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Build Elite Technical Organizations

Platypus partners with ambitious companies to solve the hard problems of building technical teams that ship.

Whether you need to design a hiring system, structure your engineering org, navigate strategic technical decisions, or have someone who can actually build—we've done it at scale.

Founded by Palantir veterans. 7 years running Forward Deployed Engineering. 600+ technical interviews. Hands-on keyboard when it matters.

Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer on building Forward Deployed Engineering organizations

Hiring & Talent Systems

The Hiring Blueprint

End-to-end hiring process design tailored to your company's needs

Ideal for early-stage teams (Seed - Series B) who need to build a repeatable hiring process from scratch.

What's included:

  • Discovery & traits workshop: Define core attributes of success at your company
  • Role definition & job descriptions that actually attract great people
  • End-to-end interview process designed to test for your specific traits
  • Custom interview kits: questions, technical challenges, scorecards
  • Interviewer calibration: hands-on training to align your team

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Interviewing as a Service (IaaS)

On-demand expert interview capacity to scale your hiring without draining your engineers

Ideal for teams with an established process who need to increase hiring velocity while maintaining a high bar.

This can also be used to uplevel your interviewer pool.

What's included:

  • Technical and behavioral interviews conducted by our Palantir/Google-trained team
  • Detailed candidate reports with clear hire/no-hire recommendations
  • 24-hour turnaround

Why it works:

  • Frees up hundreds of hours of your senior engineers' time
  • Increases signal quality with unbiased, expert assessments
  • Predictable operational expenditure to scale hiring

Embedded Hiring Partner

Strategic partnership to build, lead, and execute your entire technical hiring function

Ideal for well-funded startups building a core team of 5-10+ engineers quickly and correctly, needing senior leadership without the full-time executive cost.

What's included:

  • Full strategic oversight: Acting as your fractional Head of Talent / VP of Engineering for hiring
  • All services from Hiring Blueprint and IaaS packages
  • Plus: Weekly pipeline reviews, sourcing strategy, offer construction, closing support, onboarding design

FDE & Organizational Strategy

Design and implement Palantir-style FDE organizations from scratch. We help you:

  • Structure teams around customer outcomes, not org charts
  • Define the operating model that makes FDEs effective
  • Build the culture of radical ownership
  • Hire and onboard FDEs who can thrive in the model

This is the model that made Palantir successful. We spent 7 years as FDEs and know how to transplant it to other organizations.

Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer on Forward Deployed Engineering.

Case studies:

  • Prodigal Tech: Building their FDE organization from the ground up
  • Fractal Analytics: Strategic advisory on FDE organizational design for enterprise AI business
  • Object Edge: Building Palantir services wing with FDE hiring and strategy

AI Strategy & Adoption

The Autonomy Gradient

AI Implementation Strategy

Most companies are experimenting with AI without a clear framework for what works. We help you:

  • Understand where AI amplifies expertise vs where it fails (the autonomy gradient)
  • Design validation methodologies for AI-generated outputs
  • Build AI-assisted workflows that increase productivity
  • Evaluate AI tools and platforms for your use case

Based on hands-on research: We rebuilt 3,500 lines of physics simulation code in 21 days using AI, documented everything, and published the findings. We know what AI can and can't do because we've tested the limits.

Technical Delivery

When strategy isn't enough, we build:

  • LLM applications and fine-tuning pipelines
  • AI evaluation frameworks
  • Proof-of-concept implementations

Recent work:

  • Metaview: Built data asset for LLM fine-tuning and automated job description generation
  • Catena Labs: Developed libraries to benchmark and deploy LLM ensembles
  • Radiant AI: Designed LLM-based applications demonstrating governance capabilities

Palantir Ecosystem Consulting

For Companies Using or Considering Palantir

We help organizations successfully adopt and implement Palantir Foundry:

  • Technical strategy and architecture design
  • Custom application development and data pipelines
  • Production deployments and platform implementation
  • Advisory on making Foundry work for your use case

For Companies Building Palantir Services

We help SI/consulting firms build their Palantir practice:

  • Hiring FDEs who can succeed in Palantir ecosystem
  • Training non-Palantir engineers on Foundry
  • Strategic positioning in Palantir partner ecosystem
  • Technical delivery for Foundry projects

Recent work:

  • Object Edge: Building Palantir services wing with FDE hiring and technical strategy

Also offering: Fractional CTO services and technical advisory for blockchain development, computational physics, and scientific computing.

Why These Services Together?

Building great technical organizations requires three things:

  1. The right people — Elite hiring systems that actually work
  2. The right structure — Organizations that align around outcomes, not org charts
  3. Technical credibility — Leaders who can still code, still architect, still debug production

We're not ex-engineers advising from the sidelines. We're current practitioners who understand organizational design.

Clients

Hiring Systems & FDE Organizations

Technical Delivery

  • Metaview: LLM fine-tuning and job description generation
  • Catena Labs: LLM ensemble benchmarking libraries
  • Radiant AI: LLM application design and development
  • Protocol Labs: Data onboarding infrastructure (2+ petabytes to Filecoin)
  • Triton: Blockchain data archival to Filecoin
  • Hence Technologies: Legal workflow automation
  • Multiple early-stage startups: Hands-on MVP development in AI and blockchain

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Ready to Build Something?

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