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Date
Monday, November 3, 2025 at 5 p.m. ET
Call participants
Chief Executive Officer — Alexander C. Karp
Chief Technology Officer — Shyam Sankar
Chief Financial Officer — David A. Glazer
Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer — Ryan D. Taylor
Finance Team — Ana Soro
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Takeaways
Revenue -- $1.181 billion in revenue for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, up 63% year over year and 18% sequentially.
US revenue -- $883 million for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, up 77% year over year and 20% sequentially, representing three-fourths of total revenue.
Rule of 40 score -- 114 in the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, an increase of 46 points year over year and 20 points from the previous quarter, marking a company high.
US commercial revenue -- $397 million US commercial revenue for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, increasing 121% year over year and 29% sequentially, now 34% of company-wide revenue.
US government revenue -- $486 million for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, up 52% year over year and 14% sequentially.
Total contract value (TCV) bookings -- $2.8 billion in total contract value (TCV) for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, the highest ever reported revenue growth rate of 63% year over year, rising 151% year over year and surpassing the previous record by nearly $500 million.
Large deals closed -- 204 deals of $1 million or more in the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, 91 deals of $5 million or more, and 53 deals of $10 million or more.
US commercial TCV -- $1.3 billion in total contract value (TCV) closed for US commercial business in the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, with a more than 6x increase year over year on a dollar-weighted duration basis.
Commercial revenue -- $548 million for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, rising 73% year over year and 22% sequentially; the segment has outperformed US government revenue for four consecutive quarters.
International commercial revenue -- $152 million for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, up 10% year over year and 5% sequentially.
Government revenue -- $633 million for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, up 55% year over year and 14% sequentially.
International government revenue -- $147 million for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, growing 66% year over year and 16% sequentially, mainly due to UK activity.
Customer count -- 911, up 45% year over year and 7% sequentially.
Top 20 customer revenue (trailing twelve months) -- $83 million per customer for the top 20 customers in the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2025, increasing 38% year over year in that period.
US commercial customer count -- 530, increasing 65% year over year and 9% sequentially.
Net dollar retention -- 134%, up 600 basis points sequentially, driven by customer expansions and recent customer acquisitions.
Total remaining deal value -- $8.6 billion total remaining deal value as of September 30, 2025, up 91% year over year and 21% sequentially.
Remaining performance obligations (RPO) -- $2.6 billion in remaining performance obligations as of September 30, 2025, up 66% year over year and 8% sequentially, driven primarily by commercial contracts.
Adjusted operating margin -- 51%, exceeding high-end prior guidance by 500 basis points.
Adjusted gross margin -- 84%, excluding stock-based compensation.
Adjusted income from operations -- Adjusted income from operations was $601 million for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, representing a 51% margin.
Adjusted expense -- $581 million in adjusted expense for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, up 8% sequentially and 29% year over year, mainly due to AIP investment and technical hiring.
GAAP operating income -- $393 million for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, reflecting a 33% margin.
GAAP net income -- $476 million net income for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, with a 40% margin.
Stock-based compensation expense -- $172 million stock-based compensation expense for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, plus $35 million in equity-related employer payroll tax expense.
GAAP EPS -- $0.18 earnings per share for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025; Adjusted EPS -- $0.21 adjusted earnings per share for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025.
Adjusted free cash flow -- $540 million in adjusted free cash flow in the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025 (margin 46%) and $2 billion in adjusted free cash flow on a trailing twelve-month basis for the first time.
Cash from operations -- $508 million in cash from operations for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, margin 43%.
Share repurchase activity -- 2.6 million shares repurchased through the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, with $880 million remaining of the original share repurchase authorization.
Cash, cash equivalents, and short-term treasuries -- $6.4 billion at quarter end.
Q4 2025 guidance -- Revenue expectation of $1.327 billion to $1.331 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter ending December 31, 2025; adjusted income from operations of $695 million to $699 million for the same period.
Full-year 2025 guidance -- Revenue of $4.396 billion to $4.4 billion for full-year 2025; US commercial revenue guidance in excess of $1.433 billion with a growth rate of at least 104% for the year; adjusted income from operations of $2.151 billion to $2.155 billion for the year; adjusted free cash flow of $1.9 billion to $2.1 billion for fiscal 2025; expected sustained profitability in every quarter of 2025.
Strategic US Army development -- Public directive to consolidate all army data operations on Palantir Foundry and AIP-powered Vantage platform.
AIP adoption -- Accelerating conversions to enterprise-wide AI deployments, highlighted by customers moving rapidly from single use case pilots to large-scale, multi-year agreements.
Headcount growth -- Demonstrating productivity leverage from internal AIP tools.
Sales force trend -- Declining sales staff alongside accelerating revenue growth in the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, attributed to product-driven adoption.
Summary
Palantir Technologies (PLTR 9.22%) delivered record-breaking results for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2025, with acceleration in revenue, margin expansion, and enterprise adoption of its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). Management reported the highest contract bookings in company history for the quarter, underscoring surging demand across both commercial and government segments, particularly within the United States. The company's operating leverage is highlighted by top-line revenue growth of 63% year over year, while headcount and sales force expansion remain minimal, attributed to productivity gains from proprietary AI development tools. Strategic US Army endorsement of Palantir’s Vantage platform marks a notable public sector development, while commercial customers are rapidly migrating to enterprise-wide AI deployments, supporting management's assertion of "compounding" value for clients. Raised forward guidance reflects management’s expectation for sustained high growth rates, strong operating margins, and significant free cash flow generation through 2025.
Chief Financial Officer David A. Glazer stated, "We delivered these exceptional top-line results while also achieving our highest ever reported adjusted operating margin of 51%, exceeding the high end of our prior guidance by 500 basis points."
Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar described internal productivity gains: "How are we doing that? You know, we've made our FTEs wildly more productive."
Management is guiding for a full-year Rule of 40 score of 102% and anticipates GAAP operating income in every quarter of 2025.
The company’s remaining deal value showed double-digit sequential and year-over-year expansion, while RPO showed double-digit year-over-year and single-digit sequential growth.
Industry glossary
Rule of 40: A software industry benchmark where the sum of revenue growth rate and adjusted operating margin equals or exceeds 40%, indicating balanced growth and profitability.
Total contract value (TCV): The aggregate value of all contracts signed during the period, including both new and expansion bookings, across multiple years if applicable.
AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform): Palantir’s proprietary platform for deploying, orchestrating, and scaling enterprise AI applications and workflows.
Ontology: In Palantir's context, a semantic data modeling framework foundational for structuring enterprise data and enabling complex AI-driven operations.
AIFDE: Palantir's AIP-native development agent, enabling data integration, transformation, and application building via automation and AI.
RPO (Remaining performance obligations): The future revenue Palantir expects to recognize from contractual commitments not yet fulfilled, excluding short-term or convenience-terminated contracts, mainly reflecting commercial agreements.
FTE: Full-time equivalent, used for measuring employee or AI agent workforce productivity.
Foundry: Palantir’s enterprise data integration and operations platform, serving as an operating system for organizational data.
Vantage: The US Army’s data platform built on Palantir Foundry and AIP, enabling centralized military data operations.
Full Conference Call Transcript
Ana Soro: Good afternoon. I'm Ana Soro from Palantir Technologies Inc.'s Finance team, and I'd like to welcome you to our third quarter 2025 earnings call. We'll be discussing the results announced in our press release issued after the market closed and posted on our Investor Relations website. During the call, we will make statements regarding our business that may be considered forward-looking within applicable securities laws, including statements regarding our fourth quarter and fiscal 2025 results, management's expectations for our future financial and operational performance, and other statements regarding our plans, prospects, and expectations. These statements are not promises or guarantees and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause them to differ materially from actual results.
Information concerning those risks is available in our earnings press release distributed after the market closed today and in our SEC filings. We undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law. Further, during the course of today's call, we will refer to certain adjusted financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, or in isolation from GAAP measures. Additional information about these non-GAAP measures, including reconciliation of non-GAAP to comparable GAAP measures, is included in our press release and investor presentation provided today. Our press release, investor presentation, and other earnings materials are available on our Investor Relations website at investors.palantir.com.
Over the course of the call, we will refer to various growth rates when discussing our business. These rates reflect year-over-year comparisons unless otherwise stated. Joining me on today's call are Alexander C. Karp, Chief Executive Officer; Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer; David A. Glazer, Chief Financial Officer; and Ryan D. Taylor, Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer. I'll now turn it over to Ryan to start the call.
Ryan D. Taylor: We had a monumental third quarter, shattering expectations yet again. Our overall revenue grew 63% year over year and 18% sequentially. We outperformed across the board, driven by strong execution in the US, which accounted for three-fourths of our business in Q3, growing 77% year over year and 20% sequentially. Our Rule of 40 score soared to an unprecedented 114, up 46 points year over year and a full 20 points since last quarter alone, reinforcing our position as the defining enterprise software company of our generation. Our US commercial business grew an incredible 121% year over year and 29% sequentially, driven both by insatiable demand and the quantified exceptionalism compelling customers to scale AIP across their operations.
Organizations are embracing an undeniable truth: Real enterprise AI at scale requires Palantir Technologies Inc. We're seeing that AIP again and again is the only platform delivering transformational impact in this market. And critically, AIP is the only AI platform that has an actual plan for compounding your enterprise's AI leverage, not just the model maker's leverage over you. Sharing this leverage with our customers is our highest priority. Our whole company is singularly focused around value creation for our customers, and I am proud to share with you all the fruits of our labor. We closed our highest TCV quarter ever at $2.8 billion.
Underlying this performance, we closed a staggering 204 deals worth $1 million or more, of which 91 deals were worth $5 million or more, and 53 deals were worth $10 million or more. In our US commercial business, which now accounts for 34% of our overall revenue, we closed $1.3 billion in TCV, a milestone achievement for the fastest-growing area of our business, with a more than 6x year-over-year growth rate on a dollar-weighted duration basis. The trajectory is clear. Customers are converting to larger enterprise agreements in short timeframes, reflecting both the expanding scope of their AI ambitions and the immediate impact our software delivers.
A leading medical device manufacturer signed a multi-year expansion just five months after their initial contract, increasing ACV more than eightfold. Two weeks into their initial contract, the conversation evolved from a single use case to pursuing the opportunity of becoming an AI-first enterprise. Their CEO approached me to embrace a shared vision for an enterprise-wide AIP deployment to transform their entire organization. This transformation reflects a broader pattern we're seeing across our customer base. AI is a strategic imperative owned at the C-suite level, with executive leadership recognizing that enterprise-wide AI adoption is the defining factor separating the AI haves and the AI have-nots. We're seeing C-suite driven AI transformations across our customers.
At a leading insurance company, the CEO has taken personal ownership of their AI transformation, meeting with our team regularly to orchestrate a company-wide transformation around AIP, reimagining every function, from underwriting to claims processing, leading to a significant expansion of our work together. Our partnership with TWG Global, named virgins.ai, continues to gain momentum. As TWG's Thomas Toll noted, "What was once a competitive advantage is now a competitive necessity. Companies that fail to incorporate AI into their core operations will be outpaced by those that do." These examples underscore what we are seeing. We are the only platform bringing true transformational impact to the enterprise AI market.
Turning to our US government business, revenue grew 52% year over year and 14% sequentially as we continued to deliver mission-critical capabilities. We remain deeply committed to our founding mission of supporting the US government, honored by the privilege of equipping our nation with transformative software that actually works. We remain focused on delivering the most advanced defense capabilities in the world to the US government and internationally to our allied partners around the world. The momentum we're carrying into Q4 is extraordinary.
As we look towards the end of the year, our mission is clear: deliver the production capabilities that turn AI from promise into reality for the enterprises defining the future of their industries through AIP's compounding AI leverage. I'll now turn it over to Shyam. Thanks, Ryan.
Shyam Sankar: Twenty years of grinding has built a unique moat and a growing lead. Our products were built for this moment, and the numbers continue to show it. Realizing value from AI in the enterprise requires the elegant integration of LLMs, workflow, and software. And this is only possible with ontology. Our foundational investments in ontology and infrastructure have positioned us to uniquely deliver on AI demand now and in the world ahead. The most significant product developments are the accelerating progress in our AI applications inside of AIP.
AIFDE, our AIP native development agent that understands how to connect to data sources, how to integrate and transform data, how to create ontologies and functions, and build applications, is unleashing incredible speed and productivity for our FTEs and customer developers alike. At one customer, two human FTEs spawned an army of AI FTEs to migrate a customer off their legacy data warehouse in five days, something that would have taken an army of SIs up to two years. This is not a prototype. This is production. Across our customers, the results are shocking.
AI Hivemind is a new AIP capability that orchestrates a swarm of dynamically generated agents to tackle hard problem-solving, idea generation, refinement, and executable proposal generation that is integrated with ontology and therefore aware of the context of your enterprise. AI Hivemind was originally developed to solve extremely complex problems in the classified space, but it's already been used to help our commercial customers identify bottlenecks to their supply chain, proactively developing possible solutions, and then leveraging AIFD to code that up into an actual solution. In the government space, AI Hivemind is able to take its proposals and generate intricate mission plans right in Gaia and Maverick.
Our focus with AIP continues to be enterprise autonomy, our normative view of where the value is for AI in the enterprise. Hivemind now lets the AI develop novel solutions to emergent challenges and to identify hidden opportunities, and the rest of AIP enables you to turn those ideas into an implemented reality. Closed-loop evolution of the business with AI is possible because of AIP and ontology. We continue to make investments that allow enterprises to extend AIP to the far edge. Edge ontology is a new lightweight implementation of ontology that runs on mobile.
It enables customers to build mobile applications or embedded software for hardware, things like drones and robots, and is fully integrated with your enterprise's AIP instance. Turning to field-facing updates, the US Army issued an official public memo directing all army organizations to consolidate and centralize on Vantage, the army data platform built on Foundry and AIP. The army views this not merely as a technical decision, but a cultural decision, enabling the data-driven decision-making that continues to make our army the most lethal in the world. This directive will enable the army to rapidly sunset legacy systems and enable more investment in the army's future force, concept, and systems.
Warp speed, and the American Tech Fellowship are early investments to support and reindustrialization in America are bearing fruit. While Warp Speed launched by helping new defense entrants meet their surging production goals, it's now being rapidly adopted across the traditional defense industrial base and the maritime industrial base. The second cohort of the American Tech Fellowship will be wrapping up in the next few weeks. We started the American Tech Fellowship because we noticed that many of our best builders, frontline workers, don't come from conventional consulting backgrounds. They don't have formal computer science backgrounds.
To highlight a few of these folks, Mason, a Louisiana-based civil engineer, is building AI applications for more accurate estimates for heavy construction projects, something that is only going to grow with our reindustrialization. Michael, who works for a potato farm in North Dakota, is streamlining its operations. And Cody from Georgia, who is a utilities expert, is building in Foundry to deliver safe, reliable energy across the South. These Americans are the true face of innovation, underscoring that it will be the American worker with AI that drives reindustrialization and American prosperity.
Our customers have taken notice and asked us to create American tech fellowship programs for their employees, specifically, to include Lear, who highlighted their fellowship in their recent earnings call. With that, I'll turn it over to Dave to take us through the numbers. Thanks, Shyam. We had an outstanding third quarter, achieving a rule of 40 score of 114, our highest ever by 20 points.
David A. Glazer: We also generated our highest ever reported revenue growth rate of 63% year over year, exceeding the high end of our prior guidance by 1,300 basis points and representing a 3,300 basis point increase compared to the growth rate in Q3 last year. On the back of this extraordinary strength, we are guiding to revenue of $1.329 billion in the fourth quarter, representing 13% growth quarter over quarter, our highest ever sequential revenue growth guide, and 61% growth year over year. We're also raising our full-year 2025 revenue guidance midpoint to $4.398 billion, representing a 53% year-over-year growth rate and an $8.252 billion increase over our full-year 2025 revenue guidance last quarter.
In addition, raising our full-year US Commercial revenue guidance to in excess of $1.433 billion, representing a growth rate of at least 104% year over year, a 19% increase over the guidance we gave just last quarter. Accelerating demand for AIP continues to drive outperformance in our US business overall, which grew 77% year over year and 20% sequentially in the third quarter. Our US Commercial business grew 121% year over year and 29% sequentially, and our US Government business grew 52% year over year and 14% sequentially.
We delivered these exceptional top-line results while also achieving our highest ever reported adjusted operating margin of 51%, exceeding the high end of our prior guidance by 500 basis points and highlighting the unit economics of our business at scale. Our revenue and profitability drove a 20% sequential increase to our Rule of 40 score from 94 in the second quarter to 114 in the third quarter. On a trailing twelve-month basis, we generated $2 billion in adjusted free cash flow for the first time in the company's history. Turning to our global top-line results, third-quarter revenue grew 63% year over year and 18% sequentially to $1.181 billion.
Third-quarter US revenue grew 77% year over year and 20% sequentially to $883 million. Excluding the impact of revenue from strategic commercial contracts, third-quarter revenue grew 65% year over year and 18% sequentially, and third-quarter US revenue grew 78% year over year and 20% sequentially. We closed our highest ever quarter of TCV bookings at $2.8 billion, up 151% year over year. This eclipses our prior highest quarter of TCV bookings just last quarter by nearly half a billion dollars. Customer count grew 45% year over year and 7% sequentially to 911 customers. Revenue from our largest customers continues to expand. Third-quarter trailing twelve-month revenue from our top 20 customers increased 38% year over year to $83 million per customer.
Now moving to our Commercial segment, third-quarter commercial revenue grew 73% year over year and 22% sequentially to $548 million. This is the fourth consecutive quarter that revenue from our Commercial business has been larger than our US Government business. Excluding the impact from strategic commercial contracts, third-quarter commercial revenue grew 77% year over year and 22% sequentially. We closed $1.4 billion in commercial TCV bookings, representing 132% growth year over year and 32% sequentially. AIP continues to drive existing customer expansions and new customer conversions in the US. Third-quarter US Commercial revenue grew 121% year over year and 29% sequentially to $397 million.
Excluding revenue from strategic commercial contracts, third-quarter US Commercial revenue grew 126% year over year and 29% sequentially. In the third quarter, we closed $1.3 billion of US Commercial TCV bookings, representing growth of 342% year over year, surpassing the billion-dollar mark for the first time. Over the past twelve months, we closed $3.8 billion of US Commercial TCV bookings, a 217% increase from the prior twelve months, highlighting the demand for AI production use cases. Total remaining deal value in our US Commercial business grew 199% year over year and 30% sequentially. Our US Commercial customer count grew to 530 customers, reflecting growth of 65% year over year and 9% sequentially.
Third-quarter international commercial revenue grew 10% year over year and 5% sequentially to $152 million. For International Commercial Business, continue to capitalize on targeted growth opportunities in Asia, the Middle East, and beyond, but remain focused on accelerating the growth in our US Business. Revenue from Strategic Commercial Contracts was $2.9 million for the quarter. We anticipate fourth-quarter 2025 revenue from these contracts to be between $2 million to $4 million compared to $9.6 million in 2024. We anticipate 2025 revenue from these contracts to be less than half of 1% of full-year revenue. Shifting to our Government segment, third-quarter government revenue grew 55% year over year and 14% sequentially to $633 million.
Third-quarter US Government revenue grew 52% year over year and 14% sequentially to $486 million. This growth was driven by continued execution in existing programs and new awards reflecting the growing demand for AI in our government software offerings. Third-quarter international government revenue grew 66% year over year and 16% sequentially to $147 million, bolstered primarily by our continued work in the UK. As previously mentioned, we closed our highest ever quarter of TCV bookings at $2.8 billion, up 151% year over year. Net dollar retention was 134%, an increase of 600 basis points from last quarter.
The increase was driven both by expansions of existing customers and new customers acquired in Q3 of last year as we see the effect of the AI revolution. As net dollar retention does not include revenue from new customers that were acquired in the past twelve months, it does not yet fully capture the acceleration and velocity of our US Business over the past year. We ended the third quarter with $8.6 billion in total remaining deal value, an increase of 91% year over year and 21% sequentially, and $2.6 billion in remaining performance obligations, an increase of 66% year over year and 8% sequentially.
As a reminder, RPO is primarily comprised of our Commercial business, as it does not take into account contracts with an initial term of less than twelve months and contractual obligations that fall beyond termination for convenience clauses, both of which are common in most of our government business. Turning to Margin and Expense, adjusted gross margin, which excludes stock-based compensation expense, was 84% for the quarter. Adjusted income from operations was $601 million, representing an adjusted operating margin of 51%. Q3 adjusted expense was $581 million, up 8% sequentially and 29% year over year, primarily driven by our continued investment in AIP and technical hiring.
We continue to expect expenses to increase in the fourth quarter, and we remain committed to investing in the product pipeline and the most elite technical talent, all while delivering on our goals of sustained GAAP profitability. Third-quarter GAAP operating income was $393 million, representing a 33% margin. Third-quarter GAAP net income was $476 million, representing a 40% margin. Third-quarter stock-based compensation expense was $172 million, and equity-related employer payroll tax expense was $35 million. Third-quarter GAAP earnings per share was $0.18. Third-quarter adjusted earnings per share was $0.21.
Additionally, our combined revenue growth and adjusted operating margin accelerated to 114% in the third quarter, a 20% increase to our Rule of 40 score from the prior quarter and our ninth consecutive quarter of an expanding Rule of 40 score. With the increase in our 2025 revenue and adjusted operating income guidance, we are now guiding to a Rule of 40 score of 102% for the full year. Turning to our cash flow, in the third quarter, we generated $508 million in cash from operations and $540 million in adjusted free cash flow, representing margins of 43% and 46%, respectively. Additionally, we achieved $2 billion in trailing twelve-month adjusted free cash flow for the first time.
Through the end of the third quarter, we repurchased approximately 2.6 million shares as part of our share repurchase program. As of the end of the quarter, we have $880 million remaining of the original authorization. We ended the quarter with $6.4 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term US Treasury securities. Now turning to our outlook, for Q4 2025, we expect revenue of between $1.327 billion and $1.331 billion and adjusted income from operations of between $695 million and $699 million. For full-year 2025, we are raising our revenue guidance to between $4.396 billion and $4.4 billion. We are raising our US Commercial revenue guidance to in excess of $1.433 billion, representing a growth rate of at least 104%.
We are raising our adjusted income from operations guidance to between $2.151 billion and $2.155 billion. We are raising our adjusted free cash flow guidance to between $1.9 billion and $2.1 billion, and we continue to expect GAAP operating income and net income in each quarter of this year. With that, I'll turn it over to Alex for a few remarks, and then Ana will kick off the Q&A.
Alexander C. Karp: Greetings. By any normal or even reasonable standard, these are not normal results. These are not even strong results. These aren't extraordinary results. These are arguably the best results that any software company has ever delivered. And that's not hyperbolic, despite what your analyst friends may want you to believe because they've been wrong at every price, they're wrong at every single round. But, of course, they're persuasive, and they're not investing their own money. But a normal enterprise company should not have a Rule of 40 above 100. A normal enterprise company at our base should not have over 100% US Commercial growth, should not have 77% growth in the US.
And by the way, that growth is being held down by a stagnant Europe, which is still a significant part of our business. So the pure unvarnished numbers are 77% growth off of a massive significant base with very significant cash flow with a company that throws off a Rule of 40 of 114. And then if this world was at all sane, every single person in the financial world would stop and say, how did this happen?
How did a company which stood by the American warfighter, marine, special operators, people in clandestine services who stood up for our right of free speech and completely anti-woke, how did was really the first company to be this company stick up for the American warfighter? Actually give normal Americans venture quality results. So one of the issues we have with the arbiters of truth is it was the American worker that we supported and the American worker that we helped make rich. And the arbiters of truth somehow did not participate in that because they were such experts.
And, of course, you know, but these numbers show is doing that and taking the American worker along with it and doing it in a way that foreshadowed the future. FDA, ontology, foundry, making each specific institution, making the American warfighter fight the way the American warfighter is born to fight.
Empowering the tenants of being free and having the ability to do creative things in the battlefield context, and then taking enterprises instead of selling them commodity parasitic software with a massive sales force, a kind of lumbering jargon-bearing leaders offering you steaks and dinners and other things we shall not mention in order that you turn the value, the high-value revenue of your enterprise over to them in return for these accolades. We created direct alignment with our customers. And what does that mean?
It means when our customers have a unique and tribal way of doing something, whether it's underwriting or fighting, or making workers even more valuable, we put in FDA, we orchestrated an ontology, we take the tribal understanding of their business, the specific nature of their business, that makes them particular and valuable and lethal, and we empower that. And how do we participate in that? Unlike seemingly in the most obvious way, we are downstream from the value creation.
So when you see 141 or you see 77% or 63 and you ask, and by the way, with really a workforce that is not growing in any way linearly proportional to that growth and also with a sales force which is declining, which seems improbable, the reason why that's working is because we are making our clients more money or we're making them more dominant on the battlefield, and they're paying us a subset of that. And this is why these numbers are so extraordinary. The sociologic and political version of this should be, wait a minute. How can we learn from this? How can we implement institutions?
By the way, you know, we have all these people talking about an AI bottle. I'll tell you what 114 proves. There is a massive part of the AI market that actually cares about value creation, and that's the part we own. And we own that part because to do this, you have to have FD orchestration, you have to have ontology, and you have to have foundry, and you have to have access to the game. And you have to have deep understanding of how to do that. And you have to have done this for a very, very long time with products, by the way, and then the products are getting better and better and better and better.
And I'll let Shyam talk about what we're doing on the battlefield to the extent that he can, but you see the very similar trajectory where we're giving America both in industry and in government, a massive unfair advantage. And again, you see it like, if you look at our numbers, look at how poorly Europe is doing. Look how well America is doing. Look how we're doing this. And again, it's not just top line. The rule of 114 that we have shows top line and bottom line growth that is distinctive, massive, and unique.
And on top of everything else, you know, there is this issue in the US that we're all focused on at Palantir Technologies Inc., which is what access, what portion of the GDP growth that we're blessed to have in this country, meaning GDP growth defined or helped out and bolstered by AI, what percentage of that is available to the American worker? And so when we're, you know, AI availability for the American worker, meaning do they participate in this growth? Or is it just people around this table who are getting richer and richer?
And then you see our platform on the battlefield, as Shyam was mentioning, the people doing the coding in AIP are vocationally trained smart Americans with specific knowledge. They don't have an, and actually, and your people on the factory floor, very same thing. People across the nation. Truck drivers, anybody with specific domain expertise is more powerful, more valuable in our product than they were yesterday. In fact, the real misalignment of AI is with people with commodity-like high-trained elite institution general specialists that's just not as valuable as it was.
And yes, the, you know, the destructive positive destruction of capitalism is gonna put that class of people, typically the class of people that also is kind of skeptical of Palantir Technologies Inc., under enormous pressure. But, you know, it is our, what I see in these numbers and what I think we see in these numbers is, you know, to be, is put it slightly over the top. Well, yeah, we were right. You were wrong. And we are gonna go very, very deep on our rightness because it is exceedingly good for America. Exceedingly good for the American economy. It's as good for American workers. And you know what?
I really enjoy turning on TV and seeing some analysts explain why some other company is better than ours simply because they didn't make any money on our company and probably aren't. And we're just going to keep going and going and going. And then we're obviously not gonna forecast for next year, but I would say if you're thinking about how this company is gonna go, look at our ability to value create. Look at our ability to create revenue on the top end. Look at the unit economics of our business. If you're a technical expert in how do you evaluate business, evaluate those numbers against any other business you've ever seen, and then make your decision.
But, yeah, I'm wildly enthusiastic. I think we're wildly enthusiastic. And thank you for those of you who stayed with us to enjoy these numbers, especially Palantirians who work day and night to deliver these kind of numbers.
Ana Soro: Thank you, Alex. We'll now turn to questions from our shareholders before opening up the call. We received a few questions asking, what do you see as Palantir Technologies Inc.'s unique differentiator that others may not understand?
Shyam Sankar: Well, Alex mentioned a bit of this here. You know, it's become fashionable actually for lots of companies to start hiring FDEs. The Financial Times had an article by how it's the most popular new job title. But what you see is that they don't really understand it. It's just mimetic. And if you everything Alex you said, like, we build software that works, not software that ought to. We build software for the world as it exists, not a world that never was. And this ability to find what's true, that comes from the FDE. Our measure of success is not did we sell the software, it's did we solve the problem.
And we have built an entire software stack over two decades downstream of creating value for our customers. That led to the ontology a decade ago, more than a decade ago, which is a fundamental prerequisite to getting value out of LLMs in the enterprise. This past year, it led to AI Hivemind and AIFD. The other thing, which, like, is implicit in that is, the way we work puts us up forces us to go up the chain of complexity. Every day. So we're taking on the most painful, most integral, most valuable parts of the stack in every enterprise. And it's precisely because it like, that's the way we actually lever our ability to deploy and orchestrate FDEs.
That's the way we make our products stronger. And quite frankly, that's the way we produce these numbers because the closer you are to the front line of the very complex problem that a black box was not meant to solve, cannot solve, and at this point, everyone knows a joke to believe it could solve. That's where you, and by the way, it's the safest position for us because this company, we will always believe we're we that we are outsiders. We need to be in the place where the most valuable problem is being solved because that's the way we end staying, solving the problem tomorrow, and the way we get paid.
Ana Soro: Thank you both. Our next question is from Dan with Wedbush. Dan, please turn on your camera, and then you'll receive a prompt to unmute your line.
Alexander C. Karp: Mister Dan Ives, we don't see you. Hello?
Dan Ives: Oh, there you are. Yeah. Great. It was, look, obviously, another monster quarter for you guys. Congrats. So my question for you is, you know, for Alex and team, what can you just walk through just the accelerated sales cycles that you're seeing from so many companies that have gone to the boot camps? Like, what surprised you from when they come to you at that first sort of, you know, contact to now actually launching deals? I mean, you know, maybe you could talk about that just in terms of everything you're seeing anecdotally.
Ryan D. Taylor: Great. Thanks, Dan. So I think we look at US Commercial. We closed $1.3 billion in TCV. At 6x on a dollar-weighted duration basis from what it was a year ago. And of those deals, 83 were worth $1 million or more, 40 were $5 million or more, 21 deals were $10 million or more. I've been involved in a lot of those directly. I'm feeling exactly what you're asking on the ground from customers. And what's happening now is from the C-suite across the company, customers are coming to us looking to not just say, let's do a use case.
The customers who are having the most impact are coming to us saying, how do we deploy this across our entire organization? How do we reorganize our entire organization around Palantir Technologies Inc. and AIP? And that's what's happening on the ground. And we're singularly focused on delivering the value to the customers, and that's our go-to-market. How do we get the product to them and deliver the product? Where Ryan is like really very much on the front line here is, you know, there's both how many customers approach you.
I think where we're seeing the biggest shift is the customers who've approached us very quickly want to move to how would I change my enterprise to express it in a way that's most valuable according to my terms in your product? And then, one in reorg, a shorthand version that we often use is you used to have to take your company private to change the unit economics of it. Basically, just like we're providing venture results, high-end venture results to normal investors in the last couple of years, what we're doing actually in enterprises is providing a private equity-like transformation in the public art markets in the public space, under the current leadership.
And that's essentially what the best and, by the way, other thing Ryan would tell you about is our newer clients have much higher expectations of us. Like, they're, like, essentially I wanna transform my business. I wanna do it in months. I wanna do it in the public eye while being in the public market, mostly not exclusively. And I want you to not only do the product side, but also tell us how would you actually implement AI foundry ontology, FD model, and our tribal knowledge to do that? And, you know, it's a completely different game.
We used to have to beg and plead to be, I thought, like, you know, when we first started talking, we were begging and pleading to be at the margin of a problem that could affect a subset of the business. By the way, Shyam, you know, I don't, it's like, unfortunately, he can only tell you 1% of what he's involved in. But this is exactly the same in the US government around the world. It's like the things that we're sitting on and working on are like crazy, crazy important, and they're not downstream of the problem. They are the problem, and we're reshaping them.
Ana Soro: Thank you both. Our next question is from Mariana with Bank of America. Mariana, please turn on your camera and then you'll receive a prompt to unmute your line.
Mariana Perez Mora: Afternoon, everyone. Hello. So I'm gonna do as usual a couple of questions, one on commercial, one on defense or government. On commercial, I'd like to follow-up to Dan's question. And let's see if you can discuss what changed from a behavioral perspective. From a customer's perspective. To see this accelerated appetite to incorporate Palantir Technologies Inc. to not only accelerating how many customers you have, but also the existing customers go to go up the value chain. And what changed internally as well? We recently saw, in a visit, these, like, AI agents or AIFDAs. Like, how are you incorporating tech internally to be able to accelerate and catch up with that demand?
And on the government side, US government up 50% plus. It's really impressive. And how do you think about opportunities like Golden Dawn going forward piling up to this?
Alexander C. Karp: Well, you guys wanna answer these questions. I think there's the external one, which is, what does it feel like? That's clearly you. The internal one is a really subtle question, and don't know. Anyone should jump in there. And then, obviously, we have Shyam opine on it.
Shyam Sankar: Yeah.
Ryan D. Taylor: Well, do you wanna start with commercial or Sure. Yeah. Think on the external, I think it's going deeper and deeper and more and more like tangible results with customers where there's a network effect incoming and like customer sharing impact we're having and direct impact we're having with customers. Customers are seeing as we it's a continuation of what we've been doing, but going deeper and deeper with the customers on that impact. And I think what we're seeing is more and more are now coming to us saying, ones that are most impactful are coming to us saying, let's do Ryan is our best at being a wonderful well, I'll just give a vulgar version here.
You know, our clients realize that choices suck. Basically. And they've tried a lot of stuff, it hasn't worked. And then we're in so many verticals. We, you know, we're per se, let's just say we're in vertical two five two. And we dominate for one customer. People see that. And then they're like, oh, well, I'll try this with some, I don't know, knockoff half fake thing. You know, it's just like, you know, and then a lot of people really still don't understand that are still trying to do this long migration where, you know, LLMs are gonna perform as if they're LLMs and ontology and as if the LLMs were not a commodity.
And then but then in the marketplace, they see the final result someone else using ontology, foundry, FDA. And now it's like, wait a minute. You know, I'm paying hundreds of millions of dollars and getting nothing. And the person down the road I kinda looked down on is way ahead of me, and their unit economics are transforming overnight. And that just shifts the whole conversation. Because then we're like, okay. Well, if you want it to work, you're gonna have to do these five things.
And these things are like, you're gonna have to talk to Ryan, and you're gonna have to, I don't know, occasionally meet with me, and you're gonna have to actually allow us to come in with engineers, and you're gonna we're gonna have to actually work on the problems that are valuable for your business and also look at the costs that are dragging you down. By the way, the cost for most businesses is not just the actual money they're wasting. That money wasted money creates an ecosystem of waste. They're talking to all these vendors all the time about all these things will never work. Instead of solving the problem.
It's like and so getting the pathogens out of their business is a real issue. And now they're really, really interested in this. And so and then on the internal front, I would say it's just we have to double down. The most important thing for us internally is with all this success we do not wanna give up the unique attributes of Palantir Technologies Inc. and somehow purchase fake ways for us that are artificial for us. And so making sure we are very, very close to the problem and making sure everyone here like, if you heard our internal dialogue, it's much more like, who's on the factory floor here? What are we doing internally?
How do we make sure our products are better and better? How do we make sure, say, Shyam, he's a savant at going around and figuring out what the underlying tech issue is, how do we make sure we have the best product team and the very, very exact right fit for every single deployment across our deployments that we care about, especially mission deployments, which we highly, highly overvalue in terms of our time and energy. And like how do you make sure Palantir Technologies Inc. stays as tribal and cultist and unique as it was twenty years ago? How do we double and triple down on that? And how do we recruit the right people?
And look, we power ICE. We power efforts to defend America and Ukraine. And with allies. We're on the frontline of all adversaries, including vis a vis China. And we support we're on we're at ICE, and we've supported Israel. Okay. These are very controversial. I don't know why this is all controversial, but many people find that controversial. Okay. So how do you align people to focus on these things in a way that is actually beneficial for us and our clients? These are really hard and tricky issues that we spend a lot of time.
I would say as an overarching thing, because what we found is the more we focus on our internal dynamics, the better our numbers are. That's why we have less salespeople and we have 77% growth in 75% of our market. 121% growth in US comp. Please tell that to some of your friends I don't even understand how they can look at these numbers and not drop the key out of their motel six and just like, say you know mean? They're, like, they're bombastic numbers. And but it's but it's like internal focus.
Shyam Sankar: I'll make the mistake of trying to follow Alex there and just say, on the internal side with AIFDE, that's why we actually originally built it. Know, we our head crown has grown roughly 10%, but revenue grew 63%. How are we doing that? You know, we've made our FTEs wildly more productive. And I mean, so much so that we decided to give it to our customers. And we've started to make our customers more productive. When you have a note like the Army Vantage note where the Army's consolidating into the Army data platform, you now have an army, literal army of green suitors who need to become proficient developers in the software.
And you have a generation of green suitors whose first interaction with the software is going to be with AIFD. Going to be superheroes on day one. I think that's it's accelerating adoption. It's accelerating understanding, like, the depth of adoption, not just are you using it, but how much of it are you really using? How much of it can you understand? And then quickly on your comment on the US government business, like, yeah, the number of opportunities out there are great.
I can't comment on all the opportunities you mentioned there, but whether it's NGC two, the continued growth of Maven, mean, we have course, America's involved with three conflicts right now in the world from Europe, the Middle East, and in our own hemisphere right now. And things are getting a little spicy in Africa. By the way, let me say something slightly political. And I'm not saying other people agree with this. But when people are attacking our soldiers, for stopping fentanyl from coming to this country, I want people to remember if fentanyl was killing 60,000 Yale grads instead of 60,000 working-class people, we'd be dropping a nuclear bomb on whoever was sending it from South America.
So I you know, it's slightly like, we in this in this at Palantir Technologies Inc., we are on the side of the American average American who sometimes gets screwed because all the empathy goes to elite people, and none of it goes to the people who are actually dying on our streets. And that's why you know, it's like when you have an open border, it means that the average poor American earns less. I know my fellow progressives believe having an open border is gonna make things, but that's because they're actually repping elite people instead of the working class.
And the same thing in South America, where it's like, you know, to believe our constitution does not give us a right to stop sixty thousand deaths a year of working-class men and women is insane. And this company, this country is right to stop that, and I am very proud. I don't know all the efforts we're involved in, but to the extent we're involved in these efforts, I and most Palantirians are very proud of this.
Ana Soro: Thank you. Alex, as always, we have a lot of individual investors on the line. Is there anything you'd like to say before we end the call?
Alexander C. Karp: We're rocking along. Please turn on the conventional television and see how unhappy those that didn't invest in us are. Enjoy, get some popcorn. They're crying. We are every day making this company better, and we're doing it for this nation, for allied countries, and also for and I never really liked the term retail investors. How about sane people who put up their own money and fight for us? And by the way, you are fighting for the right side of what should work in this country. Meritocracy, lethal technology vis a vis adversaries, products that spread GDP to working-class women and men and women by making their value creation higher, and by the way, your bank account.
And thank you for that.
Ana Soro: Thank you. That concludes Q&A for today's call.