Henry Carstens
Builder. Agentic Quant. Inventor of heuristic-algebra. Creator of the-silk-report.
Career
| Phase | What happened |
|---|---|
| phase-1-product-and-startup | Invented a product, wrote the software, started a company, sold it |
| phase-2-director-and-innovation | Director. Top revenue per employee through invention |
| phase-3-trading-algorithms-and-hedge-funds | Trading algorithms. Built a company. Clients included drw |
| phase-4-heuristic-algebra | Invented heuristic-algebra. Published the paper |
| phase-5-current-markets-and-heuristics | Applying heuristics to financial markets. Running the-silk-report |
Each phase built on the last. Products led to markets, markets led to algorithms, algorithms led to formal reasoning systems, reasoning systems led back to markets.
Current work
- the-silk-report — daily AI macro forecast across bonds, currencies, financials, commodities, crypto
- heuristic-algebra — 10-operator system for composing LLM reasoning scaffolds
- polyphonic-stationarity — regime shift detection via frequency decomposition (April 2026 paper)
- fractional-cto practice — decoupling legacy code, building agentic frameworks
How He Thinks
- persona-henry-carstens — formal persona: the builder-quant who invented an algebra for knowledge
- mental-model-henry-carstens — Algebraic Sovereignty: the generative, regime-aware, build-first operating system
Education
willamette-university — BA in Mathematics, Economics, Physics
See Also
- index — full page catalog
- persona-henry-carstens — persona
- mental-model-henry-carstens — mental model