Luther Birdzell

Geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers who are applying AI and machine learning to their functions are outperforming their peers who can't.

That's a very different thing.

You know, Google, like search, social media, retail, entertainment.

Google did three and a half billion searches yesterday.

Total team is 20, yes.

Software engineers and a bit of management.

All in Houston?

No, we're about half the teams in Houston.

And what I saw work really, really well for the first five to 10 software engineering hires in my last company was the founders focused on getting the absolute best talent they could anywhere in the world.

And only as we got bigger did we start hiring for the home office.

I've kind of replicated John and Rustin's model there.

And our software developers and engineers, some of whom I've worked with for 15 years, others for 10 years, are spread mostly among different cities in the U.S.

Uh, so I bootstrapped the initial part, uh, of R and D 13, early 14.

And then we've raised capital, uh, from angel investors.

We are planning to go to, uh, the market in Q4 to do a, uh, a series a. Okay.

So again, you know, private company, uh, kind of sensitive about disclosing that, uh,

So, you know, the rates we've raised, the money we've raised over the past five years is less than 3 million.

Uh, accelerating sales, uh, accelerating hiring of sales and the consultants we need to deliver on sales ahead of revenue.

We're at the point now we've built the technology we've proven park product market fit.

We've really built out the whole team.