Thoughtful products.Practical AI.Built with care.
Vauban Ventures builds new ventures and helps businesses use AI in ways that actually work.
Selected Ventures
Ventures
Archie
A visual decision-making product for home projects, helping homeowners and professionals explore ideas, compare options, and move toward action with more confidence.
Mira
An AI co-creator for content direction that learns from audience response, inspiration inputs, and publishing patterns to sharpen what should come next.
Areas of exploration
Focusareas
AI for insight and decision-making
Tools that combine data and language models to surface patterns that otherwise get missed and turn them into clear decisions.
AI for creative exploration
Products that help people generate, compare, and refine ideas visually. The goal is to open up new ways to create confidently.
AI for niche audiences & use cases
Finding narrow, high-value use cases and building tools that feel lightweight, useful, and immediately relevant.
Working together
Building with foundersand businesses.
I partner on a small number of projects where thoughtful product thinking and practical AI can create something genuinely useful.
New venture creation
Helping shape, prototype, and build new AI-powered products from early concept and positioning to first paying customers.
Practical AI for businesses
Implementing practical AI tooling, workflows, and software into non-technical teams. Automating the mundane so that an owner's craft can remain the focus.
Process & methodology
How I build
Start close to the problem
Begin with problems I know firsthand — often from my own life, people around me, or work I'm already close to.
Prototype early
Test simple versions before overbuilding. Validation happens through use, not speculation.
Refine through feedback
Improve the product directly with users. Small adjustments often lead to the most significant breakthroughs.
Craft the experience
Bring the product, positioning, and brand into focus together. Utility and delight are inseparable.
The Tool Kit.
About Vauban Ventures
Vauban Ventures is named after the neighbourhood I live in in Marseille, where a lot of my inspiration comes from. It also nods to the French builder Vauban, and the idea of craft, structure, and building with intent.
Over the past year, I’ve worked hands-on with AI every day, focusing on how it can be applied to real problems and real businesses.
I now help founders and business owners cut through the noise and apply AI in ways that are simple, practical, and valuable from day one.
Brady Burke
