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Decades of basin reports, well logs, and interpretations — locked in folders nobody can search.

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The average geoscientist spends 30–40% of their time hunting for knowledge that already exists inside their own company.

01 Reports no one can search PDFs scattered across drives, inboxes, and laptops with no consistent structure
02 Knowledge that retires with its owner 20 years of asset intuition — gone when a senior geologist walks out the door
03 Work that gets done twice Teams re-run studies that already exist because nobody knew to look
04 Decisions that wait on searches Three days of emailing colleagues to find data that was in a 2011 report all along
From katabasis — descent into the earth

Named for the descent.

Kataba takes its name from katabasis (κατάβασις) — the ancient Greek word for a journey downward. Like the geoscientist's path into the subsurface, Kataba uncovers what's buried beneath the surface, turning complexity into understanding.

Descend. Discover. Decide.

The Solution

Ask your documents a question. Get an answer with a source.

Document retrieval from subsurface knowledge layers
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Private by design

Kataba is deployed into your environment. Your proprietary data never leaves your network.

02

Plain-English queries

Ask the way you'd ask a colleague. No query language. No training required.

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Every answer is cited

Document name and page number, every time. Verify before you act.

kataba · 127 documents indexed
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What evidence do we have for source rock maturity in the Cretaceous interval? Summarize our internal studies from the last 10 years.
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Three internal studies confirm high thermal maturity (Ro 1.1–1.4%) between 3,800–4,200 m depth. 📄 Robertson_2019 p.14 The 2022 basin model raised maturity window estimates by ~8% after revised heat-flow calibration. 📄 BasinModel_2022 p.7 One dissenting memo flags a local depocenter anomaly in the northern block. 📄 NBlock_Memo_2021 p.3
Which formations are candidates for secondary migration pathways?

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