29.7919°N · 82.4976°W · Alachua County
The engineering studio on your side of the county line.
Long Grow Tech is based in Alachua. Between Main Street’s small businesses and the biotech corridor at Progress Park, our home town holds both ends of our client spectrum, and for once, "local vendor" means actually local.
Updated August 2026
A town with two economies
Alachua pairs a working Main Street (trades, restaurants, family businesses that have run for decades) with one of the state’s densest biotech clusters at Progress District and UF’s Sid Martin Biotech incubator. We’re built for both: honest brochure-to-platform work for the Main Street operator, and custom data tools, portals, and AI integrations for the science-and-startup side.
What "local" gets you here
For Alachua businesses, working with us is as local as software gets: same town, same area code, and a team you’ll run into at the grocery store. That doesn’t change how we build (senior engineering, modern stack, systems we operate after launch); it just removes every excuse for a vendor being unreachable.
Web & Platform Engineering
Custom web apps, customer portals, internal tools, and dashboards for businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets. Built and run by a senior studio.
ALA/0102.0Agentic & AI Engineering
We design, build, and operate custom AI agents, MCP tools, and workflow automation wired into your existing systems. Working automation, not AI hype.
ALA/0203.0Media & Marketing
Strategy, brand, and content production wired into the systems we build: sites, intake, automation. Integrated marketing for service businesses.
ALA/03Our live client work spans the county, including a Gainesville fabrication studio fifteen minutes away.
Eclectic Electric
A platform as deep as the Gainesville digital fabrication studio it serves, with several build-your-own studios and a lead form that routes and pre-fills itself from what the visitor was looking at. With no marketing or social work, only the site and its metadata, it brings in multiple high-ticket clients a week, starting within its first month.
Barefoot Towing
Custom roadside assistance app with built-in dispatch that estimates wait times from the customer’s location and each driver’s availability and location. Hundreds of completed service calls and dispatch requests have come through the app.
Are you actually based in Alachua?
Yes, Alachua, Florida is home base. We’re a service-area business: no storefront to walk into, but for Alachua clients, meetings are a five-minute arrangement rather than a scheduling project. Most delivery runs remotely regardless of where a client sits, because that keeps senior engineers building instead of driving.
Do you work with businesses at Progress District / Sid Martin Biotech?
That’s our neighborhood. For labs, startups, and research-adjacent companies we build custom data dashboards, internal tools, client portals, and AI integrations: the connective software between instruments, spreadsheets, and the people who need the numbers. Our Kutta case study shows the kind of AI data-visualization work we ship.
What do you build for Main Street businesses?
Websites that actually generate calls, AI phone agents that answer when you’re with a customer, booking and intake that fills itself out, and simple back-office tools that replace the nightly spreadsheet session. Small scope is fine: our WebApp Starter exists precisely so an Alachua small business can get custom work at a flat monthly price.
Why hire you over a Gainesville or national agency?
Because you get a senior team, not an account manager, and it lives here. No handoff layers, no offshore ticket queue, no re-explaining your business every quarter. And because we operate what we build: hosting, monitoring, and improvements stay with us, which is the part most agencies quietly drop after launch.
Can you meet in person this week?
Almost certainly. For Alachua and High Springs businesses we can usually sit down within a few days. Coffee on Main Street works. Book a call first so we arrive knowing your business, and bring whatever spreadsheet is currently running your operation; that’s usually where the conversation starts.
What happens on the first call?
Thirty minutes: how the work flows today, where it leaks, and whether custom software, an AI agent, or neither is the honest answer. If there’s a fit, we follow with a short discovery pass and a scoped number. If there isn’t, we’ll tell you what to buy off the shelf instead, cheaper for you, better for our reputation.
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