Bankwright · for people who finally want to understand

The news: the central bank ran QE for a trillion. Twenty-five years of engineering behind you. And where money comes from you still do not know. Your pride is hurt, and fairly.

The financial system stops being a black box

Bankwright is the money machine taken apart down to the last screw: 16 chapters from the first deposit to QE and stablecoins. You do not read how it works — you assemble it yourself, one operation at a time.

the first 3 chapters free. No account needed.

Your progress lives in the cloud: start on a phone, finish at a desk. Lose connection mid-level and the level still finishes — nothing you entered is lost, and it syncs the moment you are back.

QE done
The central bank · the console is yoursChapter 8 · central banker

Before the operation: assets 100 billion — gold and foreign currency. Liabilities 100 billion — cash 60 and bank reserves 40.

A real level from chapter 8 — QE by your own hands, not in a headline.

16chapters — one connected machine, not fragments

141levels — every one checked by the balance sheet

1account — your progress from any device

0videos and motivation talks — mechanics only

3chapters free, no account needed

An engineer's approach

Money is a system. It is taken apart like a system

An invariant instead of taking it on faith

Every level has a check, like a unit test: assets must tie out with liabilities. If they do not, the level is not passed, and you can see exactly where. Understanding that compiles.

The whole machine, not fragments

Long reads explain one part at a time: processing, repo, issuance. Here the parts are assembled into a working system: from the first deposit to QE, eurodollars and stablecoins.

The one who explains it at the kitchen table

The next piece of news about the central bank pouring in a trillion — and you are the only one at the table who can show which line made that trillion appear. A good feeling. An earned one.

assert Assets == Liabilities + Equity // the invariant of each of the 141 levels. Get it wrong and the game shows you where

The machine, mapped

At your own pace: 20 minutes in the evening

The order is set but not compulsory: the steps go from the bottom up, and you choose the depth yourself.

The enthusiast's path

start — 7 chapters · about 20 hours · then the whole depth

StartChapters 1–7 · the banker's minimummoney, credit, liquidity, capital, markets — the core of the machine in about 20 hours
DepthChapters 8–12 · the system levelthe central bank and QE, derivatives, shadow banking, the regulator
FrontierChapters 13–16 · the present daycurrencies, payment rails, eurodollars, stablecoins, private capital

Cases lived through: SVB (the HTM/AFS trap), Evergrande (escrow), Archegos (TRS) — collapses from the news, taken apart by your own hands down to the entry.

The AI mentor

It answers from the corpus, and names the gaps as gaps

  • From the program: 435 thousand tokens of corpus with references to levels. What is not in the course it says plainly and marks separately, rather than passing it off as course material; like any model, its answer can be mistaken.
  • The solution to an open level is not passed into the context: the anti-spoiler rule is held by a blocking test — otherwise the whole point of solving it yourself would be gone.
  • Want to look under the hood? BYOK: your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key — you pay the provider directly at cost (about 1–6¢ a question), and nothing to us.

Mentor, managed$19.00 per month

No keys, two clicks, quota included. Cancel by writing to support. And BYOK is free forever.

YouSo is QE printing money or not?
MentorYou ran it in level 8.3 — let us start from your own entry: what exactly grew on the central bank's liability side? Cash, or bank reserves? Answer that and you will formulate yourself how printing from the headlines differs from what you did.

A Socratic review: from your entry to your own conclusion

Price

About dinner for two. A tool, not a subscription

Each currency has its own price: these are two prices, not one converted at a rate.

The Bankwright Academy

$199.00one-time

No subscription to knowledge: you pay once and the course is yours, chapter updates included. Like a good book, only solvable.

  • 141 levels, 16 chapters — yours for good, updates included
  • Your progress belongs to you — export it in one click
  • Progress in the cloud: start on a phone, finish at a desk
  • Not a subscription. You pay once

Card payment is not connected yet. While that is so, there is no buy button here — a button that does nothing is worse than none.

The demo firstFree

Chapters 1–3 in full, with no account and no card. Try the format on yourself — we insist.

Mentor$19.00 per month

Managed in two clicks; with your own key it is free, at the provider's cost. Cancel by writing to support, the history stays

All prices

Straight talk: this is not for you if…

  • you want to watch video at 1.5x — there is no video here, you will have to solve;
  • you are looking for where to invest — there are no investment recommendations at all, and that is a principle;
  • you are waiting for a certificate — instead of a piece of paper there will be understanding you can hear in a conversation.

Not ready today?

Leave your email and the author will write to you in person. There is no mailing list: one letter, to the point.

What the email is for — a walkthrough of where money comes from.

The letter is written by the author of the course, not a robot. To unsubscribe, just reply to it.

Twenty-five years of putting off sorting money out.
Twenty minutes is enough to start

The first entry — money created by your own line — you will make today.

Open the black box

the first 3 chapters free · progress in the cloud · all prices on this page

Your progress lives in the cloud: start on a phone, finish at a desk. Lose connection mid-level and the level still finishes — nothing you entered is lost, and it syncs the moment you are back.