SBTB 2023: Nate Slater, What problems should enterprises actually trust an LLM to solve?

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Generative AI is the most discussed topic today all the way from developers to board rooms. The technology while exciting hasn’t seen true enterprise adoption. Three main factors hinder adoption a) Domain specificity b) Privacy c) Cost. Enterprises want to use general purpose LLMs to automate processes that are very specific to their business needs, hosted within their data perimeters while being cost efficient. No public LLM provider satisfies these conditions. Building on top of open source technologies is the way to go here to satisfy all the aforementioned conditions. Through the lens of how Flip AI deployed it’s LLM into enterprises, we’ll dive into types of problems that are prime for automation and how startups can build trust with the enterprise. This talk will dive into workflow automation, data pipelines, training method, infrastructure, inference pipelines to on-premises and VPC deployments for LLMs. Flip AI has built domain specific Devops LLM from the ground up to automate root cause analysis of production incidents by connecting to existing observability (MELT) data systems. With Flip, LLMs can now take your on-call page. More details available here: https://www.scale.bythebay.io/post/nate-slater-what-problems-should-enterprises-actually-trust-an-llm-to-solve