About

A small Charleston studio, built on twenty years of shipping

Palmetto Interactive is a family-owned agentic AI studio in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, founded in 2023. We build the useful half of agentic AI — the planners, memory, evals, and tooling most teams hand-wave past — and we put the same engineering behind Lowcountry businesses whose websites, stores, and ads just need to work.

What we believe

We don't take work that doesn't move a number a client can defend. No generic chatbots, no demos without evaluation harnesses, no headcount-shaped retainers. We design the planner, the controller, and the evals before we write the prompts. We ship a working surface every week, write things down, and leave when a team is faster without us than with us. Then we answer the phone.

Who runs it

The studio is led by Matt Lucas, founder & principal engineer. The short version of a twenty-year arc: a computer science degree from Xavier University in 2006; a web startup founded out of school and sold in 2014; a decade leading platform engineering and AI/ML on Wall Street; and, since 2023, Palmetto Interactive — bringing that production discipline to agentic AI from Charleston.

That background is the point. Most AI consultancies are new. We've been building, shipping, and operating real software — under load, under audit, under deadlines — for two decades. Agentic AI is a new tool. The engineering rigor it needs is not.

What we make when nobody's billing

We dogfood our own bet: membl, an open developer platform for AI memory — a local-first Rust recall engine, an inspectable knowledge graph with provenance and conflict resolution, and Lantern, a multi-agent orchestration runtime. Every client engagement sharpens the platform, and the platform sharpens every engagement.

Where we are

1121 Park West Boulevard, Suite B #103
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
Mon–Fri · 9–6 ET
(843) 732-1460 · support@palmettointeractive.com

We serve Charleston and the Lowcountry, the wider Southeast, and remote clients across the United States. See what we build or start a project.