Derrick Private LLM for drilling operations
Derrick is Drivers Seat's drilling-focused private language-model implementation. It is designed to organize approved operating knowledge, field context, procedures, reports, and technical references so drilling teams can ask useful questions without treating a public chatbot as the system of record.
The implementation can connect selected company knowledge with role-specific workflows for drilling engineers, remote operations teams, directional drilling personnel, coordinators, and managers. Typical use cases include source-backed operational questions, report drafting, handover support, knowledge retrieval, exception review, and controlled assistance around recurring decisions.
Derrick is not represented as an autonomous drilling authority. Source boundaries, access rules, citations, review steps, escalation paths, and human approval are defined during scope. Remote Operation Professionals supplies the drilling environment and subject-matter context used to shape and validate this first industry implementation.
Deployment architecture is selected around the customer's requirements. Private-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid patterns may be considered where supported, together with retention, authentication, role access, auditability, backup, recovery, and integration constraints.
Capabilities
- Drilling knowledge retrieval: Ground answers in approved procedures, technical references, reports, lessons learned, and operating documentation, with source links or receipts where implemented.
- Operational reporting support: Help teams collect context, organize events, prepare structured drafts, and surface missing inputs while keeping final review with accountable personnel.
- Remote operations workflows: Support distributed teams with controlled context, handovers, role-specific views, escalation rules, and defined human checkpoints.
- Private LLM implementation: Scope data boundaries, model access, retrieval, evaluation, integrations, security controls, and lifecycle management around the customer's environment.
Privacy and safety
Drivers Seat scopes controls with each customer. Depending on requirements and supported infrastructure, an implementation may use on-premises, private-cloud, or hybrid options.
Scoping covers data boundaries and retention, encryption where implemented, role access and least privilege, source receipts, auditability, versioned knowledge, human approval, backup and recovery, connectivity, and third-party dependencies. Controls that are not verified or implemented are requirements to scope, not guarantees.
Operational recommendations, calculations, and safety-critical decisions remain subject to qualified human review and the customer's operating procedures.
Frequently asked questions
Is Derrick a private LLM or a public chatbot?
Derrick is positioned as a scoped private LLM implementation grounded in approved customer information and operating rules. The exact model, hosting, access, and integration architecture is defined during discovery.
Can Derrick connect to drilling reports and operational data?
Selected reports, documents, databases, or workflow systems can be considered where access, data quality, security, and integration requirements support it. A connection is not claimed until it is scoped and validated.
Does Derrick make autonomous drilling decisions?
No. Derrick is intended to assist people with knowledge retrieval, context, drafting, and bounded workflows. High-consequence decisions remain with qualified personnel under the customer's procedures.
Who is Derrick designed for?
The first implementation focus is drilling and remote operations: engineering, directional drilling, operations coordination, reporting, and management teams that need controlled access to operating knowledge.