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🚨 $PLTR: WHAT IF PALANTIR'S CUSTOMERS START SELLING PALANTIR-POWERED SOFTWARE? $SRFM Surf Air has now signed five definitive OperatorOS agreements with regional aviation operators. It also has a multi-year contract with Wheels Up worth up to $12 million and an enterprise pipeline that management believes could eventually generate tens of millions in annual revenue. Palantir is helping Surf Air commercialize the software. Surf Air already operates aircraft and handles the everyday complexity of aviation. Crew scheduling, aircraft availability, maintenance, pricing, bookings, regulatory records and all the operational decisions that determine whether an airline actually makes money. Instead of building another dashboard, Surf Air is developing SurfOS on Palantir's technology to bring these workflows together. Palantir has dedicated FDE working with Surf Air and under their exclusive teaming agreement, $PLTR is also helping sell the software to enterprise customers. Surf Air has more than 450 operator relationships it can potentially sell into. The company is also planning additional AI-powered modules for dynamic pricing, automated crew scheduling, aircraft recovery and predictive maintenance. A regional aviation operator doesn't need to assemble its own data infrastructure, integrate dozens of disconnected systems and build an AI deployment team from scratch. It can adopt software developed around the workflows of an actual aviation business. Surf Air also reported a 6% reduction in direct operating cost per block hour YTD in its airline operations, alongside broader SurfOS-enabled efficiency improvements. I'm not attributing that entire improvement to Palantir, but it's encouraging to see operational results alongside the commercialization effort. Now, I wouldn't pretend five operator agreements suddenly change Palantir's valuation. We don't know Palantir's exact economics from these contracts and Surf Air still needs to convert its pipeline into paying, deployed customers. AIP and Foundry are helping a customer build industry specific software, Palantir's engineers are helping deploy it and its commercial team is helping take it to market.

🚨 $PLTR: PALANTIR EXPANDS ITS U.S. SALES REACH BY PROMOTING APLOS DATA TO ITS HIGHEST PARTNER TIER. Palantir just elevated Aplos Data to Vanguard: Elite, the highest level in its trusted partner network. Bullish for $PLTR's U.S. commercial business. Aplos was already helping existing Palantir customers deploy Foundry and AIP. Now it's going to work directly with Palantir to bring those platforms to entirely new customers across the United States. There's an important difference between those two roles. Previously, Aplos was primarily helping companies that had already chosen Palantir get more value from their deployments. Now it can also help bring new companies onto the platform. Aplos was built specifically around Palantir. Its founding team includes winners from Palantir's DevCon Fellowship, and the company has chosen to build exclusively on Palantir's technology. Mansfield Energy is using Foundry with Aplos to improve how its teams operate and serve customers. Surf Air $SRFM has been working with Aplos to develop SurfOS, its aviation operating software built on Palantir. At AIPCon 11, Aplos demonstrated a fuel distribution application that monitors thousands of diesel tanks, predicts when fuel will run low and automatically places orders. Employees only need to get involved when a decision actually requires their attention. I like that example because it shows how AIP and Foundry can move beyond dashboards and actually help run business operations. Palantir has historically relied heavily on its own engineers working closely with customers to deploy complex software. That's incredibly valuable but it also means expansion requires specialized implementation expertise. A company like Aplos can help extend that expertise to more customers without every deployment depending entirely on Palantir's internal teams. It's where I see the bigger opportunity for $PLTR. If Palantir can build a network of partners that know Foundry, AIP and the Ontology well enough to deliver production applications quickly, it will become easier to expand across industries and reach customers that haven't used Palantir before. More implementation capacity could also help existing customers deploy additional applications across their operations. This announcement doesn't disclose any new contract values, customer commitments or revenue sharing arrangements but I like seeing Palantir invest in the ecosystem around its software. Because the more companies that can successfully deploy and maintain applications on Foundry and AIP, the less Palantir's growth has to depend exclusively on its own deployment teams.