About Silvia
Silvia is an AI company building autonomous systems for work that is too hard, too slow, or too important to leave to today's tools. We push the technical edge relentlessly, and every system we ship keeps a person holding the wheel.
Different products, one principle
Skyline, our AI grader for teachers, is the first product we are bringing to release. An AI engineer that designs in 3D, an AI-native operating system, and search built for machines are in development. They look nothing alike, but they are built on the same four rules.
AI does the work
Not a suggestion box. Our products carry the real, repetitive load end to end, whether that is grading a stack of papers or preparing a manufacturing file.
Humans stay the authority
The person is the referee, never the data-entry clerk. They set the rules, review what matters, and always have the final say.
Safety is the default
We are conservative about automation by design. Confidence is surfaced, sensitive data is protected, and high-stakes work routes to a human.
Depth over breadth
We go deep on one workflow at a time until it genuinely works, instead of bolting forty shallow features onto a chatbot.
Skyline, our first product
Grading is the part of teaching that follows teachers home. A single stack of papers can swallow a Sunday, and the feedback students get back is often thinner than anyone wants because there are only so many hours in a night. Skyline's goal is simple: give teachers their evenings and weekends back.
It reads student work, scores it against the teacher's own rubric, and drafts feedback, while the teacher stays the final authority on every grade. Nothing reaches a student until a teacher approves it, every suggested point ties to visible evidence in the student's work, and every decision leaves an audit trail.
Why Silvia
I can tell you the exact feeling. Sitting at a desk, doing well, and being quietly certain that doing well at this was not the same as becoming anything.
School hands you a road. It’s paved, lit, patrolled, and everyone you love stands along it clapping. Its promise is a good outcome. Its price is that the outcome is already known. There’s a ceiling built into every safe road, and the ceiling is the point. That’s what safety is: a limit you agree to in exchange for a guarantee.
The other road makes the opposite trade. No pavement, no applause, no promise you arrive at all. Just an honest deal: everything uncapped, including the falling. I don’t think one road is brave and the other cowardly. I think you have to know your own heart rate. Mine only moves on the second road. That seemed like information worth obeying.
Then there’s the car. I’m a car guy, and the car is a Nissan Silvia. If you know, you know. If you don’t: Japan built three icons everyone can name, and then it built the Silvia, the one actual drivers will defend to the death. Perfect balance, a driver’s car to its bones, brilliant in every way except famous. A prince who never got his coronation.
For years I thought I loved that car because it was underrated. The real reason is worse. Some part of me was afraid of becoming it. Excellent and unwitnessed. Full of engineering nobody lined up for. The safe road doesn’t kill what’s in you. It does something quieter. It lets you keep it, unspent, until keeping it becomes the whole story.
So this company is the whole bet, placed in public. That what I have is real. That it belongs to the world and not to a transcript. That proving something to yourself is a legitimate reason to build, and maybe the only one that survives the hard months. That rare is not something you are. It’s something you choose, every day, on purpose, against comfort.
I named the company Silvia because I refuse the ending where the brilliant thing stays a secret.
This is me giving the prince his crown.
— Daniel Lee, Co-founder
Talk to us
We are a small team and we read everything. Questions, feedback, or a stack of papers you never want to grade by hand again: team.silviaai@gmail.com