She sure was a good ship.
Effective September 14th, 2026, terminus, LLC will be suspending consulting operations. I'll be joining Whitson to work with the team behind WhitsonX, and I'm very excited to help some very smart, very funny, very kind people I've known for a long time advance the frontier in applying machine learning to understand petroleum reservoirs and well performance.
If I had investors or users with recurring subscriptions, this would be the appropriate place for an “incredible journey” line followed by “the servers shut down Tuesday at 5”. But terminus has never taken outside capital, and we've never been a software vendor, so instead: I'm going to share what it's meant to me and my family.
When I launched terminus in 2013 I had one vision: let's get “data science” right for oil and gas. By and for domain experts, working in direct collaboration with the engineers and geologists responsible for the outcomes. Built on open-source foundations and with an engineer's pragmatic, cost-conscious minimalism. Over the years that vision grew, alongside the needs of the industry, to encompass everything from strategic advising to custom software development. We built bespoke tools and capabilities to solve highly specific problems, many of which, frankly, have yet to be equalled by commercial offerings. We tried to pass the torch to a new generation of engineers with technical training (and we thank our very special friends at Saga Wisdom for helping us spread the message).
In that 13 years, I've had the privilege to work for some wonderful clients (and, I have to finally admit, one or two total deadbeats!). I thank you all for the faith you showed, and I remain proud of the many things we did and built together. I hope you all liked them too.
My favorite co-worker though has of course been my wife Katherine (since poached by a client—I forgive you!), who I finally persuaded to cut ties with her old industry and join terminus in 2020. This little company was a lifeboat for our family in a turbulent time—together we made it through a global pandemic, the births of two wonderful children, a difficult move, and the first few years of AI mania. This business wasn't perfect, but, to quote Jack Swigert on Apollo 13's lunar module: “she sure was a good ship”.
This site will remain up in some form to archive all the demos, talks, and publications we put out over the years. The LLC will remain in operation to support random future endeavours, but I'll be suspending new consulting and development work.