Senior-led software delivery.
Founder-level architecture, senior engineers, and a production AI fleet — one accountable team.
Date Palm Media specializes in AI automation, process automation, and AI-native development. Engaging us means working directly with founder Joseph Dattilo and the senior engineers and designers who ship the work — backed by AI tools that let us move faster without cutting corners.
Three situations we get called into
If one of these reads like your week, the page behind it was written for you.
Your operations outgrew the spreadsheet
The business runs on spreadsheets, texts, and one person’s memory. Generic SaaS made you work its way. You need software shaped like your operation.
Business Process AutomationYour prototype needs production ownership
An AI-assisted or low-code prototype proved the idea — and now real customers are on something that was never built to carry them.
Prototype-to-Production RescueYour team needs senior technical leadership
You need architecture, delivery, and judgment — the shape of a senior team, not another job posting or bench headcount.
Managed Software DeliveryStart from the problem you actually have
Problem-first services from a small senior team. Every engagement can begin with the Production Blueprint — a bounded first step that ends with a plan you own.
Prototype-to-Production Rescue
Your AI-built or inherited prototype proved the idea. We add the production database, security, integrations, and tests that make it dependable.
- Keep the leverage of what you built cheaply
- Production data layer, security, and automated tests
- Payments and integrations done right
- You own the repo, the infrastructure, and the plan
Production Blueprint
The bounded first step: we inventory your workflow, code, infrastructure, and risks, then hand you a prioritized plan with a defined next move.
- Fixed scope, senior eyes
- Written risk register, ordered by severity
- A plan you own — whoever builds it
- The honest answer to "what do I buy first?"
Managed Software Delivery
One accountable senior team from discovery through production support — or fractional technical leadership inside yours.
- Discovery, architecture, build, release, support
- Fractional technical leadership available
- No account managers — you talk to the builders
- Outcomes, not headcount
Business Process Automation
We learn how your team actually works — not just what they say they do — then build the system of record that removes the friction.
- Deep discovery: we learn your operation first
- Manufacturing, trades, and service operations
- Break the spreadsheet ceiling, keep what works
- Software that scales as your business grows
Work That Runs Businesses
Not demos. Not prototypes. Software that has been running real operations — in some cases for years.
MyPaintBuckets
Live production SaaS. Running in market for years without interruption.
Project management, material ordering, and scheduling software built for residential painting businesses. Launched in the Orlando market where it has helped painting companies manage crews, track jobs, order materials, and grow their operations — and has continued running in production without interruption.
RotoEdge Pro
Clients ran so efficiently they acquired additional factories. In production use across multiple rotomolding facilities.
Real-time production scheduling, machine tracking, and shop floor dashboards for rotational molding manufacturing facilities. The software fit the actual workflow so well it became a competitive advantage — clients were able to expand into additional facilities while running their operations on the platform.
Speak Meetings
AI meeting intelligence in production in 2018 — Microsoft and Google shipped equivalent features years later.
AI-powered meeting intelligence platform built before large language models were a viable off-the-shelf component. Automatic transcription, action item extraction, and team coordination — built from custom NLP pipelines when that was the only path. The major platforms shipped equivalents years later; when commodity LLMs reshaped the market, the company was wound down and Date Palm Media acquired the IP to preserve it.
Cattle Suite
Full test automation platform for Dell's proprietary hardware. Open-sourced by Dell.
Custom-built test automation and performance tracking platform for Dell's proprietary server caching hardware. Managed builds, test runs, log parsing, and performance reporting across machines at scale. When Dell wound down the division, they open-sourced the complete codebase.
Date Palm Media is how you hire Joseph Dattilo’s judgment — with a team behind it.
Joseph has been shipping production software since 2011 and writes code on every engagement. The rest of the story — background, open source, track record — lives on his own site.
How We Build Your Solution
We learn your business before we write a line of code. Every step is built around that commitment.
Discovery
We sit down with you and your team — understanding not just the requirements but how the work actually gets done day to day.
Understand the Friction
We identify where process breaks down, where manual work piles up, and where things fall through the cracks.
Design to Fit
We design software that reinforces what you're already doing right and removes what's slowing you down.
Build
Senior developers and AI tooling working together — fast without cutting corners, with regular check-ins so you see it taking shape.
Launch & Support
We ensure smooth deployment and provide ongoing support as your business and your software grow together.
Let's Talk About Your Process
Based in Lansing, Michigan. Serving clients across the US. On-site discovery available.
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