Mississippi IT firm The Solutions Team ranked 112th in IT on Inc. 5000 with 151% growth. CEO Todd Gooden says the ranking reflects relentless support for specialty practices.
The Solutions Team, a managed IT and cybersecurity provider based in Flowood, Mississippi, ranked No. 112 in IT services on the 2026 Inc. 5000, the magazine's annual list of fastest-growing private U.S. companies. Revenue rose 151% from 2022 to 2025. The company also placed No. 4 among all Mississippi companies and No. 2 in the Jackson metro area, with an overall rank of 2,243 out of 5,000.
This is TST's first appearance on the list. The company focuses on a narrow set of healthcare specialties: oral surgery, ENT, OBGYN, orthopedics, dermatology, and plastic surgery. It charges a flat monthly fee rather than billing by the hour, an approach that aligns the incentive toward keeping networks running smoothly.
"A surgery center that goes down at 7 a.m. has a waiting room full of people and a schedule that isn't going to reschedule itself," said founder and CEO Todd Gooden. "A lot of IT companies will take a specialty practice as an account and then service it like everything else on the list. We'd rather be the company that already knows which practice management system it is, which version, and how it breaks."
Gooden started TST in 2007, his third company. He was named to the Mississippi Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40 at age 24 in 1996, and the same publication called him one of Mississippi's Top CEOs in 2020. TST has been a Best Place to Work in Mississippi for six straight years and appeared on CRN's 2024 Managed Service Provider list in the fast-growth category.
Gooden said the IT services ranking matters more to him than the overall position. "Number 112 out of every IT Services company in the country is a comparison that actually means something," he said. "What Inc. really measured is a lot of people answering the phone early and staying late, and a lot of practice administrators deciding to stick with us. I'd like them to know we noticed."
The Inc. 5000 ranks private companies by percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent, generating at least $100,000 in revenue in 2022 and $2 million in 2025. The median three-year growth rate across this year's 5,000 honorees was 130%, and the group collectively added more than 627,000 jobs over the period. Past honorees include Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Chobani, and Patagonia.
Inc. will recognize the honorees at its conference and gala October 14-16 in Dallas. The top 500 appear in the fall issue of the magazine.
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