The community built to amplify your local leverage.
We are building a community of operators, founders, and innovators who work across public institutions to turn trust into leverage. Rooted in Washington, DC—our nation’s meeting ground—we translate local relationships into national influence. By hosting a high-trust network across metropolitan hubs, we multiply the surface area where ideas meet Congress, and where service to real people becomes the engine of structural change.
Our Why
The old playbooks are broken.
Every quarter it’s the same story.
Cities chasing Silicon Valley’s shadow, chasing rankings, chasing hype—while ignoring their own advantages. We saw it up close. And we knew we could do better.We believe in creating real communities with real outcomes. We design spaces where builders and institutions work side by side, where pilots serve people first, and where what works doesn’t stay local—it travels.At our core, this isn’t just about startups. It’s about strengthening the democratic fabric. When communities connect, invest real work in themselves, and share what works—we move closer to a system that actually reflects and serves its people.
Through our network, local wins become scalable models, cultivating coalitions of people and organizations ready to shape the rules of the future together.
Join the community:
Insider
$127 per year / $37 per quarter
For people who want to learn, connect, and stay close to the work. Insiders get:
Access to our private Slack community
Monthly essays and debates exploring where markets and institutions collide—and what that means for builders and investors.
Curated gatherings across Washington and beyond that bring founders, operators, and investors into one room to debate what should exist next.
Visibility into Levy Studio projects like The Upskilling Labs, where we prototype public-private collaboration for a new era of work and innovation.
We’re onboarding new Insiders in small cohorts every Friday.We’re prioritizing folks whose work and interests are an especially good fit for the existing community to ensure that there’s value on day 1. We won't process payment until onboarding.
Builder
$1,200 per year
For tech founders and operators ready to go deeper:
Invite-only expert roundtables to learn from and build relationships with peers and public-sector leaders.
Opportunities to shape how your ideas take root across the Levy Network — using it as a platform to extend your reach and influence.
Includes 3 hours of strategy consulting with Ann Marie & Brendan, intended to help you unlock more value from the work you’ve already done by connecting it to the right partners and platforms
Plus everything from the Insider level
Because we are putting direct hours into working with our Builders, space is limited.We help you take the ingredients of what you're already doing, layer in a public sector engagement strategy, and leverage community to driver bigger outcomes more quickly.
Anchor
starting at $12,000
For institutions that want to innovate directly with us.
Bespoke programmatic interventions
Content and event campaigns interwoven with Levy Network activations
Access to our remarkable network of mentors, practitioners, and builders.
We work with institutions like the DC Public Library to design innovative programs that drive remarkable outcomes, all grounded in public-private collaboration. We specialize in bringing the tech community into our partnerships, and in helping institutions discover and leverage their unique advantages.If that sounds like you, schedule a call with us to get started. You can also join as an Insider today to see what we are all about.Anchors partner with Levy to pilot public-private projects, and also get:
Hang tight!To maintain the quality of conversations and connections—we're onboarding new Insiders in small cohorts every Friday.We won't process your payment until you are onboarded.To maximize value we provide you on day 1, we're prioritizing folks whose work and interests are particularly multiplicative for the existing community.For now, you'll get an email from us at [email protected]. Make sure to move it out of "spam" and into "main" and star it as important to make sure we end up in your inbox.More to come, including our first strategy breakdown on Apple's use of tax credits to dominate the education market.