Operations Decision Tracker
AI-powered decision tracking for E&P operators. Find any decision in 60 seconds, not 2 days.
These are the problems we hear from every operator we talk to.
The email is somewhere. The person who remembers is somewhere else. The formal documentation says what happened but not why.
Why do you run ESPs on the Reeves County wells? Why 660-ft spacing on the Wolfcamp A pads? Nobody wrote it down because nobody asked — until now.
One team reduced cluster spacing based on fiber data. The neighboring team used the old design three months later. The information was there. Nobody connected the dots.
$500K/hr
Cost of unplanned downtime in upstream oil and gas
75–90%
Of operational knowledge lives exclusively in people's heads
30+ min
Average time to find a single document in SharePoint
$55,764/day
Maximum BSEE civil penalty per violation
$149M/yr
Average downtime losses per upstream facility
231K yrs
Of cumulative industry experience already lost to retirement
Four capabilities that transform how your team captures, retrieves, and acts on operational decisions.
Extracts operational decisions from Teams meetings, email threads, and Slack channels. No forms. No manual entry. Your team works exactly the way they already work.
Ask in plain English: "Why did we change the mud weight on Well 47?" Get the answer in seconds — who decided, when, why, what data informed the choice, and what alternatives were considered.
The system compares decisions across time and across teams. When a March decision contradicts a January decision on the same topic, it surfaces the inconsistency before it becomes a production problem.
One click produces a complete decision chain for any well, pad, or operational topic — timestamped, attributed, with source references. Hand it to the auditor. Done.
We integrate with Microsoft Teams, Slack, Outlook, and meeting recording platforms your team already uses. No new tools to adopt.
Our extraction engine identifies operational decisions in your team's natural communication — mud weight changes, spacing selections, artificial lift choices, shutdown decisions, and MOC approvals.
Type a question. Get an answer. "Who approved the ESP replacement on Pad 12?" "What was the rationale for switching to hybrid frac?"
Deploy on one asset team. Prove the value. Then decide whether to expand.
3-Month Pilot
$35,000 – $50,000
One asset team. Full deployment. Prove the value.
Ongoing after pilot: $8,000 – $15,000/month depending on team size and data volume.
Book a Discovery Call →Why a pilot? Because operators are rightfully skeptical of technology promises. We deploy on one asset team for three months. You see the results on your own data. Then you decide.
Existing tools solve adjacent problems. None of them capture decisions from communication automatically.
| Tool | What It Does | What It Cannot Do |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint | Stores files someone manually created | Find a decision in under 30 minutes. Capture anything automatically. |
| Cognite Data Fusion | Integrates sensor and operational data | Capture why a human made a decision. Their own docs acknowledge this gap. |
| Palantir Foundry | Tracks decisions with audit trails | Cost less than $5M/year. Work without dedicated Palantir engineers. |
| OpenWells | Records well-level lessons learned | Capture cross-functional decisions. Work without manual entry. |
| Sphera / Enablon | Automates MOC workflow and forms | Capture the 95% of daily decisions that never trigger a formal MOC. |
The Operations Decision Tracker captures decisions from communication that already exists.
Zero manual entry. Zero behavior change.
Over a decade of experience building AI and data science solutions for upstream oil and gas operations. Groundwork Analytics has worked with operators managing hundreds to thousands of wells across the Permian, Eagle Ford, and other major U.S. basins.
We deploy on your infrastructure or in your private cloud environment. Decision data does not leave your network. No shared multi-tenant databases. No third-party data access.
This is not a $5M platform designed for supermajors and adapted for smaller companies. It is purpose-built for the 200-to-5,000 well operator who needs decision tracking without enterprise complexity or enterprise pricing.
The best way to evaluate is to see it working on your team's actual communication.
We will discuss your current decision tracking gaps, walk through how the system works, and determine whether a pilot makes sense for your team.