Run a leaner, faster company. Without burning out your team.
Talus is the operator on your side. We build and run AI agents and offshore teams as an extension of your company — so you get more output without scaling payroll.
You’re a founder. Your team is stretched thin.
Hiring more US employees is slow and expensive. Hiring overseas feels risky if you’ve never done it. AI tools are everywhere and most are noise. You don’t have time to figure out what actually works — and the wrong call costs you months.
So you keep absorbing the work yourself.
Two practices. One operator. Real output.
Talus runs AI deployment and offshore hiring end-to-end — diagnosis, build, management, accountability. One operator on your side, not multiple vendors to manage.
AI Agents and Infrastructure
Custom-built AI agents that handle real ongoing work — content production, research, ops automation, customer support. We design, deploy, and manage them. A fraction of an employee’s cost.
Offshore Talent
Kosovo-based contractors embedded into your team like W-2 employees — without the W-2 cost. We hire, onboard, and stay accountable for performance.
You hire Talus. We own the engagement, the outcome, and the relationship. Atonomi and BE Simple are the infrastructure underneath — vetted, proven, and the reason we can move fast without compromising quality.
Founder-led, 10–250 employees.
Across all industries. The qualifier isn’t industry — it’s operating mindset.
If you’ve ever said “I just need someone who can take this off my plate,” you’re our person.
Three steps. No retainer. No software pitch.
Diagnostic call
1 hour. Free. We map where your time and capacity are going, and identify the highest-leverage gaps.
Recommendation
A short written document. AI, offshore, both, or neither. We tell you straight — even if the answer is "don't do this yet."
Implementation
We build, deploy, and manage. AI agents go live. Offshore hires get onboarded. We stay on the engagement until it's producing — then keep watch quarterly.
Operator-led. Outcome-aligned.
Operator-led, not vendor-led
We've run founder-led companies. We know what actually breaks at scale — and what looks important but isn't.
Accountable to outcomes
If the AI doesn't ship work or the hire doesn't perform, that's our problem to fix — not yours to chase. We stay on until it works.
The bench is vetted
Our partners aren't a Google search. We've worked with them, sent them clients, watched the outcomes.
Honest about fit
If you don't need us, we'll tell you. If AI is wrong for your problem, we'll say so. The brand depends on it.
Built by an operator.
Talus was founded by Jon Kludt — a Certified EOS Implementer®, multi-business operator, and host of The Modern Founder & CEO Podcast.
After a decade inside founder-led companies, Jon saw the same pattern repeatedly: founders stretched thin, teams maxed out, and a market full of vendors selling tools instead of solving problems.
Talus exists to be the operator on the founder’s side — diagnosing the real bottleneck, then connecting them to partners that actually deliver.
Talus operates as a partner-channel business with Atonomi (AI agents) and BE Simple Staffing (offshore talent). We earn referral fees from these partners on engagements we source.
We disclose this in every client engagement. We work with these partners because they deliver — not because they pay.
Stop absorbing the work yourself.
Book a 1-hour diagnostic call. We’ll map your bottlenecks and tell you whether we can help — straight.
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