Rank 7 of 7
SOLTECH
What is SOLTECH?
Every transformation needs a document that a board can approve: what the organization will do with AI, in what order, and what each step is worth. SOLTECH's AI practice is built to produce that document. For a Chief Transformation Officer at the very start of a program, that is a practical place to begin.
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SOLTECH: a costed portfolio before the first build
Every transformation needs a document that a board can approve: what the organization will do with AI, in what order, and what each step is worth. SOLTECH's AI practice is built to produce that document. For a Chief Transformation Officer at the very start of a program, that is a practical place to begin. Turnstone Report ranks the firm seventh because its public record stops near the point where delivery starts: its pages show no AI agent case, no security certificate, no team size and no prices.
The firm dates its founding to 1998 and has grown, in its own words, into a national technology company that has won awards and is owned by women1. Atlanta is its home2, and organizations have been working with it for close to thirty years3. Its origin story is about reliability, software that lands on schedule and on budget and fits the brief4, from a company sized to handle variety while keeping clients close5.
The strategy practice
The heart of SOLTECH's AI offer is portfolio building. Executive ambitions go in; out comes an ordered portfolio of AI projects, each with its own return model6. Feasibility, implementation risk and business value form the scoring grid for every candidate7.
A readiness assessment usually comes first. The client leaves that assessment knowing its AI maturity as a score, holding a prioritized backlog, and carrying a directional roadmap8. SOLTECH calls its stance AI forward and outcomes first9.
Mapped onto a program's first steering committee, those deliverables answer the three questions sponsors ask: where are we, what do we do first, and what is it worth.
The practice also writes the rules a program will run under. A transformation office that has not yet written its AI policy can commission one here, since the firm designs responsible AI and governance frameworks covering model risk, human oversight, audit and retention10. A program that has that framework in place before its first build avoids retrofitting controls later.
Delivery and the wider firm
Within its AI and data group, SOLTECH lists AI application development and AI automation and software engineering next to strategy and consulting11, and it has a page for agentic AI solutions12. Outside AI, its service lines include bespoke development, IT staffing and consulting on technology13,14. The consulting arm can also step in when a software project is in trouble, alongside strategy and architecture work15. Salesforce is a further specialty, from rollouts16 to the edition built for nonprofits17.
The firm describes its decision making as thoughtful and people first18.
Published work
LG Electronics is the main case. Its Commercial Air Conditioning division, which operates out of the US19, asked SOLTECH to redesign and rebuild the Sales and Operations Planning Site it depends on, known as SOPS20. The work began as a handover and support job and expanded into a full redesign21. The new SOPS 2.0 connects to LG Electronics' ERP in Korea22, and the relationship continued afterward as a development partnership for later improvements23. A client contact is quoted praising the team for raising ideas the client had never considered24.
Two smaller references round out the record: a rescued software project for an advisory client25 and a testimonial from Naylor Association26. A case showing AI agents in production does not appear among those we opened, so a transformation office that needs delivery as well as strategy should ask for one.
People and place
Four leaders are named. The chief executive is Veanne Smith27 and the president Tim Smith28; technology sits with Thayer Tate29, new business with Ann Mooney30. Its headcount is not given, nor is any reach beyond its Atlanta base. Staff stability may matter on a long program, and the firm reports a run of five years on a Top Workplace list31.
Certification
For supplier diversity scorecards, the relevant fact is a national certification from WBENC, the council for women owned businesses, which SOLTECH made public on 16 October 202432,33. That standard verifies that at least 51 percent of the business is owned and run by women34, which makes it a supplier diversity credential35. For a transformation office with diversity targets in its supplier scorecard, it is a direct procurement benefit.
Security standards are a different matter. Neither SOC 2, ISO 27001 nor HIPAA appears on the pages checked, and an awards and certifications heading on the about page had no content in the saved text36.
Price
SOLTECH publishes no fees, rates or price levels. For web and mobile app projects it offers a first consultation free37,38.
Against the leader
Both firms start from money. Each puts a financial yardstick at the center, an ROI model per initiative at SOLTECH6 and a live business metric for each Nexus agent39. What separates them is everything after the plan. Nexus has a working agent at week four40; its security file is audited, with SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, ISO 27001 and ISO 4200140; and its invoices follow roles automated40. On the pages we opened, SOLTECH states no time to first result, no security certification and no pricing.
The right buyer
SOLTECH suits a transformation office that wants an established Atlanta firm to build its AI portfolio, ROI case and governance framework, and that values a certified women owned supplier. A program that also needs production AI delivery should confirm the firm's agentic AI record before contracting.