AI automation across Washington.

Washington runs one of the largest and most technology-intensive economies in the United States, with real gross state product near $702 billion in 2024 and the third-highest GDP per capita of any state. Its single largest output sector is information at roughly $134 billion, reflecting an extraordinary concentration of software, cloud, and AI: Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Amazon and Amazon Web Services in Seattle, and Google and Meta run major engineering offices in Bellevue and Seattle. The Seattle metro alone is home to 17 Fortune 500 companies, and Washington famously has no personal income tax, though a 7% excise tax on long-term capital gains (9.9% above $1 million from 2025) is a defining caveat for founders and executives.

Beyond software, Washington is the United States leader in aerospace, with more than 1,300 aerospace companies and civilian aircraft and parts exports above $17 billion a year. Boeing builds commercial aircraft in Everett and Renton, though its global headquarters moved to Arlington, Virginia in 2022. A fast-growing "new space" cluster now layers on top: Blue Origin is headquartered in Kent, Amazon's Project Kuiper (Amazon Leo) runs its satellite headquarters in Redmond with a factory in Kirkland, and the state counts roughly 6,200 commercial-space workers. Retail and consumer names anchor Seattle too, from Costco in Issaquah and Starbucks and Nordstrom in Seattle to PACCAR's truck manufacturing in Bellevue.

Washington's largest employers span these sectors. Amazon employs roughly 87,000 people in the state, Boeing about 66,797, Microsoft about 55,119, Joint Base Lewis-McChord about 54,025, and the University of Washington about 53,305. Health care is a major base of its own: Providence is the largest system in the state with net patient revenue near $17.6 billion, UW Medicine employs more than 35,000, MultiCare more than 20,000, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center anchors world-class oncology research. Transportation and trade round out the mix, with T-Mobile headquartered in Bellevue, Alaska Air Group in SeaTac, Expeditors International in Seattle, and the Northwest Seaport Alliance moving over $100 billion in cargo through the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma.

Every one of these sectors burns staff hours on routine work that AI now handles: support and operations triage across the cloud and software economy; production scheduling, quality-inspection intake, and supplier documents across Boeing and the aerospace and space supply chain; order flow, returns, and loyalty operations across Costco, Starbucks, and Nordstrom; patient access, prior authorisation, and clinical-records intake across Providence, UW Medicine, MultiCare, and Fred Hutch; and freight, customs, and export documentation across Expeditors, Alaska Air, and the NWSA gateway. The firms automating these workflows are pulling ahead of peers still routing everything by hand.

Washington is building the talent to support it. The University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering is a top-ranked AI program, organised around seven pillars of AI work and led on strategy by an inaugural vice provost for AI, and it partners closely with the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), the Seattle nonprofit Paul Allen founded in 2014 that builds fully open large language models such as OLMo. Washington State University, Fred Hutch, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory add depth in agriculture, life sciences, and applied data science. On compliance, the Washington My Health My Data Act has been enforceable since March 31, 2024 and carries a private right of action through the state Consumer Protection Act. We design for MHMDA and the applicable federal rules from day one, begin with one high-leverage workflow, prove the ROI in weeks, and scale from there, with delivery on Pacific Time.