Hi All
I am an independent author (not affiliated with Palantir).
I wrote a free guide, “Ontology Is All You Need: A Practical Implementation Guide for Midsize Companies,”. Link to PDF https://www.applayerai.com/ontology
Goal is to teach 50–1,000-person companies to create their first ontology.
It’s vendor-neutral by design. Many companies will start in tools they already own and graduate to Foundry later.
Before it goes wide, I’d genuinely value this community’s judgment and feedback.
Scope: I cap version one at 15–20 object types. Where do real first implementations actually land? is that ceiling right?
Sequencing: The guide builds the semantic layer first (weeks 3–8), then adds kinetics: two or three governed actions for a single workflow (weeks 8–11). Many of you work use-case-backwards instead. When does each approach win?
Timeline: Is 90 days honest for a midsize company with one half-time data lead and part-time domain experts, ending in one piloted agent behind approval gates?
Pitfalls: I list eight (god object, kitchen sink, database-shaped objects, action sprawl, and so on, credited to Palantir’s talks). What’s the #1 first-timer mistake you see that I’ve missed?
Accuracy: Anything in how I’ve represented the semantic/kinetic split or the ontology concept generally that would make a practitioner wince?
I’ll incorporate what I learn in this thread.
Thank you!