Chipotle is piloting a Palantir-built Food Safety Risk Management Platform designed to centralize food-safety risk assessments across its restaurants. Built on Foundry (Palantir's data-integration software), the platform reportedly combines health department inspection scores, pest sightings and employee illness reports to assign each restaurant a risk score. Chipotle chief corporate affairs and food safety officer Laurie Schalow said the system is intended to provide a more consistent and centralized view of risk, but did not disclose its launch date, the number of participating stores, whether consumer data is used, or whether customers will see the scores. The project also highlights Palantir's origins: the company was co-founded by Peter Thiel in 2003, received its first major funding from In-Q-Tel (the CIA's venture capital arm) in 2005, and still generates nearly half its revenue from federal contracts. Its government work includes a $175 million Army contract for an AI targeting system and ImmigrationOS, a tool used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to track and deport people. Palantir has also worked with Tyson, General Mills and Wendy's on food-inventory tracking. A 2021 software glitch reportedly allowed unauthorized FBI staff to access a jailed Ethereum researcher's private Twitter and Facebook data for more than a year. Chipotle has not said whether employees can be individually identified, whether illness records are anonymized, or how restaurants would respond to poor scores.