WorkSync Services

Turn critical initiatives into operating reality.

WorkSync brings operations, engineering, safety and technology together to move complex initiatives from strategy into the operating model, the technology and the field.

Nine objectives operators actually name, one method, and a basis on every claim. WorkSync stands up the framework, builds the reference model, wires the data, and deploys what makes it stick. Led by people who have run the assets.

Start with the number Find your objective

The practice, in one box

Nine objectives: operators actually name, each with its basis
One method: Assess, Design, Stand Up, Run and Transfer
Four areas: Operations. Engineering and Safety. Technology, Data and AI. Program Execution.
One start: a 2 to 4 week assessment, fixed fee, and the number is yours either way

Consultants stop at the strategy. Software vendors start at the tool. We bridge the gap.

A consulting firm writes the charter and leaves. A software vendor ships the tool. Neither owns the gap between strategy and execution, and that gap is the only place WorkSync Services works. We work from the operating problem through implementation and transfer, and you keep the model.

What success looks like

Five outcomes, and every one of them is yours to keep.

01More productive operations
02Lower operational risk
03Faster execution
04Technology that changes the work
05A capability your team can run

Where we work

Four areas, one operating problem at a time.

Operations

The daily operation of the asset, and the work the crews actually do.

03 Field operations efficiency
04 Downtime on what carries the value
09 Artificial lift

Engineering and Safety

The programs a regulator reads and a crew has to live with.

01 Safety program
02 Leak detection and integrity
07 Engineering capacity

Technology, Data and AI

The data platform, the control room, and software only where it fits.

05 Centralized operational data
08 Control room and remote operations

Program Execution

Standing the program up, running it, and handing it to your team.

06 Acquisition integration
Framework, reference model, data flows, dashboards

A tank farm from directly above: white tank roofs, access roads and containment between them

How an engagement runs

Assess, Design, Stand Up, Run and Transfer.

One continuous path from the number to the program you own. Nothing here waits for the end of the engagement to produce something.

01
Assess
2 to 4 weeks, fixed fee
Quantify the prize in dollars against your own data. You get the number whether or not you hire us for the rest.
02
Design
Co-built with your team
The reference model and the operating design, built with the people who will run it.
03
Stand Up
Sprint delivery
Value in the first sprint, not at the end of the program.
04
Run and Transfer
Yours to run
You own the program. Where our software carries the work, license fees can be tied to agreed performance metrics, on terms set in the proposal.

Built underneath

01FrameworkCharter, objectives, KPIs, RACI.
02Reference modelThe model the program runs on.
03Data flowsWired to the systems you already own.
04Dashboards and workflowsThe measure reported monthly, and the rhythm that keeps it honest.
05Point solutionsSoftware only where it improves the operating model.

We are not here to replace your stack. Most of what we have delivered runs on systems you already own. We add software only where it improves the operating model.

Start here

Start with a 2 to 4 week assessment. Fixed fee. Defined scope. Clear decision.

Send us one asset group and the objective you are judged on. The Assess stage puts a dollar figure on it in two to four weeks, for a fixed fee. You keep the number either way.

Start with the number What the assessment covers

01Understand the current stateThe operation as it actually runs, read with the people who run it.
02Quantify the opportunityThe prize in dollars, against your own data, not a benchmark.
03Leave with a roadmapThe sequence, the owners and the measure, whether or not you hire us for the rest.

What is your operation trying to do this year

Nine objectives. Find yours.

The objective in the buyer's words, what we hear when it comes up, and who owns it inside the operator. Every one carries a basis.

Nine objectives

Basis on every line

#The objectiveWhat we hearOwner

Stand up a safety program the crew will useFOUNDER EXPERIENCE“Our safety system exists for the audit, not for the crew.”“Near-miss reporting is low, and I do not believe it is because nothing is happening.”VP HSE, HSE Director

“Our safety system exists for the audit, not for the crew.”“Near-miss reporting is low, and I do not believe it is because nothing is happening.”

VP HSE, HSE Director

Stand up leak detection or integrity managementFOUNDER EXPERIENCE“We need a leak detection program that will survive a regulator reading it.”“Integrity is a binder, a consultant and a deadline.”Integrity Manager, VP Midstream

“We need a leak detection program that will survive a regulator reading it.”“Integrity is a binder, a consultant and a deadline.”

Integrity Manager, VP Midstream

Improve the efficiency of field operationsRUNS TODAY“The crews are busy and I cannot tell you whether they are busy on the right things.”“The route has not changed in years. The wells have.”VP Operations, Ops Director

“The crews are busy and I cannot tell you whether they are busy on the right things.”“The route has not changed in years. The wells have.”

VP Operations, Ops Director

Decrease downtime on what carries the valueDELIVERED“The same wells keep failing and nobody can tell me why in less than a week.”“Our deferred production number is a guess with a decimal point.”Production Manager, Reliability

“The same wells keep failing and nobody can tell me why in less than a week.”“Our deferred production number is a guess with a decimal point.”

Production Manager, Reliability

Centralize operational dataDELIVERED“Every report is a reconciliation before it is a report.”“The person who maintains the spreadsheet is retiring.”CIO, Head of Digital, VP Ops

“Every report is a reconciliation before it is a report.”“The person who maintains the spreadsheet is retiring.”

CIO, Head of Digital, VP Ops

Integrate an asset you just acquiredFOUNDER EXPERIENCE“Two books arrive with two sets of routes, habits and data standards.”“The drilling half of the deal math is on the earnings call. The field half is quiet.”VP Operations, Integration Lead

“Two books arrive with two sets of routes, habits and data standards.”“The drilling half of the deal math is on the earnings call. The field half is quiet.”

VP Operations, Integration Lead

Give the engineering team capacity backRUNS TODAY“My engineers spend their week gathering, not engineering.”“Every project rebuilds the model somebody already built last year.”Engineering Manager, VP Engineering

“My engineers spend their week gathering, not engineering.”“Every project rebuilds the model somebody already built last year.”

Engineering Manager, VP Engineering

Run the control room and remote operationsFOUNDER EXPERIENCE“Advanced control was tuned once, at commissioning.”“Nobody has drilled failover. OT and IT are blaming each other.”Control Room Manager, VP OT

“Advanced control was tuned once, at commissioning.”“Nobody has drilled failover. OT and IT are blaming each other.”

Control Room Manager, VP OT

Get more out of artificial liftWITH YOUR TEAM“I know there are barrels in the lift. I cannot tell you which wells or how many.”“Lift spend is up and production is flat.”Production Engineering Manager

“I know there are barrels in the lift. I cannot tell you which wells or how many.”“Lift spend is up and production is flat.”

Production Engineering Manager

Every claim here carries a basis

DELIVERED: We built it for a client and handed it over.
FOUNDER EXPERIENCE: A founder led it inside an operator, before WorkSync.
RUNS TODAY: Live in our software.
WITH YOUR TEAM: We have the components and the people, this exact thing would be a first, and we say so.

Who does the work

A founder sponsors every engagement.

Michael Atkin, P.Eng

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Led the safety culture program inside Maverick Natural Resources, in an operator role: the recordables result below.
Scaled a gas utility capital program from $6M to roughly $60M a year with no added headcount, in a prior operator role.
Solution architect of WellOPS. Built FlowSync, taking a hydraulic model build from 200 hours to 20 minutes, our engineer’s estimate.

The other half of the practice

Co-Founder

Our co-founder runs technology and operations: the OT estate, the data platform, the control room and the project portfolio. He has held those seats inside a producer and inside pipeline operators, which is why this practice can stand a program up rather than describe one.

A founder sponsors every engagement, and the delivery team is named before it starts.

Since July 2021: 26 people, 18 clients, 156 projects

Four numbers. Three from the founders’ operator record, one from our own software

Selected operating experience.

15%+: free cash flow, same crew, same wellsFounder experience
66%: fewer recordables year over year, 3.1M man-hours, 6% more workFounder experience
$32MM: of capital redirected, $15MM of low value work cancelledFounder experience
200 h to 20 min: per hydraulic model, our engineer’s estimateFlowSync, our software

Results at Maverick Natural Resources were delivered by WorkSync’s founders from inside the operator, before WorkSync existed: Michael Atkin led the safety program, and our co-founder ran technology, data and operations modernization. Founder record.

66% fewer recordable incidents and a 61% lower recordable rate, year over year, across 3.1 million employee and contractor man-hours, with 6% more work activity. The result of the safety program, not of software.

What that looked like

Two engagements, by what they produced.

Field operations

15%+ free cash flow from the same wells and the same crews.

Founder experience

Leak detection and modeling

Below 0.5% of flow in 24 hours, and a capital plan that could defend itself.

Founder experience

One operator grew a single HSE scope into five. A gas utility has renewed its modeling program every year since 2022.

Start with the objective

The work does not end at the charter.

Consultants stop at the charter. Software vendors start at the tool. We walk the whole way.

Send us one asset group and the objective you are judged on. The Assess stage puts a dollar figure on it in two to four weeks, for a fixed fee. You keep the number either way.

Or write to [email protected].

WorkSync also builds software for production operations: WellOPS, FlowSync and DataHub. Services stands up the program around them, and only where software fits.