Articles
Notes on AI, data platforms, and work that works.
Essays and field notes from Vanyar on Palantir Foundry, AIP, and the operational shift happening inside enterprise technology.
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What is Palantir?
01What is Palantir - Part 1Published02What is Palantir - Part 2: How the data gets inPublished03What is Palantir - Part 3: The OntologyPublished04What is Palantir - Part 4 : Analytics on the OntologyPublished
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What is Palantir - Part 4 : Analytics on the Ontology
How Foundry's analytics tools trace a business problem to its cause on live, modelled data, no joins, no tickets. Why the answer is only as good as the model beneath it.Read · 3 minOpen weights won the argument in 48 hours
The open weights letter went from 25 to 77 signatories in a weekend, OpenAI, Google and SpaceX included. What it means for enterprise AI buyers, and the questions I'd ask before signing.Read · 7 minWhy Palantir. Why Now. Ten Weeks On
Ten weeks after my article "Why Palantir. Why Now", OpenAI is buying Palantir's top partner, Northslope. People and capital are moving to deployment. Here's the update.Read · 8 minWhat is Palantir - Part 3: The Ontology
The model is the brain you rent or own. The ontology is the body you build, and without it even a strong model has nowhere to act.Read · 7 minWhat is Palantir - Part 2: How the data gets in
Foundry connects to the systems you already run. Part 2 covers the integration layer: connectors and virtual tables, four sync patterns, governed pipelines with LLM nodes, markings.Read · 8 minYour AI Agent Has the Keys. Now What?
Most of what makes an AI agent useful sits in the layer underneath the model.Read · 9 minYour patch window is a board question.
AI is finding cyber vulnerabilities in hours. Most enterprises still patch in weeks.Read · 4 minWhat is Palantir - Part 1
Most enterprise AI is anchored to a single vendor's data model. Palantir starts somewhere different: a live representation of your entire business that humans and agents can reason over together.Read · 5 minWhy Palantir. Why now.
Twenty years building enterprise tech. Three acquisitions. The third platform I've put my conviction behind, and why I think this one's the biggest.Prefer a feed reader?
