Palantir develops tools to be better at tasks that are pitched to them in some degree of detail through the RFP process and similar processes. Palantir as a com

Palantir develops tools to be better at tasks that are pitched to them in some degree of detail through the RFP process and similar processes. Palantir as a company would not exist if it were not for the less savoury of those tasks. We do not hear, "Government X purchases a couple thousand Excel licenses to keep a database on people it'd like to kill", and I imagine that Microsoft does not sell Excel to Government X in response to an RFP for tooling to keep track of people it'd like to kill. (Of course, it'd probably stick its metaphorical fingers in its ears if it did hear about Excel being used for that purpose.)