Working at Palantir, I saw the same script play out over and over in enterprise IT and business teams. Mission-critical systems had become far too complex to understand. This sometimes led to catastrophic failures.
A defence manufacturer needed to ramp up production to support Ukraine. But they couldn’t.
Their enterprise systems were so snarled in decades of SAP customizations that even this mission-critical wartime project was blocked by a three-year implementation backlog.
If national security can be held hostage by old enterprise code, you know something is broken.
It doesn't stop at defense. Across industries, enterprises are quietly bleeding billions because their systems are too complex to understand. CEOs tell me 3–4% of revenue disappears into system maintenance. That’s not growth. That’s a tax on innovation.
The opportunity goes far beyond just SAP. Every major enterprise system, from Oracle to Salesforce to Blue Yonder, suffers from the same issue: decades of code have become black boxes. Business logic is scattered, knowledge is siloed, and IT is forced into the role of translator rather than innovator.
That’s why we built Conduct.
We call it Enterprise System Intelligence. For the first time, enterprises can understand how their systems actually work, in plain language and directly from their own code. Not a consultancy report. Not outdated documentation. A living, always-live view that gives both IT and business teams the same map of reality.
The implications are huge. It means migrations that once took years can take months. It means everyday change requests can be delivered in minutes instead of weeks. It means IT is no longer a blocker, but the engine of growth.
And this is only the beginning. Today, we’re starting with SAP: it's the backbone of 90% of the Fortune 500. But the vision is broader. From HR to supply chain to finance, Conduct will be the single source of truth for how companies actually operate.
When you can see your systems clearly, you can act decisively.
Decisions get faster, migrations get safer, innovation gets bolder.
And that’s not just an IT upgrade: it’s a shift in how the global economy runs.
So now, to deliver. Conduct is live, and we're ready to partner with even more strident businesses and fantastic future colleagues to make that shift happen.
Written by Jan Philipp Haas
JP is the CEO and Co-Founder of Conduct