K'nexion Energy Inc. — AI Solutions & Broadcasting
Ben Hilton
Senior Geologist | AI-Powered Subsurface Solutions
Founder | K'nexion Energy Inc.
Katy, TX
Connecting the people accountable for results with the people who can move them.
Operators own the results: wells, barrels, compliance, capital. Vendors build the tools that can move them. K'nexion puts the right two in the same room, on the right problem, with the right data underneath.
Why a geologist?
I've spent my career on the subsurface side of the decision. When a vendor says AI answers a question 1,000× faster, I know what the real question is, what data it needs, and what "right" looks like to the asset team. I speak both languages.
AI: noise vs. signal
The hype is loud. The value is real. The answer isn't more data or more tools. It's connecting the data you already have to the decisions that depend on it, then pairing that with the right solution.
Vendor-agnostic, always
I work for the problem, not a platform. The roster is curated and growing. If the best fit isn't on it, I'll find who is.
Four ways we work together
Operator / Vendor Roundtable
Operator / Vendor Roundtable, held monthly on the fourth Tuesday. $25 per seat, open to anyone interested. Operators and builders work through one real problem together. Includes a Data Foundation AI Readiness Check, delivered with RockNRG.
Held live on Microsoft Teams at 6 p.m. CT. Presenters: $250 for 10 minutes on their platform and one case study.
VNA Sprint (Vendor Neutrality Assessment)
You bring the problem; I bring two or three real fits and a neutral read on each. It's a consultation fee only:
- $500 for a single consultation meeting, or $165/hour across the sprint.
- The MATCH process: Map the problem · Assess vendors · Test (Pilot Scorecard: success metrics, data, timeline and kill criteria, with an optional two-vendor bake-off) · Choose · Hand-off.
K'nexion Energy Podcast
Builders tell the real story of their stack.
- Initiation Episode: $1,000. Includes short-form content published across 5 platforms that leads viewers to the long-form episode.
- Website Listing (after launch and a signed agreement): roster spot plus your own page. $500.
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K'nexion Talent Bridge
Free, no fee.
AI solutions I resell and refer (current examples, more coming)
Each listing is a referral: I send operators where I'd send my own team.
Neurocraft.aiIndustrial & agentic AI, data extractionMicrosoft-aligned AI for energy and mining: NeuroEarthIQ, NeuroMineIQ, NeuroVisionIQ.
MangoBytes AIAgentic AI for E&P operations75+ agents for energy, land and renewables. Vendor-reported
i2k ConnectKnowledge & unstructured dataDecades of reports turned into answers you can verify; the technology behind SPE's Energy LLM work.
NobleAIScience-based AI / surrogate reservoir modelsPhysics-informed proxy models for fast scenarios.
Open categories via the podcast
- Drilling & completions
- Production
- Regulatory & ESG
- Seismic
- Land
- Data platforms
- Your company here.
The foundation under every AI solution: RockNRG
Data-foundation and OSDU partner, not an AI vendor. AI on bad data just gives you faster bad decisions. Ryan D. Jarvis, RockNRG's Owner and CEO, founded RockNRG in 2023 and brings more than seven years as a technical leader and SME in The Open Group's OSDU Forum. His team is growing stronger in OSDU every project, including David Lin, IT and Storage Solution Expert, who built RockNRG's seismic and data storage optimization toolchain. I'm glad to keep working with RockNRG project by project.
My talk: OSDU as the Bridge to AI-Enabled Subsurface Decisions: Accelerating Exploration, Development & Production (NOVA 2026, 7 Oct 2026). Available as an in-house session.
On air
The K'nexion Energy Podcast
Real conversations with people who've built working agentic AI stacks.
- Initiation Episode ($1,000): a long-form conversation, plus short-form clips published across 5 platforms that point to it.
- Launch, then listing: after the videos go live and an agreement is signed, you join the roster with your own page ($500).