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Make the work measurable.
We start with the number, workflow, or decision that needs to improve. If a project cannot earn its keep, we will say so before anyone spends money building it.
About
Serious engineering,
close to home.
Palmetto Interactive is a family-owned Charleston studio for practical AI, custom software, and websites that do their job. We stay deliberately small so the person making the promise is the person doing the work.
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Put something real in your hands early.
No strategy theater. We make a plan, build a useful first version, and learn from the way your team actually uses it.
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Leave the team stronger.
Good work comes with documentation, clear ownership, and a system people can run after we step away. We answer the phone, too.
Built on two decades of production work.
The studio is led by Matt Lucas, founder & principal engineer. His career runs from OpenPages, the enterprise software company acquired by IBM, through a decade leading platform engineering and AI/ML at Morgan Stanley, and most recently as Field CTO at Stardog. Palmetto Interactive brings that hard-won production discipline to businesses in Charleston and the Lowcountry.
AI is new; reliable engineering is not. We have built and operated software under load, under audit, and under real deadlines. That is the standard we bring to every automation, application, store, and website.
The work behind the work
We build our own tools, too.
membl is our suite of open-source developer projects: Sweetgrass for coordinating agent-driven work, Lantern for repeatable coding-agent sessions, and Marsh for self-hosted CI. Client work sharpens the tools; the tools sharpen client work.
Where to find us
Charleston is home.
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
Mon–Fri · 9–6 ET
(843) 732-1460 · [email protected]
We serve Charleston and the Lowcountry, the wider Southeast, and remote clients across the United States. See what we build or start a project.