Tomorrow, today.
We close the gap between emerging research and real business execution. LEAF helps companies see what is coming, connect it to their strategic problems, and build the systems that make the future usable now.
Who we are
AI and emerging technology, grounded in research
LEAF is an AI and emerging-technology company founded by university professors who build products. We turn frontier academic research into systems businesses can use now, through two complementary engines, Advisory and our own product Labs, supported by the Academy, the adoption layer that connects technology with people.
Why we exist
The gap
Most innovation stays in university drawers while companies meet the future with yesterday's tools. LEAF exists to close that gap. What we build today will be obvious in three years, and by then it is too late to be first.
The Method
How LEAF works
Scout
We monitor and test emerging technologies while they are still noise. Our academic network is our radar.
Connect
We link the right innovation to the right business problem, at the right time.
Unlock
Our work ends when you look at your business and see possibilities that did not exist before.
Our Structure
Two engines, one cycle, plus the layer that binds them.
LEAF Advisory
We guide companies through transformation: explore the future together, find non-obvious connections, and unlock a new vision of the business.
Explore AdvisoryLEAF Labs
We build products. When a problem repeats across companies, we turn it into something scalable and accessible.
See our productsLEAF Academy
We turn frontier knowledge into shared capability: research becomes language, language becomes practice, practice becomes adoption.
Learn with usOur Edge
What makes us different
Few combine all five: strategic vision, deep technical expertise, a direct line to academic research, concrete execution, and products of our own. That intersection is where LEAF works every day.
Our Clients
Trusted by teams who build with us
Clients who have become our friends.
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Our Team
LEAF: AI Expertise That Delivers
Meet the researchers, engineers, and innovators turning cutting-edge AI into practical business advantages.
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Our Clients
Who we work with
Established companies navigating transformation in manufacturing, healthcare, fintech, agritech, and energy. Ambitious startups looking for an unfair technological advantage. Public institutions with the funding and the will to innovate. What they share: they know their industry is about to change, and they want someone who can show them where to look.
If your industry is changing and you are looking for someone who sees what is coming, we should talk.
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LEAF (LEAF S.R.L. Semplificata) is an Italian AI and emerging-technology company founded in 2020 and based in Rome. We translate frontier research into practical business applications through two complementary engines, LEAF Advisory and LEAF Labs, supported by LEAF Academy, the adoption and capability layer that connects technology with people.
Every engagement follows the same method: Scout, Connect, Unlock. Scout: we monitor and test emerging technologies while they are still noise, using our academic network as a radar. Connect: we link the right innovation to the right business problem, at the right time, and prototype it. Unlock: our work ends when you look at your business and see possibilities that did not exist before.
Advisory and Labs are the two engines. Advisory helps organizations understand, evaluate and prioritize emerging technologies and connect them to real business problems. Labs prototypes, engineers, validates and productizes: when a problem repeats across companies, we turn it into something scalable and accessible. Academy is the adoption layer that connects them with people: research becomes language, language becomes practice, practice becomes adoption.
Most engagements start with a Scout Session: a focused workshop where we map the emerging technologies relevant to your industry and surface the opportunities you are not seeing yet. From there you can continue with a Connect Sprint (prototype and proof of concept), an Unlock Partnership (ongoing innovation partner) or act on the findings independently.
Our capabilities are organized across Advisory and Labs, with Academy providing the adoption and capability layer:
- Advisory: emerging technology strategy, market strategy and intelligence, decision intelligence, confidential and on-premises AI, AI automation, Talk with Your Systems (conversational AI), GEO / AI SEO
- Labs: synthetic data, AI on the edge, industrial IoT, AI automation, conversational systems
- Academy: AI literacy, emerging technology training, hands-on adoption, reskill and upskill programs
LEAF Labs builds Argo, a wireless sensor acquisition system for synchronized sensing, IoT and edge AI; Sigillum, a smart packaging security solution with batteryless NFC tags and blockchain authentication; and Huntair SEO, a SaaS platform for continuous website auditing across technical SEO, content, semantic structure and AI readiness.
Established companies navigating transformation in manufacturing, healthcare, fintech, agritech and energy; ambitious startups looking for a technological advantage; public institutions with the funding and the will to innovate. Organizations we have worked with include Dewesoft, Radio6ense, Var Industries, MIR and Polsinelli.
Yes. With Confidential AI, a LEAF Advisory consulting service, we work with your IT and security teams to design and bring private AI onto your own infrastructure, on-premises or in isolated environments, so data stays under your control. With AI on the Edge models run directly on devices, close to where data is generated. Security and privacy are designed in from the start, not added later.
LEAF was founded by Fabio Angeletti, Ph.D. (CEO) and Giorgio Piccardo (CTO). The team combines university research with engineering and product experience, which is how we move from frontier research to working systems.
Our operational office is in Rome, at Via Etruria 41. The registered office of LEAF S.R.L. Semplificata is in Tivoli (RM), Italy. We work with clients in Italy and abroad, in English and Italian.