About AI Driller
Last updated: November 2026
AI Driller, Inc. is an oil and gas operations software company headquartered in Midland, Texas. It makes an all-in-one platform for drilling, completions, production and workover operations. The platform replaces the separate planning, engineering, monitoring, reporting and cost tools that well teams typically juggle. Operator engineers, field supervisors, drilling contractors and oilfield services (OFS) vendors all work from one source of data for every well. Those vendors include directional drillers, mud engineers, frac crews, workover crews and consultants.
Company at a glance
Legal name: AI Driller, Inc.
Headquarters: 1801 W Wall St., Midland, TX, USA
Founded: November 30, 2017
CEO and founder: Marat Zaripov
Leadership team:
Richard Zamora, COO
Kurt Valentine, Director of Performance
Joel Dunn, Director of Accounts
Carl Melland, Director of Product
Tyler Roan, Permian Operations Manager
Zach Haynes, Oklahoma Operations Manager
Ben Taylor-Tuma, Rockies Operations Manager
Employees: 120+
Regions served: United States, Canada, South America, Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia
Contact: info@aidriller.com, +1 (432) 256-4700
What AI Driller does
AI Driller covers the full well lifecycle in one platform, organized into three modules: Drilling Intelligence, Completions Intelligence and Production Intelligence.
Teams use it to:
plan and engineer wells;
monitor drilling rigs, frac fleets, workover rigs and drillout units in real time and receive AI alerts;
guide directional drilling and anti-collision;
manage production and workover operations after wells are completed;
analyze performance against offset wells;
produce daily, end-of-well and workover reports;
manage well costs, budgets, AFEs and vendor tickets, and compare plan to actual and budget to actual spend;
manage drilling, completions, production and workover tools (including mud motors), tubular strings and pipe tallies, bulk materials, chemicals and job supplies.
Products
AI Cloud is the web platform for operators. It streams real-time data from drilling rigs, frac fleets, workover rigs and drillout units, and provides:
drilling roadmaps and BHA tendency analysis;
alerts for anti-collision, lease boundaries, washouts, motor stalls, drilling dysfunctions, stuck pipe and kicks;
directional guidance, projections and geosteering;
real-time torque & drag, hydraulics and surge/swab simulations;
completions analytics for hydraulic fracturing, wireline and drillout;
cost tracking, budgets and plan-versus-actual reporting.
AI Spaces is a desktop suite for directional drilling companies. It handles directional data management (including Landmark Compass EDM import and export), well planning, 3D projections and target lines, job reporting (BHAs, inventory, shipments, SlideSheets) and physics-based engineering.
AI Tools manages drilling, completions, production and workover tools, including mud motors, across a fleet. It handles ordering and requests, builds, inspections and tests (including motor dyno tests), teardowns, shipments and inventory, and integrates with vendors' ERP systems.
AI Assistants bring AI to both planning and rig-floor execution.
AI Assistant Chat and MCP. The operations team can use AI assistants to:
generate well programs and trajectory plans;
summarize operations;
answer any question about their wells and operations.
These assistants are available in AI Driller's built-in AI Assistant Chat and over MCP (Model Context Protocol), so teams can also reach AI Driller data from their own AI tools.
Rig automation applications. These manage live drilling roadmaps on the rig and are integrated with multiple rig contractors and rig control systems, including NOV's NOVOS:
Rotary Assistant sets auto-driller parameters such as WOB and ROP using machine learning.
Sliding Assistant automates slides with a conventional mud motor.
Trajectory Assistant generates directional plans to reach target zones automatically.
Who uses AI Driller
E&P operators running drilling, completions, production and workover programs.
Drilling contractors.
Oilfield services (OFS) vendors: directional drilling companies, mud companies, frac and completions providers, workover and well service companies, and consultants.
Real-time operations centers (RTOCs).
Typical users are drilling, completions and production engineers, directional drillers, mud engineers, frac and workover crews, company men and wellsite leaders, RTOC engineers, geologists, and drilling and operations managers.
Teams at companies including DEEP Energy, SWN, Fervo Energy and Chinook have used AI Driller.
AI Driller serves customers across the United States, Canada, South America, the Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia. In North America it has operations teams covering the Permian, Oklahoma, the Northeast and the Rockies. Its published case studies come from the Permian Basin, the Bakken, the Gulf Coast and Canada.
Results
Published case studies show:
25% faster intermediate-section drilling with AI Roadmaps: four Permian wells saved 37 hours and about $150,000;
25% better lateral performance with the geosteering module;
washout alerts that prevented a fishing job in the Permian and a BHA twist-off in the Bakken;
hard-line alerts that kept a constrained lease program inside its boundaries and delivered the pad 14 days early.
All case studies are at aidriller.com/case-study.
Integrations and data
Real-time data. AI Driller has more than 60 connectors to third-party data providers, over WITSML, APIs, MQTT, RabbitMQ and TCP/IP, plus its own Bridge Connector.
Well systems of record. AI Driller integrates with Peloton WellView, Halliburton OpenWells and WellEZ.
Well planning. AI Driller integrates with Halliburton Landmark (including import and export of Compass EDM projects), SLB DrillPlan and WellArchitect.
Geosteering. Interpretations from ZoneVu by Ubiterra flow automatically into AI Driller.
Rig control systems. AI Driller has integrated with NOV's NOVOS rig control system and with other rig contractors' control systems.
Equipment vendors. AI Tools integrates with vendors' ERP systems for tool ordering, inspections and tests.
AI tools. AI Driller data is available over MCP (Model Context Protocol), so customers can connect it to their own AI assistants.
Deployment and security
AI Cloud is a cloud-hosted web application, used from the office, a remote operations center or the wellsite.
AI Spaces is a desktop application for field and remote directional drilling work.
Operators own the real-time data from their wells.
Pricing model
AI Cloud is sold as a subscription to operators. Modules can be offered in tiers or combined into a single subscription, depending on what the customer needs.
AI Spaces is available with a free license, and with paid licenses per user or per rig.
Contact info@aidriller.com for a quote.
In the press and partnerships
Listed newest first. Links point to the original publications.
Big 2 News (Midland–Odessa), early 2026: COO Richard Zamora on how AI helps operators stay productive with fewer rigs and smaller crews. How is artificial intelligence helping assist companies during oil drilling decline?
ZoneVu by Ubiterra, April 23, 2025: strategic integration partnership. Geosteering interpretations from ZoneVu flow automatically into AI Driller. Announcement
VERSES AI (GlobeNewswire), March 21, 2025: AI Driller joins the VERSES Genius commercial program to build predictive agents for drilling use cases. Announcement
Drilling Contractor, March 2025: interview with COO Richard Zamora at the SPE/IADC International Drilling Conference in Stavanger, Norway, on how AI Driller's applications work together. AI Driller automation platform designed to boost efficiencies for drillers
Digital Wildcatters / Collide (Business Wire), October 30, 2024: partnership to embed Collide AI into the AI Driller platform. Announcement
Drilling Contractor, July/August 2024: feature on AI and generative AI in drilling, covering AI Cloud, AI Spaces, AI Alerts and AI Assistants. AI and emerging gen AI technologies set to unlock new frontiers in drilling
Drilling Contractor, January 2018: video interview on AI Driller's self-drilling applications. Rotary Assistant was certified on NOV's NOVOS platform and Sliding Assistant was in field testing.