PIELake — Scientific Data Foundation for Subsurface AI
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The scientific data foundation for subsurface AI

PIELake is an OSDU-native data foundation built on Databricks. Unify wells, seismic, GIS, and subsurface data into a governed, AI-ready lake — so agents and engineers get answers, not queries.

01 · DATABRICKS Data Intelligence Platform UNITY · LAKEBASE · LAKEFLOW · GENIE PL 02 · PIELAKE OSDU-Native Data Foundation SCHEMAS · ENTITLEMENTS · DDMS ← YOU ARE HERE 03 · PIESCALE Application Layer OFF-THE-SHELF · CONFIGURABLE · AGENT-READY
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Platform Architecture

Three layers. One coherent stack.

PIELake is the OSDU-native data foundation that sits between Databricks and your PIEScale applications. It handles schemas, entitlements, and domain data management so your teams never build that plumbing again.

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Off-the-Shelf Capabilities
Ingestion framework · Data quality engine · Governance UI · Domain workflows
Ingestion Quality Governance
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PIEScale
Application layer — workflows, rules, and UI subsurface teams use every day
Off the shelf Configurable Agent-ready
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PIELake
OSDU-native data foundation — schemas, entitlements, domain data management services
Schemas Entitlements DDMS
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Databricks
Data Intelligence Platform — Unity Catalog · Lakebase · Lakeflow · Genie
Unity Lakebase Genie
Subsurface Data Landscape

Open subsurface domain integration

PIELake unifies wells, geology, geophysics, and operations data across open industry standards into a single AI-ready foundation.

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Wells & Wellbores

Complete well lifecycle from spud to production

  • WITSML
  • LAS / DLIS / LIS
  • Wellbore DDMS
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Seismic & Geophysics

2D/3D volumes, horizons, attributes, and faults

  • SEG-Y
  • Seismic DDMS
  • 3D VTK
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GIS & Spatial

Basins, fields, boundaries and well locations in spatial context

  • GIS Layers
  • Leaflet Maps
  • Spatial Query
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Reservoir & Production

Grids, fluid models, completions, and production history

  • RESQML
  • PRODML
  • Reservoir DDMS
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Core & Thin Sections

Laboratory measurements, petrophysical analysis

  • Core Photos
  • Plug Data
  • Lithology
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Well Logs & DTS

Log curves, distributed temperature sensing, acoustic data

  • LAS 2.0/3.0
  • DLIS
  • Acoustic
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Operations

Real-time data, production monitoring, facility data

  • Corrosion
  • Strain
  • Completions
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Open Standards

Broad industry interoperability across all major formats

  • OSDU M25+
  • PPDM · PODS
  • Energistics
OSDU Compliance

Aligned to OSDU. Continuously evolving.

PIELake on Databricks demonstrates broad alignment with core OSDU services and release milestones. Open standards, native Databricks foundation, enterprise-ready evolution path.

M25 — Supported M26 — Under Testing M27 — Under Testing

Core Services

  • Search Service
  • Storage
  • Dataset
  • Files
  • Indexer
  • Schema
  • Notification
  • Secret & CRS

Governance & Domain Services

  • Legal · Partition Service · Entitlements · EDS
  • Seismic DDMS
  • Wellbore DDMS
  • Reservoir DDMS (testing)
  • RAFS (testing)
Platform Capabilities

Everything your subsurface team actually needs

PIELake adds ready-to-use capabilities on top of Databricks — so you get agentic ingestion, AI-guided discovery, and scientific visualization without building from scratch.

01 · Ingestion

Agentic ingestion workflow

Natural-language guided ingestion, orchestrated with Genie and Databricks Jobs. No SQL. No custom scripts.

  • Ask in natural language — Genie starts or resumes ingestion
  • Check scan status — prior scans and context found automatically
  • Generate and validate — Databricks Jobs generate, check, and ingest
  • Track progress — status, history, and readiness in one view
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Agentic Ingestion Workflow
PIEScale UI Screenshot
800 × 500 px
02 · Data Quality

Source data quality before transformation

Assess source data early to improve trust, reduce rework, and speed up subsurface ingestion. Catch issues before they reach your lake.

  • Assess early — save time and cost before costly processing
  • Pinpoint issues per record or file — each issue traced to its source
  • Validate original consistency — headers, metadata, values cross-checked
  • 92% quality score example — 39 rules passed on raw SEG-Y
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Source Data Quality Dashboard
PIEScale UI Screenshot
800 × 500 px
03 · Search & Discovery

Natural language search via MCP

Search, discover, and map subsurface data in natural language. Genie fetches directly from Lakebase through MCP — governed and secure.

  • Find wells in a county — 21,466 wells plotted instantly on map
  • Rich spatial context — wells, seismic, faults, and basins on one map
  • Question to visual in seconds — no SQL required
  • Enterprise-ready — governance, security, and lineage built in
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Search & Discovery — GIS Map View
Genie on Lakebase via MCP
800 × 500 px
04 · Seismic Visualization

2D & 3D seismic from Lakebase

Natural-language access to seismic data, visualized directly in PIEScale. Petabyte-scale seismic, one governance model.

  • 2D depth slice — "give me the depth slice at -2000m" → instant result
  • 3D VTK volume — slice, rotate, zoom, and pan seismic cubes
  • Direct access via MCP — Genie reaches Lakebase, governed and secure
  • Scales to petabyte seismic volumes — no SQL, no pipeline rebuild
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3D Seismic VTK Visualization
Genie on Lakebase via MCP
800 × 500 px
05 · Scalable GIS

Scalable GIS for subsurface context

Put subsurface elements in geospatial context with interactive, scalable map-based exploration. One spatial foundation for energy and mining.

  • Contextualize subsurface — wells, seismic, faults, and basins in spatial context
  • Layered discovery — filter, overlay, and select layers for analysis
  • Bridge GIS and subsurface — maps linked to wells, logs, and seismic
  • AI-ready geospatial context — spatial data for analytics, apps, and agents
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Scalable GIS — Basin & Well Map
PIEScale Advanced Visualization
800 × 500 px
06 · Domain AI Agents

Insights driven by agents

Domain agents turn proprietary subsurface data into actionable insight. Every capability is driven by personas asking real questions of their proprietary data.

  • Well agent — search, filter, and analyze wellbore data via OpenAPI
  • Seismic agent — query seismic attributes and volumes in natural language
  • Geobodies agent — identify and classify geological bodies
  • Res. Mgmt. agent — reservoir management queries and analysis
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AI Domain Agents — Request Flow
Genie One + Agent Selection
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PIEScale Transformer

Connecting OSDU-unaware apps

Non-OSDU applications read and contribute data through PIEScale, with no changes to the applications. Format translation, schema mapping, and OSDU compliance — all handled automatically.

  • →Interpretation tools, modeling apps, desktop & cloud apps — all connected
  • →No app changes required — OSDU on the other side
  • →Format translation · Schema mapping · OSDU compliance
  • →Minutes per app to adopt — not man-days
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PIEScale Transformer
Non-OSDU → PIELake Architecture
640 × 420 px
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Qumulo + PIELake Architecture
Zero-Copy On-Prem Integration
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Partner Integration

Qumulo + PIEScale: on-prem data, ready for agents

Zero-copy access to on-prem files through Qumulo, enriched by PIEScale and exposed to apps and AI agents through MCP. Nothing moves.

Zero Copy

Files stay on-prem in Qumulo. Nothing is moved to the cloud.

Enriched

PIEScale adds metadata as data reaches PIELake on Databricks.

Agent-Ready

Genie and 3rd-party agents query through MCP. Governed and secure.

Access Modes

Three ways to access PIELake

Whether you're building apps, connecting AI assistants, or running agent-to-agent workflows — PIELake meets you where you are.

API

Programmatic Access

Full OSDU-compatible REST APIs. Build applications, integrate pipelines, and query subsurface data at enterprise scale with standard OSDU service contracts.

MCP

AI Assistants

Model Context Protocol lets AI assistants like Genie One query PIELake directly. Natural language → governed data access. No SQL, no custom connectors.

A2A

Agent-to-Agent

Domain agents (Well, Seismic, Geobodies, Reservoir) coordinate through A2A protocols. Complex multi-domain workflows execute autonomously with full traceability.

45,000
Wells migrated
in 3 hours
15 TB
Seismic data
in 6 hours
30–35%
Lower total cost
of ownership
M25+
OSDU compliant
M26 & M27 in testing
Why PIELake

Skip the plumbing. Start with a foundation.

Building OSDU compliance on Databricks from scratch takes months. PIELake gives you schemas, entitlements, DDMS, and agentic workflows — ready to deploy.

Build It Yourself
  • ✗6–18 months to OSDU compliance
  • ✗Custom schema + entitlement engineering
  • ✗Maintain DDMS implementations per domain
  • ✗Build agentic ingestion from scratch
  • ✗High ongoing maintenance burden
PIELake on Databricks
  • ✓Deploy in weeks, not months
  • ✓OSDU schemas and entitlements included
  • ✓Seismic, Wellbore & Reservoir DDMS ready
  • ✓Agentic ingestion with Genie built in
  • ✓Continuously updated to new OSDU milestones
Get Started with PIELake

Your subsurface AI strategy starts with data it can trust

See how PIELake unifies complex subsurface data and turns it into governed, AI-ready context for engineers, applications, and autonomous agents.