Palantir Foundry

Palantir Foundry is an ontology-powered operating system designed for the modern enterprise, enabling organisations to run their business as code. By integrating the semantic, kinetic, and dynamic elements of an organisation into a unified platform, Foundry empowers teams to harmonise data, automate decision-making, and drive meaningful action across complex operational environments. It is built for large enterprises and institutions across industries including energy, healthcare, financial services, supply chain, manufacturing, and more.

At the heart of Palantir Foundry is the Foundry Ontology — a dynamic system that activates data and analytics for closed-loop operations. Rather than duplicating underlying data assets or fracturing existing sources of truth, the Ontology incorporates data and models from an organisation's existing enterprise architecture into a common logic layer, enabling real-time collaboration between data, analytics, and operational teams.

Core Capabilities of the Foundry Ontology

• Closed-loop operations: Activate data and analytics in a dynamic system that supports continuous, real-time operational decision-making.
• Universal logic layer: Execute faster using a shared representation of the objects, actions, and processes that define your business.
• Data and analytics integration: Weave data and analytics directly into daily decision-making across core business and operational teams, capturing decisions for continuous learning.
• Real-time collaboration: Achieve synchronised collaboration between data teams, analytics teams, and operational teams through a common logic layer that drives action as conditions evolve.
• AI-powered workflow composition: Build AI-powered workflows on a scalable architecture that re-uses multi-modal ontology objects, actions, and processes.
• No duplication: Incorporate data and models from existing enterprise architecture without duplicating underlying assets or breaking existing sources of truth.

Industry Applications and Use Cases

• Asset Management & Energy: Palantir partnered with Jacobs to unlock 20% plant-wide power savings and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a water treatment plant. Sonnedix deployed Foundry across solar energy sites to digitise production processes and reduce plant downtime. PG&E uses Foundry to combine equipment health data, geospatial location, and network topology for predictive maintenance on distribution transformers. Southern California Edison leverages Foundry for wildfire prevention, emergency response, customer notifications, and daily meteorology analysis using large-scale ML-driven weather forecasting, AI-enabled inspections, and IoT sensors.
• Ecosystems & Industry Platforms: Skywise uses Foundry to deliver an AI operating system for the aviation industry, serving over 25,000 users with insights across aircraft operations. Trafigura powers a Supply Chain Carbon Emissions Platform enabling lifecycle carbon intensity modelling across global energy and commodities supply chains. Athinia™ provides a secure data analytics platform for the semiconductor industry, enabling materials suppliers and device-makers to uncover novel manufacturing insights using AI and ML. NCATS securely aggregates and harmonises de-identified data from thousands of hospitals and clinics to power advanced research, including identification of Long COVID patients using machine learning.
• Supply Chain: Concordance Healthcare Solutions uses Foundry to build an ecosystem disrupting fragmented healthcare supply chain networks. Castrol partners with Palantir to smooth supply chain shocks and rapidly recover from disruptions. Cardinal Health uses Foundry's AI/ML capabilities to securely integrate clinical, diagnosis, and purchasing data into a clinically-integrated supply chain solution that responds to changes in real time.
• Engineering & Manufacturing: Sarcos combines its robotic systems with Palantir Foundry's edge AI capabilities to advance the future of AI and robotics. Doosan Infracore partners with Palantir to drive digital transformation and deliver market-relevant products.
• Healthcare Delivery: Cleveland Clinic uses Palantir's Virtual Command Center to streamline bed assignment, discharge management, staff allocation, and operating room utilisation. Tampa General Hospital integrates key data sources and applies advanced analytics in Foundry to improve operations, enhance clinical care, and accelerate research. SOMPO's Real Data Platform, powered by Foundry, enables shift workers to view and manage tenant care data with tailored sensor alerts, reducing care plan preparation from 30 minutes to a glance.
• Financial Services & Risk Management: A global bank uses Foundry's AI-powered transaction monitoring to resolve alerts 60% faster at 90% lower cost, and to perform multi-jurisdiction client searches 90% faster. Swiss Re connects data repositories into a single analytical data foundation for advanced risk insights while maintaining strong data security and governance. A major bank used Foundry to power Next Best Offer marketing initiatives, reducing campaign launch time from months to a single day.

Supported Domains and Capabilities

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI + ML)
• Anti-Money Laundering
• Edge AI
• Energy management and optimisation
• Healthcare research and development
• Supply chain management
• Retail operations

Industry Recognition and Awards

• Named a Leader in AI/ML Platforms by Forrester in The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 2022, recognised for building data-driven intelligence applications for complex, high-value government and commercial use cases.
• Ranked No. 1 in Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Software by IDC in market share and revenue, demonstrating clear global leadership in AI.
• Named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, Q3 2022.

Palantir Foundry has been developed over more than a decade through deep collaboration with customers across critical industries, encoding operational tradecraft directly into the product. The platform is designed to scale across global enterprises, supporting complex IT/OT landscapes, multi-jurisdictional compliance requirements, purpose-based access controls (PBAC), and secure data governance — making it suitable for regulated industries including healthcare, financial services, energy, and government.