Energy & field operations
AI agents for energy and field operations.
Digital AI co-workers for oil and gas, from site to back office
Sidekick agents take on whole field jobs: alarm triage, maintenance planning, permits, shift handover and emissions reporting. Each one joins your team in Microsoft Teams and brings decisions to a person.
Field jobs
Field work, job by job.
Examples of jobs we build agents for, from site work to joint venture billing. Each one links to its job card and to a Sidekick product it relies on.
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Production monitor
Alarm triage
Watches live readings from sites and equipment day and night, spots drift early and opens a case with evidence attached.
Your people decide: When to send a crew
Job card for Production monitor Product: Sidekick Connectors
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Maintenance planner
Maintenance planning
Turns work requests into ready-to-run work orders, with parts, permits and crews lined up.
Your people decide: Whether to take equipment out of service
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Field service dispatcher
Field service dispatch
Assigns field jobs by skill, location and priority, and reworks routes when plans change.
Your people decide: Overtime and after-hours call-outs
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Shift handover coordinator
Shift handover
Writes each shift’s handover from logs, alarms and open work, so nothing falls between crews.
Your people decide: Who owns each open risk
Job card for Shift handover coordinator Product: Agent Studio
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Permit coordinator
Permit coordination
Checks permit-to-work requests for missing isolations, clashing jobs and lapsed training before an approver sees them.
Your people decide: Every permit
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Reliability analyst
Reliability analysis
Digs into repeat failures, compares them with past investigations and drafts root-cause findings for review.
Your people decide: Which fixes go ahead
Job card for Reliability analyst Product: Sidekick Connectors
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Safety reporting coordinator
Safety reporting
Turns field reports into complete incident records, spots repeat patterns and tracks corrective actions to closure.
Your people decide: Severity ratings and regulator notifications
Job card for Safety reporting coordinator Product: Agent Studio
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Emissions reporting analyst
Emissions reporting
Gathers emissions and flaring data from every site, checks it for gaps and drafts regulatory reports.
Your people decide: Final figures before filing
Job card for Emissions reporting analyst Product: Sidekick Connectors
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Joint venture accountant
Joint venture accounting
Prepares partner billings, checks cost splits against each agreement and answers partner questions.
Your people decide: How to settle disputed charges
Job card for Joint venture accountant Product: Sidekick Gateway
Agents that work as a team
One pump alarm, start to finish.
Field work crosses departments. Three agents and a shift supervisor share one job, and every step lands on record.
- Operations agent: Triages an alarm
- Maintenance agent: Plans a repair
- Procurement agent: Checks parts
- Shift supervisor: A person approves
- Every agent: Work moves, on record
Why Sidekick
What we bring to field work.
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Based in Calgary
Our team works from downtown Calgary, Alberta, a centre of Canada’s energy industry. Our agent examples start with field work.
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Plant data, outbound only
Sidekick Connectors work outbound only, so your plant network never opens up to cloud services.
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People keep sign-off
Sensitive actions, such as a permit or a repair, wait for a person to approve that exact request. You can stop any agent at any time.
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Runs in your cloud
Agents run in your cloud, where your data lives. With Sidekick Sovereign, every Sidekick product runs as your own private copy inside your own Microsoft Azure.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Which field jobs can agents take on?
Jobs your people do through systems, documents, email and chat: alarm triage, maintenance planning, field service dispatch, shift handover, permit checks, safety and emissions reporting, reliability analysis and joint venture accounting. Describe any job we left out, and we’ll build an agent for it.
Can agents use our live plant data?
Yes. Sidekick Connectors bring live data from historians, sensors, event streams and business applications into your lakehouse, ready for analytics and AI agents. AVEVA PI is one example source we connect. They work outbound only, so your plant network never opens up to cloud services.
Who stays in control?
Your people. Agents work in business systems, such as work orders, permits and reports, and leave equipment decisions to your crews. Sensitive actions wait for a person to approve that exact request, you can stop any agent at any time, and every step is on record.
How do we start?
With an Agent Test Drive: one digital AI co-worker takes on one field job in your Microsoft Teams for a set period. Fixed size, fixed price, agreed up front. Your people work with it on real tasks, then you decide: keep it, grow it or stop.
Agent Test Drive
Try one job, live in your Microsoft Teams.
One digital AI co-worker, one job, a set period. Fixed size, fixed price, agreed up front. Your people work with it on real tasks, then you decide: keep it running with us, grow it or stop.
What you get
- Job description
- Approval rules
- Live in Microsoft Teams
- Closing review
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