In the first 12 hours of the Iran war, the US struck nearly 900 targets. Over 13,000 in 38 days. The software making that possible is called Maven Smart System — and almost every layer of it maps to capabilities you can build with off-the-shelf tools. I take it apart end-to-end: the OODA loop it was built to compress, the sensor stack feeding it, the Anthropic standoff over Claude inside the classified system, and the speed-accuracy tradeoff nobody in the Pentagon wants to answer for. Then I show you the civilian roadmap I’m building. Chapters: 0:00 What the Heck Does Palantir Actually Do? 1:08 The OODA Loop, Compressed 1:35 How the Pentagon Picked Targets in Microsoft Office 2:11 Inside the Maven Smart System Demo 4:21 Claude Is Inside Maven (And Anthropic Is Pushing Back) 5:32 What Maven Can Actually See 8:38 Geolocating Shadow Fleets via Candy Crush 10:00 Orient, Decide, Act at War: E

Source: Palantir’s Al Targeting System Running the Iran War