Foundry Deployments Don’t Need to Be Complicated. But They Do Need to Be Done Right.

We’ve seen it again and again: organizations invest in a powerful platform like Palantir—but stall out due to unclear scope, limited in-house expertise, or misalignment between IT and business.

That’s why successful Foundry implementations follow a repeatable playbook. Here’s ours.

Step 1: Define the First Use Case

• Start small and strategic: pick one urgent, high-impact business challenge.
• Common examples: procurement optimization, workforce planning, or regulatory compliance.

Step 2: Build Your Ontology

• Structure your organizational knowledge: people, processes, assets, outcomes and build out a 360-degree representation.
• This enables intuitive apps, workflows, and governance.

Step 3: Integrate the Data

• Use connectors, APIs, and ingestion pipelines to bring in source data.
• Emphasize quality, provenance, and permissions early.

Step 4: Build the App

• Develop a Quiver or Code Workbook application that solves the selected use case.
• Embed analytics, workflows, and documentation directly in the tool.

Step 5: Enable the Team

• Train users early—ideally while the app is being built.
• Embed Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to support adoption and iteration.

Step 6: Expand with Confidence

• Once the first use case is live, use it to align stakeholders and build momentum.
• Maintain a backlog of additional use cases, prioritized by value.

Why Work with i4C?

• We’ve helped teams get to first value in 6–10 weeks.
• Our consultants combine business knowledge with platform expertise.
• We focus on scalable success—not shelfware.