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Welcome to Chuck Yates Got A Job with Chuck Yates. You've now found your dysfunctional life coach, the Investor Formerly known as Prominent Businessman Chuck Yates. What's not to learn from the self-proclaimed Galactic Viceroy, who was publicly canned from a prominent private equity firm, has had enough therapy to quote Brene Brown chapter and verse and spends most days embarrassing himself on Energy Finance Twitter as @Nimblephatty.

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#254
September 4 · 25 min
I Started an AI Company in My 50s. Here’s What I Learned | Chuck Yates Keynote
Five lessons pulled from a junior high dance floor, a Wall Street Journal firing, and a weekend in Battle Creek learning to code. Chuck Yates, co-founder of Collide, takes the Ion stage and argues that energy's AI problem was never the tech. It is permission, labels, and an industry that named its flagship product West Texas Intermediate. Plus a serious ask about being better people on the way there. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 End of the world as we know it 03:00 Bobby Joe and the 1982 church dance 07:46 Labels matter 11:54 Why energy is bad at marketing 14:41 Building distribution before a product 16:22 The clock reset 18:58 James Broach 21:18 A weekend of Claude code and David Lee Roth 23:48 Houston, freaking Texas https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#253
August 28 · 1 hr 1 min
A 50-Year-Old Pipe Support Company Where 100 Employees Now Build Their Own AI Agents
A garage full of Ethereum rigs once set a house on fire, and that was only the warmup. Rakesh Agrawal and Lloyd Kirchner run Piping Technology & Products, a 50 year old Houston manufacturer where 100 employees now build their own AI agents and a welding cobot just got unveiled to 450 people on the shop floor. Cut cables in West Texas, new collar jobs, Pope Leo, and why the guy with the pickup truck had every reason to be nervous. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 The house fire 05:07 A cryptic DM about dad's company 06:15 What Piping Technology makes 09:56 Family business and the second chair 12:43 Every tech wave since dial up 17:02 Getting AI to actually spread 20:14 The guy who cut the cables 24:04 Unveiling a welding cobot 26:16 Pope Leo and new collar work 35:32 Agents on the quoting desk 42:22 The CIO problem 44:22 Letting Claude psychoanalyze you 49:04 Guardrails and permissions 53:11 Five years out 57:56 Intention and action https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#252
August 17 · 51 min
Silicon Valley and Oil and Gas Are Playing the Same Game
Houston has always run on optimism, spending everything to drill a hole where nobody has drilled before and then finding out what came back. Leon Coe, founder of Amplify Intelligence and the Houston AI Club, thinks that same instinct is exactly what AI needs. He and Chuck get into why executives cannot delegate this one, why augmentation beats automation, and why your own level of ambition is a hard ceiling on what the models will ever hand back. https://www.meetup.com/houston-ai-club/events/316056350/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 The perfect podcast length 02:03 What executive AI coaching actually is 04:48 Building the Houston AI Club 08:50 Why Houston is wired for AI 14:29 Augmentation, not automation 18:29 Talking to AI instead of typing at it 22:41 Cost savings versus new revenue 24:37 The real prize in oil and gas 27:54 What executives are actually asking 31:52 Banned in 2024, bought in 2025 33:31 Why you cannot delegate this one 38:51 The Burton McMurtry card story 40:32 Ambition as a technical limiter 44:08 AI as a thought partner 48:23 The September 3rd operator spotlight 50:24 Where to find Leon https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#251
July 10 · 45 min
Why Oil Companies Leave So Much Money Downhole
Everybody chases the drill bit, but the real money can hide in wells that have produced for years. D.J. Snyder left drilling and completions to chase what nobody wanted to touch: production. His company Vannevar builds downhole tools that squeeze more oil out of wells already in the ground, using a marginal gains mindset borrowed from F1 and the Tour de France. Chuck gets into frac plugs, pumper routes, why nobody shuts in a well to fix it, and how AI could give operators one source of truth. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Meet D.J. Snyder 01:05 From drilling to the overlooked world of production 02:47 Old tech, new problems: gas, sand, and horizontal wells 06:24 Physical widgets and the marginal gains mindset 08:32 Why there's no one size fits all 13:00 Heresy: actually watch and fix your wells 16:57 The AI promise of one source of truth 18:43 Rethinking the pumper's daily route 22:57 War stories, the Bakken, and naming tools 25:18 ROI, payback, and how you really sell it 28:25 Who to call, what it costs, and building a company 36:03 How AI reshapes the work itself 38:16 Robots, drones, and the future of the field 40:14 Why boards say yes and value beats cheap 44:53 Wrap up and where to find DJ https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#250
June 30 · 50 min
The Best Oil Investment Most People Don’t Understand
You can own the dirt under someone's ranch without ever setting foot on it and still collect a check every month while an oil company does all the work. Karl Brensike of Harvest Mineral & Royalty Partners calls minerals the single greatest asset class on the planet, and he makes a pretty convincing case for it. Chuck digs into how regular folks can finally get a piece, why people really decide to sell, and the apple pie scheme that squeezed a million bucks out of Chevron. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Mineral versus royalty, explained for mom 1:23 - Why US mineral ownership is uniquely American 4:28 - The first oil lease and the Far and Away land rush 8:11 - Splitting estates and why mineral owners keep multiplying 9:25 - Karl and Chuck's history and the 2014 Thanksgiving crash 10:43 - Why people actually decide to sell 11:55 - The early days of investing in minerals 14:46 - The Caritas run and the perfectly timed 2008 hedges 22:17 - Buying ahead of the drill bit with Haymaker 23:33 - Why everyone should own some as an energy hedge 26:08 - The four kinds of buyers and the grassroots game 27:22 - The thesis behind Harvest 44:46 - Crazy mineral stories from the field 48:09 - The Toby Bean apple pie story https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#249
June 25 · 50 min
The Stablecoin Backed by Real Barrels of Oil
What if you could stash a barrel of oil in a digital bank account and drop it in your kid's Christmas stocking? That's the wild idea Wil Harris of Energy Substantiation is chasing, building the stablecoin of oil. He breaks down how WTI coins work, why nobody had ever banked a barrel before, and Chuck puts on his critical investor hat to try and blow the whole thing up. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - The barrel of oil coin on Chuck's dresser 2:08 - How Wil ended up bridging crypto and oil 4:03 - What a stablecoin actually is, explained for mom 10:05 - The minus 37 dollar day, USO, and True Tracker 12:21 - Banking a barrel: minting, redeeming, the bank of oil 19:25 - Critical investor mode: what protects your money 24:08 - Credit reviews, unencumbered barrels, and ABLs 28:50 - The reverse Dutch auction and the trading platform 32:16 - A brand new form of capital for producers 36:06 - Crypto adoption, 700 million accounts, and the Yeezys story 38:34 - Selling the company, line fill, and credit over time 45:59 - Who they want to hear from and WTI as the world standard 48:34 - Still early days and how to reach them https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#248
June 2 · 27 min
The Candy Crush Guy Now Secures Oil and Gas AI
Running data security for Candy Crush during a pandemic turns out to be solid training for almost anything, and Sam Texas brought that hard earned paranoia to Collide. From flipping thrift store suits on eBay to keeping the world's biggest mobile game alive from Sweden, his road to oil and gas was anything but typical. He breaks down defense in depth, SOC2, and why locking down AI inside a company becomes its own arms race once the machines start fighting the machines. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 The Candy Crush guy comes to Houston 02:07 eBay suits, semiconductors, and a detour to Sweden 04:50 How a LinkedIn DM turned into Collide 07:13 Going all in on Claude and chasing SOC2 09:40 Security explained, Fort Knox style 12:42 What's set in stone, what's in flux 14:29 The AI versus AI arms race 15:04 The Mythos model and real reasons to pay attention 16:32 Big brother advice for adopting AI safely 20:00 Data exfiltration and what keeps him up at night 22:30 The next 30 to 60 days at Collide 24:39 Securing the bleeding edge for an industry that skipped SaaS https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#247
May 19 · 53 min
Can AI Predict the Next Oilfield Disaster?
Cority has been quietly building environmental, health, and safety software for forty years, and Amanda Smith runs the strategy keeping up with AI that changes every six months. She and Chuck get into why a system of record beats raw AI on life or death calls, how a 600 page permit went from months to minutes, the stat that 95 percent of employees are already using shadow AI, and the PDF problem that has every energy company stuck. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 The Cority story and 40 years in EHS software 2:30 How the software shows up on a rig and in the office 5:45 The SaaS apocalypse question and why context beats raw AI 9:30 Amanda's family mining history and why this work is personal 11:00 Recruiting AI talent to Houston and the six month change cycle 15:00 Shiny objects versus solving real problems 18:00 Auditability, HIPAA, and the black box problem 19:30 Where Collide is heading as an operating system 23:00 Employee resistance and the friction point playbook 27:30 Six hundred page permits, 3000 filings, zero mistakes 30:00 Agentic workflows as the new source of record 34:30 Correlation, causation, and the shale revolution lesson 37:30 The PDF problem and using 2 percent of energy data 41:30 Learning to drive as the AI adoption analogy 43:00 What we are not talking about today that we will be in five years 48:30 Ninety-five percent of employees are using shadow AI https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#246
March 18 · 20 min
90% of the Oil Is Still in the Ground. This Is the Technology Built to Get It.
Jon Slominski, Founding AI Engineer at Collide, sits down with Chuck to break down what it actually takes to build AI that works inside a real oil and gas enterprise. From agent hierarchies that read and write across legacy systems, to a mapping interface that lets you chat your GIS data into shape, Jon shares what he's building, what wakes him up at 4am, and why the biggest unlock might still be the 90% of oil we haven't touched yet. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Intro and Jon's background 1:30 - How Collide has evolved since Jon joined 4:00 - Agent hierarchy explained 6:10 - The hard part: taking AI from POC to production 9:30 - Auditable search and why citations matter 10:00 - What Jon is most proud of 11:20 - The mapping interface coming to Collide 13:50 - What keeps Jon up at night 16:50 - Using AI to unlock the 90% of oil still in the ground https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#245
March 11 · 18 min
The Unsolved Problem Hiding Inside Every Oil and Gas Deal
Most energy companies buying billion dollar assets get handed a stack of hard drives and have zero clue what's on them. Clay Branch, Technical Staff at Collide, joins Chuck to break down the unglamorous but absolutely critical work of document categorization, data extraction, and why clean reliable data is the real foundation of any AI strategy in oil and gas. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Clay's background and how he ended up at Collide 1:34 The reality of energy data: hard drives, banker's boxes, and chaos 4:47 Building document categorization tools from scratch 8:52 Handling duplicates and the shared drive problem 13:57 Why data reliability is the foundation of AI 17:21 The last mile: getting from 80% to 100% accuracy https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
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#244
February 25 · 38 min
TCU Sent College Kids Into the Permian Basin. Here's What Happened.
TCU's energy internship program is back for round two and the results are kind of wild. What started as a summer experiment with business students who knew zero about oil and gas turned into kids giving no-notes presentations on legacy well economics in just ten weeks. Nikki Morris, Executive Director of TCU's Ralph Lowe Energy Institute, and Ryan Haggerty, Owner at RHR Oil and Gas, break down the field trips from Diamondback frac sites to 70 year old vertical wells, how AI is changing the game for young talent but still can't replace the crusty old timer making the final call, and why the industry's biggest problem with 150,000 orphan wells in Texas might need a proactive solution before Washington forces one. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Intro and field trip recap from Riot's bitcoin mining site to Corsicana 2:45 First impressions of the oilfield and the stiletto boots story 5:22 How students connected the dots seeing wells in person 8:21 Why basic energy education is missing from schools 10:30 Overview of TCU's energy programs and student workers 13:00 How Ryan and Nikki connected through the Fort Worth chamber 17:32 AI vs tribal knowledge and the great crew change debate 19:07 The HEB data scientist story that shocked an operator 21:48 Ryan's legacy well project and what the students discovered 25:14 The pyramid of problem solving and where AI fits 28:40 What's next for the students and the upcoming TCU Energy Symposium 30:52 Nuclear energy gaining traction with SMRs and molten salt reactors 34:02 The orphan well crisis and incentivizing proactive plugging 37:28 Where to find Ryan and Nikki https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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#242
January 28 · 6 min
Why Every Oil & Gas Company Is Getting AI Strategy Wrong (And How to Fix It)
Most companies talk about AI strategy but freeze when it's time to actually implement. Collin McLelland shares how one E&P CEO cut through the noise by focusing on small, tangible wins—like automating regulatory filings that saved 1200 engineering hours. The real insight? Stop chasing sexy AI projects and start with workflows that deliver immediate ROI. Once teams see quick wins, adoption spreads fast and sophistication builds naturally. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - The AI strategy question every executive is asking 00:45 - Why big companies struggle to start with AI 01:39 - Start small: the $1M savings approach 02:20 - Real example: automating regulatory filings saves 1200 hours 02:39 - Why companies chase sexy AI projects instead of practical wins 03:07 - How sophistication builds through successive applications 03:58 - Reimagining workflows: focus on outputs, not processes 04:58 - The foundation: get your data house in order first 05:50 - Pattern recognition: where the real home runs happen https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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#239
Dec 23, 2025 · 42 min
2025 Community Year In Review: How Collide Evolved This Year (And What's Next)
Collide basically did its own Spotify Wrapped and the punchline is simple: the community doubled, the conversations got more technical, and the team got way clearer on what Collide is now and where it’s headed. Crystal, Todd, Jacob, and Sydney walk through 2025 stats, why events evolved, how Energy 101 came back, what university partnerships unlocked, why Collider AI took a pause, and the platform upgrades and community goals lined up for 2026. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Collide Wrapped setup 00:24 Why an energy specific platform works 01:29 LinkedIn fatigue and the Collide vision 02:55 Community calls and Power Hours 03:33 Member growth stats 04:26 2025 output highlights 05:04 Events evolved and ETN sunset 09:38 What members missed most 10:28 Energy 101 comeback 13:24 University partnerships 18:56 Student field trip recap 21:49 Talent pipeline and students 25:24 Collider AI update 29:31 Gamification and Dog House 33:02 Platform UX roadmap 33:48 2026 goals and favorite moments 42:02 Wrap and thanks https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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#240
Dec 23, 2025 · 48 min
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1: Why Forward Deployed Engineers Ship When AI Pilots Fail
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1 turns into a real talk on why forward deployed engineers win where AI pilots stall, with Michael Cortez, John, and Nick Smart swapping war stories from completions, geophysics, and the startup trenches while they map out how Collide Enterprise moves past basic chat tools into search plus workflows that actually hold up in the real world. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Setup and intros 00:45 Michael’s path and joining Collide 01:59 Nick’s background and role shift 03:08 Collide Enterprise vs community 04:16 Search, RAG, and workflow evolution 06:31 Why out of the box AI falls short 08:41 Time savings and real work focus 11:39 Single source of truth vision 13:16 Small teams scaling bigger assets 17:18 AI adoption vs past tech hype 19:26 Digital transformation missing link 20:20 Why FDEs make pilots work 23:36 Biggest learnings this year 31:52 What’s next in 2026 38:57 Bold predictions for 3 to 5 years 47:37 Fine tuned models teaser and wrap https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters https://app.collide.io/content/RprbJAD
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#241
Dec 23, 2025 · 54 min
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 2: Scaling AI From Proof of Concept to Production
Catching yourself rereading last year’s VC emails while you’re back in Silicon Valley is a pretty good way to realize how wild the last 12 months have been. Colin, Chuck, Canisius, and Todd break down how Collide AI is turning fast POCs into real production workflows, why change management is the actual moat, and how a stacked forward deployed team plus community driven distribution is setting up 2026 to be the year everything scales. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Product market fit jokes and kickoff 00:28 VC email flashback and velocity 01:29 Forward deployed model and AI first mindset 02:18 Sam Texas and AI coding shift 04:04 What AI first actually means 06:18 Not just podcast bros anymore 07:00 AI breaks silos across the business 08:21 Doglegs example and incentives 09:57 Change management is the advantage 10:18 Client story and regulatory filings win 12:42 Selling outcomes not hype 13:36 Building the FTE team and faster delivery 16:24 AI strategy as workflow ROI first 18:26 Grok as a thought partner and GPU cluster 20:15 Shale revolution mindset parallel 22:29 Recruiting, software DNA, and stacked team 26:16 Content and community as a recruiting engine 29:11 Distribution flywheel in the real world 30:22 Team distribution vs product debate 32:32 2026 is the scaling year 34:02 Community platform finally clicking 36:09 Building the community platform the hard way 39:20 Scaling clients, POCs, and production 41:09 Why mom and pops matter 41:55 Energy demand tailwinds and macro impact 44:44 One word answer for next year: scale 45:20 POC to production cycle time focus 47:12 Scaling tech, sales, and financing 49:45 Moving at AI speed story 50:14 Raising capital and building serious software 52:56 Collide as the operator layer vision 54:02 Gratitude and community over everything https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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#238
Dec 16, 2025 · 38 min
Landmen React to Landman TV Series - Season 2, Episode 3 & 4
H2S gets the Hollywood treatment, and let’s just say reality has some thoughts. The crew tears into how *Landman* portrays one of the oilfield’s most dangerous hazards, separating legit risks from TV-level exaggeration based on real-world experience. Along the way, the conversation veers into iconic Billy Bob Thornton one-liners, unhinged family drama, and the kind of business chaos that makes the show wildly entertaining, even when it stretches the truth. Equal parts industry reality check and group chat-style commentary, it’s honest, funny, and exactly how people who’ve actually been around the patch talk about this stuff. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. https://twitter.com/nimblephatty https://twitter.com/LandmanLife https://twitter.com/NewsFinOil https://twitter.com/Landmannery 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - H2S Safety 06:32 - Maria Character Analysis 06:42 - Ariana Character Insights 10:22 - Allie Larter's New House Tour 11:33 - Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley Loans 17:35 - Matt & Warden Discuss Andy Garcia 22:10 - The Snow Cone Scene Breakdown 23:50 - Rebecca's Plane Ride Experience 26:15 - Snakes Only Deal with Snakes Concept 28:05 - Demi Moore at Monty's Grave 31:10 - Final Thoughts on Episode 34:00 - Weekend Wrap-Up https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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#237
Nov 26, 2025 · 38 min
Landmen React to Landman TV Series - Season 2, Episode 2
Chuck, Matt, Gates, and Boar got together to unpack “Landman” Season 2, Episode 2, and it turned into the perfect mix of oilfield therapy session and comedy hour, calling out the ridiculous drilling logic, roasting Cooper’s disastrous money moves, and laughing through the show’s dramatic family moments. They riff on everything from cartoon-level oilfield economics to cartel side hustles and legal chaos, plus one absolutely unhinged analogy comparing modern extraction to a Whataburger milkshake. And of course, the infamous “sins of the father” moment sparks plenty of debate. If you’re into oil and gas or just love watching a good TV meltdown get dissected by people who actually know the industry, this breakdown hits the spot. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. https://twitter.com/nimblephatty https://twitter.com/LandmanLife https://twitter.com/NewsFinOil https://twitter.com/Landmannery 00:00 - Intro 00:24 - Cooper's Character Analysis 02:12 - Opening Montage Breakdown 04:00 - Cooper’s Financial Situation Explained 07:53 - Breakfast Burritos Scene Discussion 08:41 - Man Camp Insights 10:53 - Tommy vs The DJ Showdown 13:18 - Demi Moore's Cameo 14:01 - Rebecca's Role in the Episode 19:58 - Cooper's Deal Unpacked 27:50 - Best Relationship Advice from the Show 29:10 - Episode Recap and Highlights 29:48 - Final Thoughts on the Episode 34:30 - Thanksgiving Reflections 36:00 - Oil District Overview https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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#236
Nov 25, 2025 · 34 min
Cloud vs On-Prem Compute & Data Security with Bill Arend (Microsoft) & Canisius Rozario (Collide)
Bill Arend from Microsoft and Canisius Rozario, CTO of Collide, talk through the messy reality of deploying AI in oil and gas—why most E&Ps have gone all-in on cloud, how data security actually works when you're not training models on customer data, and why multi-cloud strategies are dying out. They dig into deployment models across SMBs and enterprise NOCs, the build-versus-buy trap that keeps operators stuck, and why agents managing other agents might be the wildest thing happening in five years. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Introductions and background 2:45 - Cloud versus on-prem decision factors today 6:12 - How Microsoft scales compute for AI workloads 8:30 - Data security and customer data segregation 13:18 - Deployment models across SMB and enterprise clients 18:45 - Why Azure is positioned for energy sector AI 24:02 - Why can't companies just use Copilot themselves 28:16 - Data security risks with quantum computing 31:40 - Multi-cloud strategies and resiliency concerns 37:25 - Data ownership and extraction costs 42:10 - Crystal ball question on agents managing agents https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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Nov 25, 2025 · 32 min
Real world AI use cases with Todd Bush (Collide)
Todd Bush, COO of Collide, walks through real-world AI use cases beyond the hype—how operators are automating routine tasks like production alerts, capturing tribal knowledge before the crew change wipes it out, and optimizing capital deployment for equipment placement. He breaks down the regulatory filing workflow across Texas and North Dakota, why the non-op side is ripe for automation because teams run so lean, and how MCP servers let you query WellView and SCADA systems directly without building custom integrations. Plus the game plan for starting small on focused assets and expanding into five to ten use cases by Q1. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Introduction and the MIT study fake news 3:20 - Three legs of the stool for AI value 7:45 - Routine tasks and tribal knowledge capture 12:30 - Intelligent orchestration across departments 16:40 - Regulatory filings and compliance workflows 21:15 - Mapping integration and spatial data questions 26:50 - Non-op agent and revenue statement automation 31:40 - Start small and focus on specific outcomes 34:20 - Emissions control and flaring permits discussion https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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#234
Nov 25, 2025 · 41 min
Drilling Down on Data with Bobby Neelon & John Kalfayan (Collide)
Bobby Neelon and John Kalfayan from Collide break down the messy reality of getting data ready for RAG, why PDFs are dumpster fires for unstructured data, how extraction changes depending on whether you're dealing with drilling surveys or handwritten logs, and why chunking strategy matters more than people think. They walk through embeddings, vector databases, MCP servers for pulling external data without leaking internal info, and why good metadata and folder structure actually make AI deployments way easier. Plus the hard truth that AI isn't a silver bullet for bad data management and the crap-in-crap-out problem is getting worse because now it can hallucinate on top of the crap. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Introductions and RAG overview 3:15 - Document identification and classification challenges 8:40 - Extracting data from unstructured PDFs 13:25 - Real world examples of messy data formats 18:50 - OCR paired with vision models for extraction 22:10 - Chunking strategies and when to use each 26:35 - Embeddings and vector databases explained 30:20 - MCP servers and external data integration 35:45 - Getting data AI-ready with metadata and structure 40:30 - Text-to-SQL approaches and database access 44:15 - Handling duplicates and M&A data integration 48:50 - How AI learns context over time 53:40 - Why traditional data management matters more than ever https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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