About
A small shop, on purpose.
Long Island AI is a forward-deployed AI engineering firm for businesses that want AI to do something specific and useful, and would rather not sit through a platform demo to find out what that is.
Who you will work with
The person you meet builds your system.
No account managers, no sales layer, no offshore hand-off. Long Island AI is run by engineers who live here and do the work themselves.
Saad
Co-founder, Long Island AI
Saad has spent nearly a decade building software for New York businesses, most of it where mistakes are expensive. For more than five years he has engineered fixed income trading and finance systems at J.P. Morgan: working directly with traders and front-office teams, supporting live systems in real time, and leading projects across lines of business from first conversation to delivery.
Before that he spent three years as a software engineer at Publishers Clearing House in Jericho, building Java services, REST APIs and the test automation behind its website and apps. Today he builds AI products end to end, from document parsing and data pipelines to the assistants people actually talk to.
He holds a degree in computer science and physics, is pursuing graduate studies in management at Harvard, and lives on Long Island. He started Long Island AI so local businesses could get the same standard of engineering as a Wall Street bank, from someone who will drive over and sit with their team.
- Engineering
- J.P. Morgan · Publishers Clearing House
- Focus
- AI products, from data pipelines to assistants
- Education
- Computer Science & Physics · Harvard, graduate study in management
What we think is true
Most AI projects fail on the boring part
Not the model. The permissions, the data quality, the person who has to actually use it on a Tuesday, the integration with the 2009 system that runs billing. We spend most of our time there, because that is where projects die.
Small businesses get the best returns
A 200-person company automating intake saves a line item. A 12-person company automating intake gets a third of a person back. The maths is better at your size, and almost nobody is building for you.
Your data should stay yours
There is now an open-weight model good enough for most business tasks that runs on hardware you can buy once. For anyone handling medical, legal or financial records, that is not a nice-to-have — it is the only version that clears compliance.
Your IT team is on our side
Your IT department or managed service provider knows your network, your devices and your history. We bring the AI engineering, work inside their security rules, and leave them documentation they can support.
We will tell you not to do it
Plenty of processes are not worth automating, and some problems are org-chart problems wearing a technology costume. Saying so costs us a project and saves you a year.
The particulars
- Based
- Long Island, New York
- Serving
- Nassau · Suffolk · NYC metro
- Founded
- 2024
- Works with
- Your existing IT team or provider.