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Data integration
Source systems connected, cleaned and kept current, with health checks, lineage and the access controls your data owners require.
Palantir Foundry · Gotham · AIP · Maven Smart System
Forward-deployed talent. Ready to contract.
Dark Swan Consulting fields former Palantir deployment strategists and forward-deployed engineers for government missions and for the firms that deliver them. Bring on one specialist, a full team, or a fixed-scope sprint, directly or under your prime.
10+ yearsOur founder's time inside Palantir, on defense and civil government deployments
TS/SCIActive clearance at the principal level
In deliveryOn a Palantir Foundry program for a major defense prime today
Austin, TXFounded and led by U.S. military veterans
What we deliver
We stand up, build on and run Palantir deployments.
These are the jobs Palantir's own field teams do. We learned them there, and we do them for you: from the first data source to a workflow people use every shift.
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Ontology design
Your mission modeled as objects, links and actions, so every application and every analyst works from the same picture.
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Operational applications
Workshop and OSDK applications in TypeScript and React, built with the people who will use them.
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AIP agents and logic
AI that reads your data, proposes actions and writes back under human review, with evaluations before anything reaches production.
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Pipeline engineering
Python, PySpark and SQL transforms that scale, with tests, schedules and incremental builds that keep compute costs in check.
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Adoption and operations
Workflow design, training and the operating rhythm that carries a program past the pilot and into daily use.
- Platforms
- Foundry
- Gotham
- AIP
- Maven Smart System
- OSDK
- Workshop
- Pipeline Builder
Who it's for
Two kinds of client. One kind of work.
Some clients own the mission. Others own the contract and need the people who can deliver it. We work for both, and we know how each one buys.
Federal mission owners
Investigations, law enforcement, defense and civil programs
You already have the platform. You need people who have run it on real missions and can be useful in the first week.
- Investigative and case work. Case management, entity resolution across case, financial, travel and communications records, lead development and deconfliction.
- Surge on a live program. Experienced specialists for a deadline, a new mission set or a gap on the team.
- More from the licenses you own. New workflows, AIP use cases and adoption on the enclave you already pay for.
- On your terms. We team with your incumbent prime or come in on a vehicle you already use.
Consulting firms and primes
Advisory, turnaround and systems integration teams
Your engagement has a Palantir platform at its center and the clock is running. We supply the builders and strategists who make it work.
- Under your brand. Our people embed in your team, on your paper. You keep the client relationship.
- Results on an engagement timeline. A working data foundation and applications alongside your consultants, for performance improvement and turnaround work.
- Diligence and health checks. An independent read on a deployment: what it does, what it costs to run and what to fix first.
- Pursuit support. Solution architecture, staffing plans and key personnel for your bids.
The two roles
Echo and Delta.
Palantir staffs every deployment with two kinds of people and calls them Echo and Delta. A program needs both. Ours have done the job from the inside.
Echo
Deployment strategist
Owns the mission problem. Sits with operators and leadership, decides what to build and in what order, and gets it adopted. Part product lead, part analyst, part program manager.
- Workflow design
- Ontology scoping
- Stakeholder management
- Use-case roadmap
- Training and adoption
Delta
Forward-deployed software engineer
Builds it on site, at the pace of the mission: integrations, pipelines, ontology, applications and AIP logic, in production and under real constraints.
- TypeScript and React
- Python and PySpark
- OSDK and Workshop
- AIP agents
- Pipeline Builder
How to contract
Four ways to put us to work.
Each one is a defined thing you can put on a purchase order or a subcontract. Start small: one person or one sprint is enough to begin.
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Embedded specialist
One strategist or engineer inside your team, working to your priorities and your program's rhythm. The fastest way to add experience to a live deployment.
- Terms
- Time and materials, hourly
- Typical length
- 3 to 12 months, renewable
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Deployment team
A strategist and engineers who arrive as a unit and own a workstream end to end. We manage the team. You direct the outcome.
- Terms
- Time and materials or monthly
- Typical size
- 2 to 5 people
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Fixed-scope sprint
A defined outcome on a short clock: an ontology, a data integration, or a working application in users' hands, with a handover your team can maintain.
- Terms
- Fixed price
- Typical length
- 4 to 6 weeks
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Assessment
An independent review of a deployment or a plan: architecture, cost, adoption and risk, with a prioritized roadmap. Suited to diligence and to programs that have stalled.
- Terms
- Fixed price
- Typical length
- 2 weeks
Contract paths
Subcontract
Under your prime contract or task order. We accept flow-down clauses and work inside your delivery and security plan.
Direct agreement
A master services agreement and statements of work for commercial firms and consultancies.
Through your incumbent
For agencies: we team with the prime already on your program, so you add people without running a new procurement.
Company record
What your contracts office will ask.
The basics, stated plainly. The capability statement has the same facts on one page for your file.
Open the capability statement| Legal name | Dark Swan Consulting, LLC |
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| Entity | Texas limited liability company |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas |
| Leadership | Founded and led by U.S. military veterans |
| Size | Small business |
| NAICS | 541511 (primary), 541512, 541519, 541611, 541715, 518210 |
| Clearances | Cleared personnel, including active TS/SCI. Classified work is performed under the facility clearance of the sponsoring prime or customer. |
| Agreements | Subcontract, or master services agreement with statements of work. Time and materials or fixed price. |
Team
Operators first. Then engineers.
Our principals lead every engagement. Behind them is a bench of strategists and engineers we have worked beside. Names and resumes are shared once we are talking about a specific role.
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Principal
Strategy and capture
More than ten years inside Palantir as a deployment strategist, developer and evangelist on defense and civil government programs. U.S. Army Special Forces veteran. Law degree.
Full profile on request
P2
Principal
Delivery and operations
Runs the firm's engagements day to day: staffing, delivery quality and the client relationship. U.S. military veteran.
Full profile on request
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Bench
Deployment strategists
Echos who have scoped and led platform deployments for mission and business users.
Profiles shared under NDA
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Bench
Forward-deployed engineers
Deltas who build integrations, ontologies and applications in production.
Profiles shared under NDA
Cygnus
We keep our own map of the market.
Cygnus is the system we built to run this firm. It holds a sourced record of where government and industry run on Palantir, and it reads the notices, awards, subcontracts and postings that move that market every morning.
For you, that means we arrive knowing your program's history, the vehicles that reach it and who else is on it. It is also a working example of what we build.
49Government programs on Palantir platforms
257Organizations: buyers, primes, partners, customers
56Contract vehicles and who holds them
49Ways government sources forward-deployed engineers
224Dated awards, policies and partnerships
155Primary documents behind the record
Every record carries its public source and the date it was checked.
Tell us the program and the gap.
A principal will reply with who we would put on it and how we would contract.
Email the principals
info@darkswanrecords.com
- The platform and the mission or business problem
- Roles you need, and by when
- Clearance level and place of performance
- How you would prefer to contract