[piker]

I recently watched the new Palantir + Kirkland & Ellis fund formation platform demo, and I was surprised to see how effective the union of structured data was in an agent harness. We're used to dealing with flat files and comparing here basic ways of searching, essentially, long strings, but using Palantir's "Ontology" graph framework, I think Kirkland is going to be able to achieve some exception and differentiating outcomes in legal tech. The whole idea assumes that they've got great structured data already, and perhaps that's the real valuable unknown, but giving an agent those tools is super powerful.

I wrote about it[1] and came away with a different view on both Palantir and the future of agentic workflows personally.

[1] sorry, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fund-managements-killer-app-d...

[darkteflon]

That was great, thanks for the write-up. It’s rare to get a peek into Palantir’s ontology-forward approach. I’ve certainly been curious.

> But it would make no sense to have an LLM regurgitate an existing form document token-by-token rather than call a piece of 1994 software like Hotdocs to populate some placeholders.

This is a real “oof”, isn’t it. Very difficult to understand what they were going for here. Perhaps they just assumed no one in the intended audience would pick it up. But it certainly is enough of a red flag that it made me go back to the top of your write-up for a re-read, thinking about their whole pipeline in much more sceptical terms.

[piker]

Really glad you liked it! Yes, I suspect it was just for show since a plain document popping onto the screen would just be jarring.

Edit: looks like you’re in London, too. Hit me up and let’s connect. My details are in the bio!

[darkteflon]

Yeah absolutely, will do! Looks like we have common interests. I’m in Tokyo though, actually. Rest of the team is in London.