The Architect Autopsy: Network Map
The Thiel network, AI companies, and the compliance architecture. Hover any node for sourced detail
Origin (Thiel)
Ideology / capital / surveillance
Political placements
AI companies
OpenAI inner circle
Federal infrastructure
Cross-platform capital
Compliance instrument
Peter Thiel
$27.5B. Ideological architect
Curtis Yarvin
Neoreactionary theorist
Founders Fund
$17B VC. 47 unicorns
Palantir
Surveillance. $287M ICE contract
JD Vance
VP. $15M from Thiel
David Sacks
AI Czar. 449 AI bets
Michael Kratsios
OSTP. Ex Thiel Capital
Roelof Botha
Sequoia. All 3 AI giants
OpenAI
FF in $8.3B round
xAI
Musk. FF exposure
Anduril
$1B FF investment
Anthropic
$30B Series G. FF led
Paul Nakasone
OpenAI board. Ex NSA
chairs Safety & Security
Sam Altman
CEO. Thiel mentee
$1M Trump inaugural
Greg Brockman
$25M to MAGA Inc
$75M+ total to PACs
Kevin Weil
CPO. Sworn in as US Army Lt. Colonel June 2025.
sworn in June 2025
G. Barbaccia
Federal CIO
ex Palantir
Clark Minor
HHS CIO
Palantir engineer 13 yrs
Colin Carroll
DoD Chief of Staff
ex Anduril
Emil Michael
Pentagon CTO
ex Uber
The White House
Vance + Sacks + Kratsios installed
EO 14319 + OMB M-26-04
Sacks + Kratsios authored. Deadline: March 11 2026