The Document Whisperer: How Rowland Reads What Others Can’t
Transform your team's standard Word and PDF templates into interactive, AI-powered tools. Rowland automates the repetitive work of filling out forms like consent letters and lease summaries, so you can focus on high-level review and strategy.
The Document Whisperer: How Rowland Reads What Others Can’t
Recently, a landman in West Texas sent us a smartphone photo of a 1943 handwritten mineral deed. In seconds, Rowland extracted every structured data element found in the photograph.
Even though it may seem like magic at first glance, it's not. It’s what happens when you build AI specifically for an industry that lives and dies by the details buried in documents most systems can’t even read.
Beyond the Hype
The AI revolution has given us chatbots that can write poetry and generate images of cats wearing cowboy hats. Impressive? Sure. Helpful in extracting shut‑in provisions from a 1960s oil & gas lease with amendments? Not so much.
Rowland exists because generic AI treats all text the same, whether it’s a restaurant review or a complex drilling unit agreement. But anyone who has spent time in land work knows these documents have their own language, logic, and decades of industry evolution baked into every clause.
We built Rowland from the ground up, combining multiple specialized models with a knowledge base that understands why “horizontal” means something different in a Pugh clause than it does in a wellbore description.
When Machines See What Humans Miss
Rowland can read text—and interpret visual cues that even experienced professionals sometimes overlook. Strikethroughs that void provisions. Checkboxes that modify terms. Handwritten notes that change everything.
In one case, a lease originally stated a royalty rate of 1/8th, but a later added provision effectively changed it to 3/16ths. Rowland caught the discrepancy and flagged it for review—something even seasoned professionals can miss when documents are dense or poorly scanned.
The Extraction Game
Raw data is just the beginning. The real value lies in how it’s organized and delivered. Whether you need a spreadsheet for your database, formatted summaries for internal memos, or draft documents ready for execution, Rowland adapts to how you actually work.
What’s Next: Building Smarter, Not Flashier
The pipeline includes ambitious, practical features under development:
- Generating accurate shapefiles from metes & bounds descriptions
- Automating title chain analysis across hundreds of conveyances
- Performing spatial reasoning, such as identifying which wells lie within a described tract
We’re not chasing AI trends. We’re solving long-standing challenges with AI that many thought would remain unsolvable.
Built Different
Every field has its experts—mechanics diagnosing engine issues by sound, or doctors spotting rare conditions. Rowland embodies that level of specific expertise, instantly and consistently, for every document you encounter.
Applied Intelligence
The land business runs on information locked in documents that range from crystal clear to borderline illegible. Rowland can reliably extract that information—regardless of format, quality, or complexity.
That’s not just artificial intelligence. That’s applied intelligence, built for the people powering energy development.
Try it today at Rowland.ai.