Everything here is written to be useful whether or not you ever hire me: what the work costs with other firms' published prices beside mine, how the documents that run a plant or an oilfield office actually work and where reading them by machine goes wrong, and a library of what has happened to companies whose AI failed with nobody watching. Every number is from a recorded run or a cited source.
Cost guide
Other firms' and guides' published prices for assessments, strategy, builds, retainers and hourly work, each checked at its source, in one table next to a fixed $2,500 assessment, builds from $18,000 and operate from $3,500 a month. Then the six questions to ask any consultant before paying.
Read the cost guide →For fabricators and service centers
The eight blocks on a cert, a five-minute receiving check, ten tells a steel person catches on sight, the heat-analysis limits for A36, A572 Grade 50 and A992 as a recorded gate enforces them, where OCR and AI misread faxed and photocopied certs, and a printable checklist.
Read the mill cert guide →For oilfield service companies
What has to be true before a ticket bills, the seven places money leaks between the field and the portal, why operators' portals reject, what a recorded agent fleet caught and refused, the three checks that need no AI, and the honest labor arithmetic.
Read the field ticket guide →Reference data, CC BY 4.0
Twenty-six documented incidents, each verified against a primary source and published with its own page: who was involved, when, what class of failure, who discovered it, whether the company running the AI caught it, and the control that was missing. Also as JSON and CSV, versioned and mirrored.
Read the receipts →Reference data
The stories that arrived for checking and were not there: what was searched, what was found, and the real incident each one usually stands in for, with corrections dated on the record.
Read the refuted claims →Method
The same discipline pointed at AI research itself: the claims research tools produced about the industries I work in, and how each one died at the primary source.
Read the verification log →The standing rule for everything on this page: no number without a denominator, no source below a regulator's release, a court record, a company's own statement or a named newsroom, and every correction dated where the reader can see it.