# DrillSense

> The intelligence layer for oil and gas. Frontier AI and machine learning solutions that turn subsurface complexity into clear, explainable decisions.

## About

DrillSense is built by DATUM. We provide real-time subsurface intelligence for drilling operations across major US basins including the Permian, Eagle Ford, Bakken, Marcellus, and DJ. Running at critical decision points today across 38 active operators, from supermajors to independents, in 8 U.S. states.

DrillSense is the anti-platform platform: your data flows in, gains subsurface context, and flows back out, enriched, explained, and entirely yours. No lock-in. No black boxes. No trapped models.

## Capabilities

DrillSense covers the full drilling lifecycle with explainable AI and agentic solutions:

- Drilling engineering and drilling optimization
- Geosteering and geoscience intelligence
- Completions engineering and production optimization
- Well planning and directional drilling support
- Real-time drilling analytics and decision support
- Mud logging and formation evaluation
- Rate of penetration optimization
- Wellbore stability analysis
- Non-productive time reduction
- Drilling risk management
- Petrophysics and subsurface data science
- WITSML integration and drilling data management
- Predictive analytics and drilling automation
- Oilfield digital transformation

## Derrick — Intelligent Drilling Agent

Derrick is DrillSense's agentic AI assistant, available as a contact in your phone via iMessage and SMS. Derrick provides real-time well context, answers domain-specific queries, and surfaces proactive insights. Not a chatbot: an intelligent agent that understands stakeholder context, domain constraints, and escalation paths.

## The Argument

[Drilling Is an Information Problem](https://drillsense.com/argument): the thesis behind DrillSense. Why the next decade of drilling performance comes from context, not more data: agentic AI, a subsurface world model, federated learning across operators, and provenance for every number.

## The Human in the Loop — Newsletter

DrillSense publishes a weekly newsletter called "The Human in the Loop" covering frontier AI, machine learning, drilling analytics, geosteering, completions, production optimization, and subsurface intelligence. The archive is publicly available.

- [Newsletter Archive](https://drillsense.com/loop): All published issues
- [Issue #021](https://drillsense.com/loop/021): Google's new multimodal model and $85B AI investment (June 3, 2026)
- [Issue #016](https://drillsense.com/loop/016): GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4, and OpenAI workspace agents (April 27, 2026)
- [Issue #014](https://drillsense.com/loop/014): The Human in the Loop No. 014 (April 17, 2026)
- [Issue #006](https://drillsense.com/loop/006): Field notes from GTC 2026 (March 24, 2026)
- [Issue #003](https://drillsense.com/loop/003): The Year Intelligence Gets Physical (March 3, 2026)
- [Issue #002](https://drillsense.com/loop/002): GPT-5.2 Cracks Open Theoretical Physics (February 24, 2026)
- [Issue #001](https://drillsense.com/loop/001): Agentic AI for Pinpoint Anomaly Detection (February 17, 2026)

## Public Pages

- [Home](https://drillsense.com): Landing page and contact form
- [The Argument](https://drillsense.com/argument): Drilling Is an Information Problem, the DrillSense thesis
- [Newsletter Archive](https://drillsense.com/loop): The Human in the Loop, weekly AI intelligence
- [Privacy Policy](https://drillsense.com/privacy-policy): Data handling and privacy practices
- [Terms of Service](https://drillsense.com/terms-of-service): Usage terms and conditions
- [Trust Portal](https://trust.drillsense.com): Security and compliance information
- [System Status](https://status.drillsense.com): Real-time service availability

## Contact

- Website: https://drillsense.com
- Email: team@drillsense.com
- AI Assistant: Derrick (available via iMessage/SMS)