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Oil & Gas · Workshop
How an oil and gas leadership team went from skeptics to a funded AI pilot plan in one day
A full-day Fort Worth workshop moved a 15-person leadership team from "AI is for tech companies" to a ranked list of real pilots they could fund next quarter.
The problem
A Fort Worth oil and gas firm had 15 to 20 executives across Land, Minerals, Operations, and Marketing. They wanted to know where AI could help and where to start. Their pain was real: lease documents read by hand, plant statements reconciled manually, contract review done by expensive people, well inventory updated one row at a time.
What we built
- Executives saw AI work on their own data, not a generic demo. The briefing opened with AI reading a 40-page lease in real time, pulling NRI percentages, and flagging a mismatch against the Division Order. What a landman used to spend two days on, done in minutes.
- Finance teams saw what AI catches that a human auditor would miss. The AI scanned six months of operator statements and flagged over-billings and missing credits in minutes. Before AI, you needed a pre-built rule for every anomaly. AI just notices.
- Operations saw a day of monthly reconciliation work collapse into minutes. The model read a multi-page plant settlement, matched line items to internal records, and produced a variance report.
- Every department left knowing exactly where to start. Each team mapped its wish list onto three tiers: person plus AI, AI in a defined workflow, or AI running the loop. That framing prevents investing in the wrong tier.
- The firm left with a funded pilot plan, not just a list of ideas. Opportunities were ranked by leverage and ease of implementation.