UC-098
Natural Language AFE Cost Assistant
Answers plain-language questions on AFE status, budget remaining, variance and flagged invoices, returning cited answers in seconds.
8-14Build Duration
5-15xIndicative ROI
The Challenge
Routine status questions take 30-45 minutes to answer because the data sits across spreadsheets and separate systems. Senior engineers absorb 5-10 hrs/week of interruptions, and answers vary by who is asked.
How It Works
- Ingests AFE documents, actual cost data, rate contracts and historical invoice records.
- Interprets the question, resolves it against live cost data and assembles a cited answer.
- Engineers, partners and executives self-serve status in seconds, with links to source.
What It Removes
- Thirty-minute hunts for a number that exists
- Emailing a senior engineer for routine status
- Answers that change depending on who is asked
Input Data RequirementsAFE documents with line-item cost codes, actual cost data by well and phase, rate contracts, historical invoice records, exception rules
Output FormatConversational answers with source citations, AFE status and variance readouts, exception explanations, narrative portfolio summaries
“I can ask what is left on the AFE and get the number with a link to where it came from, instead of waiting on an email.”