From small businesses trying to cut costs and stay secure, to large organizations managing complex IT programs. We bring 15+ years of hands-on experience and explain everything in plain English.
Who we work with
Need help cutting software costs, staying secure, managing vendors, or building a tool to save your team time?
Dealing with a software audit, cloud migration, complex licensing, or need senior IT leadership without the full-time hire?
You don’t need a big IT department. You just need someone who knows what they’re doing, won’t talk over your head, and actually gets things done.
Stop missing renewal deadlines and overpaying for software you don’t use. We handle your vendor contracts, negotiate better deals, and keep your licenses in order year-round.
Small businesses get targeted by hackers more than most people realize. We find your weak spots and fix them before someone else does.
Most businesses are paying for apps and subscriptions nobody uses. We find them, cut what you don’t need, and show you exactly where your money is going every month.
Not every business can afford a full-time IT hire. We step in as your go-to technology person, making decisions, handling vendors, and keeping everything running without you having to figure it out.
We build software and AI tools made specifically for small businesses: automating repetitive tasks, replacing messy spreadsheets, and helping your team do more with less effort.
A few years ago, everyone was being told they needed to move to the cloud. It was true for some businesses and completely unnecessary for others. AI is following the same pattern.
We don’t lead with the tool. We start with your business. We learn how you operate, find where you’re losing time or money, and only then figure out whether AI actually helps and what it will actually cost you to run it.
Every time an AI tool runs, it costs money. It’s easy to get excited about what it can do. It’s harder to notice the bill building up in the background. The shiny toy effect wears off fast. We make sure you know the real running cost before you commit, and we build AI into your operations in a way that actually pays for itself.
We learn how your business actually runs day-to-day: where time is spent, what’s repetitive, and where things fall through the cracks.
We map out the specific tasks or problems where AI could actually help. Not just what sounds impressive, but what would genuinely save you time or money.
Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes a simpler tool or a process change does the job better and costs a fraction of the price. We give you an honest recommendation either way.
Before anything goes live, we model the actual cost to run it against what you’re getting back. No guessing. If the numbers don’t work, we say so.
Not sure if AI is right for your business? That’s exactly what we’re here to figure out together.
Book a Free AI ReviewMost firms hand you a slide deck. We hand you working software. We design, build, and ship production AI: the kind real people use every day and pay for. If it can be built responsibly and pay for itself, we build it.
AI that runs on the user’s own machine, so sensitive data never leaves the device. No cloud, no data harvesting, nothing to leak.
Assistants that actually do the work: read documents, take real actions, and plug into the tools your team already uses.
Already have an app? We add the AI features your users actually want, built to fit your product instead of bolted on as a gimmick.
We pick the right model for the job and design around the running cost, so your AI pays for itself instead of quietly draining the budget.
A privacy-first app with on-device AI that summarizes, reads, and answers questions about your PDFs, without sending a single page to the cloud. Live on the Microsoft Store, and on its way to the Mac App Store.
We’ve managed large-scale IT programs, handled major vendor audits, and led technology operations inside big organizations. We know how this works because we’ve been inside it.
We build programs to track every piece of software and hardware your company owns, from purchase through retirement. No more mystery assets, no more compliance gaps when an auditor shows up. We even built our own software for it: Starkive Manifest.
When Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, or IBM comes knocking with an audit, it can cost you thousands if you’re not prepared. We step in, review your situation, and handle the whole process so you don’t get hit with a surprise bill.
Moving your organization to the cloud or connecting on-site systems with Azure, AWS, or GCP? We plan the whole thing, build it correctly, and make sure it’s secure and running right from day one.
We audit your licenses, find where you’re over-paying, and go back to vendors to renegotiate. We’ve sat across the table from Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Adobe. We know exactly where there’s room to push back.
We build dashboards and reports that show your leadership team exactly where the money is going, what’s at risk, and what needs to happen next, without the noise and confusion.
We step in as your senior IT lead, owning programs, managing vendors, handling the hard conversations, and reporting back in plain English. Senior-level experience at a fraction of the full-time cost.
Beyond client work, we build software that solves real problems we’ve run into on the job.
Starkive Manifest
EARLY ACCESS
Manifest is a complete IT asset management system that runs on a Mac you own. Every device, contract, lease, and warranty tracked from purchase to retirement. The database lives on your machine. The AI runs on your machine. Your company’s inventory never leaves the building.
Why on-prem, and why now
Manifest takes a different path: the whole system, AI included, runs on hardware you already own.
Ask Manifest
“Which laptops come off lease in the next 90 days?”
✨ Answered on-device. Your inventory never left this Mac.
Get the software, or have us run your whole asset program with Manifest included.
Starkive
Starkive encrypts your files, reads and edits your PDFs with on-device AI, keeps your passwords in a zero-knowledge vault, and sends one-time secret links. Everything runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
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Real-time open notifications. Always encrypted, always tracked.
Depalo Consulting LLC was founded to give every business access to IT expertise that used to be reserved for large corporations with big budgets.
Our founder started in basic IT support and worked all the way up through cybersecurity, infrastructure, and running large-scale technology programs across multiple countries. We’ve seen it from every angle and we bring that experience to clients of every size.
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