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An exploration drill rig on a hillside at night, the mast lit by its own work lights

04 / 09Drilling

AI for drilling contractors.

Meters, delays and standby, billed the way they happened.

The problem
The problem

Every line translated by hand.

Delay codes drive the billing rate: gas check, services, blasting, travel, putting up pipe. The driller writes them his own way. The office translates every line into codes by hand, and the client checks it all again before paying.

A typical night shiftDelay codes

As the driller wrote it

  • gas chk before going in, 40 min
  • services ~1hr
  • waited on blast clear
  • moved pipe, hole 3 to 4

Coded the same way every shift

  • Gas check0.7 h
  • Services1.0 h
  • Blastingfrom the log
  • Moving pipefrom the log

Ties out Every coded line points back to the line in the daily it came from.

The outcome

Coded the same way. Ties out line by line.

Every shift's meters and delays coded the same way every time, and an invoice that ties out to the daily line by line.

Book a call A 20-minute call. We tell you straight if AI fits.
Try the Drill Productivity tool Meters per shift, worked out.
The night shift report for Rig 4, read from the paper daily and checked line by line against the rig log
Phone: a night shift report for Rig 4 that matches the rig log

Night shift, Rig 4 Read from the paper daily, checked line by line. Matches the rig log.

Your number$/mCost per meter for your rig, your rock and your rates. Every step shown.

Fix your reporting See how the daily becomes the invoice.

Work out your cost per meterEvery ROI tool

Field tools and reading

Work it out yourself first.

What we build first

Three things, in this order.

  1. 01Daily to invoiceMeters, delays and standby coded and billed from the driller's daily.Daily reporting
  2. 02Cost per meterEvery rig's cost per meter, from the same record.Cost and margin
  3. 03Crew hoursShift and crew hours that match the rig log.Daily reporting
The analytics are better than I've ever seen.
Project manager, underground drilling contractor, Canada

30+ years combined experience Dan spent ten years underground. Ben spent twenty in heavy civil, underground and mining. Who we are

Hard questions

What they ask us first.

Big Dog

Who else uses it?

We run our own companies on it, and we are building it with an underground mining contractor now. We do not name clients, the same way we would not name you. We show you the system on made-up data first.

Our answerOwnerFinance
Big Dog

Do crew messages go anywhere else?

Yes, and we say it plainly. WhatsApp messages pass through Meta and the messaging provider on the way in. Once they land, they live in your account.

Our answerITSuperintendent
Big Dog

Our crews will not use a new app.

They do not have to. A voice note, a photo of the paper sheet or a text, same as now.

Our answerSuperintendentSafety
All 25 questions

Back on the surface

Talk to the people who wrote the daily reports.

A 20-minute call. We ask how your daily report moves today, and we tell you straight if AI fits. If it does not, we say so on the call.

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Watch the presentation The deck Dan shows owners. Sound on.
How we work Find the money. Prove it. Run it.

We sign your NDA before we see anything. Rather write? dan@bigdogmining.com