Systems built for how you actually work
Palmate Solutions builds custom software for operational problems that off-the-shelf products handle poorly: multi-step approvals, inventory across channels, internal dashboards, and processes that encode your margins. We treat custom software as a product with owners, environments, and a maintenance path — not a one-off script that only one contractor understands.
When the source of truth is a spreadsheet emailed at 6pm, errors compound. Custom software is justified when the process is stable enough to encode and valuable enough to protect.
A stack of subscriptions can still require copy-paste. Sometimes the answer is integration. Sometimes the answer is a small system that sits in the middle and owns the workflow.
Software without tests, environments, or documentation becomes a hostage situation. We prefer boring, explicit architecture over cleverness that only the original author can extend.
If assembling a weekly number requires three exports, the business is flying on lag. Dashboards should read from operational data, not from reconstructed memories.
We write down entities, states, and who is allowed to change them. Features that do not map to a business event get challenged.
Web applications, APIs, background jobs, and admin tools in TypeScript/Node and related stacks we can support in production.
Operational screens for staff, not marketing pages. Filters, exports, permissions, and the dull work that makes a system usable.
Repositories, environments, backup expectations, and a backlog that a future engineer can pick up.
We distinguish a software problem from a process problem. If the process is still changing weekly, we recommend a thinner first version.
One real workflow goes live end-to-end — including auth, data, and an operator — before we widen scope.
Permissions, audit logs, and failure modes for the slice that already works. Expansion happens on a stable core.
Monitoring, backups, and a change process. Custom software that cannot be deployed safely is not finished.
A single place to see orders, tickets, or jobs that currently live in three vendor UIs and a spreadsheet.
Business rules that are too specific for a generic ERP screen but too important to leave in someone's head.
External users who need a subset of internal data with their own login, branding, and permissions.
When the process is common, the vendor is trustworthy, and the cost of fitting in is lower than the cost of owning code. We help you make that call; we do not treat every problem as a reason to build.
That is a contract term. Our default expectation for custom work is that you own the product code we write for you, with a clear list of third-party licenses.
By workflow, integrations, and operational requirements — not by a per-page guess. The website and API estimators on this site are planning tools, not quotations.
Sometimes. We start with a read-only review: runtime, secrets, tests, and whether the original author left a path to deploy. If the honest answer is a rewrite, we say so.
Next step
Share the current system, the constraint, and the outcome you need in the next quarter. We will say if Palmate is a fit.