Founder @ Athena Intelligence // 24/7 Enterprise AI Analyst | Previously Palantir, Scale AI
New York, USA
Joined October 2020
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Introducing Athena, the industry's first Enterprise AI Data Analyst, from the team at Athena Intelligence.
The team put together a short video showcasing Athena as an autonomous agent (skip to 8:00 to watch the entire workflow in under a minute).
Brendon Geils retweeted
Software as a Service gave you a tool. Service as Software gives you a worker.
Same acronym. Completely different model.
Read the full blog post by @aldrinjenson — blog.athenaintel.com/the-nex…
Brendon Geils retweeted
Do you own your AI capabilities, or rent them?
The answer will define the next competitive divide.
Our new series on Onshoring AI starts here →
blog.athenaintel.com/soverei…
Using @AthenaIntell to cancel memberships which we don't use anymore! Beats having to wait ~15 mins for vendors who don't let us immediately cancel memberships.
Started this workflow on mobile and finished it on desktop too!
where’s waldo @AthenaIntell edition
"Data isn't fading; it's been promoted to AI's control surface."
As "data infrastructure and AI infrastructure are collapsing into one plane," my man @mattturck points out that "what looked like 'app glue' in 2024 now resembles a platform tier with its own SLAs and procurement line."
"The agentic stack becomes an infrastructure layer."
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking this is technical architecture stuff only.
This is about rewriting procurement, vendor strategy and building competitive advantage by enabling advanced technologies to augment human workflows.
Giving us superpowers.
While "enterprise deployments move slower than cool demos on social media," the implementations are real and accelerating.
When "intelligence becomes infrastructure" and the "next wave turns into compounding progress that lifts whole industries," it begs one critical question….
Will you be surfing or on the beach watching others catch the wave?
Link below to Matt's must-read "market map + 25 crisp ideas for an over-heated, heads-down year in AI & data" including the excerpts above.
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Brendon Geils retweeted
Hey @OpenAI :) We just saw that you are using our open source library React Flow 🔥 We offer startup discount codes :) Let us know if you are interested 👀
ALT screenshot of open ai agent builder
Inbox is rolling out now for users! One place to tasks and conversations with @AthenaIntell. Start a task over SMS or Email and finish it in application with a unified view. One step closer to the always-on and readily-available digital coworker dream.
A badge of honor to have Soham in our recruiting queue. Mildly surprised this guy is still putting out feelers as he is going viral for working 10+ jobs at the same time. This was from ~10 mins ago!
Brendon Geils retweeted
generative AI for deepfakes is the biggest attack vector for society.
call someone, spend 5 mins asking them questions, record it, train a voice model to sound like then - "oh i i'm stranded and need 10k in bitcoin"
models vs models:
mixpeek.com/extractors/facef…
what's the website builder of choice in June 2025? Framer, Webflow, Figma Sites...? i'm willing to pay higher upfront costs to get a great template that our team can extend. ideally some integrated vibe coding equivalent so we can prototype new concepts quickly too!
Brendon Geils retweeted
Built a super simple Athena Flow that runs on a schedule.
Every morning, I get an email about the weather -
if it’ll rain and whether I need an umbrella.
All it took was 4 lines of English and an api key. That’s it(!)
Brendon Geils retweeted
weirdly enough, today, you’re the worst version of yourself you’ll ever be.
as tools sharpen, as models evolve, as ai wraps itself tighter around your workflows, your thoughts, your execution, your life, your entire being levels up.
this is the compounding loop jobs hinted at with “bicycle for the mind.” except now it’s not a bike. it’s a fucking jet engine.
wrote a quick post on it.
Brendon Geils retweeted
A third of @PalantirTech's PMs go on to start their own company, and their alumni have gone on to start nine unicorns—the highest rate of any company in the world other than PayPal.
I spoke with @nabeelqu to understand why.
Nabeel spent nearly eight years at Palantir, working as a forward-deployed engineer. His work at Palantir ranged from accelerating the COVID-19 response to applying AI to drug discovery to optimizing aircraft manufacturing at Airbus. He's also a founder, writer, researcher, and visiting scholar of AI policy at the Mercatus Center (alongside @TylerCowen).
In our conversation, we discuss:
🔸 How the “forward-deployed engineer” model works and why it creates exceptional product leaders
🔸 How Palantir transformed from a “sparkling Accenture” into a $200 billion data/software platform company with more than 80% margins
🔸 The unconventional hiring approach that screens for independent-minded, intellectually curious, and highly competitive people
🔸 Why the company intentionally avoids traditional titles and career ladders—and what they do instead
🔸 Why they built an ontology-first data platform that LLMs love
🔸 How Palantir’s controversial “bat signal” recruiting strategy filtered for specific talent types
🔸 The moral case for working at a company like Palantir
🔸 Much more
Listen now 👇
• YouTube: youtu.be/xQkSenlJvwA
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5sn…
• Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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no worries, we have a workaround. hopefully @AthenaIntell is ok using a few tokens for weekend personal use
