AI-Powered Technology Partner · Since 2001
Modernize Your Business. Put AI to Work.
For over 25 years, IQWEST has helped companies transform with digital strategy, software modernization and product engineering, and now with practical, production-ready AI.
- 25+ years in business
- Trusted by AmLaw 100 firms
- Orange County, CA
What we deliver
25+
Years of engineering & delivery
AI
Automation, ML insights, bots & agents
1 team
Strategy, build, launch & support
0
Disruption to day-to-day operations
Free AI Opportunity Assessment
A focused session to find where AI and automation can save time and money in your business. No obligation.
An AI-Powered Tech Company
Practical AI, built to last
- AI that fits the systems and teams you already have
- Measurable outcomes: hours saved, errors reduced, faster decisions
- Secure, governed deployments with humans in the loop
- Phased rollouts that keep day-to-day operations running smoothly
For over 25 years, we’ve been helping companies like yours with digital transformation, software modernization, and innovative product engineering.
In recent years, we have helped clients adopt AI in practical ways, from automating processes and delivering ML-powered insights to building intelligent bots and agentic systems, all while keeping day-to-day operations running smoothly.
What We Do
Technology services that move you forward
Whether you’re replacing a legacy platform, launching a new product or bringing AI into your operations, one experienced team takes you from strategy to support.
How We Work
From first idea to running in production
A proven, low-risk path that delivers value early and never puts your daily operations at risk.
Discover
We learn your business, map your systems and data, and identify the highest-value opportunities.
Prove
A focused pilot or prototype shows real results on your own data, fast, before you commit to more.
Build
We engineer secure, scalable solutions and integrate them with the tools your teams already use.
Run & Improve
Phased rollout, training and ongoing support, with continuous measurement and refinement.
Our Story
Two decades of solving hard data problems
IQWEST Information Technologies was founded in 2001 to tackle one of the toughest information challenges there is: making sense of millions of litigation documents, quickly and accurately.
Long before “AI” was a buzzword, our teams were putting computational linguistics, concept search, Bayesian categorization and machine translation to work for the nation’s leading law firms. That same engineering discipline now powers our digital transformation and AI work for companies across industries.
- OCR & extraction
- Concept search
- Machine translation
- Categorization
- Data conversion
- Machine learning
- LLMs & agents
2001
IQWEST is founded
IQWEST Information Technologies opens its doors in Orange County, California.
2000s
Industry-leading document intelligence
Highly accurate OCR, litigation coding and online review tools trusted by AmLaw 100 firms.
2011
Machine translation wins a landmark matter
Custom-trained translation engines help Samsung close a major sale in months instead of years, and launch our Enhanced Machine Translation product.
2018
Partnership with SYSTRAN
Joining forces with a 50-year leader in translation technology to expand our multilingual offering.
2020
Data modeling & AI
Applying data modeling and AI to new problems, including a proposed standard for COVID-19 testing.
Today
An AI-powered technology company
Digital transformation, software modernization, product engineering and practical AI.
Case Study
Machine learning that changed the outcome
When Samsung sold its hard drive division to Seagate, regulators issued a Second Request for English translations of millions of Korean documents. Human translation would have taken years. Working with Samsung’s counsel, Paul Hastings, we trained custom translation engines on the client’s own human-translated documents, refining them through an interactive voting process.
After about four weeks of training, some machine-translated documents were indistinguishable from their human-translated counterparts, and for the first time this regulator accepted machine translation as a substitute. Paul Hastings went on to receive Global Competition Review’s “Matter of the Year” award.
~5 months
to close the sale, versus 1 to 2 years with human translation
$25–35M
estimated savings in translation costs
1st
time the regulator accepted machine-translated documents
Client Voices
On budget, on time, every time
We were able to attain a level of language comprehension that enabled our client to achieve a very favorable outcome while also saving significant time and money.
Practice Support eDiscovery Consultant, Paul Hastings LLP
Each time the results were done correctly, on time, and the deliverable impeccable. I would recommend IQWEST at any time.
Litigation Support Manager, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
The service, quality and integrity have kept me coming back. IQWEST acts more like a team member looking for the best solution.
Senior Associate, Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
Insights
Thinking from our team
Articles on applied machine learning, machine translation and technology-assisted review.
Developing a Standard of Testing for Covid-19 using Data Modeling and AI
Dr. Anthony Fauci recently stated that the Coronavirus behind the current COVID-19 pandemic “is very efficient,” meaning it has th…
IQWEST Partners with Systran to enhance Machine Translation offering
iQwest Partners with Systran. We are happy to announce our partnership with Systran. With over 12 years of experience dealing with…
Reduce Costs in Multilingual Discovery
Providing linear reviews with contract-native reviewers can be costly. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how you can reduce costs by…
Leadership
Experienced people, personally involved
Decades of hands-on experience in enterprise systems, data and large-scale project delivery.
PA
Pete Afrasiabi
Founder & President
Pete is one of the pioneers of the litigation support industry. He began as a project manager and lead engineer on large-scale infrastructure and document management projects for law firms, Fortune 1000 and dot-com era companies, working across Novell, Microsoft and Oracle platforms, clustering and disaster recovery.
He founded IQWEST in 2001 and has since led the development of its hybrid coding, early case assessment, secure hosting and foreign-language OCR and machine translation services, and today its AI and machine learning practice. Pete holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Tehran.
Get in Touch
Let’s talk about what’s next
Tell us about your project, your legacy systems or your AI ideas. We’ll get back to you within one business day.
- Email[email protected]
- Phone(844) 894-0100
- Office2512 Chambers Road, Suite 203
Tustin, CA 92780