What Collide does

Collide (legally Digital Wildcatters, Inc.) is a Houston-based enterprise AI platform purpose-built for oil and gas operators. Founded in 2022, the company develops and sells AI automation software to upstream and midstream energy companies, addressing high-friction document-heavy workflows including Texas Railroad Commission regulatory filings (W-10, G-10, H-10, H-15 forms), land and lease extraction, production reconciliation, safety analysis, root cause failure diagnosis, engineering QA/QC, and completion benchmarking. The company claims more than 8,000 vetted community members across 122 countries and two publicly named enterprise customers (Winn Resources and United Production Partners) with documented ROI metrics including 95-99.4% reductions in regulatory filing time.

The underlying technology stack combines a purpose-built large language model called RIGGS, trained exclusively on oil and gas documents and regulations, with petroleum-tuned embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architecture, and agentic orchestration for multi-step workflow automation. The platform integrates with industry systems including Scout, WellDatabase, Aries reserve forecasting, and Dropbox. Collide employs a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) delivery model in which field-experienced engineers (offshore operators, wireline hands, MWD operators) embed with customer teams to configure the platform against proprietary operational data and bridge POC-to-production deployment.

Collide operates a quote-based enterprise subscription model with annual billing cycles and no publicly disclosed pricing tiers. Go-to-market combines direct enterprise field sales with a community-led growth motion leveraging the hand-vetted professional network, an Energy 101 podcast, and detailed customer case studies. The company closed a $5 million seed round in April 2025 led by Mercury Fund with participation from energy industry leaders and Arbo Ventures, and operates with 11-50 employees. Leadership includes co-founder Chuck Yates (former Managing Partner at Kayne Anderson with ~$8B raised across seven energy funds), CTO Canisius Rosario, and COO Todd Bush.

Name

Collide

Legal name

Digital Wildcatters, Inc.

Website

https://collide.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Collide is an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for oil and gas operators, automating regulatory filings, land and lease extraction, production reconciliation, and safety workflows using its proprietary RIGGS LLM and petroleum-tuned embeddings, sold via quote-based subscriptions to upstream and midstream customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Vertical AI Software for Oil and Gas Operations

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Oil & Gas Field Services, Nec (1389)

akta.pro primary industry

Compliance, GRC Workflow & Audit Automation Platforms (HDAEAHAL)

Keywords

• Oil and gas AI
• Upstream workflow automation
• Petroleum language model
• Regulatory filing automation
• Energy enterprise software

Headquarters

HQ city

Houston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Enterprise AI Platform Subscription: AI automation platform subscription for oil and gas operators. Pricing is quote-based, targeting enterprise and mid-market operators with multiple users and high-volume workflows. Includes platform access, forward deployed engineering support, and workflow configuration. Enterprise agreements likely include per-seat or tiered pricing based on workflow volume and data volume.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Collide provides a vertical enterprise AI platform purpose-built for oil and gas operators that indexes proprietary operational data and automates high-friction workflows such as regulatory filings (W-10, G-10, H-10, H-15), land and lease extraction, safety analysis, production reconciliation, and well failure diagnosis. The platform is powered by RIGGS, a domain-specific LLM trained on petroleum terminology, and is deployed via a Forward Deployed Engineer model that embeds with customer teams. Pricing is quote-based on annual enterprise subscriptions.

Product overview

Collide is a unified enterprise AI platform built specifically for oil and gas operators, combining a core platform with specialized workflow modules. The Collide Platform serves as the foundation, providing AI infrastructure that indexes operational data, automates complex workflows, and delivers answers in seconds. The platform integrates specialized capabilities including RIGGS (a purpose-built LLM for oil and gas), petroleum embeddings for domain-specific retrieval, and an agentic orchestration layer for multi-step workflow automation. The workflow modules—including Regulatory Workflow, Land & Lease Workflow, Safety Workflow, Production Reconciliation, Marketing Contracts, Acreage Dedication, Courthouse Record Monitoring, SWD Regulatory Compliance, Produced Water Balancing, Root Cause Analysis, Engineering Design QA/QC, and Completion Benchmarking—are purpose-built automations that address specific upstream pain points. The platform is complemented by Community (a professional network of 8,000+ energy professionals) and Resources (educational content and industry glossary). The architecture supports a Forward Deployed Engineer model where engineers embed with customer teams to configure the AI against actual operational data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Collide Platform Enterprise AI automation platform for oil and gas operators that indexes operational data, automates complex workflows, and delivers industry-specific answers in seconds. Purpose-built for upstream E&P operations with petroleum-tuned embeddings and the RIGGS LLM.
• Regulatory Workflow

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.4% reduction in regulatory filing time (6 hours to 2 minutes per filing)
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability11 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Winn ResourcescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTexas-based oil and gas operator partnered with Collide to automate regulatory filings using AI. Collide automated W-10 and G-10 filings, reducing processing time by 95%+. Partnership expanding to broader operational data management including field data capture, operational documents, and accounting workflows. Strategic collaboration for operational data management.
• United Production Partners (UPP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHouston-based oil and gas operator implemented Collide's enterprise AI platform for TX RRC regulatory filing automation. Achieved 1,200+ hours reclaimed annually with 100% approval rate. UPP plans to expand automation to H-15 forms, injection well reporting, and production operations workflows. Active co-development partnership.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Tachyus: Tachyus applies AI and physics-based modeling to upstream oil and gas production optimization and reservoir management. Like Collide, it is a vertical AI SaaS targeting E&P operators with workflow automation and integrates with field data sources.
• Validere: Validere is an oil and gas data and AI platform focused on production allocation, blending, and operational decisioning for operators and midstream players. It shares Collide's vertical AI positioning and direct-to-operator enterprise sales motion.

Broad incumbents

• C3.ai: C3.ai is an enterprise AI platform with deployed oil and gas applications (including partnerships with Baker Hughes and energy majors). It competes broadly in the same enterprise AI-for-energy category but is a horizontal platform rather than an oil-and-gas-specialized stack.
• SparkCognition: SparkCognition delivers industrial AI solutions for energy, manufacturing, and other heavy industries, including predictive maintenance and asset optimization for upstream operators. It competes in the same AI-for-oil-and-gas solutions envelope but across a broader industrial footprint.
• Quorum Software: Quorum (now part of Tietoevry) provides a comprehensive suite of software for oil and gas operators covering production accounting, land management, and regulatory reporting. It is a long-standing incumbent where Collide's workflow modules compete feature-by-feature.
• P2 Energy Solutions: P2 Energy Solutions offers upstream oil and gas accounting, production, and revenue software used by operators and non-operators. It overlaps with Collide's production reconciliation, AFE validation, and accounting-related workflows at an enterprise software layer.
• Aspen Technology (Emerson): AspenTech, now part of Emerson, provides industrial AI and process optimization software to energy and process industries. Its asset performance and optimization capabilities overlap with Collide's root-cause-analysis and engineering QA/QC modules, though it serves a much broader process-industry base.
• KBC (Yokogawa): KBC, part of Yokogawa Electric, delivers energy and process simulation, optimization, and digital solutions for upstream, midstream, and refining operators. It addresses overlapping operational optimization and digital-twin use cases with Collide, but as part of a wider process-industry portfolio.

Emerging players

• Resman: Resman provides wireless reservoir surveillance and production data management for upstream operators. It is a niche data platform with partial overlap in production data workflows and is a candidate to integrate with — or compete against — Collide's production reconciliation module.
• WellAware: WellAware offers industrial IoT monitoring and analytics for oilfield equipment and operations. It is comparable to Collide as an oil-and-gas-focused data and analytics SaaS targeting operators, though its primary modality is equipment telemetry rather than document and workflow automation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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