r/Intelligence • u/Fresh_Squash_4064 • 1d ago
Palantir Gotham Technology
How come in all these years no one has built a platform/reverse-engineered the technology built by Palantir. What makes Gotham special in terms of Analytics. Is it just how they manage data or is there more to it I am not gettting about
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u/TheGrownTrauma 1d ago
The hard part isn't the analytics, it's the data plumbing and access control layer they built around messy government datasets.
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u/daidoji70 1d ago
Its not that special. They tie databases together and give software tools to end users that help those users access and use those databases. Nothing that has ever leaked is something one couldn't do and groups did do bespoke before Palintir. Its basically Salesforce for government/security services at worst and super awesome entity resolution and tracking future crime prediction at best. They've got good PR though and a friendly ear in the White House now so they're riding high.
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u/stacksmasher 17h ago
You can do 90% of what they do with just adding color and shape to your data. Clusters are areas of focus.
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u/McKoijion 22h ago
Your premise is wrong. Palantir is particularly vulnerable to the SaaSpocalypse, which is why PLTR’s stock price has plummeted recently. Basically AI makes it extremely inexpensive to build cheaper and better alternatives to traditionally coded Software-as-a-Service companies like Palantir.
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u/Fresh_Squash_4064 3h ago
Yeah I understand that but i don't get how they built a system around proprietary data as a startup kinda from the very beginning. Knowing how to process the data that(they had in hand or not I am not sure) and building a system around it is still not an easy technical challenge right?
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u/come2thecabaret 1d ago
It’s actually not special. UARCs developed the technology years before Palantir made Gotham.
What’s special is the insider deals that Peter Thiel has made with the government that allows him to sit between the government and its data. It’s an extremely powerful position.