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Palantir
Palantir
Palantir
Terminal Use
ActiveVercel for background agents
Winter 2026Founded 20264 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Agent Orchestration InfraSaaSAI engineers, agent developersLow competition
Moat
CLI-first design + filesystem integration for agents; positioning as 'Vercel for agents' captures workflow demand.
Key risk
Nascent market; competing definitions of 'agent orchestration'; risk that agents don't need specialized infra.
Why now
Agent adoption explosion; developers need orchestration, observability, and deployment tools; market emerging.
Competitors
Emerging space, early-stage competitors
About
Terminal Use is an orchestration platform for background agents. Purpose-built for agents that use filesystems. Our platform is CLI-first, making it easy for your coding agents to experiment and continuously improve your deployed agents.
Founders · 3
Vivek RajaFounder
Previously led technical delivery of one of the largest agents use case at Palantir
Filip BaluchaFounder
Enabling long-running background agents. Previously Ontology @ Palantir.
Stavros FilosidisFounder
Building the missing infrastructure for deploying agents. Previously worked on coding infrastructure at Palantir.
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