About Team

A founder team building close to the workflow.

CanyonRift is being built by a hands-on team at the intersection of healthcare workflow pain, AI systems, and operational discipline. The company is founder-led and execution-heavy: the work already reflects public healthcare-adjacent builds, auditability-first design, and a focus on real-world process constraints.

Yash Negi, CEO of CanyonRift
CEO

Yash Negi

AI systems, healthcare workflows, and open-source healthcare tooling.

Yash leads product and engineering at CanyonRift. His public work centers on cloud-native AI systems, auditable workflows, and healthcare-adjacent open-source tooling with a strong bias toward reliability and production-grade thinking.

  • His open-source projects include BaselineIQ, a local-first macOS app for health-metrics drift detection in primary care.
  • His open-source prior-authorization work includes Prior-Auth-Copilot, focused on extracting structured fields from messy packets with confidence scores and source traces.
  • His other open-source projects include StateScope for staffing and credential-risk forecasting, and Provectus for provenance-first regulatory drafting.
  • Graduated in December 2025 with a degree in Artificial Intelligence from Yeshiva University, and publishes regularly on AI in healthcare, clinical workflows, and biomedical innovation.
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Andres Romero, Co-Founder of CanyonRift
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder

Andres Romero

Operations, program management, and execution discipline.

Andres brings operating rigor to CanyonRift. His public profile emphasizes program management, process improvement, and the kind of execution discipline required to turn complex workflows into repeatable systems.

  • Operations and program-management background with 7+ years of experience.
  • Graduated in December 2025 from the Katz School of Science and Health.
  • Six Sigma Green Belt certification reinforcing a systems-minded approach to process design.
  • Good Clinical Practice certification and a practical orientation toward structured, high-accountability execution.
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Why This Team Can Build It

CanyonRift combines public healthcare-adjacent product work, AI systems thinking, and process rigor. That matters for prior authorization, where the product has to be fast, auditable, and operationally trustworthy at the same time.

Open-Source Direction

Across Yash's public work, the pattern is consistent: local-first health tooling, prior-auth extraction, staffing-risk visibility, and traceable document systems. The throughline is building software that makes messy healthcare workflows more legible and more actionable.

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