Jul 1, 2026 · 25 min · 11 segments
The controversial US company Palantir supplies crucial software to intelligence services, armies and police forces in Europe. European governments are growing nervous about the US firm. Meanwhile…
Emma du ChatinierHost
Sebastian BrommersmaGuestWell, what they do is, well, they build software tools and what they are able to do is that they can take vast amounts of data that are unstructured, raw, that could be about anything, and they find a way to make sense of all of it, if you will.
will so their particular expertise lies in military and the intelligence domain so for instance if you have a war situation you've got um satellites looking for information you've got drones flying over there's observations on the ground there's all sorts of information coming at you like a commanding officer and you want to make sense of that so This software structures the information, gathers it, makes it very easy to go through it.
And that makes it so that all these vast troves of information can be, well, sort of boiled down in a sense that the commander can actually see, well, I see movement there.
Who are they? What are they doing there? But also what type of vehicles are they in? And then based on all that information, you can see what...
ammunition or what weaponry is best equipped to take them out, essentially, all the way up to the extent where you can finally fix your targets on them and even fire at them at some point.
So this whole targeting process is where they have a lot of experience and what makes it very effective on a battlefield for a commander in chief to carry out missions.
And in making sense of this data, would you say they are like just another tech company or do they really stand out compared to other similar companies?
And one of the main reasons why they do stand out is not necessarily their software.
I've been told that they can essentially provide the same software, but their experience, specifically within the field of intelligence and in the military domain, sets them apart from others.
Really get into the nitty gritty parts of the information that you would need on a battlefield.
For instance, for targeting procedures, that's where they really excel and where others don't have the experience that they have.
And they go into really the nerve system of a lot of states, also within Europe.
Well, what they do is, well, they build software tools and what they are able to do is that they can take vast amounts of data that are unstructured, raw, that could be about anything, and they find a way to make sense of all of it, if you will.
will so their particular expertise lies in military and the intelligence domain so for instance if you have a war situation you've got um satellites looking for information you've got drones flying over there's observations on the ground there's all sorts of information coming at you like a commanding officer and you want to make sense of that so This software structures the information, gathers it, makes it very easy to go through it.
And that makes it so that all these vast troves of information can be, well, sort of boiled down in a sense that the commander can actually see, well, I see movement there.
Who are they? What are they doing there? But also what type of vehicles are they in? And then based on all that information, you can see what...
ammunition or what weaponry is best equipped to take them out, essentially, all the way up to the extent where you can finally fix your targets on them and even fire at them at some point.
So this whole targeting process is where they have a lot of experience and what makes it very effective on a battlefield for a commander in chief to carry out missions.
And in making sense of this data, would you say they are like just another tech company or do they really stand out compared to other similar companies?
And one of the main reasons why they do stand out is not necessarily their software.
I've been told that they can essentially provide the same software, but their experience, specifically within the field of intelligence and in the military domain, sets them apart from others.
Really get into the nitty gritty parts of the information that you would need on a battlefield.
For instance, for targeting procedures, that's where they really excel and where others don't have the experience that they have.
And they go into really the nerve system of a lot of states, also within Europe.
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