Forward Deployed Engineering: The Model OpenAI and Anthropic Are Buying
What forward deployed engineering is, why AI labs are buying the firms that practise it, and what it means for anyone hiring an implementation partner.
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Palantir Use Cases by Sector: Manufacturing, Energy, Insurance and Public Sector
Which processes Palantir Foundry solves in each sector, what the cases that work have in common, and how to choose the first one in your organisation.
A Palantir Deployment in 60 Days: From Workshop to Production
How a first Palantir Foundry case reaches production in 60 days: the phases, the conditions that make it possible and what is deliberately left out.
Building on Palantir: the OSDK, Developer Console and MCP
How to build your own applications on the Ontology with the OSDK, which platform APIs exist, and what changes when an agent writes code through Palantir MCP.
Palantir AIP: Taking AI Agents to Production with Governance
What Palantir AIP brings compared with building your own agent stack: business context, inherited permissions, continuous evaluation and production controls.
Avoiding Palantir Lock-In: Portability and an Exit Strategy
What you take and what you rebuild if you ever leave Palantir, which technical practices reduce dependency from day one, and what to negotiate in the contract.
Palantir and Data Sovereignty in Europe: What the Customer Decides
Where Palantir runs, which controls the customer keeps and how it fits GDPR and the EU AI Act. A technical reading of the European sovereignty debate.
What a Palantir Deployment Costs: The Line Items Nobody Details
Palantir does not publish prices. These are the four real cost drivers of a deployment, what inflates them and how to bound the cost before signing.
Palantir, Databricks or Snowflake: When to Choose Each
What each platform solves, where they overlap and why in most corporations they do not compete but coexist. Criteria to decide without paying twice for the same layer.
Data Governance in Palantir Foundry: Markings, Lineage and Quality
How data governance is implemented inside Foundry: mandatory versus discretionary controls, organisations per subsidiary, lineage for impact analysis and monitored quality.
The Palantir Ontology Explained from a Data Governance View
What the Palantir Foundry Ontology is when read as a data governance tool: owned objects, actions with permissions and controls that travel with the data.
What Is Palantir? Foundry, AIP and the Ontology Explained
What Palantir Foundry is, what AIP adds and why the Ontology is the piece that changes everything. A guide for anyone evaluating the platform.