Longleaf AI is an applied-AI firm for the organizations that run Mississippi and the South — state agencies, universities, and the businesses around them. We connect modern AI to the work you already do, ship in two-week cycles, and tie our fee to whether it earns its keep.
These are the kinds of operating moves that look like science fiction until somebody ships them. Most of them aren't science fiction anymore. Some of these we've built. Some we're building now. Some we'd build for you.
If you can picture a version of your organization where one of these is true, that's the conversation we'd like to have.
If your problem doesn't look like one of these, we'll tell you honestly — and point you to someone who can help.
No open-ended statements of work that pay us to deliver slides. We do a short, fixed-price discovery to find what's worth building, then price by what gets shipped and what it's worth — to you. If the lift isn't there, we don't keep billing.
For government and education, we package this work as a platform. Agencies and institutions run their programs on Workflow Optimizer — AI built into every application, on a security-hardened, U.S.-hosted cloud, with State and federal compliance from day one.
workflowoptimizer.aiThree principals run every engagement, week to week, leading a small team of AI product architects, designers, and engineers. Between them: fifteen years building production AI for customers who couldn't afford it to fail — weather models the country relies on, decision-support systems, secure data pipelines — a history of founding and exiting technology companies, and decades inside Mississippi government, economic development, and public policy.
We keep the team small on purpose. No account managers between you and the people doing the work. The principals stay in the engagement from the first conversation through delivery — not just the kickoff.