No rig on the market drills contentious ground or recovers bogged steel unattended, yet.
Contentious ground, bogged steel, the calls that still take a driller - that is the ground unsupervised drilling has to earn, and where the operator's craft lives.
The listening layer is proven on a live production rig, and the first products are shipping or near. Everything above them is a climb, not a countdown - measured against the GMG levels of autonomy, each level claimed only with its operating domain.
The pathway itself, before any hardware. Every mark existed on paper first.
Capture and decode toolchain built and tested before ever touching a rig.
Interfaced with a live production rig. Read-only. Every parameter, real time.
A remote endpoint pulls capture off the machine to the cloud.
Raw frames become named channels: depth, torque, hammer, fuel. Nothing guessed.
Live dashboards over the decoded stream: whole-hole view, collar events, fuel.
A continuous audit re-tests every signal against every recorded hole.
Automatic hole start and end from the stream, even holes the operator missed.
The listening layer is built and proven on a live production rig. Read-only, non-intrusive, production uninterrupted. Nothing built above it can be better than the reading underneath - so this is where the climb stands.
Fleet system of record. Every hole a paperless, auditable record.
IN BUILDMeasured carbon and enriched hole data, straight off the rig.
FIELD-PROVENPer-hole ore and hardness map, read from the MWD data.
SCHEDULEDThe rig drills unsupervised. GMG Level 5.
THE CLIMBOne module - node - mounts on the rig and switches on each product in turn. Each earns its place before the next is attempted.
The levels are GMG's, not ours. drillEQ states its level conservatively, with its operating domain, and proves the top with a measured intervention rate and an independent witness. The decision-making is deterministic and auditable - the class the standard can certify, not a black box.
The rig calls the hole and recommends each drilling decision; a person still drills. Proves the judgement before the machine is ever given control.
The machine makes its first real drilling adjustments in response to the ground, with an operator supervising and an override to hand.
Unsupervised drilling within known ground, the machine handling its own fallback, an operator on watch. Claimed only with its operating domain.
Unsupervised drilling across the full range a manned rig handles, to spec, proven with a measured intervention rate and an independent witness.
The rig drills the hole itself, collar to end of hole, unsupervised - across the full range of ground a manned rig handles.
Listening layer built and proven on a live production rig, April 2026. Read-only, production uninterrupted. Reads the rig's protocol, whatever the make.
No rig on the market drills contentious ground or recovers bogged steel unattended. Getting there requires recorded hole data first.
It fits any operation running production drilling. The module goes on read-only and the recorded hole data starts building from day one, the raw material every rung above is built on.