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Building an Oil & Gas CRM That Actually Understands Oil & Gas

Key Outcome
100%
sales team adoption within 30 days — Salesforce cancelled
Team
8 engineers
Timeline
10 weeks
Industry
Oil & Gas
01The Situation

An oilfield services company providing drilling, completion, and production services across Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. They had been using Salesforce — configured by a generalist partner — to manage client relationships, bids, and service delivery. Salesforce was built for B2B sales, not for tracking multi-stage drilling operations with well-level granularity.

02What Changed

The sales team had stopped using the CRM. They maintained their own spreadsheets because the Salesforce instance didn't map to their actual workflow — well tracking, rig scheduling, service ticket management, and the specific terminology of oilfield operations. The company was paying $180K/year for a CRM that nobody used.

03Why The Algorithm

They needed a CRM built for their industry, not adapted from a generic template.

04What We Built

Vertical-specific CRM for oilfield services. Data model built around the actual entities of the business: wells, rigs, service tickets, crews, basins, formations. Pipeline management organized by well lifecycle stage — prospect, permitted, drilling, completing, producing. Bid management with well-specific cost estimation. Service delivery tracking with rig scheduling, crew assignment, and equipment allocation. Client portal for operators to submit service requests and track progress. Integration with accounting for invoicing and revenue recognition.

05 — The Result

100% sales team adoption within 30 days — because the system matched their actual workflow. Bid response time reduced from 5 days to same-day. Revenue visibility improved — the CEO could see pipeline by basin, by service type, by client for the first time. They cancelled their Salesforce subscription.

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