About Us
We are a small firm. That is the point.
Built by someone who has done the work. Guided by someone who will tell you the truth.
Daniel came up through civil engineering and construction, where he developed a grounded sense of how operations actually run and what it takes to build something that holds up. He joined Palantir as a Deployment Strategist, embedded with clients scoping and shipping Foundry workflows in real production environments. He has seen what good implementations look like. He has seen what expensive, slide-heavy ones look like too.
He started DWJC because he wanted to be the firm he wished existed when he was sitting on the other side of the table. Not the one that shows up with a proposal that says yes to everything. The one that tells you honestly whether what you're trying to build will actually work, whether Foundry is the right tool for it, and whether the ROI is there before you spend a dollar.
"The easiest thing in this business is to take the project, nod along, and bill hours. That is not what we are here for."
Daniel Cubellis, FounderGenuineness is not a differentiator for us. It is a baseline. If we think something won't work, we'll say so. If the problem you're describing doesn't need Foundry to solve it, we'll tell you that too. We would rather walk away from a project than take your money for something that won't move the needle.
That honesty is also why our engagements tend to go well. Clients know what they're getting into. We know what we're building. And everyone is working toward the same thing: software that ships, works, and your team can run without us.
We will tell you no if no is the right answer.
Most firms are incentivized to say yes. Yes to the scope, yes to the timeline, yes to the budget. We are not most firms.
If you come to us with a project that does not make sense, rebuilding a complex specialized system just to have it on a new platform, for instance, we will tell you. Not to be difficult, but because your time and money are worth more than a project that looks good on paper and falls apart in production.
We turn down work that isn't right for us. We turn down work that isn't right for you. The two tend to overlap more than you'd think.
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ROI before features
We scope every engagement around what will actually move the needle. If we cannot articulate why this will pay off, we will not pitch it.
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Honest scoping, every time
We will tell you what the build actually involves before we start. No surprises halfway through because the scope was padded to win the project.
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We work toward the exit
Every engagement is built with handoff in mind. The goal is your team running it without us, not a dependency that keeps the invoices coming.
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No juniors learning on your time
Every person who touches your project has shipped Foundry in production. We do not staff engagements with people who are figuring it out as they go.
A small team that knows what it is doing.
DWJC is led by Daniel and supported by a team of experienced Palantir engineers we bring in based on what the work calls for. Everyone who touches a project has been on Foundry in production environments. The team is small by design.
We are not trying to scale to hundreds of consultants. We are trying to do a small number of engagements exceptionally well, with people who have done this before and know where the hard parts are.
Every engineer on our team has hands-on Foundry experience in real production environments. Not certifications, not courses.
We bring in the people the project actually needs, not a bench of consultants billing time while they get up to speed.
No account managers between you and the engineers. The person in the meeting is the person building it.