LongLink is a platform that brings the discipline of software development to internal business applications by managing processes, application logic, data, and workflows in a shared, code-defined environment. It provides a managed foundation—handling authentication, permissions, deployment, storage, routing, and logging—so developers can focus solely on writing conventional Python code. The platform allows teams to adopt, branch, or create solutions, with each organization receiving a dedicated database and isolated deployment namespace.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Internal business processes are often scattered across legacy systems, low-code platforms, spreadsheets, and disconnected applications, making it difficult to understand how a workflow truly operates. Unlike modern software development with repositories and version control, business operations lack a shared, structured environment for managing processes, data, and application logic together. This fragmentation hampers transparency, adaptability, and accountability.
Solution
LongLink provides a shared platform where business processes, application logic, data, and workflows are managed together as code, bringing software engineering discipline to business applications. Developers write conventional Python code using established libraries, while LongLink manages the common infrastructure—authentication, permissions, deployment, storage, routing, and logging—so teams can focus on the process itself. Each solution lives in a repository that captures code, configuration, documentation, and tests, making it inspectable, reviewable, and adaptable. The platform supports adopting existing solutions as-is, branching and adapting them to specific requirements, or creating entirely new ones, all within isolated, governed deployment environments.
Target Audience
LongLink targets organizations building internal business applications that must align closely with specific workflows, responsibilities, and compliance requirements, including developers and business users seeking a structured, governed environment for process automation.
Features
- Code-defined business process lifecycle: design, build, operate, and improve workflows entirely through Python and developer tools
- Managed platform infrastructure including authentication, permissions, deployment, storage, routing, and logging
- Isolated namespaces and dedicated databases per organization for security and tenant isolation
- Support for standard Python libraries such as FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic for API development, validation, data access, and migrations
- Repository-based solutions with testing, code review, versioning, automated deployment, and release capabilities
- Open-source core with a public beta available for testing and contribution