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Welcome to Chuck Yates Got A Job with Chuck Yates. You've now found your dysfunctional life coach, the Investor Formerly known as Prominent Businessman Chuck Yates. What's not to learn from the self-proclaimed Galactic Viceroy, who was publicly canned from a prominent private equity firm, has had enough therapy to quote Brene Brown chapter and verse and spends most days embarrassing himself on Energy Finance Twitter as @Nimblephatty.
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Unknown
What's up everyone? If you are familiar with Spotify Wrapped, this is your Collide community version of Spotify Wrapped. We're going to go over some stats, some numbers, some highlights of the past year, how much our community has grown, how much you guys have influenced that. So let's get started. So we can kind of go into, just like overall community vision.
00;00;24;10 - 00;01;10;03
Unknown
I'll go to you. Todd. So how do you feel like the community validated the need for an energy specific platform? Well, I think, with everyone that's jumping in and actually contributing both on the content side from forums, answering questions and then all the power hours. Like, I feel like we've had really good conversations across oil and gas executives, people starting companies, people doing AI and energy, others that are looking at carbon capture, a few that are doing renewables feel like it's been just across the board and I think, I don't know, I'm sure we'll talk about our numbers, but it's like almost 10,000 people and thinking like, okay, now is the mark
00;01;10;03 - 00;01;29;19
Unknown
where we can go from like 10,000 to 50,000 people or 100,000 people, and there's just a cool opportunity there for so many people to get engaged and learn from everyone around us. Yeah, I want to kind of start us off, too, with, you know, shouting out Chad Currie, who's one of our dedicated members. He made a really cool post.
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Unknown
The other day on LinkedIn just talking about like, you know, he has been on LinkedIn for over ten years, talking, you know, to a whole bunch or trying to connect with a whole bunch of energy folks and he feels like over time it's just become so stuffy with noise. You know, you guys get spam sales bots reaching out to you all the time.
00;01;46;29 - 00;02;19;09
Unknown
And he wanted LinkedIn as much as he has benefited from it, from it in the past, like, you know, he always wants to scratch a content itch. So he's looking for exclusive energy content. And so for the past few months, he's been really utilizing Clyde, and it's been really scratching that itch forum, which I think is really cool to see because that's literally the exact vision is really just coming and creating a dedicated place for energy people to come in authentically connect, and you know, to add to your point, I think the community, you know, even with D.W. has always validated the need for it, a platform like this.
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Unknown
Right. So like we've always talk about collisions at events that we used to host and, and the importance of those things because, you know, you got to other events and they can get really stuffy. And, you know, you got a booth since sometimes you were just trying to sell you stuff, which is like there's a space and there's a time where that stuff is needed, but it's not all the time.
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Unknown
So I think it's really cool to really see that vision come to life over the last two years. Yeah. His post, I feel like is exactly it's like the LinkedIn, not LinkedIn. It's really post it on LinkedIn. It's like the post version of the white paper of Clyde, of like why Clyde exists in the first place is exactly that.
00;02;55;09 - 00;03;15;03
Unknown
Yeah. One thing that I've loved is the community calls, like, you've done such a great job hosting those and seeing like, you know, it's always a challenge to get ten people or 20 people or 50 people on a call, but then actually engaging and talking about real issues and, and really digging in on, different topics has been awesome to see.
00;03;15;03 - 00;03;33;09
Unknown
Yeah. And I want to say that that's like I put them together and I find the host, but that has it's only been as successful as it has been because of the community. Like they go and they take that conversation and they're asking questions and just like bouncing ideas off of each other. And it's yeah, like you said, it's like super cool to see them interact in that way.
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Unknown
You know, I don't get that on LinkedIn. Right? Right. Yeah. You have to pay for it if you do. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Okay. So we'll just go into some stats that I think would be really cool to share. So Q1 January 2025, we started off with about 5489 users. Obviously we've made some changes as to how to get into Clyde, how to become a member.
00;03;58;19 - 00;04;26;10
Unknown
But as of today, we have about 9368 members, which is almost double. Yeah. That's insane growth. Very exciting. Some other things that we've we've been working on. Shout out to Jacob is 165 podcast throughout the year. And all these videos that I'm about to share have nothing to do with, like all the external events that Jacob has been a part of and been going out to, but also did for a amaz.
00;04;26;12 - 00;05;04;20
Unknown
Over 40 power hours. Five community calls in shout out to Sidney, eight in person embeds. So very cool. Do you want to talk us through kind of the events and how they have? Yeah, I feel like our kind of repertoire of events has been probably one thing that's changed probably the most over this past year. You know, if you've been around here for a while, you're familiar with Energy Tech Night and Empower and Fuze and all these events we did really highlighting it wasn't just, you know, educational, but the networking and highlighting emerging energy tech and things like that.
00;05;04;23 - 00;05;32;27
Unknown
We kind of got to this inflection point kind of late last year, early this year to where Callide was really taking off. And it's as odd as it is to say out loud, it's especially with energy tech. And it was a matter of, you know, we're giving the floor this platform to other energy tech companies and our AI companies when we are also now an AI company.
00;05;33;00 - 00;05;49;29
Unknown
So that really wasn't going to work anymore. The format we had done in the vast, and I think we realized when we started getting some people applying to present that in theory, could be considered a competitor. So we were like, wait a minute, we you know, we really had to sit down and think about it, about what that look like going forward.
00;05;49;29 - 00;06;13;17
Unknown
And I think we tried a few things, failed a few things, but I think we've got in a groove now. We found what's working for us as an AI company. So again, if you're, from the beginning, you probably knew digital wildcatters from the media side, the content, our events. We are now Callide. We are an AI company, period.
00;06;13;19 - 00;06;34;07
Unknown
So our events needed to reflect that. And I think a little bit to the dismay of some of our longtime community members and longtime ETN fans, it was just time to retire it. We tried to switch up the format a little bit, in Houston and in Midland at the beginning of the year, it didn't get terrible feedback.
00;06;34;07 - 00;06;53;27
Unknown
So instead of doing pitches, we had more content. We did interviews and we had some sort of panel, on a certain topic that was relevant to the industry, to that city. And in a weird way, I think some of our regulars, if you will, were like, oh, it's not the same, which I get. It was not the same.
00;06;53;27 - 00;07;24;26
Unknown
The energy is not as high when you don't have that, like competition situation that you had when we were doing pitches. But on the flip side, when you think about how our events need to serve our community and serve our mission at Clyde, at those two energy tech nights, which again, were a little different than what we did in the past, we got more technical folks and more engineers, which is our target user on Clyde to attend those events than ever before.
00;07;24;28 - 00;08;11;04
Unknown
So I think that just solidified that we needed to move away from this pitch night party atmosphere and do things that are more technical, which with our power hours, I think that kind of scratches the itch, if you will, for those technical people. And so what that's allowed us to do is kind of go back to what we were known for in the very, very, very beginning and not just kind of these casual meetups and inviting people to our office, throwing happy hours around, or tech and OTC and some of these bigger conferences that are in town and allowing people just this very lighthearted, casual atmosphere to come, whether you know people or not.
00;08;11;06 - 00;08;36;25
Unknown
If you're interested in AI and energy, come have drinks, meet people. And we've gotten such good feedback on that. I think people are looking for, especially now, like there's so many events you can go to throughout the year. I mean, especially around those big conferences. Everyone's doing happy hours, everyone's doing luncheons and speaker series and all these things, and it's overwhelming.
00;08;36;25 - 00;08;59;22
Unknown
And I think what people really are looking for is just a place where they can connect with people. And I think that happens more organically in a smaller, more intimate setting, like at our office or like just at a happy hour, as opposed to, hey, if you come to this luncheon, there's only 30 minutes for networking. Then you have to sit down for lunch and listen to the speaker and after everyone's got to get back to work.
00;08;59;25 - 00;09;21;05
Unknown
So you're kind of left, you know, struggling like, oh, I didn't really actually get to talk to anyone about energy or about AI. And if you did, it's a five minute conversation before you sit down. So I think it's gone really well. And I think we're looking forward to doing more meetups in the future. I think our goal for 2026 to do one a month, if not more.
00;09;21;05 - 00;09;38;21
Unknown
So, you know, I'm pulling for a Super Bowl party. We have this, like, super secure office. So it just makes sense to do it here. But, you know, if you guys out there have any ideas of some community events we can do, please let us know. We'd love to. Love to partner with you guys. Love to host.
00;09;38;24 - 00;10;02;21
Unknown
Anything. You know, our first core value is community over everything. And if our events aren't serving our community, then there's no point in doing them. So, I'm actually really pleased with how our events have evolved over this past year and where we ended up, at the end of this year. Yeah. I think one of the biggest pieces of feedback that we received, you know, kind of sunsetting ETN is people missed the content.
00;10;02;21 - 00;10;27;28
Unknown
Right? So we did a lot, put a lot of like brainpower into, you know, really focusing in on technical conversations and power hours and roundtables, community calls. But, you know, one piece of not one piece, but like one series of, content that came back this year was actually energy 1 to 1. So, Jacob, do you want to talk us a little through a little bit about, like, how that journey has been bringing that back to life?
00;10;28;00 - 00;10;57;28
Unknown
Yeah, I moved here in July, so I was, you know, been with the company since 2020, but here in the office, you know, 9 to 5, I'm like, well, I might as well take advantage and put my face on screen. I have experience doing content, being on camera, so I have no problem doing it. And the excuse I had was to get myself on screen was to bring back energy 101, which was this great concept that Juliana Girls used to do back in the day, where Danny kicked us out.
00;10;58;00 - 00;11;17;28
Unknown
Yeah, I scratched, I scratched me that that gif I put on LinkedIn, I scratched him out. So, you know, it was a great concept because it was kind of the only piece of content we would make that would actually reach to a wider audience. I'll like, outside of your typical energy professional, because it was so dumbed down.
00;11;18;00 - 00;11;38;24
Unknown
Right. Which we literally have proof because our most watched podcast ever is, one on one episode with Collin talking about being a roughneck. And he explains everything down to like, like as if grandma was watching. Isn't that the actual energy? Oil and gas, one on one with Justin? Also like a very, very Parsons also up there.
00;11;38;24 - 00;11;59;05
Unknown
He's close to 100,000, I think. And I think like Marshall has got like a like it's somewhere in the five digits. So wireline. Yeah, she did wireline. And we literally just have like a redux of that. You know, when we brought her back this year. And so the idea was, you know, bring back that just in general. And then also the hopes of just creating this top of funnel to people outside.
00;11;59;07 - 00;12;14;22
Unknown
And so me and Julie sit down and we haven't missed a week since we started the last quarter. So we got like 17 episodes out and that's 17 weeks in a row. And I plan on like hitting at least a year until I start thinking of like, what's worth it or whatever, because it does take a lot of time.
00;12;14;22 - 00;12;33;22
Unknown
But I think it's really cool because Crystal is talking about all this technical stuff we do, and it's like, well, yeah, there's a lot of great technical stuff, but we don't have the non-technical stuff. So just one show is pretty much probably all we need when it comes to this stuff. And then most of the community are going to be more engaged in actual, you know, technical stuff.
00;12;33;25 - 00;13;00;02
Unknown
Yeah, that's a tough one. I think you hit the nail on the head saying that what people miss the most about Energy Tech Night was the content. And not having, you know, staying up to date on like the newest energy tech and things like that. But in a weird way, like now that we have gone all in on collide, we are delivering more content to our community than ever before.
00;13;00;02 - 00;13;24;01
Unknown
It just happens to not be live in person, but they are getting, you know, ten x the amount of content that they would have gotten, from us just from what, 5 or 6 energy techniques. Yeah. And to Jacob's point, you know, the whole point of energy 101 is to be able to grasp a more broader group of individuals, even people who are just living day to day lives have nothing to do with the industry.
00;13;24;01 - 00;13;43;12
Unknown
But, you know, one popular group that we've seen it really be a hit towards is, students in universities. So want to kind of pivot to university partnerships a little bit and pick on Todd here. And if you don't mind, just walk us through kind of university partnerships, what that looked like, things that we accomplish, relationships we've made.
00;13;43;15 - 00;14;22;23
Unknown
Yeah. So I think, we probably got started. I actually don't know which which one we started first, but I think UT energy April. Yeah. And TCU, their energy institutes. And so what's been fascinating is going in with the students being kind of a judge for some of their energy related projects, but then at the same time being there to find out really what they're trying to understand from, from a community aspect so that you can see what does it look like for me as a, as a geologist, I'm looking at opportunities in oil and gas, but I'm concerned about do I need to start thinking about geothermal.
00;14;22;23 - 00;14;46;08
Unknown
So they're going through this whole process just like everyone in the industry is, is as well. And I'll do a little plug for, just that some of the energy one on one stuff as well, because before my son went back or went into college, had him listen to like seven different podcasts to understand, like, oh, this is what kind of petroleum engineering does.
00;14;46;08 - 00;15;11;13
Unknown
And this is what like land is and who's doing what in, in these different roles in the companies. But it's been exciting to see kind of that, come back full force because now as we go into more university partnerships, as a, A&M. So for example, Marc Meyer is looking at getting a like a senior capstone project, working alongside Clyde and some of the seniors.
00;15;11;13 - 00;15;32;14
Unknown
Right. So that would be great opportunity not only for Clyde II, but also for the community. And then we're trying to get some of the younger kind of freshmen, within the engineering school, understanding what they can get out of, out of Clyde. So actually, you know, logging in, I think the feedback that I got from a couple of them was like, I'm scared.
00;15;32;14 - 00;16;01;05
Unknown
This is like industry. This is technical. Like, I don't want to get in and make myself look stupid. It's like, you know, get in, learn something, and you start reading and contributing and you'll figure out kind of what you can do there. And one kind of related point is as we expand, I love the idea. And so if anyone in the community has connections or wants to see us get into Colorado School of Mines or Wyoming or OSU or Oyu, I think it's just a matter of time.
00;16;01;06 - 00;16;23;15
Unknown
We're, you know, I, I don't know, Sidney hit on like the community over everything is kind of our number one core value. And number two is do more with less. And so we're trying to expand those university partnerships to just expand the community and then see how we can help students on board pick degrees, understand their job opportunities, and just, start their career.
00;16;23;17 - 00;16;44;18
Unknown
Yeah, I think with how Crystal and I have been trying to frame it with some of the universities that we talked to. Shout out to Nikki at TCU. She is the boss bitch of my dreams. Like she's so smart. They are doing incredible things that I feel like not a lot of other energy colleges institutes that universities are even thinking about.
00;16;44;20 - 00;17;05;20
Unknown
But she's kind of helped us a little bit. Be a guinea pig and try some things out. We're trying to frame it. As, you know, Clyde is really a resource tool for projects research. We still have this content library with a bajillion hours of content. To your point, all of our podcasts, all of our event recordings.
00;17;05;23 - 00;17;23;07
Unknown
So, you know, as students are going through job interviews and they're interviewing with Diamondback or Pro Frack, they can, you know, search those terms, watch a video with case or map from pro frack and like, learn about the company things that you aren't going to notice and really get to know. If you're just like looking at their website.
00;17;23;10 - 00;18;01;19
Unknown
So I think it takes that kind of job research a little further, but also any class projects, things you understand, thinking about what field, what specialty you want to go into. All those terms are searchable. What's important to note, too, is what that looks like in the future in terms of our university partnerships, is if you're familiar with how Barstool Sports has campus ambassadors, I would love to have collide ambassadors on every single college campus that are running, you know, and I don't want to call it an energy club, but an energy club, an oil a little collide club, where we're supporting them and giving them resources, whether it's, you know, quarterly
00;18;01;19 - 00;18;38;01
Unknown
speaker series, Lunch and learns, you know, mini job fairs, you know, how can collide support energy and oil and gas students on those campuses. And I think it starts with getting ambassadors that are kind of going to be our liaison between us as a company and the student groups. Yeah. And I'm glad you brought up Nikki from TCU, because one of the things that she kicked off, this year for the first time with her, with her group was, a student intern project where they actually got out to the field, got to, you know, just walk through everything from what's happening on the sites to being in a board meeting with, you
00;18;38;01 - 00;18;56;12
Unknown
know, some of some top operators from the Permian Basin and just a Diamondback, right? Yeah, yeah. And so, one of the really cool things about partnering with Nikki is that Jacob actually got to go on the field tour with them. So, Jacob, walk us through, kind of, you know, how that went for you and and what you learned.
00;18;56;20 - 00;19;21;00
Unknown
Yeah. Whenever you see Nikki Morris, there's always going to be a pack of kids with her, like, suited up or whatever, like, ready to learn. It's really cool. Like, I was just at a panel and she brought a bunch of kids, and they were, like, shaking hands and showing face in front of all these people. So she's like, actually doing something, when it comes to, like, trying, it's like amazing.
00;19;21;03 - 00;19;44;00
Unknown
It's not just, oh, we're on campus and we're going to do this energy event like, she's taking them out. She is getting them in front of. She's like one by one having our future. And so, yeah. And she took it to the extreme with a very simple idea. What if we just take, do a field trip, a big boy field trip, and literally went out to West Texas and went to multiple sites?
00;19;44;00 - 00;20;15;29
Unknown
They went to a water site, which is kind of like, that has to do with drilling and stuff like that. I wasn't even allowed to film there because, they say there and not all those people are very proud of showing off their facilities. But, I didn't get to learn anything there, but, then I joined them right after, as they joined, went to a field of, pump jacks and got a lot of, like, history of conventional and these, like, old decade old wells and how they work and how they still operate, how you can turn them off, turn them on.
00;20;16;01 - 00;20;40;15
Unknown
They, went to a drilling pad like your more traditional drilling pad. They were in the doghouse, literally had the driller pointing to all their screens like the matrix, and just answering all their questions like, it's so valuable. Like they're literally like, I'm 19. What is this? Like, oh, what's that? I just heard this word. So like, the most valuable, like, it doesn't get any better than this kind of experience.
00;20;40;18 - 00;21;01;16
Unknown
And they're like, well, they're in the doghouse. The guys are out there literally tripping pipe and shit, and it's like, it's right there five feet away. I mean, yeah, it was cool. They went to a frack spread this morning to make note that Jacob's talking about terpene pipe penetration. That's pretty awesome. They have it around. They went to a fracking spread, so you're more modern.
00;21;01;16 - 00;21;25;22
Unknown
So they have, like, what looked like a Samuel similar frack, just like a lot of newer tech things that maybe weren't even here during Covid, like they're saying hands on. So they're literally getting a timeline of like the industry. And they capped it off with a meeting with Diamondback, kind of in like a private slide presentation. And along the way, just shaking so many hands, talking and having Nikki there as a support.
00;21;25;25 - 00;21;49;28
Unknown
So really incredible stuff. And we need to scale and multiply whatever the hell us and Nikki are doing. For a real bright future. Todd, how do you feel? Like all these, you know, university partnerships that we've been working on help with, like, the talent density and the talent pipeline when it comes to, you know, newer generations coming into the industry.
00;21;49;28 - 00;22;17;06
Unknown
And how do you see Callide plugging into that? I'd love to even be a stronger force in that. But, right now I feel like there's this really unique opportunity with, say, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering, the geosciences, and being able to educate students not only on the surface level AI piece, but also like how how you can get some of this work done for you.
00;22;17;09 - 00;22;43;19
Unknown
And that's really with with Claudia and going into some of the universities, helping them set up like a little miniature kind of collider AI system that they can offer their students will be something that, we're going to do and, and we'll call it Q1 and Q2 of next year. And then moving beyond just 1 or 2 companies to, universities that way and really begin looking at like just that expansion opportunity.
00;22;43;19 - 00;23;08;02
Unknown
Because if let's just say we had ambassadors at each, you know, engineering, you know, major engine engineering institute that gets us coverage into kind of that next wave of students coming out, joining the joining the industry, and also being kind of this force of change that we've seen kind of these other waves happen. You know, everyone's always talked about the big the great crew change.
00;23;08;02 - 00;23;25;28
Unknown
Well, it's like it's already kind of happened. And now you start applying some of the AI principles to some of these engineering disciplines. And it becomes kind of fascinating to see what people can do. Yeah, I'm going to elaborate on that a bit. Something that Krystal and I did over summer. We went to Midland to meet up with JP Warren.
00;23;26;04 - 00;23;48;06
Unknown
He offers something awesome to, intern programs at operators so he, you know, towards the end of their internship, he'll, he does kind of a half day, full day workshop with them. That is interview training. How to talk about yourself resume to just kind of those soft skills that you need when you're looking for a job. And he had Clyde come out.
00;23;48;09 - 00;24;18;27
Unknown
And what I think Chris and I realized is exactly what you were just talking about is getting them exposed to collide and collide. I really gives students an edge over their competition. Like, how cool is that to come into a job right out of college, right out of, you know, whether it's your undergrad or your graduate degree and already having this presence on collide that positions you as a subject matter expert or as just someone who is engaged in an energy, oil and gas focused community.
00;24;19;02 - 00;24;55;25
Unknown
I think that goes light years beyond what you can see from a traditional resume. And I think things like that are what is going to set students apart in their job search, and how successful they're going to be at those companies. Awesome. Yeah. I think, some of the content that we're doing on our edge, just bringing in people like CSS from Diamondback, who they interned for, or even people like Nikki or, Brian Sheffield came on, all those people who we literally are asking questions about, like, what piece of advice would you give to, you know, someone who's young and just now entering the industry and they get direct insight from the CEO?
00;24;55;27 - 00;25;24;11
Unknown
You know, it's it's really cool and and all these partnerships and community involvement, events are really helping to shape that up. I do want to pivot over to platform improvements and updates and all the stuff that we've been working for, or working on, one of them being, Collider AI, because you did talk about that a little bit when it came to us going to JP's event, but, Todd, I'm going to come back to you really quick about Collider.
00;25;24;12 - 00;25;46;16
Unknown
Yeah. And just give us an update of, you know, where where we were, where we are now and kind of where we're heading. Yeah, yeah. So on kind of I'll talk to more of the kind of the enterprise AI and then come back around to what that could look like in community. So, we've, we removed the Collider AI beta from community.
00;25;46;16 - 00;26;08;26
Unknown
And remember when we said no one's going to notice? Yeah, everybody was me. I was like, so a crazy story I heard after the fact was, a couple of, companies were actually using it for some of their interns and the new hires. Oh, my. To know. Yes. To explain. Kind of, what are the different types of drilling models?
00;26;08;26 - 00;26;33;05
Unknown
And we just took it away. Yeah, yeah. And so they were using it for some specific things, but that that's great to note because we can come back to them. So, so for enterprise, basically putting a lot of energy and effort into, really focusing on all the different data sources, what we can do to modify or automate, workflows and building out those workflows for a lot of different companies.
00;26;33;07 - 00;26;56;07
Unknown
In doing that, we're ingesting all kinds of data from across the industry. So those could be marketing contracts, lease contracts, lease agreements, title opinions. They could get into world files and, wellbore schematics and drilling files and production notes and all kinds of data, handwritten and printed, handwritten and printed. And John would be so happy that you said that.
00;26;56;10 - 00;27;29;20
Unknown
So, there's it's real exciting kind of piece, development effort that's going on that's handling all that data and now that we have, so I'm sure everyone knows, on the, on the community side, we've put a lot of, hiring focus into kind of our AI engineering team brought on, a couple team members that are going to be really focused on the genetic kind of AI and the workflows, as well as others that are going to be focused only with kind of training AI models.
00;27;29;22 - 00;27;55;19
Unknown
And so what are kind of, I'll say, tentative timeline right now is to basically begin, focusing on, train model on, I'll call it more the, the public data side where we already had all that data in the community version of AI. So we're training that on that same kind of corpus of data. And then we want to be able to release that through the community as well as to some partners.
00;27;55;25 - 00;28;32;22
Unknown
So they have access to it as well. And so I would say probably Q2 timing for for next year. So it's coming back. It'll come back around. So I think correct me if I'm wrong, I think what it came down to is just making sure that we were delivering the highest quality product that we could, and kind of removing it temporarily to make sure that we are training in a way that now that we know people were really using it, training in a way that it's going to be the most robust version of any sort of public facing, chat interface that you can find.
00;28;32;23 - 00;29;04;07
Unknown
Yes. Yeah. And we basically saw like as we were focusing so much on collide AI and the enterprise side kind of surpassed some of the capability that we had in the community version. Yanked it off for a little while, let it kind of bake and we'll get it will, you know, improve it and and then rerelease it next year to make sure, and then we can go back to kind of all those people that are looking at, you know, the different kind of, I'll call it, kind of use cases for learning about geology, learning about, drilling.
00;29;04;08 - 00;29;31;16
Unknown
So not so much the workflow automation, but more just the very basic search learning educational component of it. Correct? Yep. Oh, you heard it here first, folks. Awesome. Some other new features that we introduced this year, our Watson Hitches. My favorite is the dog house. I think it all kind of goes I mean, it does go hand in hand, but, Stephanie, do you want to walk us a little bit through?
00;29;31;16 - 00;29;49;20
Unknown
Kind of, I guess the changes that you've seen with the community when we introduce those features? Yeah. I feel like part of what makes collides so great and what we preach to people who we want to join the platform is the engagement. So we kind of we need the engagement on the platform to back up what we're selling to people.
00;29;49;22 - 00;30;12;07
Unknown
And I think we got so much feedback from people that were like, you know, I want to use it. I really like it. I don't know where to start. And just like if you're scrolling on Instagram or scrolling on Facebook, we wanted people to be quote unquote, doomscrolling on glide. And so how did we we thought about how do we get those people to continuously engage, not just scroll.
00;30;12;07 - 00;30;41;11
Unknown
And, you know, just look and see what's happening, but actually comment? Is it a bit upvote? Yeah, I was going to say like and I'm like, you know, it's like like yeah. I'm like, I know that's not technically there. Upvote. Upvoted downvote and especially give us feedback on the conversations that are happening. And so when we introduced Watson Hedges, we introduced this completely new level of gamification that I think like one added our engagement.
00;30;41;11 - 00;31;03;09
Unknown
And so when we launched the dog house and people were able to spend those What's On Clyde merch and Slime and Clyde merch, it's grills, air pods. We've got some really cool things coming out at the end of this year early next year, so keep an eye out for those, I think it makes the platform, I don't want to say more usable, but more enjoyable to use.
00;31;03;09 - 00;31;34;26
Unknown
Engaging. Yeah, yeah, but it's not just engaging. It's like it gives you a reason. Aside from oh, like, let me go ask this question or I want to learn about this. It's like, oh, like, let me go see how many walks I can get because I want to go to YouTube. Chuck. Yeah. And to add on to that, I think there's also been a noticeable change in the quality of conversations that are being, you know, hosted on Clyde now because I think, I mean, earlier this year, I think there was kind of a lack of technical conversations.
00;31;34;26 - 00;31;56;12
Unknown
It was really just kind of our close industry. The same people right over, but now most of the people that are on there, I have never met in my life have never heard their name up until, like, the last, like, you know, six months. I'm meeting people through Clyde, seeing them in person at events and being like, oh, like you're, you know, you're x, y, z.
00;31;56;12 - 00;32;19;16
Unknown
It's it's it's really cool to see, I feel like our community has shifted. Not in a good or a bad way, just our community members have shifted. I this happy hour we just did last week at the office, looking at that list of attendees, I didn't know 95% of them, which I think is a good thing that we're we're in this kind of new era of what the cloud community looks like.
00;32;19;16 - 00;32;39;20
Unknown
Yeah. And I think we did a lot of, like, really fun guerrilla marketing, you know, initiatives as well, where, I mean, we were sending care packages to people out on the field with just like a whole bunch of Clyde merch being like, just wear it, take pictures. Got a whole bunch of cool pictures from from one from, I think Wagner services.
00;32;39;22 - 00;33;02;07
Unknown
We actually have one framed up in our office, which is really neat, but, you know, just seeing all the things that we had planned and we wanted from the beginning to come to fruition is really cool to see. And it's all just because of the the community, because they're helping us grow. Right? They're inviting these folks that we always wanted to get in front of, and if it weren't for the community, like we would not be here, really.
00;33;02;07 - 00;33;28;00
Unknown
But, yeah, it's been really cool to see. Yeah. One thing, there there are a couple of plans for just improved, user experience and platform in general, one being like video search content. We're hoping to see a little bit more personalization in the, in the platform, with notification improvements, recommendation engines, all that stuff, is in the pipeline.
00;33;28;03 - 00;33;48;16
Unknown
The recommendation engine is going to be awesome. Yeah. I'm going to go around the table and ask you guys a couple of questions. We'll start with Todd. First question is where do you want to see the platform, the community one year from now? And then the second question being, what was kind of your favorite memory community side from 2025 and 2025?
00;33;48;16 - 00;34;35;02
Unknown
Okay, so, let's go one year from now, I would love to see, our application process still there. And we're still onboarding and having that onboarding calls. But now instead we maybe have, you know, 200 people on those calls instead of 100 and reaching, maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of, of like at the end of the year, this would be a stretch goal, but like 50,000 users signed up so that we could actually see, a little more diversity for onshore and offshore or renewables and conventional and, you know, all the different kind of energy kind of pockets that are out there, that exist.
00;34;35;02 - 00;35;00;03
Unknown
I think that's definitely one thing that I would love to see is, like, you have spent so much time with carbon capture project developers. There's a there's a small community there, just like there is with geothermal, just like with, you know, oil and gas operators, there's different little, niches in, in the energy market that I feel like we can offer so much to each individual group.
00;35;00;05 - 00;35;32;03
Unknown
So that'd be awesome to be able to see those kind of flourish. And maybe those are, different little pockets within the app or even kind of other separate groups. Or, you know, there could be a number of different things, but I'd love to see us try and tackle that. And then from the community side this year, one thing that I thought was just amazing is Reed Goodman, and, he was in Bryan Sheffield going back and forth.
00;35;32;03 - 00;36;11;22
Unknown
And so you have one who's, you know, public company, CEO, sold company for billions is on to his next going to probably sell for billions down the road with Reed who's kind of up and coming kind of have has a handful of wells looking to figure out how he can scale his EMP company. I thought that was just so cool to see that actually taking place back and forth on the community and was such a, a sight to see, like how the conversation, kind of changed as Reed is asking more and more questions and getting into details and, seeing Brian's responses as, as like a true just, oil and gas
00;36;11;22 - 00;36;36;26
Unknown
kind of entrepreneur. That was that was fun to watch. Yeah, you stole mine. But I'll forgive you for now. Jacob, what about you? Where do you want to see the platform or the community you're from now? And your favorite moment from 2025? So I definitely want our video library to be basically Netflix. It we have every video we've ever done since not even 2020, like even 2019.
00;36;36;28 - 00;37;04;24
Unknown
Some of the stuff that Jake and Collin were like shooting, you know, with like a different camera guy, everything there is, you know, it's there, but it's messy, it's unorganized, and it's just not a priority right now. But in a year, it should be a lot better and really fun to like. Scroll through memory lane, find things much, much easier, and just be like this whole interface that looks like top notch.
00;37;04;27 - 00;37;30;23
Unknown
That's going to be very exciting. My favorite memory coming, you know, from this year is definitely seeing how just satisfying it was to see the gamification work, like everyone like the what's came out, the GIFs shipping into their houses, and everyone got excited and participated. It's really cool. I again, I say this all the time. I think it's crazy that like Facebook and Instagram don't do some kind of game propagation.
00;37;30;23 - 00;37;50;22
Unknown
Even Reddit, who has literal internet points that are actually useless. Like not only can you not like get like cool free merch and swag and I get that like a million users a day, they deal with like, that's maybe not the best deal, but it's like you can at least have some kind of virtual reward, some kind of perk of something.
00;37;50;28 - 00;38;08;16
Unknown
You get nothing. And like we do that, like where we are, we do have the physical gifts. We do have the virtual invite to an AMA. Like like, I don't think we're geniuses. I just think everyone else is an idiot. This is exactly what you got, what you would just do if you thought about your community first. So I think it says a lot about what we do.
00;38;08;18 - 00;38;43;24
Unknown
Awesome. Yeah. Agreed. Sydney. So where do I want to see the community platform? Has less to do with the platform and more to do with the community itself. I would love to see more community members taking their discussions offline. I think one of our long term goals, you know, looking at community platforms like Duolingo for language learning is in cities where people are practicing French or Spanish or whatever it is, they're hosting their own meetups that are adjacent associated to Duolingo.
00;38;44;01 - 00;39;11;02
Unknown
And I would love to see more local meetups happening in our markets that are not Houston. So people from Midland, Huron, Clyde doing a meetup in Denver, in North Dakota and wherever, having our community members see the value in making those connections on the platform and then taking them offline to just like further those relationships. So I would love to see that happen.
00;39;11;04 - 00;39;31;05
Unknown
And then my favorite thing that's happened on the community side over this past year is I know it kind of already said this, but seeing all these new faces in our community is really satisfying. I feel like it's always very scary when you go into something.
00;39;31;07 - 00;39;53;06
Unknown
Or when you take something like an energy tech night, I mean, or just the digital marketers brand that was so iconic and influential to our community in the beginning. And then deciding to sunset it and switch gears into something a little different, something more technical, something kind of higher level. It's terrifying and you never really know how it's going to go.
00;39;53;08 - 00;40;25;14
Unknown
And I have been so proud of the way that our whole team has leaned into it. And very grateful for our existing community members who have supported us along the way, and also all of the new community members. And I think all of our effort to lean into Clyde being an AI company is what has given us all of these wonderful new technical people that are so much more engaged than I think are I that I think our company's ever been.
00;40;25;17 - 00;40;46;12
Unknown
Yeah, mine would have to be, I think in the next year or so, I would love to do more exclusive curated events. So like maybe some like member conferences where I use your conferences. Yeah, all that stuff or even just like more. I mean, we tested it out this year where we did one exclusive AMA event, but I want to get them, more.
00;40;46;12 - 00;41;07;27
Unknown
Yeah, just access to top level energy execs. So, I don't know, office hour events. I don't, I don't know whatever the community wants ideas, let us know. Yeah, I just want to I just want to offer more value than their offerings. Yeah, yeah. So that's what I would like to see in the community. And then also just seeing more, technical discussions continue happening.
00;41;07;27 - 00;41;38;23
Unknown
So like, what collide to be the place where people want to use for like, white paper distribution and just like more blog posts and all that stuff. So, and I would also love to see more Clyde members want to make, video content on their own. My favorite memory this year, community side was actually, I was on vacation for two weeks, and the first Friday I didn't do a weekly community check in, but it was like the first week that I haven't done one in like two months.
00;41;38;25 - 00;42;02;18
Unknown
Somebody noticed and they were like, we're asking you ticket. Where's Chris and I? It was, I just thought that was so cool to, like, people are looking forward to these conversations and want to see you know, where the other community members are and, and what they're doing and want that authentic connection and being able to help provide that and like, bridge those connections has been just such a meaningful experience to me.
00;42;02;18 - 00;42;27;08
Unknown
And I know the team as well. So that's definitely my favorite memory. I think as we wrap up this year, I think we can all agree we would be nowhere without our community members. So huge thank you to everyone out there for supporting us along the way. If you guys have ideas of what you want to see, content wise, feature wise, anything we can help you guys with, you are at the center of everything we do and thank you.
00;42;27;09 - 00;42;31;14
Unknown
Happy holidays, happy New Year and we will see you in 2026.