Nexos is the AI and software development division of Abrams & Luchanski, a firm founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Diego, which is why Southern California work is done in person. We build AI agents, private language models, custom software and system integrations for California businesses, designed from the first workshop around the state’s privacy and automated-decision rules. Across Southern California a paid build brings discovery to your site; from the Bay Area to the North State the same engagement runs over video, on the same Pacific clock.
The Census Bureau counts just over a million employer establishments in California, and three and a half million more businesses that run without a single paid employee. The state’s famous technology sector is a small slice of that. The rest is farms and food processors, contractors, clinics, law and accounting practices, retailers, logistics operators and a long tail of owner-run service firms — businesses that buy software rather than write it.
Agriculture alone is a large, data-heavy industry: the California Department of Food and Agriculture reports $61.2 billion in cash receipts for 2024, with dairy, almonds and grapes the leading commodities, and says nearly half of the country’s vegetables and over three-quarters of its fruits and nuts are grown in the state. Packing schedules, grower contracts, food-safety records and export paperwork all move through that industry every week, much of it still by spreadsheet and email.
Geography shapes the work as much as industry does. The Bay Area is dense with professional and technical firms, Sacramento is the seat of state government and the contractors around it, the Central Valley grows, processes and moves food, and the North State is made up of small, widely spread operators. What they share is a single legal environment — California’s privacy statute and its automated-decision rules apply to all of them alike.
Nothing below describes a past California project — there are none to show, and we will not invent any. These are the builds the state’s industry mix points to, and the reasoning behind each.
Food businesses reconcile the same load, lot and grower numbers across scale tickets, packing software, accounting and buyer portals. A data layer that pulls those into one place — and flags the mismatches before an auditor or a buyer does — is usually worth more than any chatbot.
Law, accounting, engineering and consulting practices hold their best answers in past files. A search-and-answer system over those documents, with citations back to the source file, saves senior time without letting client material leave the firm’s control.
Under the CCPA, handing customer or employee records to an outside AI service calls for the right contract terms and an accurate privacy notice at the very least. A model installed on your own hardware keeps that data in-house, which simplifies the privacy analysis as well as the security story.
For a company of ten or forty people, the highest return is often plain plumbing: the booking system talking to the invoicing system, quotes flowing into the CRM, and a weekly report that assembles itself instead of eating a Friday afternoon.
California now regulates automated decisions as well as personal data. Three of these rules — the CCPA, the CPPA’s ADMT and risk-assessment regulations, and the Civil Rights Council’s employment rules — bind the business deploying a system; the other three reach model developers and large platforms. We scope the ones that apply in discovery, not after launch.
Applies to for-profit businesses above the inflation-adjusted revenue threshold, or that buy, sell or share the personal information of 100,000 or more California residents or households, or that earn half their revenue from selling it. Residents can know, delete and correct what is held about them, opt out of its sale or sharing, and limit the use of sensitive information.
Approved by the Office of Administrative Law on September 22, 2025. A covered business that uses automated decisionmaking technology to make significant decisions about people — employment, housing, credit, education, healthcare — must give notice of it, offer an opt-out where applicable, and explain on request how the technology affected the decision.
Clarify how California’s anti-discrimination law applies when an employer uses automated tools in hiring, promotion or other employment decisions. Any AI that screens, ranks or scores people for a job falls inside them.
Developers that make a generative AI system publicly available to Californians must post documentation about the data used to train it. It binds model developers, not a business deploying someone else’s model internally.
Requires large providers of public generative AI systems — over a million monthly users — to offer a free AI-content detection tool and to embed provenance disclosures. Relevant to a typical business only through the platforms it uses.
Aimed at frontier developers that train models with very large amounts of compute, with heavier duties for those above $500 million in revenue. It does not reach an ordinary business building on those models.
General information, not legal advice. Laws, regulations and their effective dates change; confirm how they apply to your business with your own counsel. Last reviewed 2026-09-26.
North of the Southern California counties, discovery happens on video calls and screen shares: we watch your team run the process, read the systems alongside them and agree the scope in writing. A shared project document carries decisions between calls, and you see working software in stages as the build progresses, not only at the end.
Because the whole state keeps Pacific Time, a remote California engagement has none of the scheduling friction of an out-of-state one — a morning review in Sacramento or Fresno is a morning review for us too. Go-live and training run live over video, recorded so new staff can watch them later.
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 throughout the state — our clock too.
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.
Northern and Central California are served remotely. Southern California is served in person, with separate pages for San Diego, North County San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire, Ventura & Santa Barbara and the Coachella Valley.
Both. Every engagement starts with the free audit, a call and a written report; in Southern California the paid build then includes on-site discovery, while businesses in the Bay Area, Sacramento, the Central Valley, the Central Coast and the North State get the same engagement run over video, at the same prices.
No, but it shapes how. If you are covered, sending personal information to an outside AI service needs the right contract terms and notice, and automated decisions about people carry their own duties from 2027. We map which data a system touches before choosing between a hosted model and one on your own hardware.
Very likely. The Civil Rights Council’s rules on automated-decision systems in employment took effect on October 1, 2025, and, if you are covered by the CCPA, the privacy agency’s ADMT rules add notice, opt-out and access duties for significant decisions from January 1, 2027. Talk to employment counsel; we can build the logging and human-review steps counsel asks for.
It shouldn’t be: the build is done remotely whether or not you are in Southern California. What changes is where the paid build’s working sessions happen: in Southern California, discovery, workshops, design reviews, acceptance testing and training take place at your premises; elsewhere in the state they run on video.
California pricing matches our pricing everywhere else. The technology audit is free; a fixed-scope build is priced from $4,900, and running a hosted private model starts at $890 a month. A fixed-scope proposal follows the audit, so the figure is settled before any work is commissioned.
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Nexos works alongside Abrams & Luchanski consultants so technical solutions are designed around the business — not the other way around.