Nexos, the AI and software division of Abrams & Luchanski in San Diego, designs and builds AI agents, private language models, system integrations and custom software for businesses across the Sacramento region, from downtown and Elk Grove to Roseville and Folsom. Work starts with a free technology audit, a consulting review that ranks where AI would pay back in your business before anything is built. Sacramento engagements are fully remote: workshops, reviews and staff training happen over video, on the same Pacific Time clock as our San Diego headquarters.
Few regional economies lean on the public sector the way this one does. In the Bureau of Labor Statistics count for the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville metro area, government accounts for 262,600 of roughly 1.11 million nonfarm jobs in August 2026 — close to one job in four, and more than any private sector on the table. Around the agencies sits a ring of private firms that exist to serve them: engineering and environmental consultancies, IT contractors, lobbying and public-affairs shops, auditors and the law practices that handle regulatory work. Professional and business services add another 133,900 jobs.
That ring is fed partly by policy. The Department of General Services sets a goal of steering at least a quarter of the state’s annual contract dollars to certified small businesses and 3% to disabled veteran-owned enterprises, with a 5% bid preference for certified firms on applicable solicitations. For a twenty-person consultancy, winning and administering that work means proposals, certifications, subcontracting reports and invoices that must reconcile to the contract — paperwork that grows with every award.
Beyond the capital, the region looks like a set of small-business economies. The Census Bureau counts 34,280 employer establishments in Sacramento County and 126,634 businesses there with no payroll at all, and the county’s health care and social assistance receipts reached about $20.5 billion in 2022. Placer County, home to Roseville and Rocklin, grew 9.2% in population between the 2020 base and mid-2025, and the metro area carries 74,600 construction jobs — builders, trades and home-service firms scheduling work across new subdivisions.
There is no Sacramento project behind any of this — Nexos has none, and none is implied. Each item below follows from the region’s mix of public-sector work, professional services and growth, and names the service that would deliver it.
Firms that compete for state and county work rewrite the same qualifications, staffing plans and method statements for every solicitation. A knowledge system over past proposals, résumés and scopes — one that cites the document each paragraph came from — lets a small bid team start each response from cited, reusable material instead of a blank page, leaving the team’s time for the parts that are new.
Once awarded, a public contract brings milestone deliverables, certified-subcontractor reporting and invoices that must match the agreement line for line. An internal tool that ties each deliverable to its contract clause, due date and billing line gives a project manager one screen instead of five spreadsheets and a shared inbox.
Clinics, behavioral-health practices and nonprofits that deliver county-funded services handle case notes and patient details that must not be pasted into a public chatbot. A dedicated private model, housed and monitored for you alone, lets staff summarize and draft while the data stays in a controlled environment; the design takes HIPAA and county-contract terms into account, and you and your counsel confirm whether the setup fits before any patient data is used.
Contractors working the new neighbourhoods of Placer and southern Sacramento counties usually hold estimates in one program, schedules in another and actual costs in the accounting system. A small data platform that joins the three shows margin by job while the job is still running, not after the final invoice.
With far more no-payroll businesses than employers in the county, the typical buyer here is an owner who does the admin at night. Connecting the booking, invoicing and payment tools they already pay for — so an appointment becomes an invoice becomes a reconciled payment — can remove the weekly re-typing between them, and the audit estimates the hours that would save before anything is built.
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 →
Firms that sell to state departments have one more document to read. Executive Order N-12-23, signed September 6, 2023, directed state agencies to issue guidelines for public-sector procurement of generative AI and told the Government Operations Agency, the Department of General Services and the Department of Technology to update the State’s procurement and contract terms by January 2025 — so a contractor planning to use AI on state deliverables should check its agreement for generative-AI provisions before the build is scoped.
General information, not legal advice. Laws, regulations and their effective dates change; confirm how they apply to your business with your own counsel.
A Sacramento project opens with the free audit (one call, then a written audit), followed by a fixed-price proposal listing what we will build, what stays out of scope and what it costs. Once the build is agreed, the people who do the work share their screens and walk through it as it happens today: the portal they download from, the spreadsheet they reconcile against, the email that starts each job. Each week brings a check-in call, progress sits on a board your team can open at any time, working software arrives early, and nothing reaches your staff until someone on your side has approved it.
San Diego and Sacramento share Pacific Time, so there is no offset at all: the whole business day overlaps, and a 9 a.m. check-in call is 9 a.m. at both ends. For firms whose calendar follows agency deadlines, that means a review never waits on a time-zone gap. Training sessions run live on video, so a team split between downtown, the suburbs and home can join from wherever they are.
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 — zero hours’ difference from our San Diego headquarters, so the full working day overlaps.
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.
We take on projects from businesses in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties the same way: remotely, on the same clock.
A Sacramento firm pays our standard rates. An AI agent for a small business is quoted like any other build: a fixed price per project after the free technology audit, from $4,900, with hosting of a private model from $890/month. A remote engagement adds no travel line to the quote.
Everything is remote. Our in-person work is limited to the Southern California counties; for the Sacramento region, discovery, design reviews, acceptance testing and training all run over video.
Often yes, but start with the contract. Executive Order N-12-23 set the state on course to write generative-AI terms into its procurement and contracts, so read your agreement and ask your contract manager before AI touches a deliverable. We can then design the build to match — for example a private model, human sign-off on every output and a log of what the AI produced.
A first project is deliberately narrow — one process, such as bid drafting or invoice matching — and the free audit and a fixed-scope proposal come first, so what will be built, what is left out and the price are settled before you sign. Larger platforms are split into stages, each of which is useful on its own.
Whatever someone re-types most often. For consultancies that is usually proposal content and contract reporting; for clinics and service providers, intake and scheduling; for builders, getting estimates, schedules and actual costs into one view. The free audit ranks your candidates by return and effort before you commit to anything.
Other areas: everywhere we build.
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Nexos works alongside Abrams & Luchanski consultants so technical solutions are designed around the business — not the other way around.