Adam AI vs Palantir AIP
Palantir AIP is enterprise software with forward-deployed engineers and pricing to match. Adam AI brings the same ideas, ownership, positional agents and a control plane, to companies from £10m turnover, with a guarantee instead of a multi-year contract.
Ownership
Runs on hardware you own, data never leaves the building
Positional agents
Every agent holds one role with bounded access. No master agent, small blast radius
Control plane included
Registry, identity, budgets, guardrails and traces in the platform licence
Guaranteed results
It works in 90 days or you don’t pay
| What matters | Adam AI | Palantir AIP |
|---|---|---|
| Fits a mid-market budget | ✓ Bands from £36k to £150k a year, capped | ✗ Typically hundreds of thousands to millions a year |
| You own the platform | ✓ Hardware, models, memory and knowledge graph are yours | ✗ Subscription to Palantir software |
| Forward-deployed engineering | ✓ A forward-deployed engineer for the first 90 days, then remote by default | ✓ Core to the model, billed alongside the licence |
| Results guarantee | ✓ It works in 90 days or you don’t pay | ✗ Bootcamps and pilots, no guarantee |
| Time to value | ✓ Readiness in a week, first agent running at the end of it | ✓ Bootcamps get first workflows live in days |
| Ontology of the business | ✓ Second brain graph built from observed work and confirmed facts | ✓ Foundry Ontology, very mature |
| Owner, budget and stop per agent | ✓ Agent Registry with pause and quarantine | ✓ AIP agents inherit human RBAC, strong controls |
| Learns from real work | ✓ Wingman observes and maps processes before building | ◑ Built from integrated data and engineer-led discovery |
| What matters | Adam AI | Palantir AIP |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | ✓ On-premises box or private GPU in your own cloud tenancy | ✓ Multi-cloud, on-prem and air-gapped |
| Model choice | ✓ Open local models or Claude per agent | ✓ Multiple providers with no-retention terms |
| Agent architecture | ✓ Positional agents, one role each, bounded access | ✓ Agents operate under human permissions in the Ontology |
| Infrastructure hardening | ◑ Containerised stack, security updates in the licence; node cycling on the roadmap | ✓ Rubix with regular node cycling, Apollo blue/green releases |
| Evals and release gates | ✓ Shadow mode, review, approvals, rollback | ✓ AIP Evals |
| Integration surface | ✓ 1 million+ APIs and 20,000+ MCP servers via the broker | ✓ Extensive connectors and pipelines |
| Skills library | ✓ 1,000+ deployable skills | ◑ Marketplace and templates |
| Audit and cost per action | ✓ Trace per action with owner and cost | ✓ Comprehensive lineage and audit |
| Portability | ✓ Graph is plain data; move models, boxes or clouds | ✗ Deep platform dependency |
Four reasons companies pick Adam AI over Palantir AIP
Enterprise ideas at SME prices
Ownership, positional agents and a control plane for a flat banded licence, not a seven-figure contract.
You own it when you are done
Palantir rents you a platform. Adam AI leaves you with hardware, agents and a knowledge graph you control.
Guaranteed, not piloted
The first 90 days are guaranteed. If the agreed outcome is not met, you don’t pay.
Evidence first
Wingman maps the real work before anything is automated; the analyst tells you when an idea does not fit.
Straight answers
Is Adam AI really comparable to Palantir?
On architecture, yes: owned deployment, agents under bounded permissions, a control plane, forward-deployed engineering. On scale, Palantir serves governments and the largest enterprises; we serve companies from £10m turnover up.
What does Palantir do better?
Infrastructure hardening at scale, a very mature ontology, and depth of government and defence experience. We say so on this page.
How does pricing compare?
Our bands run £36k to £150k a year per deployment with unlimited users. Palantir pricing starts in the hundreds of thousands and scales into the millions.
Do we need engineers on site forever?
No. A forward-deployed engineer runs your first 90 days, then development and support continue remotely from the Control Centre under the monthly fee.
We mark Palantir AIP with a tick wherever it does the job. Details come from public documentation and pricing as of October 2026; if something has changed, tell us and we will correct it. Palantir is the benchmark for government and very large enterprise, and several of its ideas are on our roadmap.
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