Thought Leadership & Insights

When the Buyer Becomes the Bid: The Letter to Devon, Decoded

Illustration titled "The Letter to Devon: Decoded," showing a glowing crystal ball with an envelope and magnifying glass representing the activist letter to Devon Energy, branching toward two potential buyers labeled "biggest checkbook" and "strategic fit."

Devon Energy faces a familiar activist playbook. EAG’s CEO breaks down what the letter actually demands, and who’s really in play if a sale happens.

Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal for Land Document Work

Illustration titled "Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal, free people to focus on judgment," showing a stack of documents splitting into two paths — an efficiency gauge and an expert-judgment icon — feeding into business outcome icons, illustrating EAG's take on land document work.

Efficiency Is the Wrong Goal EAG founder Elizabeth Gerbel argues the real opportunity in land operations isn’t doing the same work faster, it’s freeing people to do the work only they can do. When EAG’s founder and CEO Elizabeth Gerbel talks about artificial intelligence (AI), she doesn’t lead with the technology. She leads with a distinction most companies get wrong. Her point […]

Where Does the Time Actually Go? What Land Professionals Told Us

Isometric illustration of one large stack of documents beside three much smaller stacks, with the headline "Where Does the Time Actually Go? What Land Professionals Told Us," representing the lopsided poll results on document review time.

This week, we asked a simple question on LinkedIn: which step in your document review process eats the most of your week We expected a mix of answers. What we got instead was a clear, lopsided result, and a comment section that filled in the “why” better than any poll option could. Final Results Manual data […]

The Problem Doesn’t Stay Where It Starts: How Data Issues Move Downstream

Diagram showing how a land data quality problem spreads downstream through systems, teams, and business decisions

Land Data Quality: Why Small Problems Don’t Stay Small A small inconsistency in a land record rarely looks like a major business problem when it first appears. A field is captured differently. Information lives in a spreadsheet instead of the system. A document isn’t connected to the record it supports. Data from one system doesn’t quite match another. Individually, […]

The Work Before the Work: Where Document Bottlenecks Begin

Disorganized files jam a bottleneck, then move through a capture, extract, validate and deliver document management workflow

Land professionals are hired for their expertise: interpreting information, evaluating risk, understanding context, and making decisions. But before any of that can happen, there is often another layer of work. Find the right document. Open the file. Locate the relevant language. Review the provision. Capture the information. Verify it. Move it where it needs to […]