Author: Louis-Victor Jadavji, Co-founder, Taloflow Civic
For cities, counties and public agencies, choosing the right technology can be a complex and resource-intensive process. The decisions that matter most — those affecting citizen services, public health data or decades of legacy infrastructure — often require extensive research, detailed procurement processes and a defensible audit trail, all while government teams are being asked to do more with limited resources.
Taloflow Civic is tackling this challenge by using AI-powered vendor intelligence to help public-sector teams research, compare and evaluate technology solutions faster and with greater transparency.
The platform is designed to turn what can traditionally be weeks or months of vendor research and requirements gathering into a structured, scored and documented evaluation process — helping government decision-makers move towards procurement with greater confidence.
The solution builds on technology already proven in the enterprise market, where Taloflow Civic has helped organizations and consulting firms significantly reduce the time required for complex vendor evaluations. Its move into the public sector followed an engagement with the Government of Jersey, which used the platform to support the redevelopment of its digital health technology stack.
For Taloflow co-founder Louis-Victor Jadavji, the opportunity is ultimately about solving a challenge that exists across both the private and public sectors: enabling decision-makers to make complex and defensible technology choices faster, with less guesswork and better information.
From a dorm room to Forbes 30 Under 30
Louis-Victor Jadavji — known to most as "LV" — has been building companies since he was 18. At 20, he dropped out of college to launch a venture-backed startup using 3D printing and computer vision to build custom-fit footwear and orthotics, and Jadavji was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 for it.
"I've been an entrepreneur for over a decade," Jadavji has said of the years since. "I've dabbled in everything from natural gas compressors to car restoration to 3D printing to computer vision to cloud cost management, finally landing on enterprise software vendor selection."
That last stop is where Taloflow was born — though not in its current form. What started in 2018 as a no-code tooling company became a cloud-cost-management platform, then evolved again after Jadavji and his co-founder, Todd Kesselman, noticed the same complaint surfacing again and again among their customers: choosing enterprise technology was slow, opaque, and almost impossible to do with confidence. Vendors overstate their capabilities. Requirements shift mid-evaluation. Even the best consulting teams can't hold deep expertise in every category a client might need. The company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch to build the answer: an AI-driven platform that replaces "soul-sucking" vendor research with dynamic, defensible evaluations tailored to a specific use case, not a generic analyst quadrant.
Proving the model at enterprise scale
Backed by YC Continuity, Wonder Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Taloflow found early traction with the very people who evaluate technology for a living: consulting firms. PwC, Infogain, and other major firms adopted the platform to compress multi-week vendor research into a one-to-two-day turnaround, freeing senior consultants to focus on strategy instead of desk research. "Taloflow transformed vendor evaluation from a multi-week research burden into a one-to-two-day intelligence delivery," a PwC director noted. Infogain's Himanshu Jain put it just as plainly: Taloflow "slashed our vendor evaluation timeline from two weeks to two days."
"What we discovered early," says co-founder Todd Kesselman, "is that the pain isn't unique to any one industry — it's universal to anyone who has to make a defensible technology decision under time pressure and scrutiny. That's what kept pulling us forward."
But it was a smaller, less obvious engagement that pointed the company towards its next move.
Seeing the pattern repeat in city hall
After a year into working with consulting firms on Fortune 500 evaluations, Taloflow landed its first public-sector customer: the Government of Jersey, which used the platform to help revamp its entire digital health stack.
The co-founders realized who was most stuck with the original problem Taloflow was built to solve: cities, counties, and public agencies running technology overhauls with the thinnest teams and the highest scrutiny. "We really shortcut the entire research process," Jadavji says, describing the shift. "Public sector leaders are looking at technology across a dozen categories, wondering what they should use, and going through the same slow, expensive research every single time — except now it's public money and a public audit trail on the line."
That is the thinking behind Taloflow Civic: the same evaluation engine that helped PwC and dozens of other consulting firms move faster, rebuilt for the public sector's reality. A category that once took months of internal requirements-gathering, or tens of thousands in consulting fees, can now reach a scored, RFP-ready package — vendors compared, features weighted, rationale documented — in about five business days, at roughly an eighth of the traditional cost.
One capability that has stood out for international and multilingual jurisdictions: Taloflow Civic is available in nearly a dozen languages, with active demand spanning Turkish, Polish, and several other regional languages. For cities and public agencies operating across linguistic boundaries — or advising government bodies in the Middle East, Europe, and beyond — this isn't a footnote. It's often the deciding factor.
Putting the decision back in the city's hands
Every requirement, every score, and every reweighted priority is logged and exportable, so a city council or auditor can see exactly why a decision was made — not just what was decided.
Public health agencies revamping digital stacks across dozens of categories, school districts modernizing operations and student systems, and mid-sized cities and counties trying to run a genuine technology overhaul rather than a single tool purchase are where there is the clearest need.
Still chasing the same problem
It's a recurring instinct to find the place where decision-makers are stretched thinnest and hand them better tools. For cities and counties navigating tighter budgets, aging systems, and rising public expectations, that instinct is arriving at a timely moment.
"Whether it's a Fortune 500 buyer or a municipal procurement officer, the question is the same," Jadavji says. "How do we help them make a defensible decision faster, with less guesswork and more confidence?"
About the Organization
Taloflow is an AI-powered vendor evaluation and procurement platform that helps technology buyers move from a vague need to a defensible, RFP-ready decision in days instead of months. We serve public agencies — cities, counties, school districts, and public health systems — as well as private enterprises, replacing the traditional consulting-led approach to technology selection with a faster, in-house workflow. Our platform combines AI, practitioner surveys, and industry analyst input to score vendors against weighted, defensible criteria across any technology category.
To learn how Taloflow Civic helps cities, counties, and public agencies modernize technology without the consultant bill, visit taloflow.ai/civic or reach the team at taloflow.ai/contact.
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