SEC Filing Document

Company: Palermo Technologies Inc.
Ticker: 
CIK: 2101355
Filing Type: S-1
Document Type: S-1
Date Filed: 2026-01-20
Accession Number: 0002097570-26-000005
Exchange: 
SIC Code: 4899
SIC Description: Communications Services, NEC
URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2101355/000209757026000005/pale-20260120_s1.htm

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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.

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

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

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)

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)

regulatory agency engagements across 15 jurisdictions

major conference keynotes or hosted panels

white paper downloads and simulation toolkit users

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.

Our
independent registered public accountant has issued a going concern opinion.  This means that there is a doubt that we can continue
as an on-going business for the next twelve months unless we obtain additional capital to pay our bills.  This is because we have
generated no revenues as of the date of the original registration filing.  During first months after completion of this offering,
we will establish our administrative systems and develop our web site for prospective clients but as well as investor relations compliance
and until this time, we do not believe that our operations will be profitable.  There is no assurance we will ever reach that stage.

After
the effectiveness of our registration statement by the Securities and Exchange Commissions, we intend to concentrate our efforts on raising
capital.  During this period, our operations will be limited due to the limited amount of funds on hand.

Contractual
Arrangements

The
Company has no contractual arrangements at this time.

Marketing

Once
we are able to raise sufficient funding, we intend to use social media marketing and social influencer campaigns to market our products.

COMPETITION

do not compete with mainstream consumer communication apps. Instead, we target infrastructure replacement for institutions seeking sovereign-grade,
auditable, and legally compliant alternatives to centralized SaaS models. Competitors can be grouped into four categories:

1.	Centralized
Encrypted Messengers

Examples:
Signal, ProtonMail, Tutanota, Wickr

·	Strengths:
End-to-end encryption, strong UX, broad adoption