The Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU) is a solid set of service contracts for the energy industry: Storage, Search, Dataset, File, Workflow, Legal, Schema, Entitlements. It powers real data platforms and real subsurface workflows. But there is a gap between the contracts and the day-to-day reality of anyone who writes code against them. A real deployment means Kubernetes, OpenSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, and an OIDC provider. That is reasonable for a platform team. It is a heavy way to ...