Different ways to partner.
Whether you’re exploring an idea, improving a product, or figuring out how AI fits into your business, we’re happy to spend 15 minutes talking it through. If we don’t think we can help, we’ll tell you.
Get more out of the AI your team already has
Most teams are further along than they think, pointed at the wrong things. The tools are bought, the licences are paid for, and the work that would actually benefit is still being done by hand.
I find the work worth handing over, prove it on one real workflow, and build what takes it. No deck, no framework — a shorter week for someone by the end of it.
How this works →A clear-eyed look at what’s there
Most businesses already have something. Knowing what to do with it is harder.
- A prototype that got 70% of the way there — then stopped.
- A spreadsheet quietly running half the business.
- Something that broke, with nobody to call.
Platen gives you an honest read on what you have by applying the same product thinking: what’s worth finishing, what’s worth fixing, and when the smarter move is not to build at all.
Every verdict answers one question: what will it return — in hours, in dollars, in room to run. If the answer is “not enough,” we’ll say so.
See what you get →Have something built just for you
Anyone can get software built these days. The hard part is getting software that actually fits — the way you work, the way you think, the job you need done.
Platen turns rough ideas into working software by staying focused on what matters: finding the one job it needs to do, building it as simply as possible, and keeping it running on a yearly arrangement.
See how a build goes →