Good Systems
Give People Room

Room to think. To care for customers. To do the part of the work that depends on experience and judgment.

Daniel Newton, founder of Hyphos Inc.
Daniel NewtonFounder, Hyphos Inc. · Calgary, Alberta

From Job Sites
To AI Systems

Daniel didn’t start in an office. He started on construction sites, supervising crews and tracking costs on bridges, power plants and pipelines across Western Canada.

On every project he saw the same thing. Good people spent hours re-entering numbers, reconciling reports and chasing information that already existed somewhere else. The work that needed their experience waited while they did the admin.

So he started fixing it. First with better project controls, then by building the systems himself: a project management platform for a pipeline builder, then enterprise system rollouts for large public sector, energy and infrastructure organizations at Deloitte, and finally leading how that practice put AI to work.

Hyphos is where all of that comes together. Daniel designs, builds and deploys AI systems that reduce manual effort, so people can focus on what really matters.

“I like to live on the cutting edge of AI so I can understand what can, and more importantly what should, be implemented in a business.”
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Experience You Don’t Have To Explain Twice

He Has Done The Work

Estimates, change orders, timesheets, month-end reports and the crew waiting on them. Daniel builds for the people doing the work because he has been one of them.

Enterprise Discipline, Small Business Speed

The requirements, process mapping and system rollouts behind large programs, scaled to a business that needs something working in weeks, not years.

AI With Judgment

He works with the newest AI every day, so he can tell you what it can do for your business, and just as important, where it shouldn’t be trusted yet.

Connected, Not Just Automated

Fragmented processes and data turned into one connected platform, using semantic models, vector search and graph data, so AI answers from your real information and shows where it came from.

Nearly Two Decades
Of Real Projects

Public sector · Energy · Construction · Infrastructure

  • AI system architecture and deployment
  • Semantic and vector search
  • Graph data modelling
  • Requirements engineering
  • Project management system implementation, integration and migration
  • Complex project delivery
  1. 2008 to 2017

    Kiewit

    Field supervisor, piping superintendent, estimator and project controls manager on bridges, a power plant, hydroelectric projects, oil sands work and the Southwest Calgary Ring Road.

  2. 2017 to 2022

    Surerus Murphy Joint Venture

    Corporate project controls manager for a pipeline builder. Led the team that built its project management system and standardized reporting across every project.

  3. 2022 to 2026

    Deloitte

    Senior Manager, Infrastructure & Real Estate. Selected and implemented enterprise project management systems for public sector, energy and infrastructure organizations, then led AI delivery transformation for the practice.

  4. 2026 on

    Hyphos Inc.

    Building connected, AI-enabled software for businesses of any size, and Hyphos, our knowledge and work platform.

Start With What People Actually Do

The work rarely fits neatly into the software. Someone keeps a spreadsheet on the side. Someone remembers the exception. Someone knows who to call.

Hyphos starts there. We look at how the business runs, connect the information it depends on, and build software around the work.

Stay Close Enough To Build The Right Thing

We talk with the people using the systems, make the problem concrete, and show working software early.

Some problems need an integration. Some need custom software. Some need a clearer process. The useful answer starts with knowing which one you're facing.

The Reason Matters As Much As The Record

A plan tells you what the team intends to do. It rarely tells you everything that led there: the exception, the conversation, the lesson from the last job.

That is the idea behind Hyphos, our platform. The documents, decisions and experience belong in the context of the work they inform, so the next person has something to build on.

Two Ways To Work With Us

Client work connects operations and builds the tools a business is missing. Hyphos focuses on the knowledge behind the work: decisions, experience and context a team can use again.

They share one premise. The systems should carry more of the coordination, so people can give their attention to the work that needs them.

See The Work