Free Field Kit
Tank charts, fuel math, planning tools. A calculator that answers the question beats a dashboard that schedules another meeting about the question. Do the damn math.
Open the toolsPetroleum operations, minus the bullshit
Less hype.
More gallons
moving.
Your dispatcher doesn't need another inspirational webinar. Your drivers don't need a twelve-tab spreadsheet. And your fuel operation sure as hell doesn't need software that only works when a salesman is standing beside it. We build fixes for the part of the business where real money, real gallons, and real people's time disappear.
Real tools. Sharp briefs. Working examples. No motivational posters pretending to be a dispatch strategy.
If your operating plan is "Go ask Dave," you don't have a plan.
Built for the floor, not the boardroom
Three ways to stop
doing dumb stuff twice.
Operator Briefs
The failure, the fix, and the receipts. Regulations, dispatch headaches, vendor claims, and the stuff people whisper after the sales team leaves the building.
Get the signalWorkflows & SOPs
When the whole company depends on one person's memory, that's not teamwork. That's an outage with a name badge.
See what we buildOur promise
No email hostage situation.
The public calculators work without registration. The calculations stay in your browser. No client records, no account, no email wall.
That's not revolutionary AI. That's just not being stupid with information.
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Pipeline Punks // Petroleum briefs
Six briefs. Less noise. Pick your signal.
Six sourced petroleum briefs. We chase the dates, test the claims, and call out the avoidable mess before it ruins your week. No fake urgency. No vendor worship. No twelve-page introduction to a two-line answer. Choose any mix, confirm by email, and stop any one with a link.
- Petroleum Operations Brief: Mondays and Thursdays
- Petroleum AI Field Report: Mondays and Thursdays
- Compliance Deadline Radar: Tuesdays
- Vendor and Tech Watch: monthly
- Seasonal Readiness: March, April, August and October
- Action Summary: with each brief
Free tool: off-road diesel tax check
Burning clear diesel in equipment that never touches a public road? Put in five numbers and see what dyed diesel would save you in Colorado, and how much tax you already paid may be recoverable. It runs in your browser and stores nothing. Estimates only; your CPA files any claim.
Run the tax checkThe work behind the workshop
Read the anonymized client engagements on the TNDS website, or visit our GitHub organization for the practice overview and public development standards. Demos here use sample data; client work stays on the TNDS side.
Loads. Code. Attitude.
The Field Kit and Build Studio are open. Try a tool, pick the setup around it, or learn how the pieces work. More learning modules are being built in public. Same deal for both: free, no account, no email wall.
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Build Studio
Pick the tools your operation needs, watch each demo run on sample data, and send the build to a person who scopes it. Free, no account, no prices.
Open the Studioexercises open
Learn to Build
Hands-on exercises for operators who want to build their own fixes. Start with the Field Kit; more lessons are on the bench.
Try a hands-on exerciseProof over pitch
Nothing on this site is a mockup of a thing we might build someday. If you can click it, it runs. If it is not ready, it says so.
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Petroleum Briefs
Six sourced petroleum briefs. We chase the dates, test the claims, and call out the avoidable mess before it ruins your week. Confirm by email. Stop any one with a link.
Sign upLIVE
Build Studio
The public sandbox: pick tools, open each demo on sample data, and send the build to TNDS. No account, no email wall.
Open the StudioLIVE
Operators Brief
Field notes on what we built, what broke, what it cost, and what to steal. Published right here, free to read, no account.
Launch itSOON
CourseForge
The course platform behind the Learn lane. Training built from your own source material. On the bench now.
Dispatch and fleet lessons
Pipeline Punks on YouTube covers practical fuel dispatch and driver qualification file lessons. It is another way to explore the operating problems behind the work we share here.
Public examples use synthetic or sanitized sample data. No client systems or client information. Read the publication date and check current official sources when a lesson covers regulatory requirements.
Pipeline Punks on YouTube
Built by Jacob Johnston, 20-year Army veteran and former transportation department head at a regional petroleum carrier, now running True North Data Strategies, a fractional operations practice for regulated field operations.
Watch Pipeline Punks on YouTubeWe only look like trouble.
Pipeline Punks is the open garage door of True North Data Strategies, a veteran-owned data and operations shop. TNDS is the contract brand: assessments, installs, support, the paperwork. Punks is where operators watch the work happen, try the tools, and learn to build their own. Same building, different volume.
The house rule is simple: break bottlenecks, not workers. Every tool here exists to hand somebody their evening back, not to squeeze one more report out of a dispatcher who is already doing three jobs.
Some operators use the free stuff and never call. Good. Some come back when the job outgrows the toolbox. Also good. That is the whole model.
The Operators Brief
Field notes for people who run the real thing: what we built, what broke, what it costs, and what to steal for your own operation. Published right here, free to read.
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