A one-person practice with a self-funded AI research program at its heart. Here's the whole thing in one picture: the paid work powers the research, and the research only reaches the public after passing one honest check built to keep me from fooling myself.
Hekswerk in one picture. Follow the arrows: the paid work - the part with clients - pays for the software the research runs on. Nothing the research produces goes public until it clears one honest check - trim it to what's true, remove anything private, and label who made what. The paid side is sold; the research is given away and published.
The same map as a list - every node links to something real:
What funds it - the part with customers. The power source.
Where the research runs and is recorded.
The one honest check between private work and public: trim it to what's true, remove anything private, label who made what.
What anyone can read.
The research is paid for and given away, not sold - there's no product to buy, no user to keep, nothing measuring whether you stay. The practice is the part with clients, and it's how the research keeps the lights on. Two different ways of making a living, one habit of mind: figure out what depends on what, build something that lasts, and show the wiring underneath.
AI characters that live on, studied out in the open. The rules of each experiment are written down and dated before any results exist; an automated reviewer is built to argue against my own findings; and every claim can be checked without taking my word for it.
Relocation systems planning for complex international moves, and fixed-scope, privacy-first automation builds. Real services, taken by inquiry, with clear scope and written artifacts you keep.
I'm Levi Banks, a systems consultant in Portland relocating to the Netherlands in late 2026, so the relocation service is something I'm living in real time, not theory. I run the AI research on my own hardware, build automation for small teams, and have done freelance AI-evaluation work since 2024, the engine that funds the research.
"Hekswerk" is Dutch for a witch's work, the kind of thing that looks like magic from the outside. The actual work is the least mysterious thing I can make it: method published, scope stated, evidence checkable.
I'm autistic and ADHD, and I live with chronic illness. That's not a footnote; it's why the practice is built around written artifacts, bounded scope, and systems that don't run on brute force, for my clients or for me.
The methodology library, how I find the systems hiding in a complex situation, label evidence, and handle confidence, is open, and the research wing publishes alongside it. You can read how I think before you ever pay me, or before you trust a single research claim.
Open the library