Nexos builds AI agents, private language models, system integrations and custom internal software for businesses in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the East Bay, working remotely from San Diego. Nexos is the AI and software division of Abrams & Luchanski, founded in 2024. Every Bay Area engagement begins with a free technology audit and runs over video, on the same Pacific Time working day as yours, with no hours of offset to plan around.
The Bay Area is famous for building software, but far more of its jobs sit outside the software business. In August 2026 the Bureau of Labor Statistics counted about 128,800 information-sector jobs in the San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont metro area, against roughly 440,200 in education and health services and about 338,300 in trade, transportation and utilities. Those larger groups are clinics, schools, retailers and distributors that use software rather than sell it, and the education and health count grew 2.8% over the year.
The largest supersector in that BLS table is professional and business services, at about 469,500 jobs on the San Francisco side and 279,600 in the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metro. That category mixes law and accounting practices, engineering consultancies, staffing agencies, architects and marketing shops with computer systems design, so it is not a count of non-software firms. It does show how much of the regional workforce sits in advisory and administrative work.
Silicon Valley also still makes physical things. The San Jose metro reported 131,400 manufacturing jobs in the same month, 1.4% more than a year earlier. Across the bay, the Port of Oakland says it loads and discharges more than 99% of the containerized goods moving through Northern California. That makes the East Bay, by our reading, where much of the region’s import and distribution work happens: importers, freight forwarders, warehouses and distributors whose days are shaped by bookings, customs paperwork and appointment windows.
The same BLS tables (Economy at a Glance, August 2026, preliminary) show where the region is tightening. Information-sector jobs in the San Francisco metro were down 3.6% on the year and financial activities down 3.9%, while leisure and hospitality grew 4.0% to about 265,100. Where headcount is falling, the remaining staff’s time is worth more on judgement than on transcription, and a growing service business gains most by adding volume without a desk for every new booking. ABAG’s member list covers nine counties, from Sonoma and Napa to Santa Clara; the job counts above cover the two largest metro areas.
Nexos has not yet delivered a Bay Area project, so nothing here is a past result. Each item below is reasoning from the region’s job mix and the pressures in the BLS numbers, matched to the service that would address it.
A startup or scale-up with forty engineers still keeps finance approvals, customer onboarding and vendor tracking in a tangle of spreadsheets, because every sprint goes to the product. Handing those internal tools to an outside builder keeps the roadmap intact and gets operations off the shared drive.
The professional services supersector above folds in software work too, but its law, accounting, consulting and design practices alone make the region dense with firms whose best precedent sits in old matters and past proposals. An agent that searches those files and cites the exact document it drew from lets a junior associate find in minutes what used to take a partner’s memory.
With about 440,200 education and health jobs in the San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont metro, the second figure above, the region runs on records that should not be pasted into a consumer chatbot. A private model that is not a public chatbot can let staff summarise routine paperwork and draft letters. For a HIPAA covered entity, or a school bound by FERPA, the design takes those rules into account, and you and your counsel decide whether and how any patient or student record may be involved before one is. The hosted option lives in Nexos infrastructure and can move on-premise when you are ready.
An East Bay importer or distributor can end up with one container’s details spread across several places, such as the forwarder’s portal, the customs broker’s email, the warehouse system, accounting and a planner’s notebook. Pulling those into a single dataset, with exceptions flagged before a demurrage charge lands, is a build the audit can price against what those charges already cost you.
A restaurant group or hotel adding covers and rooms as leisure demand grows re-enters the same reservation, deposit and supplier details by hand across several systems. Connecting them, with a manager approving anything unusual, lets volume rise without a matching rise in admin hours.
California’s rules apply here as they do statewide: the CCPA as amended by the CPRA, the California Privacy Protection Agency’s regulations on automated decisionmaking technology and risk assessments, and the Civil Rights Council’s rules on automated-decision systems in employment. Each is itemised, with official links and dates, on our California page. California’s rules, itemised →
Two statewide rules reach Bay Area companies with particular force. A Bay Area company that designs, codes, produces or substantially modifies a generative AI system (the statute counts retraining and fine-tuning) and makes it available to the public is a developer under AB 2013, and since January 1, 2026 it must post documentation of the data used to train it; a business that simply uses someone else’s model without retraining or fine-tuning it is generally not the developer. For any Bay Area employer that uses software to screen or rank applicants, the Civil Rights Council’s automated-decision rules for employment (effective October 1, 2025) are usually the first to matter.
General information, not legal advice. Laws, regulations and their effective dates change; confirm how they apply to your business with your own counsel.
The free audit for a Bay Area business is done over video: the people who actually run the process share their screens and walk us through it, exceptions included, while we map the systems it touches. From it we write a fixed-scope proposal naming the deliverables, the data involved and how the result will be accepted, so you can see what you are agreeing to before any build starts.
Once the build starts, there is a weekly check-in call, a shared progress board listing what is done, what comes next and what is waiting on you, and working software to try early rather than a reveal at the end. Because San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland keep the same clock as our San Diego base, a 9 a.m. call is 9 a.m. for both sides, and go-live and training happen over video.
Remote across the rest of California; in person across Southern California (San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Imperial counties, the Coachella Valley included). Pacific Time, the same as San Diego: zero hours of offset.
The free technology audit is a call and a written audit, wherever you are, Southern California included. Outside Southern California, all of it runs over video.
Audit — free: a call and a written technology audit.
Build — from $4,900 per fixed-scope project.
Run — from $890/month for a hosted private model.
The same prices everywhere. See pricing.
Aidan Luchans founded Abrams & Luchanski in San Diego in 2024, and designed and built the Nexos Platform, a multi-tenant AI operations platform: AI agents, multi-step workflows with human approval, connections to roughly 90 business tools, and private knowledge search.
Aidan leads both the firm’s advisory work and Nexos’s engineering, so the person who scopes a project also builds it.
Every city in the region is served remotely over video; none of them is inside our in-person area.
No. Bay Area work is remote: discovery, design reviews, acceptance testing and training all run over video. Our in-person area is Southern California only, and we would rather say so up front than promise a visit.
The same as anywhere else we work — there is no Bay Area premium. The technology audit is free, and it ends in a fixed quote for the specific build, so the price is known before you commit: fixed-scope builds start at $4,900, and a hosted private model from $890/month.
Usually because those engineers belong on the product. Internal automation, knowledge search over company files and integrations between off-the-shelf systems tend to wait forever in the backlog; an outside builder can take them end to end and hand over documented code your engineers can read and maintain.
It sets conditions rather than banning it. Since October 1, 2025, regulations from the state’s Civil Rights Council have spelled out how anti-discrimination law applies when an employer lets software screen, rank or score candidates. Take the question to employment counsel; on the build side we add the logging and human review that such a conversation usually asks for.
A call with us, then a written audit. The audit lists the tasks in your business that are candidates for an agent, an integration or an internal tool — reconciling shipment records, drafting first replies to routine requests, assembling a weekly report — puts them in order by return and effort, and names the ones better left alone. If you decide to go ahead, it ends in a fixed quote for the build; if not, the written audit is yours to keep, with no obligation to build with us.
Other areas: everywhere we build.
A short description is plenty. We reply within one business day.
Nexos works alongside Abrams & Luchanski consultants so technical solutions are designed around the business — not the other way around.