Omaha’s AI automation agency.

Omaha runs on insurance, finance, and payments. Berkshire Hathaway is headquartered here under Warren Buffett, alongside Mutual of Omaha (about $14.6 billion in 2024 revenue) and First National of Nebraska, whose First National Bank of Omaha is the largest privately held bank in the United States at roughly $35 billion in assets. Coming out of the pandemic, finance and insurance drove the metro to lead the nation in GDP growth.

The payments-processing cluster is just as deep. Fiserv runs roughly 5,000 jobs in the metro after absorbing Omaha-rooted First Data, ACI Worldwide ships payments software from Elkhorn to customers in 94 countries, and Charles Schwab operates a major brokerage center in the old TD Ameritrade base. Every one of these firms handles regulated financial and card data under GLBA, PCI-DSS, and the new Nebraska Data Privacy Act that took effect in January 2025.

Freight and infrastructure round out the base. Union Pacific, the largest railroad in North America by revenue, is headquartered downtown, Werner Enterprises is a top-five US truckload carrier, and Kiewit is an employee-owned engineering and construction firm with about $18.2 billion in revenue. Healthcare is anchored by Nebraska Medicine, CHI Health, and Boys Town, with UNMC leading the multibillion-dollar Project NExT campus expansion.

Omaha firms deploying AI for claims and underwriting automation, payments reconciliation and fraud review, KYC and AML screening, rail and trucking dispatch, document-heavy back-office work, and patient-access workflows are pulling ahead of peers still running everything by hand. A dense headquarters base plus the talent pipeline from UNO, the Peter Kiewit Institute, Creighton, and UNMC makes Omaha one of the highest-leverage mid-size US metros to deploy production AI.