SANDRIDGE ENERGY INC
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PRODUCTION_VERIFIED schema v3.0.0 Inferred last heartbeat: 2026-07-21T07:49:18.072144+00:00

Business Model Classification Tokens

contract_cycle_length
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
enterprise_sales_motion
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
procurement_complexity
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
vendor_lock_coefficient
null
Inferred
Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
consumption_unit_definition
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
usage_billing_granularity
null
Inferred
Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
overage_penalty_structure
null
Inferred
Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
minimum_commitment_floor
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
metered_margin_profile
null
Inferred
Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run

Business Model Archetype Classification

University of St. Gallen — 55 Business Model Navigator (Gassmann et al.)

SG-006 Cash Machine VALUE High
Direct: debt_leverage_profile=0.00x Total Debt / Equity (Conservative). Corroborated: revenue_model_type=~100% transactional; spot and short-term commodity sales dominate; minimal hedged volumes provide quasi-contracted revenue (~20-30% hedged in any given year)
SG-035
Premium
WHO Medium
SG-002
Affiliation
VALUE Medium
SG-004
Auction
HOW Medium

Hybrid Combination

Cash Machine (SG-006) VALUE provides the core structure, combined with Premium (SG-035) + Affiliation (SG-002) + Auction (SG-004) to form the complete business model fingerprint.

55 Archetypes Evaluated High: 1 Medium: 8 Registry: schemas/sg55_archetype_registry.yaml

Knowledge Graph — All Sections

debt_leverage_profile
0.00x Total Debt / Equity (Conservative)
High
SEC-XBRL
interest_rate_sensitivity
Moderate-high; SandRidge carried ~$300M debt post-restructuring; 200bps rate rise adds ~$6M annual interest, manageable but constrains reinvestment
Inferred
Agent_Inference
geopolitical_supply_exposure
High intensity; OPEC+ supply decisions and Russia-Ukraine conflict drive price volatility.
Medium
GICS-commodity-overlay-v1
supply_chain_dependency
Permian/Mid-Continent oilfield services concentration; Halliburton/Schlumberger duopoly for well completion services is primary chokepoint
Inferred
Agent_Inference
international_expansion_readiness
null
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Agent_Inference
geographic_footprint
Purely domestic US operator (Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado); zero sovereign currency devaluation exposure; no international revenue markets
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Agent_Inference
commodity_exposure_profile
High intensity; commodities: Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, Refined Petroleum Products, Uranium, Steel (equipment); geopolitical: OPEC+ supply decisions and Russia-Ukraine conflict drive price volatility.
Medium
GICS-commodity-overlay-v1
vendor_lock_dependency_score
Oilfield service providers (completion/fracking crews) represent ~40-50% of well capex; substitutable but regional scarcity creates meaningful switching friction
Inferred
Agent_Inference
business_model_type_primary
No material cloud infrastructure dependency; field operations run on standard ERP/SCADA systems; 30-day AWS termination would disrupt back-office only, not production
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Agent_Inference
business_model_type_secondary
Upstream E&P commodity producer; revenue entirely from oil, natural gas, and NGL sales; no SaaS or platform component
Inferred
Agent_Inference
switching_cost_profile
Low API coupling risk; uses industry-standard reservoir simulation software (Petrel, Eclipse); no proprietary API dependencies with lock-in
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Agent_Inference
howey_test_risk_index
Low Howey risk; revenue from physical hydrocarbon commodity sales; no investment contract structure; standard E&P business passes Howey Test easily
Inferred
Agent_Inference
regulatory_burden_tier
High
Medium
GICS-regulatory-overlay-v1
data_sovereignty_risk
Minimal GDPR/CCPA exposure; no consumer data collected; employee data only; US-only operations; compliance cost negligible relative to revenue
Inferred
Agent_Inference
antitrust_exposure_flag
Low antitrust risk; small-cap E&P with sub-1% US production market share; price-taker in commodity markets; no dominant market position
Inferred
Agent_Inference
regulatory_exposure_profile
High burden; regimes: EPA, FERC, DOE, CFTC, OSHA, SEC; Accelerating emissions mandates and methane rules threaten capex economics.
Medium
GICS-regulatory-overlay-v1
revenue_model_type
~100% transactional; spot and short-term commodity sales dominate; minimal hedged volumes provide quasi-contracted revenue (~20-30% hedged in any given year)
Inferred
Agent_Inference
monetization_vector
Commodity price realization per BOE; ~60% oil, ~25% NGL, ~15% natural gas by revenue mix; entirely volume × price monetization
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Agent_Inference
pricing_architecture
Pure commodity price-taker; WTI/Henry Hub benchmarks drive realized prices; differential management (basis risk) is only pricing lever available
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pricing_power_rating
1/10; zero independent pricing power; realized prices determined entirely by global commodity markets minus gathering/transport differentials
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Agent_Inference
target_gross_margin_bracket
LOE-adjusted gross margin ~50-65% at $70 WTI; highly sensitive to oil price; breakeven approximately $40-45 WTI at field level
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Agent_Inference
churn_vulnerability_index
No free-rider problem; commodity sales to refiners/midstream under arms-length contracts; customer attrition replaced easily in liquid spot market
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Agent_Inference
headcount_cost_structure
Sublinear growth; production growth via drilling capex not headcount; doubling BOE output requires ~20-30% more staff, not 100%; capital-intensive model
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Agent_Inference
marginal_cost_of_growth
Marginal cost of growth is drilling capex (~$3-6M per well); incremental G&A minimal; growth economics driven by F&D cost per BOE, not labor scaling
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Agent_Inference
franchise_compliance_risk
null
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Agent_Inference
customer_acquisition_metric
At 10x scale, midstream/refinery counterparty diversification sufficient; no CAC in traditional sense; incremental production sold at market; unit economics stable
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Agent_Inference
network_effect_present
No network effects present; hydrocarbon production is linear extraction business; value does not increase with additional producers or buyers on platform
Inferred
Agent_Inference
asset_efficiency_ratio
10.0% Return on Assets (Excellent)
High
SEC-XBRL
recession_resistance_tier
Tier 4 (highly cyclical); oil demand falls ~5-8% in severe recessions; WTI can drop 50%+; SandRidge nearly bankrupted in 2015-16 downturn
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Agent_Inference
customer_segment_primary
Midstream pipeline operators and crude purchasers (Plains All American, DCP Midstream type counterparties); ~3-5 key purchasers represent majority of revenue
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Agent_Inference
customer_segment_secondary
Natural gas marketing companies and local distribution companies for gas/NGL volumes; secondary segment represents ~25-30% of total revenue
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Agent_Inference
characteristic_occupations
["11-0000 Management Occupations", "13-0000 Business and Financial Operations Occupations", "15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations", "17-0000 Architecture and Engineering Occupations", "19-0000 Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations", "23-0000 Legal Occupations", "41-0000 Sales and Related Occupations", "43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations", "47-0000 Construction and Extraction Occupations", "49-0000 Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations", "53-0000 Transportation and Material Moving Occupations"]
High
SOC-2018/GICS-overlay
agent_automatable_labor_share
0.33 (HIL — ~33% of characteristic roles agent-automatable)
Medium
SOC-2018 + agentic-exposure-v1
capital_expenditure_profile
37.5% CapEx / Revenue (High-CapEx Infrastructure)
High
SEC-XBRL
sec_cik
0001349436
High
SEC-EDGAR
ticker
SD
High
SEC-EDGAR

Business Model Components

Core Space

> *Pending Turn 2 — Business Model Type Agent population.*

Interaction Modes

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Product Matrix

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Live Operational Signals

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Evaluation Gate — Persona Stress Tests

SKILL_BUFFETT_VAL_03PASS2026-07-21no unmet atoms among this persona's authored questions
SKILL_LEGAL_SEC_01PASS2026-07-21no unmet atoms among this persona's authored questions
SKILL_SHORT_BEAR_01PASS2026-07-21no unmet atoms among this persona's authored questions
SKILL_MACRO_STRAT_01FAIL2026-07-211 authored question(s) unanswerable — e.g. QBANK_MACRO_003 n
SKILL_OPS_PARTNER_01FAIL2026-07-211 authored question(s) unanswerable — e.g. QBANK_OPS_002 nee

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