Decisions before spend
Palmate Solutions provides technology consulting for businesses that need a clear recommendation, not a slide deck of buzzwords. We help you choose between SaaS and custom software, sequence a transformation programme, review an existing architecture, and decide how to host and operate what you already have. Consulting is useful when the cost of a wrong build is higher than the cost of a structured decision.
‘We need an app’ is not a brief. We force the conversation back to users, constraints, and what will be true in 18 months if you do nothing.
Each salesperson recommends their platform. We map capabilities to your process and name the lock-in you would be accepting.
Digital transformation fails when it is a software purchase without owners, data cleanup, or training. We sequence work into something a team can actually run.
We produce a current-state picture: systems, data flows, and risks. You cannot plan a target state on folklore.
A structured comparison of SaaS, custom, and hybrid options against cost of delay, fit, and operational ownership.
Read-only review of applications, integrations, backups, and access. Written findings, not a blame session.
A sequence of deliverables that matches the team you actually have, including Palmate delivery if you want implementation afterwards.
Questions to ask agencies and product vendors so demos do not substitute for contracts and SLAs.
Budget bands, compliance, in-house skills, and the date that actually matters (a peak season, a contract, a migration).
Systems, owners, and the unofficial tools. Interviews beat architecture diagrams that were never true.
We present two or three viable paths with trade-offs. If only one path exists, we explain why.
A document your stakeholders can approve: scope, risks, and a first implementation slice.
Before a mobile app or ERP-adjacent project, a four-week pass that prevents a twelve-month detour.
A new technology owner needs to know what is safe to touch. We produce that inventory.
A transformation board wants phases, exit criteria, and a way to stop if a phase fails.
We will say when you should not build. If you later want Palmate to implement, that is a separate engagement with a separate scope.
A focused build-versus-buy or architecture review is often measured in weeks, not months. Multi-stream programmes take longer because the organisation is the bottleneck.
Yes. Consulting is often most valuable when an internal team remains the owner and we are a second set of hands on the hard decisions.
We produce written recommendations, diagrams of real systems, and a first slice that could be implemented. If you only want a keynote, we are the wrong firm.
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.