We're engineers who got tired of watching organizations waste money on Palantir implementations that didn't work.
BaileyFinch Solutions was founded in 2023 by Air Force veteran Mario Bailey after years of working on federal Palantir implementations—some successful, many not.
The pattern was consistent: Organizations would invest heavily in Palantir licenses, then struggle to find people who knew how to build with it. They'd hire consultants who looked good on paper but had never built production Foundry systems. Ontologies would get designed wrong. Pipelines would fail in ways that took weeks to debug. Workshop applications would get built but abandoned because they didn't solve actual problems.
We kept getting called in to fix implementations that other firms started—rewriting broken ontologies, debugging pipelines that should have worked from day one, rebuilding Workshop apps that made no sense to end users. It became clear the problem wasn't the platform. The problem was organizations couldn't find people who actually knew Foundry.
So we started BaileyFinch Solutions to do one thing: Palantir Foundry and AIP implementation. Not general IT consulting. Not other platforms. Just Foundry—because the platform is complex enough that specialists matter.
Specialists beat generalists. Foundry has too many specifics—incremental pipeline logic, ontology relationship modeling, Workshop module patterns, multi-org security architectures. People who know other platforms can't just figure it out.
Production experience matters. Building something that works in a demo is different from building something that processes millions of records daily and doesn't break. We've built systems that are in production today.
Cleared personnel save time. If you're working on classified programs, waiting 12-18 months for clearance processing kills momentum. Our engineers already have the clearances and can start immediately.
Small companies move faster. We're not a large consultancy with layers of account managers and overhead. You work directly with engineers who know the platform.
We provide three things:
1. Engineers who know Foundry. Platform engineers (FDEs) who build ontologies and pipelines. Deployment strategists who work with end users and build Workshop applications. People who've done this before and know what works.
2. Technical expertise for complex implementations. Multi-organization architectures. Cross-domain integration. Air-gapped AIP deployments in classified environments. The hard problems that require people who've solved them before.
3. Training for your team. We train technical teams on ontology design, pipeline development, and Workshop application building. Not generic platform overviews—training on the problems you're actually trying to solve.
Most of our work is with federal agencies—defense, intelligence, and civilian programs where security matters and data lives at different classification levels. We also work with healthcare organizations dealing with HIPAA regulations, financial services building fraud detection systems, and manufacturers managing complex supply chains.
We work directly with agencies and as subcontractors to larger primes who need Palantir specialists on their teams. Either way, the engineers you get are the same—people who know Foundry and have built production systems.