Palantir
PLTR · NASDAQ · Technology · Software · Defense & Intelligence
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WHAT IT DOES
Palantir builds software that fuses an organization's scattered data into one operational picture — for intelligence agencies, militaries, and increasingly ordinary companies deploying AI on their own data.
HOW IT MAKES MONEY
Large multi-year platform contracts (Gotham for government, Foundry for commercial) plus its AI Platform (AIP), which converts pilot 'bootcamps' into production deployments.
WHY WE TRACK IT
It sits at the intersection of two of our systems: the defense budget's shift from hardware to software, and enterprise AI's shift from demos to deployed decisions. Its U.S. commercial growth is a clean read on whether enterprise AI is actually being adopted.
THE SIMPLE THESIS
Defense primes sell metal; Palantir sells the decisions layer on top — and the same software sells to companies discovering their AI strategy needs their data organized first. The debate has never been the mission; it is the multiple.
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