Foundry Usage is Increasing

Foundry isn’t just taking off, it’s exploding to new usage heights

You already know that Palantir Foundry is accessible through a web browser. This allows people from all around the world to work on it from wherever they want… One can literally fix planes through SkyWise or predict wildfires and power outages through PG&E’s Damask-codenamed platform. All these solutions, of course, built on top of Foundry.

But I want to dedicate this article to a kind of “finding in process”, since it involves data I gathered 3 months ago and just now. Because even if the up to 3 months this analytics page (similarweb) shows has a real value, the 6 months / QoQ comparison allows more optics to look into it. I think waiting 3 months is worth it, let me explain why.

This shows quite an amazing array of insights into palantirfoundry.com (the main Foundry hub) and everything that grows from there. But I want to focus on total visits and the average visit duration.

Let’s begin with total visits. That is a whopping 30% increase in just 2 months, and a 20% jump from September. Let me tell you, for a 19 year old company, this is not normal. This is extraordinary.

One could think this is only a comeback from a slow summer, but that’s not entirely the case. The platform had a 3-month high in May and a low in July, but compared to those 2 quite different moments (also reflecting the slower than expected growth we all saw in Q2 and Q3) October registered a 19.5% and a 51% visit growth respectively.

As you can see, these numbers also give us information about visit duration. Basically a 147% increase in time spent inside Foundry by each user, per visit. Nothing short of spectacular.

Just for a bit more of perspective, Foundry was used 3,880 hours in July, while in October it was used for 14,476 hours. And that’s just the main Palantir Foundry. We could do the same with Palantir Cloud, Foundry Gov and all the variations ( .fr, .de, …), and I think we would get a similar result.

The world is increasingly using Palantir and that is an undeniable fact. Gotham data is more tricky to get since it’s partly hidden, but we know about the commercial world. And Foundry isn’t just taking off, it’s exploding to new heights, not only in visits but in the quality of each visit.

You can say many things against Palantir, but to say they are not growing anymore or commercial isn’t using Foundry is just nonsense. And this article proves it. The entire western commercial world is adopting Foundry directly or indirectly (through partners or suppliers) at an increasingly rapid / exponential pace. Usage data is here to serve as proof.