Foundry Atlas — an interactive map of Foundry's apps and how they connect

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Hey there!

I built Foundry Atlas — an interactive map of the Palantir Foundry application landscape and how all the pieces connect. Instead of a static diagram, it’s a living, explorable graph: each node is a Foundry application, and the links show how they relate (feeds, powers, builds on, governs, …). Hover a node and its whole neighborhood lights up, so you can actually see how Foundry fits together.

:link: Try it here: https://foundry-atlas.com

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I started this after reading Application Landscape of Foundry — it got me thinking that a visual, always-up-to-date map could genuinely help both newcomers finding their footing and experienced engineers reasoning about dependencies, and that some of these little features could double as references for docs, explanations, onboarding, etc.

It’s built with react-force-graph-2d for the map and Blueprint, Palantir’s open-source React UI toolkit, for everything else — so it feels right at home next to Foundry.

What it does (and how it can help)

Explore the landscape

  • A force-directed map, color-coded by category, where node size reflects how connected an app is — the hubs jump right out.
  • Click any app for a detail panel: what it is, what it’s used for, a learning tip, a link to the official docs, and its connections.
  • Search + filters by category, experience level, generation, and “core apps only.”

For people learning Foundry

  • Learning Path mode — a guided, numbered route through the platform so you know what to learn and in what order.
  • “Core” and beginner/intermediate/advanced tags so you can start from the right place.
  • Tutorials & videos per app — curated Foundry-learning links and YouTube videos right on each application.

For advanced engineers & for referencing

  • Share a permalink to any view (a focused app, a filtered map) — links come with rich preview cards when pasted in Slack/Discord/etc.
  • Export a clean PNG — a single app’s “neighborhood” card, or a learning-path card — perfect for docs, slides, and onboarding material.
  • Embed it — drop the live map (or a single app card) straight into Notion, an internal wiki, or a blog post; every embed links back.

This is the part I’d love your help with. I populated the apps and links from my own knowledge and the official documentation, so some things are surely missing or could be sharpened. Rather than keep it locked to me, anyone can suggest a correction, a new link, or an edit to an existing link right inside Atlas — it goes into a moderation queue and gets reviewed before it lands. Crowdsourcing accuracy is exactly the hard part of keeping a map like this current.

So please — if you spot something off or know a connection I missed, hit the suggest button.

And if you’d like to help build features that could serve the Foundry community, the project is fully open source — contributions welcome:
:backhand_index_pointing_right: https://github.com/DonatNathan/foundry-atlas

Cheers,
Nathan :slight_smile:

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@Donat I personally love this! I find myself thinking about the original Gotham line/block ontology object connections. However, this is a fun way for new & old folks alike to understand the 50+ Foundry applications!

Keep up the great work. Hopefully you have plans to expand this?

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Well done, this is fantastic!

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Thank you @BeltwayData!

Yep, if people appreciate it I have a lot of useful ideas to implement, starting by:

  • The possibility to highlight the shortest relationship path between two apps
  • Free projects ideas to learn how to use each app. It differs from Palantir Learning by not giving line-by-line instructions but in a self-taught way (e.g. they are given a set of data and an example of what the result should look like)

P.-S. I read your suggestions, I love them and will implement them soon.

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Very impressive, but lets give some feedback:

  • Why VS Code in “Data integration” category?
  • I think “Automate” is “Core” for a decision platform. Btw no way to filter table by “Core”.
  • In Atlas I do not see connection between AIP Logic and Pipeline Builder, but check in “Speedrun: Your First AIP Workflow”, they use AIP Logic with Pipeline Builder, right?

What else?

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  1. I agree with you for VS Code, but I decided to use the same “Categories” we can see in Foundry platform apps to make it easier to use.

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  1. You’re right, I just created an issue and will implement it soon.
  2. Yep, 'cause there is no direct connection between AIP Logic and Pipeline Builder applications. You can create a “Use LLM” node in Pipeline Builder but not link a complete logic. And if I remember well, in “Speedrun: Your First AIP Workflow”, you first create datasets with Pipeline Builder, then you link these datasets to Object Types in Ontology Manager, and finally, you use these Object Types in AIP Logic. It looks like that:
    Pipeline Builder → Ontology Manager → AIP Logic

If you have some suggestions about data changes or links, I invite you to hit the “Suggest” button in the app, I can then approve or reject your suggestion.

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Hey there,

Just a quick update to let you know that you now have access to single- and multi-project ideas — with or without provided datasets — across different applications. Could be useful for anyone thinking “…okay, now what?” after finishing Palantir Learning. More will be added every week.

Three things to keep in mind:

  1. The steps aren’t mandatory. This is your project — they’re only there to give you an idea of what you can build, so feel free to build it however you want.
  2. Some steps might not fit your data. In that case, don’t panic — it happens in real life with real clients too. Be a real FDE and improvise :wink:
  3. The most important one! There are no solutions in the project briefs, so if you want to know how to build a specific part, please first Read The F*cking Manu…Documentation. Atlas gives you links to the official documentation and tutorial videos for each app.

Cheers,
Nathan :slight_smile:

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Very impressive ! Well done for putting that up ! That’s amazing to see how you collected those data dots together.

From a platform perspective: you can find information and “relations” between Foundry applications in Solution Designer.

There are brief descriptions (top right), as well as longer descriptions, links to docs, one click access to AIP assist to ask further questions, etc.

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You can as well see what can be upstream/downstream of a given resource by looking at the suggestion of a given node on the graph.

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This information should likely be more easily accessible.
I can’t give much more at the moment, but it’s very likely that you will be able to access something (widly) similar to what you presented here, directly in Foundry/Solution Designer ! :slight_smile:

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