Systems engineering lab

01 — A clearer kind of intelligence
AI, made transparent Colored light enters a transparent glass cube, revealing a layered neural network inside. Light pulses travel between its connected neurons before emerging as a clear beam.
01 Intent
02 Visible execution
03 Action

From black box
to glass box.

Powerful AI should be transparent.

We build systems that make agent actions visible, understandable, and under your control.

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Clanker Cloud

Cloud for agents. Agents for humans.

Our goal is to be the platform where users and companies get their agents, deploy their agents, and automate their work. We own the harness, the cloud, and the platform so teams can control where their data, inference, and agentic workflows go.

Company

Company

Nov 1337 Labs, Inc. is a technology startup founded in 2026. We are building developer infrastructure products for the next generation of human and AI-assisted software operations. The company has raised a $265,000 pre-seed round from angel investors to build Clanker Cloud. Clanker Cloud has over 550 users as of October 2026.

Legal name
Nov 1337 Labs, Inc.
Brand/product
Clanker Cloud
Founded
2026
Stage
Pre-seed, $265,000 raised from angel investors at a $7M valuation
Users
Over 550 as of October 2026
Location
United States company, globally distributed team
Website
novlabs.ai
Product
clankercloud.ai
Founders

Team

Bogdan Novykov - Co-founder & CEO

Engineering leader and technical influencer on X/Twitter with full-stack, cloud, and ML background; worked across Silicon Valley startups and European enterprise environments building production cloud and AI systems.

Nash Rafeeq - Co-founder & CTO

Engineering leader and experienced systems architect; worked on OpenAI strategic partner infrastructure via Samsung SDS, scaling Kubernetes inference clusters, GPU optimization, automation, and observability for frontier model workloads.