Levy Strategic Design — Outlier Outcomes
DISTRICT of COLUMBIA
the full leverage
of the American Project
BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR SERIOUS BUILDERS
Our systems were built to help you achieve the true scale of your goals.
The Founder
You can see exactly how your company changes a market — structurally, not incrementally. You keep hitting institutional terrain nobody taught you to navigate. Procurement, regulation, public-sector partnerships. The map doesn't exist yet.
The Public Servant
You have a clearer view than almost anyone of what would actually work. You don't have private partners who understand the constraints you live inside every day. The outside signal you need doesn't arrive through official channels.
The Researcher
Your work matters in theory. You're still looking for the people and the rooms where it starts to matter in practice — where methods become interventions and papers become leverage.
ONE COMPANY. THREE FUNCTIONS.
A network where you operate in serious company. A studio that builds what your work requires. An institute that develops the methods.
Where the collision happens. Events, curated introductions, and the rooms where the work actually moves. The people are interesting. The work is more interesting.
Where the work gets pressure-tested in the field. Direct strategic design for initiatives navigating institutional systems. Currently operating The Upskilling Labs and publishing Human Capital Quarterly.
Where the methods are developed and the field-shaping ideas live. Hosts the Builders Breakfast speaker series, produces the strategy essays, and designs the workshop methods Network members use.
The Institute designs the methods. The Studio tests them in the field. The Network is where the people find each other. Each arm feeds the others.
WHAT MEMBERS GET
Not a feature list. A shift in how you operate.
You develop a persistent read on the systems you're working in. The monthly intelligence briefing gives you what internal channels don't. The executive essays give you the strategic frame. Content designed to forward — to the colleague, the board member, the partner who needs to see what you see.
Monthly intelligence briefing
Executive essays on systems and leverage
Curated co-authorship opportunities
You build fluency — the ability to read a system, find the leverage, build the coalition, and move something significant. You do this in contact with people navigating the same terrain from different positions. That compounds.
Builders Breakfasts — monthly, small, mixed
Strategy Sprints and workshops
Full network access and curated introductions
Member happy hours
Portfolio initiative participation
You have a real initiative. You need strategic design capacity embedded in your work — not advice from the outside, but Levy operating directly alongside you on the systems your initiative needs to move through.
Direct advisory access, Levy senior team
Structured co-design sessions
Studio pathway for qualifying initiatives
ALREADY IN THE FIELD
Live Studio work generating the signal, methods, and credibility that flow back into the Network.
An AI upskilling cohort built with DC Public Library — designing workforce development infrastructure that works within the systems public and private organizations actually operate. The methods developed here become Network workshop content. The relationships built here become Network introductions.
ACTIVE // WASHINGTON, D.C.
A quarterly convening of public and private workforce-focused organizations in Washington, D.C. Becoming a co-authored report and publication by the coalition it assembles. Network members get early access and shape the agenda.
QUARTERLY // WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHO IT'S FOR
You're building something that touches public systems, regulated industries, or institutional buyers. You can see the structural opportunity. You keep hitting terrain nobody taught you to navigate.
Core fear: Building something significant and getting locked out by systems you don't know how to move through.
Outlier outcome: You become the person institutions call — because you learned to build for their constraints, not around them.
You work inside government, a university, a hospital system, a foundation. You know the internal briefings aren't enough. The fields you operate in move faster than your institution's ability to track them.
Core fear: Your institution has the infrastructure to anchor something significant, and you can't find the external partners who know how to build for it.
Outlier outcome: You lead the initiative others follow — because you had the outside architecture before the internal case was ready.
Your work matters. You've identified the move. You're realizing the case will never get made without external architecture — the people, the rooms, the pressure-testing that turns research into leverage.
Core fear: Producing work that's cited but never implemented. Relevance in theory, irrelevance in practice.
Outlier outcome: You shape the field — not just study it. Your methods become the ones practitioners actually use.
THREE WAYS IN
Each tier is a distinct relationship with Levy — not a volume discount on the same product.
The signal tier. You're building orientation — field-level understanding of how the systems you're working in actually operate. Some of the most effective members here are institutional operators using Insider intelligence to stay ahead of fields that move faster than their internal briefings.
Monthly intelligence briefing
Executive essays on systems and leverage
Curated co-authorship (occasional)
Content designed to forward
$127 / YR
or $37 / quarter
The center of gravity of the Network. You're developing the capability — in contact with people navigating the same systems from different positions. The mix is the method: founders, operators, researchers, each with what the other two cannot get anywhere else.
Everything in Insider
Builders Breakfasts — monthly, small, mixed
Strategy Sprints and workshops
Full network access and curated introductions
Member happy hours
Portfolio initiative participation
$1,200 / YR
or $360 / quarter
Not purchasable. You have a real initiative and you need Levy working directly alongside you on the systems it needs to move through. Architect is by conversation — if you're working on something that warrants it, we'll know quickly.
Everything in Builder
Direct advisory access, Levy senior team
Structured co-design sessions
Studio pathway for qualifying initiatives