About & disclosures
Built by someone who wants AI to grow—and wants the bill measured.
Who Pays for AI is an independent public evidence ledger maintained by David Veksler, a principal-level AI engineer in Denver.
Why this exists
Demand is not a moral failure. Hidden incidence is still a policy problem.
Markets are supposed to move resources toward valuable uses. The interesting questions are where supply cannot respond, who bears the transition cost and which reforms would let more capacity arrive. This project measures those questions without treating every price increase as proof against AI—or every investment as costless growth.
Editor
David Veksler
David leads agentic-AI engineering adoption at Antech, a Mars company. He builds governed AI delivery systems in which automation can gather, compare and draft, while a named human owns irreversible decisions. This site applies that architecture to public-interest research.
The project is personal and independent. Antech and Mars do not sponsor, review or endorse it.
Financial conflict
Vellum Capital
David is a partner in Vellum Capital, a cryptocurrency fund. A narrative that AI investment crowds capital away from other assets could benefit that position. The capital-markets ledger is therefore marked Contested and cannot publish a headline score without a preregistered matched series and outside methodological review.
Editorial constitution
The rules do not bend for a preferred conclusion.
- Referee, not advocate: grades can weaken pro- or anti-AI claims.
- Primary sources, retrieval dates and re-check dates on every evidence page.
- Ranges when the data support ranges; withheld numbers when they do not.
- Automated watchers may draft; a human approves every publication.
- No ads, sponsorships, affiliate links or paywalled methodology.
- Material changes and corrections are diffed and dated.
Contact
Corrections are part of the product.
Use the corrections checklist for evidence changes, or the contact form at davidveksler.com ↗ for other correspondence.