Phil Henderson, P.Eng.
Twenty years across oil and gas, construction technology, and program delivery. In January 2026 I woke up from my pre-AI slumber and started building with Claude and Claude Code. Nine months in, the list below is the stuff that actually runs, most of it on a Raspberry Pi in my living room.
SAGD Atlas
Every thermal in-situ scheme in Alberta and Saskatchewan on one map: who operates it, what it produces, how much steam it takes, and where its pads and wells sit. Built from public AER and Petrinex records plus nine years of the operators' own performance presentations. Every quote is cited to its deck and page.
Open the atlas →SAGD Atlas
Started as a batch job pulling the AER's annual in-situ performance decks into a database. Now it's a map you drill from basin to operator to project to pad to well, with monthly bitumen, steam-oil ratios, and the pad names straight from the filings. I spent six years as a SAGD engineer before any of this. This is the tool I wanted back then. Independent, not affiliated with any operator.
George
A chatbot with persistent memory and a privacy scrubber that catches sensitive data before it leaves the device. Started because my wife's details kept leaking into my AI conversations. Lives on a Pi 5 in my living room, and you can watch each stage of the pipeline fire as it answers.
Golf planner
Tell it where you want to go and how you want to play. Get three trip ideas with verified course prices, hotels, and a clean breakdown of the cost, in about three minutes, for roughly four-tenths of a cent. I used it to plan Pebble Beach.
The wedding, run like a project
A wedding site Kate and I built for friends and family: swipe-based mobile design, custom RSVP form, no paper invites. Behind it, a shared planner for the two of us. Every vendor, task, and dollar in one place, live on both phones, with a locked day-of runbook.
Larry
A house hunter. Checks Calgary listings on a schedule against what we actually want and messages us when something matches. No alerts for houses we'd never buy. Private, no public link.
The brain
One shared memory that every AI session on my machines loads before it starts: who I am, what's running, what's left, and every correction I've made. I don't explain myself twice. Private, no public link.
Resource planner
A multi-discipline resource calculator for rebuilding a backlog of work across multiple engineering teams. Custom-built around one team's industry, workflows, and systems. Internal tool, no public link.
If you're an engineer or a small team trying to figure out where AI fits in what you actually do, here's what I'm offering right now.
Ninety minutes, one-on-one. Bring a problem, leave with a working approach.
Half-day or full-day with your team. Opinionated material drawn from things I've actually shipped.
Small custom builds, scoped to what you need. Built by hand, on infrastructure you can keep.
I'm a professional engineer. I spent six years at Athabasca Oil in production, exploitation, and thermal reservoir engineering, starting with the Hangingstone startup. Today I run a modular SAGD well pad program in Alberta's energy industry. Since January 2026 I've spent my evenings building software from scratch, mostly with Claude and Claude Code. I live in Calgary with my wife Kate and our two cats, George and Wayne. Yes, the bots are named after the cats.