Industries · Oil & gas + engineering - AI systems for oil and gas and engineering firms
Assist IQ builds compliance-first AI systems for oil and gas operators, well service and intervention firms, and engineering companies. A forward-deployed engineer embeds in your operation, takes paper-based workflows into the 21st century, and builds the automations, agents and management systems that keep the record audit-ready. Built by an operator with 19 years in oil and gas, who has set up and run companies in this industry.
The problem - In this industry, the record is the product.
The work is only half the job. The other half is proving the work was done properly: to the client, to the auditor, to the regulator. Most firms still carry that half on paper, spreadsheets and one person’s memory.
- The paper lag. The job happens in the field. The record gets reconstructed later, in the office, from memory and photographs. Every hour between the two is an hour where the evidence is wrong, missing or waiting on somebody’s Friday afternoon.
- Compliance by heroics. The audit is passed because two people worked the weekend, not because the system produces compliance as a matter of course. That works until one of those people retires, and it never gets cheaper.
- The blank-page start-up. New operators and service companies face the same wall from the other side: a management system, procedures and QHSE infrastructure demanded before the first job, built from a blank page while the founders are trying to win work.
The fix - An engineer embedded in your operation, building the system around the real work.
This is not software off a shelf. It is our forward-deployed engineer service pointed at heavy industry: someone who learns how your operation actually runs, then builds and manages the AI systems, agents and automations that carry the load.
- Paper workflows made digital, properly. Not a scanned form. The workflow itself, rebuilt as an electronic process that produces the record as the work happens, so the evidence exists the moment the job is done, not three weeks later.
- Compliance designed in, not bolted on. Management systems and procedures generated on automation principles from the start: every step leaves a trail, every trail is auditable, and the system chases what is missing instead of waiting for an audit to find it.
- Document and data intelligence. Decades of reports, drawings, procedures and hard lessons made queryable in plain English, with the source shown under every answer. The engineering knowledge stops living in one person’s head.
- Built, then run. We do not hand over a binder and leave. The systems are managed: monitored, maintained and improved as the operation changes, with a person accountable for what they do.
A well intervention firm, taken off paper and made compliance-grade.
HALO Intervention Services works in oil and gas well intervention, where the operational record had always lived on paper. We designed its processes around AI automation and augmentation: electronic workflows replacing the paper method, man-hours cut, and work completed properly with the evidence produced as it happens.
The entire ISO 9001 management system was generated on the same automation principles. Compliance-grade operations with automation baked in from the start, not bolted on after an audit found the gaps. That is the standard this page is offering, because it is already running.
Why us - Built by someone who has run these operations.
Most automation agencies have never seen a permit to work. Our founder spent 19 years in oil and gas operations, and has set up and run companies in this industry. That changes what gets built.
- We know what an audit feels like. Systems get designed for the day the auditor arrives, not the day of the demo. Evidence trails, revision control and accountability are the starting requirements, because we have sat on your side of that table.
- We speak operations, not software. Workshops, crews, day rates, mobilisations, non-conformances. The engineer mapping your workflow has run workflows like it, so the questions are the right ones and the system fits the job instead of fighting it.
- We have done the paper-to-digital jump. Taking a paper-based operation into the 21st century is our home ground, not our experiment. The hard part is never the technology. It is knowing which parts of the old way were load-bearing.
Questions oil and gas and engineering firms ask us.
Straight answers, from people who have worked the other side of the audit.
Can AI actually be used in compliance-critical operations?
Yes, with the right design. AI carries the repeatable layer: producing records as work happens, drafting documents, chasing missing evidence and flagging gaps. Every action is logged, and a named person stays accountable for anything that matters. We have generated an entire ISO 9001 management system on these principles. What AI never does in our builds is quietly make a judgment call a human should own.
We still run on paper and spreadsheets. Is that a problem?
No, it is the normal starting point, and honestly a cleaner one than a graveyard of half-adopted software. We map the workflow as it actually runs on paper, then rebuild it as an electronic process that produces the record as the work happens. Your crews keep doing the job the way they know. What changes is that the evidence now files itself.
Who actually does the work: a consultant or a contractor?
Neither, in the usual sense. A forward-deployed engineer embeds in your operation, maps the real workflows, then builds and runs the systems with an AI fleet doing the heavy engineering. You get one accountable person with the build capability of a team behind them. It is a fraction of a full-time systems hire, which is what makes it viable at service-company scale.
We are setting up a new oil and gas company. Where do we start?
Start with the management system, before habits form on paper. A new company can have its procedures, QHSE infrastructure and operational records built on automation principles from day one, which costs far less than digitising a decade of paper later. Our founder has set up companies in this industry, and the blank page is a genuine advantage if you use it.
Does this replace our QHSE or operations staff?
No. It replaces the part of their week they resent: retyping field data, reconstructing records, chasing signatures and formatting reports. The judgment stays where it belongs, with the people who carry the accountability. What they get back is time to do the work the job title actually describes, on top of a system that makes the audit trail automatic.
Start with a free enquiry
Not a discovery call. Not a pitch with a calendar link. Five questions about how your business actually runs, and it costs nothing. Ross reads every enquiry himself and replies within one working day with a straight first answer: what looks worth automating, and what doesn’t.
If it looks like we can genuinely help, the next step is the AI Operations Day: one working day inside the business, followed by a written Opportunity Map. It shows what is hurting, what should stay human, and the best one or two jobs to prove first. That part comes later, and only if it makes sense for you.
Free to ask. No obligation. Ross replies personally within one working day.