Drew Smith
Chief Architect & CEO
Drew is the founder of Rocktalk Holdings, where he's building Crystalline Intelligence — a new category of AI for organizations that can't afford black boxes. Two patents pending anchor the work: Semantic Lens, a deterministic 22-dimensional embedding system whose primitives are drawn from ancient pictographic alphabets — symbolic systems Drew first studied in graduate seminary work on Hebrew, Greek, and the proto-languages they descend from. The result is a citable, reproducible embedding API now shipping at rocktalk.ai. The second patent, ARTEP, applies the same transparency-first philosophy to full AI architecture: a glass-box system that runs on commodity hardware, never hallucinates, and provides full provenance for every output.
Drew publishes frontier-scale model quantization work openly on Hugging Face — including 702B and 397B-parameter models compressed to run on Apple Silicon — proving in code what ARTEP promises on paper: frontier intelligence outside the GPU datacenter.
Crystalline Intelligence is in production at Evolv KC, where Drew serves as Regional President in the payments industry, with additional deployments in flight. For enterprise engagements in healthcare and other regulated sectors, Rocktalk partners with Smart Tech (stdataai.com).