Yes but if you don't have enough budget to pay for their engineering time, they also provide good UI to do data science. It's like a fancier version of Excel for data wrangling: imagine Excel but your data is not necessarily tabular; it may be a graph; it may contain images and multimedia, etc.

I once interviewed at Palantir and at the same they gave a demo of their software to every candidate.

yes, and they also make user interfaces for killing people

Closer to outsourced data engineering

A bunch of dash boards, tools and ingestion yes.

Worked for a similar company with similar clients at the time. Making the data usefull in innovative ways was a big part of it so in a way sure part of it data science related. At the same time I’d say it’s broader than that.