Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1 turns into a real talk on why forward deployed engineers win where AI pilots stall, with Michael Cortez, John, and Nick Smart swapping war stories from completions, geophysics, and the startup trenches while they map out how Collide Enterprise moves past basic chat tools into search plus workflows that actually hold up in the real world.

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00:00 Setup and intros
00:45 Michael’s path and joining Collide
01:59 Nick’s background and role shift
03:08 Collide Enterprise vs community
04:16 Search, RAG, and workflow evolution
06:31 Why out of the box AI falls short
08:41 Time savings and real work focus
11:39 Single source of truth vision
13:16 Small teams scaling bigger assets
17:18 AI adoption vs past tech hype
19:26 Digital transformation missing link
20:20 Why FDEs make pilots work
23:36 Biggest learnings this year
31:52 What’s next in 2026
38:57 Bold predictions for 3 to 5 years
47:37 Fine tuned models teaser and wrap

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Bruce Holman and Corey Scott showed up ready to blow up the idea that accounts payable has to be slow, messy, and stuck in the past. They walked us through how Energy Payables is flipping the script with a platform that actually makes sense for operators and vendors, think cleaner workflows, real transparency, and smart tech like AI doing the heavy lifting instead of some poor soul buried in spreadsheets. Between the stories from the field, the back-office chaos they’re fixing, and the vision they have for where oil and gas operations should be headed, this conversation feels like a peek at how the industry finally gets out of its own way and into something a whole lot more efficient.

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Justin has a way of making the oilfield and the data world feel like they’ve always belonged together. He walked us through how he’s helped teams untangle messy workflows, clean up data quality issues, and actually make analytics useful instead of overwhelming. From his time at Marathon Oil to experimenting with tools like Snowflake and Alteryx, he’s all about boosting efficiency and giving people the confidence to make smarter decisions. We also ended up talking about where AI actually fits into oil and gas, not the hype, but the stuff that genuinely moves the needle.

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