Life Cycle
Meridian Resources · demonstration tenant · data as of August 11, 2026
Live process

The reshaped life cycle, running

One federal well from the county archive to the royalty check. Twelve stages, eight agents, two human gates. Dispatch it and watch the handoffs land — the run genuinely stops at both gates and will not move until a person releases it.

Cycle time today
283 days
183 operator / 100 agency
Reshaped cycle time
210 days
110 operator / 100 agency
Operator days recovered
73 days
Earlier spud per federal well
Operator-side compression
40%
Agency days unchanged, by design
Run control
Nothing dispatched yet
idle
0/14
Acquire the record
Everything downstream is bounded by whether the county record is machine-readable.
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Establish the truth
One canonical subject across five systems that have never shared a key.
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Earn the approval
183 of the 283 permit days sit on the operator side. This is where they are won.
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Operate and account
A reported volume traced back to a meter and forward to a division of interest.
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Life-cycle run console
No run dispatched yet.
Start a run and every step, handoff and gate shows up here in sequence.
County record intake
Accountable: Title analyst
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Inputs
  • Target tract list
  • Runsheet gaps
  • Prior abstract
Systems touched
  • County clerk archive
  • Courthouse document supply
  • Document corpus
Artifacts produced
  • Instrument batch
  • Coverage report
  • Gap list for a physical courthouse run
Why this stage behaves this way

Coverage is the floor no model repairs. Images existing is not the same as records being geographically indexed and machine-readable — Permian coverage is genuinely good, Bakken and Anadarko are not.

Cycle-time ledger
183 operator and 100 agency days today, against 110 and 100 reshaped
estimate
County record intake
19/5-14
Instrument extraction
22/7-15
Legal description to geometry
11/8-3
Chain of title and curative
24/22-2
Entity resolution
16/5-11
Identity graph commit
8/3-5
Cross-domain obligation reasoning
12/6-6
Permit package assembly
12/8-4
Deficiency prediction and cure exposure
55/42-13
Human submission
4/40
Agency review
100/1000

The 100 agency days are not claimed by anything on this platform, and the statutory notify and cure window inside the operator side is not compressible either. What changes is how often a package enters that clock at all. A package that is complete on the first pass never does.

What this life cycle does not claim
Three limits, stated before a client states them
Agency days are untouched

One hundred of the 283 days sit with the regulator. Nothing here compresses them, and presenting them as recoverable is the fastest way to lose a room.

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The cure window is statutory

Ten days for the agency to notify and 45 for the operator to cure sit inside the operator side. The remedy is not to compress the clock but to keep packages out of it.

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Two stages barely move

Attorney sign-off and human submission are legal positions, not engineering backlog. They are modeled as gates because that is what they are.

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