Tay Bolling

“Appian consultant/engineer focused on insurance and financial services modernization and AI-enabled workflows. Built and productionized an AI-driven insurance submission intake system (email ingestion, classification/extraction, HITL review) cutting processing time from 2+ hours to under 10 minutes, and delivered semantic smart search with guardrails and UAT-driven ranking improvements. Also partnered with a global bank CTO org, running sessions with 200+ senior leaders to automate regulatory/board metric reporting via platform integrations and attestation.”

“Lifelong entrepreneur and early Pixar employee who has spent decades in the Bay Area, New York, and Europe building companies and operating in venture ecosystems. He has raised $20M via ICO, raised £3M for a London venture studio, and brings a strong point of view on AI: product creation is commoditizing, so durable startups need a distribution edge.”

“ML/AI engineer focused on production NLP and voice AI systems in the restaurant tech space, with hands-on work spanning ASR, intent classification, LLM fine-tuning, and deployment monitoring at Presto AI. They highlight a 15% improvement in full-AI ordering rate and also built a restaurant sentiment analysis product at Wisely that they say became a standout feature in a $10M acquisition context.”

“Senior cross-functional leader with deep experience in high-stakes compliance and executive operations, including executing a DOJ monitorship rollout (52 ethics/compliance processes in 3–4 months) and driving executive alignment through training and dashboards. Also led M&A at AT&T across strategy, diligence, and integration, and delivered measurable operational improvements like automating the financial close down to 1 day.”