About Us
Why We Built AlphaWells
AlphaWells brings settlement-grade discipline from the capital markets to oil & gas revenue: every document captured, every number reconciled, every payment verified.
Who We Are
AlphaWells began with conversations, not code. We were founded by fintech veterans who discovered an untapped opportunity through discussions with mineral portfolio managers. These early advisors, now partners in our mission, shared a common frustration: their teams were drowning in manual document processing when they should have been making strategic investment decisions. We saw an industry ready for transformation and built the solution they needed.
Our Mission
We built AlphaWells on a simple belief: technology should handle repetitive tasks so people can focus on strategic work that creates real value. Our mission is to automate the mundane, elevate the meaningful, and give professionals back the time to excel at their jobs.
Meet Our Team
Built by Veterans of Capital Markets and Financial Technology
Our founders spent their careers building the systems that Wall Street trusts to settle billions of dollars in transactions. AlphaWells applies that same discipline, where every number must reconcile and every record must stand up to scrutiny, to oil and gas revenue.
Joseph Colaprico
Co-Founder & CEO/CTO
Joseph brings more than 30 years of experience building, selling, and integrating software for the capital markets. He was Head of Product at Trade Settlement Inc. and Virtus Trade Settlement, the SaaS platform for settling par and distressed syndicated loans, and Director of Global Services at EXIS Consulting, whose multi-asset capital markets software served more than 30 of the world’s largest investment banks and asset managers. He spent five years in London establishing the firm’s European headquarters.
Pat Loret de Mola
Co-Founder & Chair
Pat was the Founder and CEO of Trade Settlement Inc., President of Virtus Trade Settlement, and Founder and CEO of HashLynx, a blockchain-enabled settlement platform. She spent more than 20 years as a senior banker in global corporate lending and leveraged finance at JPMorgan, Mitsubishi Trust, and Merrill Lynch. She has served as Treasurer of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association and on the board of Mizuho Bank, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Rollins College, where she has chaired the Audit & Risk Committee.
Mike Williams
Co-Founder
Mike is a serial entrepreneur who founded or co-founded Intercontinental Exchange Partners, Curex Group, and Tradespark Energy, a premier energy trading platform built with Dynegy, Williams, Koch, Shell, TXU Energy, and Virginia Electric Power. He was CEO of Hotspot FX, one of the first algorithmic foreign exchange trading platforms, held senior positions at Cantor Fitzgerald, HSBC, and Knight Capital Group, and served on the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Foreign Exchange Committee.
Supported by advisors with more than 30 years of experience in oil and gas, minerals management, and digital assets.
Patented Technology
Built on Patented Technology
AlphaWells' core method is patented end to end: multi-layer AI extraction of financial and land documents, construction of the ownership-and-payment chain from those documents, and an integrated risk assessment expressed as the 0-to-100 Chain Integrity Score. The method is protected by US Patent 12,633,153.
Next: Tokenized Provenance
Every verified package in AlphaWells, the source documents, the extracted data, the reconciliation, and the integrity assessment, is already sealed with a cryptographic fingerprint. We are building the next step: anchoring those fingerprints on a public blockchain, so the provenance of a mineral asset and its payment history can be proven to any counterparty, tamper-evident and instantly, without handing over the underlying files.
For owners, that means an asset that carries its own verifiable record. For buyers, lenders, and auditors, it means diligence that takes minutes instead of months. The approach is part of our patented method: US Patent 12,633,153 covers blockchain tokenization of mineral assets alongside multi-layer data extraction and integrated risk scoring.
Talk to Us About Early AccessSee It On Your Own Statement
Send us one of your revenue statements or JIBs. We will process it and show you the extracted data, the reconciliation, and any exceptions, on your own document, at no cost.