Lattice
Founded 2023 · 7 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Lattice is a B2B-focused operating holding company startup that uses M&A and new business ventures to build a portfolio and address corporate challenges, with a focus on the Korean market. It positions itself around enterprise AI and B2B expertise.
Founders & leadership
Lattice was founded in 2023 by Jack Altman.
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Lattice (lattice.im) is an enterprise AI deployment company that designs and implements industry-specific AI systems for corporate clients. Its stated premise is that many organizations have adopted large language models without changing how work is actually performed, which it attributes to tacit knowledge locked in individuals, generic AI lacking domain and industry vocabulary, automation that stops at the individual rather than company-wide workflows, and fragmented data that lacks context and relationships.
Delivery is handled by forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) who work on-site and carry projects from analysis through implementation. The company describes a three-stage approach: work analysis (breaking tasks into fine-grained units through intensive sessions and interviews, recording decision criteria, surveying data sources and access rights, and agreeing project goals and scope); domain-driven system design (turning unstructured documents and drawings into a contextual database, designing a domain ontology and metadata, tuning AI to domain characteristics, and deploying AI agents into daily work); and system integration (integrating with groupware, ERP and internal databases, meeting security requirements for air-gapped networks, supporting on-premise deployment, and maintaining industry-specific models).
Published use cases span three industries. In shipbuilding, Lattice built a specification management system that structures thousand-page specifications into an article-level database with revision and approval management, automated standard specification generation, and vendor document and POS integration, plus automation of repetitive offshore plant and merchant vessel design work. In defense, it built a design and production knowledge management system converting unstructured tacit knowledge into a database managed as an ontology graph with RAG-based retrieval, and a unit-level knowledge accumulation and analysis system for the ROK Army (proof of concept) using an on-device LLM that runs with no external network connection. In legal, it automates contract workflows by generating financial and real estate contracts from per-transaction data and automatically assembling required-document lists, with e-signature and execution support.
Business model
Lattice delivers project-based enterprise AI implementations, with its own engineers (forward-deployed engineers) analyzing client work on site and building the resulting systems, including on-premise and air-gapped deployments integrated with client groupware, ERP and internal databases.
Traction
The company states that more than 140 companies work with Lattice, spanning startups through listed and global enterprises.
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Market position
Lattice presents itself as an enterprise AI deployment specialist for security-demanding industries — shipbuilding, defense and legal — rather than a horizontal AI software vendor.
Lattice positions itself against generic LLM adoption by combining forward-deployed engineers who codify frontline tacit knowledge with domain-specific data modelling and systems that can run in air-gapped and on-premise environments.
Technology
The company converts unstructured data such as documents and drawings into contextual databases, designs domain ontologies and metadata, manages knowledge as ontology graphs, applies RAG-based retrieval, tunes and installs industry-specific and domain-adapted LLMs, and deploys AI agents into day-to-day workflows. Deployments support on-premise and air-gapped/secure intranet environments, including an on-device LLM that operates with no external network connection.
Go-to-market
Direct, engineer-led engagements that begin with on-site work analysis sessions with client teams, including proof-of-concept projects such as the ROK Army deployment.
Enterprises ranging from startups to listed and global companies, concentrated in security-sensitive sectors such as shipbuilding, defense (including the ROK Army) and legal/financial and real estate contracting.
Geography
Operations centre on the Korean market, with client-facing materials and product interfaces in Korean and defense work with the ROK Army.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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primary sources listed
- Latticelattice.im · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Lattice do?
- Lattice is a Korean enterprise AI deployment company that builds domain-specific AI systems for shipbuilding, defense and legal work.
- Who founded Lattice?
- Lattice was founded by Jack Altman in 2023.
- Who are Lattice's investors?
- Lattice's investors include Ascendo Ventures.