How Palantir is Growing inside Great Britain
And how I'm tracking UK links in the DataBase
Those who have been following this Substack ever since its inception know that this is not the first time that I’ve written about the UK and their use of Palantir software, since I dedicated the first article to the campaign perpetrated against Foundry being used in the NHS and a couple of months later on the Ministry of Defence.
You may also be familiar with a Report shared in late summer of last year compiling every NHS link that I had found, adding to the fact that various Ministries and even the office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom were all using Foundry.
In recent weeks these attacks against Palantir and their work in England have increased, and some may wonder if Palantir is really at risk of losing the Federated Data Platform contract with the NHS. I’m not in a position to predict any outcome, but I can tell you what the links show.
A week ago, Jackson (@PalantirVision) asked me if I had a way of knowing the proportion of trials that turned into clients. There’s no way for me to know for sure, but I can see the activity status of links by checking manually (I know there are ways to automate this, but I like to take the time and check one by one, which also helps me familiarize with the links [and that is helpful in other cases]).
The thing is, I don’t count the NHS links inside the section with the column of all the names in the DataBase and I don’t even consider them in calculating the total of entities using Foundry, because I’m aware that UK health links are quite a sensitive topic. You can’t treat them equally because there are separate conditions that don’t apply to other links.
UK links are special, because if I count them as part of the total and the contract, for whatever reason, fails, then it’s quite a hefty blow to the numbers. If they officially win the contract, then I would count them as part of the total and the surplus would be handsomely absorbed to the total. Because the NHS has a big fat presence in terms of links, and it could hurt as well as benefit.
Having said that, I’m taking this as an opportunity to update the current status of Foundry presence in the United Kingdom and how I’m seeing link activity in the region.
The UK is, by far, the country that retains the most links, and even if I won’t disclose the exact % of active links for the rest of the world, the UK sits at more than a 90% rate, as of tonight. I’m saying this to counter anyone that would think Palantir is in a weak position in Great Britain, because they are not.
Out of the % of links not active anymore, exactly 0 links are Hospitals or other NHS Trusts, meaning none of the registered health centers have been downed. This is important to know, because even if all this chatter about ethical concerns and blatant lies that are loudly shared on Twitter make it seem like there’s a blockade not allowing nurses and doctors to operate, patients are actively benefitting from Foundry today.
At the same time, web traffic for Palantir Foundry UK has been going up this last Q1, and a big growth has also been seen in terms of referrals (other webpages that link to/from the original site) to the NHS login portal. This past month of March there’s been a more than 40% uptick compared to February.
The state of Palantir in the UK is strong. And I expect that the contract may be resolved quickly, so that we can move on forward, with or without the win. But with the conviction that Palantir offers the best solution, and has been doing so ever since the NHS first adopted Foundry, during the pandemic.
I will never grow tired of sharing the following image, because it’s true and it has never been more important to share to anyone who even doubts Palantir is doing a good job for the British patients. Foundry helps save lives.
And not only in Gov and Health entities, but Palantir is adding (and retaining) new UK companies every week, and the codenames are growing even at a faster rate.