WellOPS is the best Pump by Exception platform in oil and gas.
Pump by Exception finds problems. Pump by Priority prices them. WellOPS prices every open job on your field in dollars per day at risk, ranks all of them on one economic ruler, sequences the winners into each crew’s drive day, and puts that plan in the truck cab by 6 AM.
CMMS + Prioritization Engine + Work Management + Field Data Capture + Accruals, in one place, on the wells you already own.
What you buy
You buy WellOPS from WorkSync.
WorkSync is the company. WellOPS is the operating platform for production operations. Six capabilities sit under it, and all six feed the same ranked work loop.
01
Prioritization
Delivered by Work Engine
02
Work Management
Delivered by Equipment Management + Safety Management
03
Route Optimization
Delivered by Route Optimizer
04
Field Data
Delivered by Field Data Capture
05
Accruals
Delivered by Financial Accruals
06
AI and Agents
Delivered by Closed-loop learning + Willie
On a budget line, WellOPS reads as CMMS + Prioritization Engine + Work Management + Field Data Capture + Accruals: the five things it consolidates from your existing stack. The six capabilities above are how the platform delivers them. DataHub (the data foundation, included with the platform) and FlowSync (live engineering models) are supporting capabilities of the same platform story.
Exception, and the rung above it
Pump by exception and pump by priority are widely treated as the same thing. They are one step apart.
Pump by exception detects. A threshold trips, an alarm fires, and the field gets a list. Pump by priority prices and ranks. Every deviation carries a dollars-per-day number, the whole field is sorted on one economic ruler, and the day arrives sequenced for the crew that has to drive it. Priority is the next step from exception, and it is the step most operators have not taken yet.
Pump by exception
Finds the problems.
A list of wells that broke a rule, in the order the rules fired. A 5 BOPD nuisance and a 200 BOPD production loss arrive with the same urgency. (Illustrative pair.)
Pump by priority
Prices them, ranks them, and routes them.
The same two wells carry dollars per day at risk, sit in their true order against every other open job in the field, and land in a drivable day with the reason attached to the stop.
WellOPS is the best Pump by Exception platform in oil and gas because it does not stop at the exception. It is one operating model with three names, depending on where you are standing: management by exception is the discipline, pump by exception is how the oilfield has run it, and pump by priority is the version that prices what it finds.
You want to raise the bar, you need the best platform.
The productized rollout
We productized what the supermajors built by hand. Pump by priority, in weeks.
WellOPS is the product version of a stand-up that Tier-1 operators built by hand with internal data teams and multi-year programs. It is configured, not built: your thresholds, your priorities, your visit cadence, your equipment classes. It ships with a repeatable two-week sprint playbook, acceptance gates your foremen sign, and the team that has carried this rollout past every failure point before.
See the rollout playbook →Stop wasting time entering data
Delivered by Field Data Capture
Cut out low-value work
Delivered by Work Engine
Finally implement route optimization
Delivered by Route Optimizer
Create a platform where knowledge grows without a huge headache
Delivered by Closed-loop learning + Willie
What WellOPS delivers
The ranked plan in every truck cab by 6 AM.
The most sophisticated prioritization engine in the field sits underneath it. Physics-based and statistical models score every well on cash-flow risk, failure risk, environmental risk and personal-safety risk, and the highest number is at the top of the list when a field team member opens the app.
Don’t leave value on the table.
The same plan, in the cab
What a field team member opens at 6 AM.
The morning route, the stop in front of you, and the site you are standing on. Work is recorded where it happens, and the reason a site is on the list travels with it. Synthetic demo data.
Inside the score
What the engine does to your data.
The prioritization engine takes OT data, financial data, and the rest of your operational record and stitches them together into closed-loop prioritization. Here is what goes in, what happens to it, and what comes back.
OT data
- SCADA tags and alarm history
- Historian trends per tag, per well
- Runtime, cycles and pump-off events
- Tank levels and haul history
- Well tests and manual gauges
Read-only, pulled on your credentials, validated and de-spiked before anything is scored.
Financial data
- Realized price by stream, on your deck
- Working interest and net revenue interest
- Lifting cost and controllable LOE
- Parts, labor and vendor cost history
- Deferred production against forecast
This is what turns a flag into a dollar figure instead of a severity color.
Operational context
- Equipment classes, plans and PM clocks
- Regulatory deadlines and permit windows
- Crew qualifications and certifications
- Yard positions, lease access and drive time
- Prior close-outs, overrides and reason codes
The constraints that decide whether the highest-value job is the one that can actually be worked today.
Six stages, and the last one is why it compounds.
- 01
Deviation, not thresholds
Each well carries a model of what it should be doing this week given its own decline, its lift type and its recent behavior. A flag is raised when the well departs from that, so the engine keeps working as wells decline and nobody re-tunes limits by hand across thousands of wells.
- 02
A dollar figure on every flag
Production at risk per day of inaction, valued at your realized price and your interests, discounted by how likely the intervention is to recover it and by what the intervention costs. A gassy well and an oil-weighted well with the same pressure drop come out an order of magnitude apart, which is the whole point.
- 03
One ruler for every class of work
Preventative maintenance, reactive anomalies, liquid management, safety work and regulatory work all sort on that number, in one queue. Regulatory deadlines stay absolute where the regulator sets them. Everything else earns its place.
- 04
Solved into a day, not a list
The ranked list is handed to the Route Optimizer, which builds the day that captures the most value the crew can physically execute: qualifications, time windows, hours of service, co-routed equipment and the roads between stops. Value density, not shortest path.
- 05
Closed at the wellhead
Readings, parts, labor, condition and photos are recorded where the work happens, gloves on. The field ticket and the accrual are generated from that close-out and booked with the work, not at month-end.
- 06
Fed back into the model
Every close-out answers the question the queue was asking: was this flag worth the visit. False positives, recovery outcomes, actual durations and every override with its reason code go back into the scoring, so the ranking is sharper next quarter than it is today.
The governance that makes the ranking survive contact with the field.
Scoring is the easy half. These are the mechanics that keep the queue trusted in month six, which is where ranked-work programs usually come apart.
A flag can be disputed
A field team member who does not believe a flag disputes it. The dispute lifts the item to the engineer or the foreman and holds it there until it is resolved.
A flag can be deferred, with a reason
A well already scheduled for workover is deferred with a reason and stops generating noise until that reason expires. Deferral becomes a recorded decision.
Every item stays visible
Items are disputed, deferred or resolved, and each of those is a recorded state. A list people stop checking is how real problems get masked, so the queue keeps its history.
The plan shows its reasoning
Each line carries what tripped, why it ranks where it ranks, and what a good outcome looks like. A ranked plan that arrives as an oracle gets ignored by week three.
The override is a feature, and it is data
The field knows the lease road that washed out and the bearing somebody heard yesterday. Overriding is one tap with a reason code, and a well the field consistently pulls forward is carrying information the scoring has not captured yet.
The judgment stays with the person at the well
The system does the assembling, the sorting and the remembering. Experienced field team members are the experts on execution, and the plan is theirs to edit.
The first step
The first step is one Tuesday. Not a six-month commitment.
We don’t ask for a procurement cycle. We ask for one week of your data and four weeks of your worst-performing field. Move the metric, sign the license. Don’t, walk away.
Day 1
You send the data.
One week of SCADA, your work order log, and the cost ledger for one field. Read-only. We pull from the systems you already run; no rip-and-replace.
You + your data lead
Day 7
You see Tuesday’s plan.
We deliver a real, ranked work plan for your worst-performing field, scored on cash-flow impact and risk. Not a deck. A plan a foreman could run on Tuesday.
Sample plan + 30-min walkthrough
Week 4
It’s live in the truck.
WellOPS in production on the field you nominated. Crews open the ranked plan at 6 AM. Willie answers questions in the cab. Your VP of Ops watches the metric you anchored on.
Crews + Willie + your foreman
Day 28
You decide.
License fees only when the metrics move. If the metric you anchored the trial on moved, we keep going. If it didn’t, you walk away, no kill fee.
You + your CFO
The Impact Guarantee
Move the metric. License fees only when the metrics move.
4-week pilot · on the stack you already own · no kill fee · no awkward sales call.
Your day is a tradeoff between cash flow, risk, and preventative maintenance.
Most systems optimize for one at a time. Work Engine weighs every task against all three and ranks the day so the highest-value work rises to the top.
How the platform is built
One platform. One ranked work loop.
These are the components that deliver the six capabilities: each owns one job, and all of them run one queue. DataHub feeds the loop, the Work Engine prices and ranks it, Equipment Management puts the maintenance in the same ranking, and every job closes with its safety forms and its accrual attached.
That loop is the fastest way to implement management by exception on the wells you already own. It is productized and cloud-hosted, and it runs on the systems you already have. Fit-for-purpose. Plug-and-play.
Before
Routes by habit, alarm floods, a months-deep backlog, and a morning meeting that assembles the plan.
After
Every well ranked daily by dollars and risk, and the plan already in every truck by 6 AM.
01 · The supporting data foundation, included
DataHub
One validated operational picture under every ranked plan.
Read-only connections to your SCADA, historian, ERP, production accounting, and well master. Pulled, validated, and reconciled into a single picture of the field, so every score downstream stands on data your engineers can trust. Pull is quick and stays clear of your control network. Push is earned separately: write-back runs through a staging table your production accountant reviews, and allocation stays authoritative.
Your systems of record stay your systems of record. WellOPS wires the missing links. DataHub ships with the platform: a supporting capability, with the platform story staying on WellOPS.DataHub deep-dive →
02 · The prioritization engine
Work Engine
Every job priced in dollars, ranked on one ruler, routed to the right person.
The Work Engine takes OT data, financial data, and the rest of your operational record and stitches them together into closed-loop prioritization. Every well is scored against what it should be doing this week, not against a threshold somebody set two years ago. Each flag is priced as production at risk per day of inaction at your working interest and your price deck, then proactive maintenance, reactive anomalies, safety work and regulatory work compete on that one number. The reason a job ranks where it ranks travels with the job.
A 5 BOPD nuisance and a 200 BOPD production loss stop looking alike on the screen. (Illustrative pair.)Work Engine deep-dive →
03 · The equipment maintenance module
Equipment Management
The easiest maintenance module to configure, and the most meaningful once it is.
Configuration is three objects: equipment classes, the plans that hang off them, and the thresholds that trigger them. You do not need a perfect equipment hierarchy first, which is the requirement that stalls a traditional CMMS for a year. If a field team member knows the equipment is there, they can log against it, and the hierarchy fills in from the work. Meaningful is the other half: plunger changes, stuffing box greasing and meter calibrations are the maintenance that never reaches a traditional CMMS, and here they are scheduled by deadline and site value together. The unit of optimization is the site stop, so nobody is dispatched for a grease gun alone.
A greasing job on a high-value well outranks the same job on a stripper well. Automatically.Equipment maintenance deep-dive →
04 · Embedded, not parallel
Safety Management
The paperwork happens where the job happens.
JSAs, permits to work, and lone-worker check-ins digitized and attached to the work itself, so the evidence rolls up on its own. Risk-based visits, compliance rounds, and regulatory work are ranked in the same queue as production work, not in a parallel system that competes with it. High-risk work holds until the safety steps are signed, and a missed lone-worker check-in reaches the right person in minutes.
Permits carry a clock that reaches someone before it runs out. Lone workers carry a check-in that escalates on its own. TRIR 1.8 to 0.3 (deployment figure).Permits and lone-worker deep-dive →
05 · Cost truth at close-out
Financial Accruals
Booked with the work, not at month-end.
Parts and labor captured at close-out and tied to your well and equipment hierarchy: a job that carries a cost basis requires the entry before it closes. The daily accrual feeds your accounting system over its API, reconciled rather than replaced. And every failure carries its RCA: what failed and why, categorized, with the cost attached.
LOE visibility stops being a month-end scramble and becomes a by-product of the work.
And two execution surfaces that put the loop in the truck cab
Route Optimizer
Route optimization that maximizes the impact of your team.
It plans on value density, dollars of production impact per crew-hour, rather than miles per stop. The solver builds the day that captures the most value the field can physically execute, bound by crew qualifications, site access windows, hours of service, equipment that has to travel with the job, and drive time. It re-solves mid-shift when a well goes down or a higher-value job lands. 35% fewer miles driven at equal production coverage (deployment figure).
Deep-dive →Field Data Capture
Gloves on at the wellhead. No shift-end paperwork.
Readings, volumes, downtime, equipment condition, and the work actually performed, captured once, online or offline. Voice-enabled: a field team member talks through a JSA in 30 seconds. The form fills itself; the person confirms what's true.
Deep-dive →How it works together
Every component feeds the same ranked list.
Proactive maintenance, reactive anomalies, safety work, regulatory work: all scored on one economic ruler, all closed in one motion. The loop closes when the work does.
Your systems
The WellOPS loop
Your field team
Safety Management and Financial Accruals ride on every job in the loop: the permit holds the work, the accrual closes with it, and Equipment Management keeps the next visit on the same site stop.
Work Engine in motion
From SCADA at 5:47 AM to a ranked plan in the truck cab by 6:00.
Overnight data lands, the models refresh, the plan is scored and sorted, and the routes are drawn, so the work the morning meeting used to do is already done. The same mechanism runs across 5,000+ wells in three basins today. The clock times below are illustrative.
By the time the foreman pours coffee, the plan is in the truck.
Overnight data flows through agents that validate, score, rank and route it. The work the morning meeting used to do is already done, and the foreman opens a finished day at 6 AM with the reason for every stop attached. The timings below are illustrative.
Overnight SCADA, tank levels and runtime land and are validated. Each well is re-measured against what it should be doing this week, and the flags refresh on every well.
Every open item is priced as dollars per day at risk on your deck and your interests, then maintenance, anomalies, safety and regulatory work sort on that one number.
The ranked list is solved into crew days under qualifications, time windows, hours of service, co-routed equipment and drive time on the real roads.
The plan opens in the truck with the reason each stop is on it. Overrides are one tap with a reason code, and every close-out feeds the next ranking.
The routing math is field-validated: a 12-month, 5,000-well, three-basin deployment cut miles driven 35% while lifting free cash flow 15% on the same crew.
AI and Agents · Willie
Your field team has an operating intelligence layer.
WellOPS decides what the day is worth and why. Willie is the conversational interface to that decision: ask any stop on the plan why it is there, and the answer comes back in the same economics the ranking ran on. The AI explains the decision WorkSync made, out loud, in the cab.
Illustrative dialogue · synthetic numbers, not a customer transcript
Lease operator
Willie, why is 233H my number one stop this morning?
Willie
233H is carrying about $5,100 a day of production at risk. Gas lift performance is down 31% over the last 18 hours and still trending down. Estimated recovery probability for the restart is 82%, and you are 14 minutes away. Nothing else on your route beats that combination this morning.
Willie is voice-first, hands-free, gloves-on. He talks a field team member through a JSA in 30 seconds, logs a gauge sheet from a verbal report, photographs and classifies a hazard with one tap, and answers the procedure question for isolating a well from the cab of the truck. He knows every asset on the lease, every prior shift’s notes, every open work order, and every compliance requirement, and he escalates when something looks wrong.
Underneath, AI agents, machine learning and optimization continuously improve the ranking: every close-out, override and outcome feeds back into the scoring. The technology supports the outcome; the outcome is the ranked day.
Built to make your best pumpers faster, and to keep the institutional knowledge that used to retire with them.
Three ways to deploy
WellOPS deploys three ways, on top of the stack you already own.
Headless by design throughout: every flag, score, rank and route is available over an API, so the only real decision is where you want to start.
Headless
APIs and webhooks for Work Engine, Route Optimizer, and Field Data Capture. Drop our intelligence behind your existing FOM, EAM, or mobile app.
Best for Customers with mature internal tooling who want our engine, not our UI.
Wraps existing tools
WellOPS data layer alongside your current EAM / ERP / accounting stack. We orchestrate; your systems of record stay.
Best for Customers with sunk cost in legacy CMMS / FOM who want to extend, not replace.
Full platform
The complete WellOPS platform: all six capabilities, with Willie as the conversational interface. The platform your field team will love to use.
Best for Customers ready to consolidate and replace legacy field tooling.
Where WellOPS works
See WellOPS in your basin, your stack, and your workflow.
By basin
WellOPS playbook for your basin
- Permian LOE Reduction→
Water handling, takeaway constraints, methane
- Bakken LOE Reduction→
Windshield time, winterization, cold-weather equipment
- Anadarko LOE Reduction→
Where WorkSync was born, 5,000+ wells reference
- Eagle Ford LOE Reduction→
NGL allocation, wet-gas compression
- Marcellus LOE Reduction→
Compression, midstream takeaway
- DJ Basin LOE Reduction→
Reg 7 compliance, surface-use friction
Compare to your stack
Already running something else?
How it works under the hood
Capability deep-dives
- Anomaly Detection→
ML on SCADA streams, 48–72 hr early warning
- Economic Scoring→
Cash-flow weighted task ranking
- Route Optimizer→
Value-density routing, not just shortest distance
- Oilfield Route Planning→
The category guide: routing, dispatch, and how to evaluate it
- Predictive Maintenance→
Per-well failure-mode signatures
- Data Quality Agents→
Cleans + reconciles SCADA before scoring
- Reinforcement Learning→
The plan gets smarter every cycle
The operating discipline
The cluster around WellOPS
- Upstream Optimization→
The umbrella pillar (5 levers + 4-week pilot)
- Management by Exception→
The oil and gas operating model, Taylor to the oilfield
- Pump by Exception Software→
The commercial page: pricing and routing what your queue already flags
- What Is Pump by Exception?→
The in-depth guide to the model, its ceiling, and the ladder past it
- Pump by Priority→
Tasks ranked by $-impact
- Four Eras of Field Ops→
Where you sit on the curve
- 90-day Path Era 2 → 4→
How to upgrade your model
- Why Tank Gauging Is Dangerous→
Safety Moment: the case for exception-based dispatch
- The 4-Week Pilot, Week by Week→
What the stand-up actually looks like
Frequently asked
What VPs of Ops ask in the first 30 days.
How fast can WellOPS be live in the truck cab?
Integrate to your SCADA, accounting, and EAM in under one week. Stand up the Work Engine in two. Crews running on the ranked plan within four. The 4-week pilot is a real production deployment, not a sandbox.
Will field team members actually use it?
The design bar is a truck cab at 6 AM in gloves: mobile-first, offline-capable, voice-enabled, and held to a design standard of under 20 minutes a day of software per field team member. Willie talks a field team member through a JSA in 30 seconds. The form fills itself and the person confirms what is true. Adoption is designed for rather than mandated: the plan carries the reason for every stop, overrides are one tap with a reason code, and the rollout gates on the field accepting the ranking before anything reaches a truck.
What training does the field need before the first shift?
The app is built for a truck cab at 6 AM in gloves: one screen at a time, offline capable, and it syncs when signal returns. A field team member opens it to a day that is already assembled and already in order, so the first shift is the training. Capture happens at the wellhead, by voice or in a couple of taps, rather than at shift end, and Willie walks a person through a JSA by voice. Every stop carries the reason it is ranked where it is, and any stop can be resequenced or skipped in one tap with a reason code, which keeps local knowledge in charge of the day. The rollout is gated rather than dated: flags tune against the field's own judgment first, and the ranked plan goes into a truck when the crews agree the ranking is right. The measure that matters is whether the plan survives contact with the field, and establishing that on your own crews is what the four weeks are for.
See what the field app asks for →Does it replace our existing EAM / ERP / FOM?
No. WellOPS sits on top of them via the DataHub. We make those systems talk to each other and write the ranked plan into whatever interface your crews already open. Three deployment modes: headless API behind your existing tools, wraps the stack you already own, or full WellOPS platform. Customer's choice.
How do we justify this internally?
Build the case from a method rather than a projection. First, you and your controller pick one operating metric and write it down before anything is connected: cash flow per BOE, operating cost per well, drive miles, or TRIR. Second, run your own well count, crew count, and drive times through the route economics calculator on this site, which puts a dollar figure on a day of your field capacity using your inputs rather than ours. Third, run the four-week pilot on one field against that single agreed metric, with the baseline set in week zero, so the business case is measured on your wells. The Impact Guarantee carries the commercial risk while that happens: license fees only when the metrics move. What reaches your approver is your own baseline and your own delta, which is the only version of the number that survives a finance review.
Run the route economics calculator on your numbers →What if it doesn't move our metric?
License fees only when the metrics move. Pick the operating metric that matters (cash flow per BOE, OPEX per well, TRIR, drive miles). We agree the baseline in week zero, run four weeks on the stack you already own, and measure at week four. We charge when your number moves. If it does not move, you walk away, no kill fee.
Are your best people working on your most valuable work today?
Don’t leave production on the table.
Pick the metric that matters. WellOPS is the best Pump by Priority platform in oil and gas, and we will run it on your field in a 4-week pilot under the Impact Guarantee: we charge when your number moves.