vs lift-and-shift SIs
They move the box.
We open it.
A re-hosting program relocates your sealed crate of logic to newer infrastructure — carefully, expensively, and without ever looking inside. The complexity that made you call them survives the move intact.
The crate travels.
The meter runs.
It arrives unopened.
Same darkness, new address.
Palm opens it —
and writes the manifest.
The honest take
Relocation is not modernization
Lift-and-shift has a place: when the data center is closing and the deadline is physics, moving the box is the job. But it is relocation, not modernization — the COBOL is still COBOL, the dependencies still undocumented, the retirement clock still ticking. You’ve paid to ship the problem.
Palm is the inventory the move never included. Every rule extracted, itemized, and traced to its source lines — so the next program starts from a manifest, not a mystery. And because the deliverable is evidence, not effort, the engagement is priced on outcomes instead of bodies.
Many of our best engagements run alongside an SI: they handle the estate-scale delivery, Palm supplies the deterministic ground truth their teams build on.