About the practice
One person.
A habit of building.
Chris Dukes, founder of Praxen.
I’m a self-taught hardware tinkerer, starting in childhood. Taking systems apart, figuring out why they fail, and making them useful has been a constant. That habit now shapes how I build with generative AI.
Praxen Development & Engineering, usually shortened to Praxen, brings that work together: AI applications and infrastructure in Development, working papers and evaluation in the Institute, and longer-horizon experiments in Labs.
Work directly with the builder.
When you hire Praxen, you work with me. I help define the problem, build the system, evaluate the result, and explain the decisions that will matter when someone has to operate it.
The projects on this site include my own infrastructure and research. They show how I approach a problem: make the constraints explicit, build something testable, and report what actually happened.
Research belongs close to practice.
The Institute examines questions about evaluation, governance and the cost of technical decisions. Labs makes room for experiments whose usefulness is still being established. Praxen Policy is a separate publication for founder-signed analysis and argument, with sources and dated corrections.
Start with a concrete question.
Tell me what you need to build, what is getting in the way, or which assumption you need tested. We can work out whether the practice is a useful fit.
chris@cld-dev.io · Other ways to get in touch
Praxen is the public name of Praxen Development & Engineering, LLC, a Wyoming-formed company operating from Mississippi.