Prepared for Ring Energy, Inc.
AI governance — an outside view.
We ran the search your next investor, insurer or major customer is going to run. This is what came back.
Prepared for Ring Energy, Inc.
We ran the search your next investor, insurer or major customer is going to run. This is what came back.
Motion Consulting Group · a Kelly Services company · July 2026
This measures what is publicly findable, not what exists inside the company. Where something is marked not found, it means a person searching from outside could not locate it — which is exactly the position an investor or insurer is in.
The most useful finding is not an absence. It is that Ring's cybersecurity governance is genuinely well constructed — NIST-based, a named director with the credentials to hold it, a standing management committee, board oversight through Audit, outside assessors engaged.
That is the same apparatus AI governance requires. The framework simply has not been extended to it yet — and on that point, the sector is wide open. We could not find a published AI governance policy at any oil and gas company, majors included.
A Russell 3000 constituent since June, with rising institutional visibility, whose filings do not yet address a category their other holdings have started disclosing.
Excellent cyber posture, clearly documented. No documented answer yet on AI — increasingly a separate question at renewal.
A vendor with a strong security answer and no AI answer, at a moment when both questions are starting to appear on the same form.
Named operators, measured outcomes. Included because it is useful to you whether or not we ever work together.
Not a transformation programme. The same shape as the cyber work already in place, extended one category across.
Where AI is already in use — in your systems, and in your vendors' systems operating on your data. Most companies find more than they expected.
One document: what is permitted, what requires review, who signs. Modelled on the cybersecurity programme you already run.
The answer to the question, in the form the Audit Committee already receives cyber reporting.
The unusual part: we searched for a published AI governance policy at every major in this industry and did not find one. A one-page position, adopted now, would put Ring ahead of operators many times its size — not by spending more, but by writing it down first.
Twenty minutes is enough to know whether this is worth anything to you. Richard Taubin · Motion Consulting Group, a Kelly Services company.
Every observation on these slides describes what is publicly visible. Nothing here characterises Ring Energy's internal practices, which we have not seen and have not attempted to assess.