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Today is where a signed-in reader lands: what came in since your last visit, in the states you follow, newest first. With nothing narrowed it groups by county — a single state can file a hundred permits a day — and drops to individual pads once you turn on a watch.

A divider marks what is new since you were last here. A free account sees the same feed, delayed, with county-level counts standing in for operator names above that line — see Pricing for exactly how the two compare.

Explore is the table and the map, driven by one filter — state, county, operator, status, trajectory, depth and dates — carried in the URL, so a filtered link works the same in either view and is safe to share. Clicking a point on the map opens that permit in a side drawer without leaving the page.

“Watch this” in the filter rail saves whatever you have filtered as a watch, without re-entering it. Pro removes the free view’s row limit and delay and can export the filtered result as a CSV; see Pricing for the specifics.

Every permit has its own page — state, status, kind, the well, operator and county as links, the event date and who reported it. From there you can call the operator (Pro), copy a text block with the permit’s details, share the page link, or save the permit for later — saving works on a free account too.

A hidden permit — pending, or issued inside the free delay — shows a page that names the reasons it might be hidden without confirming which one applies, and offers sign-in or an upgrade rather than a dead end.

A watch is a saved search: a county or parish, an operator, a circle up to 100 miles, or a shape you draw, or any search saved straight from Explore, and the Watches page shows each one’s recent activity alongside the rest. On the free plan, your oldest county, operator, radius or drawn area watch emails you, 7 days after a permit is issued. Pro emails every watch the day it appears in the state's register. The daily digest that bundles them is Pro.

Anything you have starred — from a permit page, the table, or the map — appears below your watches as a saved list, whether or not it belongs to a watch.

Claude, ChatGPT or Codex can read the register for you: ask in plain English and the assistant looks the answer up in Well-Intel. Connect has the address and the steps for each one; you sign in with your Well-Intel account, and there is nothing to copy or keep safe. It is read-only: the assistant cannot change your watches or your account.

On the free plan, your AI assistant sees issued permits 7 days after issue, with no pending permits and no operator contacts. On Pro it sees every permit the day it appears, with operator contacts where the state publishes them.

• Find an operator or county: matches a name to the exact operator or county, in any of the four states.
• Search permits: lists individual permits by state, county, operator, status, depth and dates.
• Get one permit: a permit in full, with its status changes and the operator's contact where the state publishes it.
• Operator activity: how active an operator has been over the last 7, 30 or 90 days, county by county.
• Busiest counties: the counties with the most permits over the last 7, 30 or 90 days, and who is filing there.

Questions it answers well:

• “How many permits did Mewbourne get in Eddy County, New Mexico in the last 90 days?”
• “Which Texas counties had the most permits in the last 30 days, and who filed them?”
• “Show me Devon's newest Oklahoma permits, with their depths.”

Limits, per account: on Pro, 60 calls a minute, 2,000 calls a day, and 5,000 permit rows a day; on the free plan, 20 calls a minute, 200 calls a day, and 1,000 permit rows a day. They reset at midnight UTC, and we may change them. For bulk data, use the CSV export.

To stop every connected assistant at once, turn off assistant access on Connect. Turning it back on restores the ones you connected before.

If the assistant says Well-Intel’s tools are not available, disconnect Well-Intel in its connector settings and connect again.

Billing, email alerts, and theme all live in the account menu under your avatar. Billing opens the Stripe portal for invoices, payment methods, and cancellation; turning off email alerts there pauses them without touching your watches.

Well-Intel has one paid plan, Pro, alongside the free tier — see Pricing for what it costs and how the two compare. Cancelling keeps your access until the end of the period you already paid for.