Vertical 1 · oil and gas + midstream
Where AB energy operators are actually spending
Six wedges with verified demand inside junior and intermediate AB producers ($50M–$500M cap), service companies, and midstream operators. The bigger players (Suncor, Cenovus, CNRL, Enbridge, TC Energy, Pembina) buy through Amii / AltaML / partner channels — Workflow Studio targets the underserved tier below them.
Land administration
Lease + mineral rights → structured calendar
Most AB juniors have scanned-PDF lease graveyards on SharePoint. Build a thin-wrapper agent that ingests the existing folder structure, abstracts lease and surface-use docs into structured fields, and outputs a clean obligation calendar. Specialize in freehold mineral title in southern AB and SE Saskatchewan — generic CLM tools fumble it.
$15K–$40K build · $1.5K–$3K/mo
Regulatory · methane
Directive 060 + OneStop pre-fill
OneStop has no public API. An RPA agent (Playwright + Claude computer-use) that pre-fills OneStop forms from existing well data, plus Directive 060 narrative drafting (LDAR data + reduction plan → annual filing). AER LMR/LLR tracking is a hot-button for intermediates.
$5K–$20K per filing engagement · retainer
Field ops · predictive
Predictive maintenance + dispatch
Resell + integrate Ambyint or Kelvin AI for sub-500-well operators that lack internal data engineering (5–15% production uplift on rod pumps, 20–40% reduction in failure events). Build "field ticket → invoice" agent for service companies (frac, wireline, water hauling) wired to OpenInvoice. Dispatch optimization for service firms in Grande Prairie, Lloydminster, Drayton Valley using Twilio + Claude + Google Maps.
$10K–$30K build · $2K–$5K/mo
Subsurface · RAG
Geoscience copilot over decades of well files
Most AB intermediates have 20–40 years of scanned end-of-well reports and AFE post-mortems on a file share. Build a RAG agent over the corpus on AWS Bedrock (Claude in ca-central-1 — important for AB IT data residency) or Cohere (Canadian-sovereign angle plays well in Calgary).
$30K–$80K build · $2K–$5K/mo managed
Service company
Field ticket → invoice agent
For frac, wireline, water-hauling, hot-shot operators. Mobile-first ticket capture → Claude validation → OpenInvoice push → AR follow-up agent. Replaces manual ticket entry that loses 5–15% of billable revenue to errors and delays.
$8K–$20K build · $1K–$3K/mo
Data-centre operations
AESO-queue project ops stack
30+ AI data-centre projects in AESO's queue under AB's $100B Strategy. Each site needs operations agents, predictive maintenance copilots, energy-trading assistants, environmental compliance bots. The picks-and-shovels around Wonder Valley / Synapse / Beacon AI is arguably the single biggest 2026–2028 AB opportunity.
12-month contracts · custom pricing