We turn the data nobody can read into deals nobody else can find — across seven energy basins, every single day. Twenty-five years of landman expertise married to a machine purpose-built to find and close what others miss.
Because the dollar in your account loses purchasing power by design — and the assets that produce cash flow while you hold them are the ones that survive. Energy minerals have written royalty checks to American families for five generations.
The caseMost platforms have engineers without industry expertise. Most landmen don't have technology. We have both — a CPL with twenty-five years of pattern recognition, and a proprietary engine that does what used to take a team of twenty.
The engineDirect co-investment alongside Maevlo on every deal. No fund structure. No K-1s. No pooled capital. We sign the check beside yours. A small private circle is forming for first-look access to HALO-sourced opportunities.
The invitationReal data. Real sections. Pulled from the same platform we use to underwrite our own capital.
| Margaret A. Thornton | 2.500% |
| Redstone Minerals II, LP | 1.583% |
| James R. Thornton | 0.833% |
| Whitfield Family Trust | 0.500% |
| David M. Callahan | 0.083% |
The currency in which we price our lives has been quietly losing ground for a century. One rate cycle at a time. One stimulus at a time. One emergency measure at a time. The mechanism is older than the United States. The effects compound whether you engage with them or not.
The historical answer in every era has been the same: own things. Not paper claims on things. The things themselves. Land. Gold. Oil. Grain. The productive surfaces of the earth.
But not all hard assets are equal. Some sit idle. Some decay. Some pay you while you hold them. Energy minerals — mineral rights, royalty interests, non-operated working interests — are the rare intersection of scarcity, durability, and cash flow. They have written checks to American families for five generations.
The commodity bull market may not yet have truly begun. Out of forty-two commodities tracked, thirty-five remain seventy-three percent below their inflation-adjusted peaks.
Meanwhile, the capital required to find and develop new energy supply has been systematically starved for over a decade. Global upstream investment peaked at $780 billion in 2014. Today it sits at roughly $450 billion — well below what's needed to replace what we consume. Depletion does not pause for elections, monetary policy, or market sentiment. It compounds — quietly, relentlessly — until prices force the world to notice.
When the Strait of Hormuz closed in early 2026, Brent crude surged from $70 to $119 in days. Strategic reserves, already half-drawn, could cover only twenty days of the shortfall. That was the warning shot.
Quality mineral rights do not trade on exchanges. They are discovered one section at a time, in county courthouses and state land offices. Ownership is fragmented across dozens of heirs. Valuation requires production data most people cannot read. Title requires legal expertise most investors do not have.
For twenty-five years we have done this work by hand. Then we built a machine to do it faster. HALO automates what used to take a team of twenty — basin-level heat mapping, section-by-section valuation, ownership resolution, and direct outreach — across seven active basins simultaneously.
This is not a fintech pitch deck dressed up in oil-patch language. This was built by a landman who taught a machine to work the way he does. The combination of twenty-five years of pattern recognition married to purpose-built technology is what makes HALO different from every platform claiming to have figured out energy data.
HALO refreshes daily. Thousands of sections across the Haynesville, Permian, DJ, Powder River, and Williston basins — ranked, scored, and valued. Every day the map changes. Every day deals emerge that nobody else is looking at.
HALO is built and operated by Matthew Montgomery — a Certified Professional Landman with twenty-five years of petroleum land experience. Texan by birth. Louisianian by taste. Colorado resident.
Through his career as an energy investor partnered with private equity, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals, Matthew has deployed — and more importantly been a steward of — over $300 million in energy capital. Every deal has been made with a portion of his own capital signed alongside.
That's the Maevlo principle. Same side of the table. If we put it in front of you, we put our money behind it.
Live valuation maps, section-level analytics, and deal pipeline across our active coverage area.