Henry Carstens

Builder · Agentic Quant · Inventor of Heuristic Algebra · Creator of The Silk Report

This site is a public professional wiki covering Henry Carstens' work in quantitative trading, Heuristic Algebra, AI reasoning scaffolds, macro forecasting, and fractional CTO practice.

Career

• Phase 1: Product & Startup
• Phase 2: Director & Innovation
• Phase 3: Trading & Hedge Funds
• Phase 4: Heuristic Algebra
• Phase 5: Markets × Heuristics

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• Persona of Henry Carstens
• Mental Model of Henry Carstens

Work

• The Silk Report — daily AI macro forecast
• LLM + Heuristic Algebra Genetic Algos — trading strategy development via heuristic-algebra genomes (PDF)
• Heuristic Algebra — 10-operator system for LLM reasoning
• HeuristicChat — scaffolded LLM experiments
• Accumulator — real-time trading system
• CryptoFactory — crypto trading platform

Ideas

• Polyphonic Stationarity — regime shift detection
• The Mastery Axiom — complex engine, simple surface
• Lucid Judgment — #1 reasoning scaffold
• Self-Repairing Agents
• Zero Latency — ideas become reality, we become stars
• Fractional CTO