Comment by riffraff

palantir might be "Google for Intelligence", but judging by previous discussions on HN it looks like it's actually "Accenture for Intelligence".

I.e. they don't seem to have scary innovative technology as much as a horde of people doing integration work (and some good reusable tools)

See discussions from 1 year ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646587

And 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8872054

Google for Intelligence is what they have been selling, but it's unclear they have actually delivered.