Ricardo Esteban. 20 years of oil and gas experience.

I spent 20 years in the field across Northwestern Alberta and Northeast BC. Well testing, completions, workovers. The work that puts you on a lease in minus 40 with your hard hat frosted over and a customer rep waiting on you.

I watched the same thing break every season. The whole operation running through one coordinator who never took a vacation, because she could not. The day she was out, jobs got rejected at the gate and the GM was the one apologizing to the customer. Calls, texts, group chats, a spreadsheet she kept open on two monitors. It worked, until it did not.

The pieces were already there. Scheduling lived in her head. Certifications lived in a separate system. Journey management lived in a shared inbox. Three things, three places, one person holding it together. When activity ramped, the gaps showed up at the gate.

I built HitchGuardian because I was tired of being part of that system, and tired of watching her be the system. I knew there was no piece of software in this industry that actually flagged the wrong crew before the truck rolled. There were compliance trackers that stored documents. There were dispatch tools that scheduled work. Nothing connected the two and signed off on the assignment before it left the yard.

HitchGuardian is the verified-readiness system I needed when I was on the lease. It connects scheduling, qualifications, and journey management in one workflow. It flags invalid assignments before the truck rolls. The dispatcher still owns the deploy decision. We are the gate, not the autopilot.

We are based in Calgary, Alberta, and live in production with a Western Canadian oilfield service operator. The first 90 days of pilot data are coming. The 30-day Proof Pilot is how a new operator tries this with their actual crews, their actual jobs, and their actual certifications.

If you run an oilfield service company and the day your coordinator is out feels like a coin flip, that is the system HitchGuardian was built for.