Levers (YC S22)
Y Combinator (S22) voice AI for B2B collections. I work on the deep-tech core: self-hosted speech recognition and real-time voice agents.
Live at www.uselevers.com
Levers is a Y Combinator company (S22) building voice AI for B2B collections. I work there as a staff engineer on the deep-tech core.
What that means in practice
Collections is a conversation problem before it is a payments problem. Someone has to call, understand what is actually going on, and respond like a person. Doing that with a voice agent means the hard parts are not the business logic. They are latency, recognition accuracy, and the thousand ways a real phone call is messier than a demo.
What I work on
Self-hosted speech recognition, and real-time voice agents built on top of it. Running recognition ourselves rather than renting it is the difference between controlling the latency budget and hoping someone else's API is having a good day. In a live conversation, delay is not a metric. It is the product.
It is the most technically demanding work I do, and it is deliberately separate from Terang AI. One is a company I built to widen access. The other is where I go to get much better at the engineering that makes it possible.
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