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Build Studio
Pick the tools your operation needs, watch each demo run on sample data, and send the build to a person who scopes it. Free, no account, no prices.
Open the StudioThe workshop side of True North Data Strategies
The suits sell decks.
We ship systems.
Pipeline Punks is where the work gets built, tested, and shown in public. Free tools, real demos, and straight talk about running fleets, fuel, and field operations. Walk in, kick the tires, learn something, leave. Nobody asks for your email on the way out.
| site | pipelinepunks.com |
|---|---|
| operator | True North Data Strategies LLC |
| status | mid-rebuild. tools return one at a time |
| access | free. no account. no email wall. |
Break rules, not operations.
Pipeline Punks // Petroleum briefs
Six free petroleum briefs. Pick the ones you want.
Short, sourced email briefs for small and midsize fuel distributors: operations, AI in the field, compliance deadlines, vendor claims, seasonal readiness, and an action list. Choose any mix. Confirm by email. Every brief carries a link to stop it.
- Petroleum Operations Brief: Mondays and Thursdays
- Petroleum AI Field Report: Mondays and Thursdays
- Compliance Deadline Radar: Tuesdays
- Vendor and Tech Watch: monthly
- Seasonal Readiness: March, April, August and October
- Action Summary: with each brief
Free tool: off-road diesel tax check
Burning clear diesel in equipment that never touches a public road? Put in five numbers and see what dyed diesel would save you in Colorado, and how much tax you already paid may be recoverable. It runs in your browser and stores nothing. Estimates only; your CPA files any claim.
Run the tax checkThe work behind the workshop
Read the anonymized client engagements on the TNDS website, or visit our GitHub organization for the practice overview and public development standards. Demos here use sample data; client work stays on the TNDS side.
Loads. Code. Attitude.
The Build Studio is open again, folded into this site. The learn lane is still on jacks, being rebuilt in public one page at a time. Same deal for both: free, no account, no email wall.
in rebuild
Learn to Build
Plain-English learning modules for operators who want to build their own fixes. Torn down to the frame and being rebuilt in public.
See what is comingProof over pitch
Nothing on this site is a mockup of a thing we might build someday. If you can click it, it runs. If it is not ready, it says so.
LIVE
Petroleum Briefs
Six free email briefs for fuel distributors: operations, AI, compliance deadlines, vendor claims, seasonal readiness, and an action list. Confirm by email. Stop any one with a link.
Sign upLIVE
Build Studio
The public sandbox: pick tools, open each demo on sample data, and send the build to TNDS. No account, no email wall.
Open the StudioLIVE
Operators Brief
Field notes on what we built, what broke, what it cost, and what to steal. Published right here, free to read, no account.
Launch itSOON
CourseForge
The course platform behind the Learn lane. Training built from your own source material. On the bench now.
Dispatch and fleet lessons
Pipeline Punks on YouTube covers practical fuel dispatch and driver qualification file lessons. It is another way to explore the operating problems behind the work we share here.
Public examples use synthetic or sanitized sample data. No client systems or client information. Read the publication date and check current official sources when a lesson covers regulatory requirements.
Pipeline Punks on YouTube
Built by Jacob Johnston, 20-year Army veteran and former transportation department head at a regional petroleum carrier, now running True North Data Strategies, a fractional operations practice for regulated field operations.
Watch Pipeline Punks on YouTubeWe only look like trouble.
Pipeline Punks is the open garage door of True North Data Strategies, a veteran-owned data and operations shop. TNDS is the contract brand: assessments, installs, support, the paperwork. Punks is where operators watch the work happen, try the tools, and learn to build their own. Same building, different volume.
The house rule is simple: break bottlenecks, not workers. Every tool here exists to hand somebody their evening back, not to squeeze one more report out of a dispatcher who is already doing three jobs.
Some operators use the free stuff and never call. Good. Some come back when the job outgrows the toolbox. Also good. That is the whole model.
The Operators Brief
Field notes for people who run the real thing: what we built, what broke, what it costs, and what to steal for your own operation. Published right here, free to read.
Get the Brief