EP 80: Kayla Ball from SensorUp

Bobby Neelon and John Kalfayan sit down with Kayla Ball to break down why the methane compliance space is stuck in the trough of disillusionment, how she ended up cleaning up Petra's flat file nightmare at IHS, and why vibe coding with Claude feels like training your own replacement. They dig into sensor data chaos across ops teams, why public data companies should be worried, the wild difference between building lovable prototypes versus commercial deployments with SOC2 governance, and how AI is forcing everyone to confront the fact that humans shouldn't be entering data into anything anymore.

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0:00 - Devon and Chesapeake leaving Oklahoma City

4:50 - What SensorUp actually does beyond sensors

11:40 - Methane space challenges and compliance markets

18:30 - Why standardizing sensor data is so hard

26:40 - Getting into product management from geology

32:45 - AI automating regulatory workflows and field inspections