SEC Filing Document

Company: Palermo Technologies Inc.
Ticker: 
CIK: 2101355
Filing Type: S-1/A
Document Type: S-1/A
Date Filed: 2026-05-15
Accession Number: 0002097570-26-000016
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SIC Code: 4899
SIC Description: Communications Services, NEC
URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2101355/000209757026000016/pale-20260512_s1a3.htm

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government or financial certifications ● Regional compliance advisory firms (e.g., DPO services, ISO 27001 auditors) ● Critical infrastructure solution providers (power, telecom, water) ● Legal technology consultants serving arbitration and cross-border litigation clients Tiered Partner Framework Palermo’s channel program is structured into four ascending tiers: • Deployment Partner Trained to deploy and configure PalermoMesh components (EnclaveNode, Compliance Engine, Palermo Console) Receives direct implementation revenue and Tier 1 support • Compliance Partner Builds custom policy templates and legal rule packs on behalf of regional clients Receives Marketplace royalties and audit services revenue • Relay Federation Partner Operates verified Palermo relays under Trust Federation terms Earns traffic-based fees, certification incentives, and routing preference in local sovereign deployments • Strategic Integrator Works closely with Palermo’s core team to co-develop national-scale mesh deployments May receive joint licensing rights, shared IP access, or cost-plus arrangements Channel Enablement Infrastructure To support partners at scale, Palermo provides:

●	Partner Training Portals  — Self-paced technical certification, legal template authoring
guides, and enclave troubleshooting labs

●	Regulatory Sandbox Access  — Simulated PalermoMesh environments where partners can
test country-specific configurations and prove policy enforcement to end clients

●	Revenue Forecasting Dashboards  — Tools that help partners model licensing, relay,
and audit income under varying deployment scenarios

●	Local Language Materials  — Palermo invests in localized UI/UX, training documents,
and regulator-facing policy documentation in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Czech

In-Region Federation Incentives

Palermo offers targeted incentives for partners to establish relay
clusters in underrepresented jurisdictions, especially in:

●	Eastern Europe (e.g., Romania, Slovakia)

●	Latin America (e.g., Colombia, Peru)

●	Southeast Asia (e.g., Malaysia, Vietnam)

These incentives include reduced certification fees, joint R&D
grants, and shared client onboarding revenue.

Program Governance

All partners must adhere to Palermo’s Ethical Relay Operator
Charter, which prohibits data capture, traffic analysis, or unauthorized audit chain manipulation. Palermo enforces this through:

●	Enclave attestation logs

●	Relay trust score reputation systems

●	Periodic red-team simulations conducted by Palermo or third-party auditors

The channel partner strategy ensures Palermo can scale globally
without sacrificing legal trust or relay integrity, enabling local experts to deploy sovereign-grade infrastructure without central gatekeeping.

Developer Ecosystem and Open Standards Alignment

Palermo’s long-term strategic moat is not just in sovereign
deployments or compliance enforcement—but in enabling a global community of developers, auditors, legal technologists, and
protocol integrators to co-build and extend the platform. To that end, the Company has designed a developer ecosystem that is both technically
extensible and legally aware, with a focus on open standards, transparency, and auditable trust.

Core Developer Enablement Tools

Palermo offers a growing suite of tools and APIs designed to support
external contributors, policy authors, and systems integrators:

●	Relay SDK  — A developer framework for building EnclaveNode extensions. Use cases include
jurisdiction-specific routing policies, custom entropy validation logic, and integration with in-country KYC providers.

●	Policy Engine API  — Enables legal engineers to write, simulate, and deploy jurisdictional
rules as code, using a declarative logic format. Includes debugging hooks, policy inheritance, and conflict resolution tracing.

●	Audit Chain Explorer  — Open-source tool to visualize, validate, and verify audit trails
across relay paths. Used by clients, regulators, and independent security firms.

●	Enclave Attestation CLI  — Command-line utility for generating and validating enclave
identity proofs. Useful for DevOps teams and penetration testers validating secure relay nodes.

●	DID Anchor Registry  — Interoperable identity registry for anchoring decentralized
credentials. Supports standard W3C DID methods and verifiable credentials in JSON-LD and JWT formats.

These tools are distributed under hybrid licenses—core
modules under open licenses (Apache 2.0 or MPL 2.0), with commercial usage gates for enterprise plug-ins or regulatory-facing policy
bundles.

Community-Led Contributions

Palermo is cultivating a curated network of developer contributors
across cryptography, governance tech, and RegTech:

●	Cryptographic Research Contributors  — Palermo supports academic partnerships and public
code review grants to validate post-quantum hybrid models, zero-knowledge disclosures, and enclave-bound randomness schemes.

●	Legal Policy Maintainers  — Legal professionals and regulatory analysts are incentivized
to contribute reusable policy templates, jurisdictional rule packs, and audit frameworks to the Policy Marketplace.

●	Auditor Tool Builders  — Palermo offers bounties and infrastructure grants to firms
or individuals who develop visualizations, simulation validators, or export tools for forensic log handling and enclave evidence.

Open Standards Participation

Palermo actively contributes to global technical and regulatory standards
bodies:

●	ETSI ISG-CYBER  — Palermo has proposed metadata-resistant relay protocols for state-adopted
secure messaging use cases.

●	W3C DID Working Group  — Palermo’s identity team contributes to standardization
of privacy-preserving credential issuance and secure selective disclosure.

●	ISO/IEC 27036  — Palermo participates in advisory reviews of secure supply chain communication
standards.

●	IETF Privacy Enhancements and Assessments  — Palermo engages in draft recommendations
for header encryption, forward secrecy enforcement, and jurisdiction-aware routing in modern communications stacks.

By operating within standards bodies, Palermo ensures that its innovations
remain auditable, interoperable, and durable beyond any single company or jurisdiction.

Developer Engagement Metrics and Goals

By Q2 2026, Palermo aims to:

●	Support 1,000+ monthly active developers in testnet and regulatory sandbox environments

●	Onboard 200+ contributed policy packs covering 50+ national frameworks

●	Certify 100+ independent audit tools compatible with Palermo’s forensic logging framework

This community-layered go-to-market motion allows Palermo to scale
not only by institutional sales—but by platform gravity, drawing in legal technologists, developers, and regulatory architects
who can adapt the system to evolving global conditions.

Global Events, Thought Leadership, and Strategic Advocacy

To secure long-term influence in its regulatory-aligned market, we
are investing in a thought leadership and advocacy strategy that positions the company as a global authority on lawful encrypted
communications, digital sovereignty, and cross-border compliance.

This pillar of the go-to-market strategy is
designed not just to generate awareness, but to shape norms, influence procurement frameworks, and embed Palermo’s architectural
principles into the regulatory and cybersecurity discourse of the next decade.

Executive Visibility and Strategic
Messaging

Our leadership team maintains an active presence in high-trust regulatory,
legal, and cybersecurity forums. Key executive communications priorities include:

●	Demonstrating thought ownership around lawful secrecy, sovereign digital infrastructure, and regulator-grade
encryption

●	Educating compliance and legal audiences on executable policy logic and the concept of “zero-trust
jurisdiction”

●	Influencing procurement frameworks and certification regimes in emerging technology governance
bodies

In 2025–2026, Palermo executives are slated to present or lead
workshops at:

●	The Global Privacy Assembly (GPA)

●	CPDP (Computers, Privacy and Data Protection) Brussels

●	RSA Conference (RegTech Track)

●	UN Internet Governance Forum

●	OECD Forum on Digital Economy Policy

Palermo also collaborates with public interest groups, regulators,
and international standards organizations to advocate for metadata minimization, auditable relay transparency, and post-quantum
communication readiness as industry baselines.

Regulator and Legal Network Cultivation

Palermo invests heavily in maintaining trusted relationships
with regulators, auditors, and legal stakeholders. Its GTM team includes legal engineers and former government tech advisors who help
bridge Palermo’s technical stack with emerging legal standards.

Activities include:

●	Regulatory Listening Tours  — Palermo conducts private briefings and reverse-pitch
sessions with data protection authorities, privacy commissions, and financial regulators to gather input and co-develop deployment priorities.

●	Policy Co-Authoring  — Palermo offers workshops where regulators simulate their national
laws within PalermoMesh, validating enforceability and surfacing gaps for mutual resolution.

●	Cross-Jurisdictional Working Groups  — Palermo facilitates dialogues between legal
experts in multiple regions (e.g., EU-LATAM, APAC-EU) to align compliance interpretation across borders using executable policy artifacts.

Media, Publications and Public Discourse

To reinforce its strategic voice, Palermo contributes to industry
literature and policy debate through:

●	Technical white papers on enclave forensics, audit trail sealing, and policy routing semantics

●	Legal position papers co-authored with partner firms on GDPR-NIS2 synthesis, AI Act impact on communications,
and lawful relay federation

●	Commentary and interviews in publications like Lawfare, RegTech Insider, Cybersecurity
Law Report, and European Data Protection Review

Palermo’s advocacy isn’t reactive—it
is constructive and agenda-setting, shaping how compliance-grade communication is defined, procured, and governed on the international
stage.

Performance Targets (2025–2028)

●	50+ regulatory agency engagements across 15 jurisdictions

●	10 major conference keynotes or hosted panels

●	100,000+ white paper downloads and simulation toolkit users

●	15 citations in government procurement guidelines or cybersecurity frameworks

Our current cash balance will not be sufficient to fund our operations
for the next 12 months.  However, if we sell 25% up to 50% raising gross proceeds of $87,500 up to $175,000 we will satisfy our cash
requirements for 12 months and we will not be required to raise additional funds to meet some operating expenses, but our company’s
development will be strictly limited.  Please see our Use of Proceeds section for more details.  If we need more money we will
have to possibly look into obtaining additional financing by way of private debt or equity financing.