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About

We don't sell AI theater.

We build things. We benchmark them. We break them.

We measure what happened. We fix them. Then we try to break them again.

17th Street Labs works in the messy territory between:

“Holy shit, this is possible.”

and

“Yes, we can trust this in the real world.”

50+
years of combined industry experience
13
agentic systems under management
22
security audits
4wk
average turnaround

Team

Senior people, one studio.

The people you meet are the people who do the work.

Marina Levy

Marina Levy

Co-founder, chief executive officer

Marina runs the business behind the engineering: operations, partnerships, sales, and media. She knows what it takes to get an ambitious idea off the ground—and keep it moving. Building a venture that led to a $10 million exit in Tokyo and two companies in Morocco taught her what execution demands. Reviewing pitches and helping deploy capital with New York City investors sharpened her eye for which ideas deserve it. That same instinct led her to found SkillRise Education, a woman-led edtech company preparing people for the AI economy.

Marina on LinkedIn
Dan Levy

Dan Levy

Co-founder, founding engineer

Some of the engineers companies compete to hire started in Dan’s classroom. Across Lambda School and Galvanize, he helped more than 3,000 students build their skills—including beginners who went on to careers at leading companies. That changes a life, not just a résumé. His own spans 25+ years building production software, including roles at Hotel Engine and MagicSchool. At 17th Street Labs, he brings that depth to the hard AI problems—and helps your team understand the solution well enough to take it further.

Dan Levy on LinkedIn
Kyle

Kyle Coberly

Head of Product Engineering

Kyle connects the engineering, the economics, and the people who have to use the thing. At 17th Street Labs, he leads product engineering: deciding what’s worth building, making it work at scale, and helping your team take it from there.

He’s helped 1,000 people change careers into software engineering. He brings that educator’s instinct to his work at the National Society of Leadership and Success, his consulting firm Sika Education, and the University of Denver, where he teaches information systems as an Adjunct Assistant Professor. Before that, he was Faculty Director at Galvanize, working alongside Dan, and Director of Education at Flatiron School. He builds the product—and the team’s ability to own it.

Kyle on LinkedIn

Principles

Ambitious and rigorous, at the same time.

AI should be part of the product, not a chatbot bolted on. And none of it matters if the thing does not work. We hold both.

Stop guessing. Start measuring.

“Seems better” is not a methodology. We measure what changed, find the failure, fix it, and prove the fix worked.

The system is the product.

The model is one component. Architecture, harness, context, and tools decide the outcome. The best design often uses a smaller model.

We experiment on ourselves first.

We invest our own capital in R&D, testing reliability, performance, and cost before bringing an approach into your business. You get the benefit of that research—and the knowledge to run what we build.

Put it in front of engineers.

Tell us what you’re working on. We’ll tell you what we would test first.

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