Murdoch Murchison

FDE at @collide_ai. I build production AI for document-heavy work. 20 years in oil & gas. 7th gen Texan, family ranch steward.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

Everyone wants to deploy AI agents in oil and gas.

Almost nobody does the boring part first.

12,000 land and title docs. Scanned, handwritten, never linked.

We turned them into one graph:
- every well tied to its lease
- every lease tied to its tracts
- every answer traced back to the page it came from

The trick is you solve the data problem before the agent ever touches it.

Agents are easy. Trust is the hard part. https://t.co/NodvLoW9mm

[Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ @FracSlap]

This is what the knowledge graph looks like on 12,000 land and title documents for one of our oil and gas clients.

Have to solve the data problem in oil and gas before you can deploy agents.

This E&P is on their way to becoming AI-native.

[⚡️John Kalfayan⚡️ @jakalfayan]

@collide_ai @aidriller https://t.co/tAc5ldaqUV

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@FracSlap Good thing this flight from Hobby to Midland is Emirates.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@mardehaym The first thing that breaks usually isn't attention. It's who got the job.

On a lot of real deployments the reviewer is whoever had time, not the person who'd recognize a wrong answer.

Staring harder doesn't help if you don't know what wrong looks like.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@JSON_JEFF 😦

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@JSON_JEFF Screenshots or it didn’t happen

[Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ @FracSlap]

If you are at the BBQ in Midland there is an afterparty with our friends AI Driller and Sabata and some of our team.

Go hang out!

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@DryHoleCo @zacurate This is why @michaelcortez78 has me convinced I need a robotaxi.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@FracSlap Every agent a company plugs in is a new user with access to everything it's connected to.

Most operators can tell you who has SCADA access. I’d bet almost none can tell you what their agents can read, write, or send.

That's the cyber gap that's about to open.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@emollick Last week I traced a mineral interest back to an 1892 patent.

The Special Century's paperwork is still live. Who gets paid on a well today depends on deeds signed over a century ago.

AI's plumbing moment might be boring: finally reading the records nobody could afford to read.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@eric_seufert Stage 3 lives or dies on who writes the eval.

An engineer can tell you the cheap model's answers look the same. Only someone who's done the work knows the one it missed was critical.

Downgrade without them and you're saving tokens on mistakes you can't see yet.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@swyx Same thing one level up.

An FDE's field notes are the company's scratchpad. Every weird doc type. Every "when they say X they mean Y."

If those notes never make it back into the product, you didn't build a product. You built a services firm with a nice notebook.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@ScriptedAlchemy Hang on, can we sell T3 forks? @theo is this frowned upon?

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@turkonthelurk @wilddoggeroil @nimblephatty

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

Last week I ran a mineral interest back to patent (1892), then shipped the code that does it for the next ten thousand.

Landman by trade. Builder by nature.

Almost like the two paths collided.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@nick96smart @FracSlap @heysamtexas If you don’t present this at show and tell I’m not coming

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@FracSlap @RealPETE2020 Y’all haven’t seen The Covenant? Homie walked all through there pulling ol buddy in a goat cart.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@wtxoil @LandmanLife @NewsFinOil @Tejanobrown @wtx_jayhawk @jakalfayan

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@wilddoggeroil @turkonthelurk @nimblephatty Yeah I’ve had a lot of convos with people in AI that can’t fathom the idea that thousands of pertinent documents only exist in a bankers box in the basement of a courthouse annex. And nowhere else.

Maybe Elon will give us an Optimus to train on going to get them for us.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

@LandmanLife @NewsFinOil @Tejanobrown @wtxoil @wtx_jayhawk Thought you might be around for the DEP BBQ. @jakalfayan said he might have some tricks up his sleeve.