents that execute tasks across calls, CRMs, calendars, and internal tools.
Building AI systems for the next era of business.
Stead Labs builds, trains, and deploys intelligent products that perform real operational work, starting with Talkstead.
Live system
Voice AI that answers, captures, routes, and follows up.99.9%uptime target
<1 secAI answer time
$31k+reception payroll avoided
24/7voice, SMS, and workflow coverage
Company Thesis
Software is moving from systems of record to systems of action.
Models shaped around the domain
Retrieval, evaluation, and model-training workflows built around the operational data a business already has.
Products with a real operating surface
Applied AI that ships as useful software: dashboards, integrations, monitoring, automation, and human handoff.
Product 01
Talkstead turns business calls into completed workflows.
Talkstead is our first product from Stead Labs: an AI voice platform for answering calls, qualifying leads, booking appointments, triggering follow-ups, and giving teams clean operational visibility.
Visit talkstead.comCapabilities
The operating layer behind applied AI products.
Voice AI systems
Phone agents, conversation flows, transcripts, summaries, routing, and follow-up workflows.
Retrieval and knowledge
RAG pipelines, embeddings, domain knowledge bases, evaluation loops, and answer quality controls.
Workflow automation
Agent tools, API integrations, CRM actions, scheduling logic, notifications, and human handoff.
Model implementation
Applied model selection, fine-tuning strategy, prompt systems, computer vision, and multimodal prototypes.
Cloud infrastructure
Production deployment, queues, serverless backends, monitoring, caching, and reliability work.
Product interfaces
Dashboards, internal tools, lead workflows, call intelligence, and productized operating systems.
How We Build
Applied AI from prototype to production.
Map the operation
We identify the repetitive business work, exception paths, integrations, and success criteria.
Engineer the system
We combine agents, APIs, data pipelines, retrieval, monitoring, and deployment infrastructure.
Ship and improve
We measure accuracy, latency, reliability, and user outcomes, then keep tightening the loop.
Team
Small team, high technical surface area.
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Alex Lokhanov
Founder / AI Engineering
Builds production AI systems across voice agents, RAG, cloud infrastructure, and applied model workflows.
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Blake Burford
Growth & Partnerships
Leads growth, partnerships, media, and go-to-market motion for Stead Labs products.
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Shawn Madadha
AI Systems Engineer
Builds applied AI systems across voice agents, agentic workflows, healthcare automation, and robotics.
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