Data is for two things: making money and saving it.
Custom Intelligence is the census with the judgment already in it, from people who run these negotiations every day. Point it at the money you are trying to save.
Your biggest recurring cost line, run through the machinery before the letter goes out.
Every counterparty that answered, put on one schema and priced to a single number. Compression is where most of it runs, but the machinery does not care which cost line it is pointed at. You walk into the readout knowing the move, the savings, and the reason.
Every cost element normalized to one unit rate at a common basis, so a cheaper-looking bid at an easier spec cannot hide. The recommended column is the lowest credible all-in that covers your future need and lands on time.
Every location, every bidder, the all-in in one grid. Green is the recommended move; red costs more than staying put. You see the portfolio, not sixteen separate decisions, and you sequence the moves that matter first.
Where the savings actually come from, and what happens to the number that matters: cost to serve. On this book the portfolio pays less every month while serving more.
The should-cost model priced every product family against its own feedstock indices. Roughly 6% was justified; seven of nine categories were overstated. The surcharge was rejected and the counterproposal held.
The engagement books where the value lands. Work tied to a specific facility or AFE capitalizes into the well; the recurring read is typically chargeable to LOE under COPAS, not G&A. It is allocable to the cost centers it defends, and your accountants make the final call.
That is the frame we hold ourselves to: a should-cost line, not an overhead line. If the read cannot clear its own fee against a routine compliance cost, it should not run.
The first step is a conversation, not a PDF.
Send a note and we book a thirty-minute working session: your cost line, your counterparties, your targets, and the first read on the board with the names on it.
Contribute your fleet and contract rows to the common census, and it comes back as a credit against your bill. Never preferential data or early access, only a lower price. The pool stays neutral; your cost goes down.