We ideate, design, build and run it for your ideas or ours. No handoffs. No shortcuts. Nearly two decades of work that scales.
Leafnode was founded by Brent Whitney, a technology entrepreneur and investor with a career built at the intersection of hard problems and products that reach people at scale. From originating fantasy sports on the internet at Paul Allen's Starwave, to leading the platform buildout that made E*Trade a defining online brokerage, to critical data systems at Boeing. Technology leadership across industries where the stakes were high and the margin for error was low.
A career that includes four successful exits, among them Starwave's acquisition by Disney/ABC, one of the defining internet acquisitions of the late 1990s. Founded in San Francisco in 2007. We've since traded the beauty of San Francisco for the grandeur of Jackson Hole. The work has always been global.
We take on a small number of problems and solve them completely. That's not a constraint — it's a standard.
Brent Whitney · LinkedInFleet telematics from the world's largest logistics networks. Breeding research pipelines spanning decades of scientific data. Immigration case records across multiple countries and languages. Automotive security event streams. The common thread isn't the industry. It's the complexity of the data and the stakes of getting it right. Now we're layering intelligence on top of systems that were already built to last.
An AI-driven immigration case management platform launching first in Spain for the 2026 Extraordinary Regularization program. Multilingual across Spanish, Arabic, and French. Intelligent Q&A, WhatsApp automation, and a full advisor workflow. Additional countries and industry partners to follow later this year.
Data systems collecting from IoT and edge devices at global scale, including telematics infrastructure for the world's largest logistics fleets. Amazon and UPS. Engineered for 24/7 uptime, multi-layer redundancy, and enterprise-grade security. The kind of infrastructure where failure has no acceptable definition.
What began as an innovative anti-theft product combining hardware and software to detect, notify, and track a theft in real time. It has evolved into a broader telematics capability. Real-time vehicle data, event-driven architecture, and security systems built from the hardware up. Now extended through Catrak Technologies.
A decade-long partnership powering scientific plant breeding research across Africa and beyond. Built with Africa Rice, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A data and pipeline platform helping researchers address global food supply. One of the more meaningful problems software can touch.
We take ambiguous hard problems and shape them into real products. End-to-end ownership from concept through production. The team that designs is the team that ships.
High-volume, high-stakes data systems. IoT and edge pipelines, telematics, real-time event streams, research data infrastructure. Nearly two decades of building systems where the data itself is the product.
We don't bolt security on. We design around the threat model from day one. We also offer standalone audit and consulting across the full compliance stack, from ISO and NIST to HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and SOC 2.
We've always built systems that extract value from complexity: rules engines, algorithms, machine learning, now AI. The technology changes. The capability doesn't. Today that means LLMs, intelligent automation, and NLU woven into products already built to handle serious data.
24/7 uptime. Multi-layer redundancy. Cloud and network architecture built secure from the ground up. We've built for clients where failure has no acceptable definition. That standard carries into everything we take on.
Our longest client relationship spans over a decade and is still active. We're not optimized for churn. The work compounds. So do the relationships.
We design around the threat model from the first architecture decision. Across IoT infrastructure, immigration data, automotive hardware, and cloud systems. Security is foundational, not retrofitted. We also offer standalone audit and consulting across the full compliance stack.
A small, selective team. If you have a hard problem that needs to become a real product — we should talk.