For Founders and Investors

Our Manifesto

How we partner with entrepreneurs and build Vertical AI startups

gAI ventures is a venture builder that launches Vertical AI companies in Financial Services, Enterprise Productivity, and Commerce. We don't place bets, we build conviction. We don't wait for the future - we engineer it. We back domain experts with bold ideas and help turn those ideas into powerful, defensible AI companies that reshape entire industries.

01. High-Involvement, High-Conviction Company Building

We act as an institutional co-founder - deeply involved in building the AI engine, product/platform, and the company itself.

We:

Design, build, and deploy core AI systems and software platforms.
Provide world-class AI product design and engineering (led by an ex-AI researcher who has built 4 AI products and solved some hard problems in AI).
Support go-to-market motion from Day 1 - we don't just build, we help you sell. This effort is led but the founder and supported by us.
We bring early capital (our investment) for hiring and other important things in the initial building of a company (travel/industry events) but that's the smallest value add.
Stay engaged until real traction is achieved - we're in it for the long haul.

In return, we typically hold minority equity through our venture builder contribution and another set of minority equity via capital invested through our fund. We are not advisors. We are not consultants. We build with you.

02. We Work With Domain Experts, Industry Insiders as Founders

We back domain experts, people who deeply understand their market, not just the technology. If you've lived the problem you're solving, we want to partner.

But we don't box you into our playbook. You bring the domain expertise/insight. We bring the infrastructure. Together, we combine Product Development and Sales Pipeline

Your company, your vision. We amplify it with world-class execution.

We back domain experts, people who deeply understand their market, not just the technology. If you've lived the problem you're solving, we want to partner.

But we don't box you into our playbook. You bring the domain expertise/insight. We bring the infrastructure. Together, we combine Product Development and Sales Pipeline

Your company, your vision. We amplify it with world-class execution.

03. We Build Defensible Vertical AI Companies. Not Hype Machines

The AI landscape is littered with LLM wrappers pretending to be companies. We go deeper.

Our technical stack includes:

Agentic architectures that can reason and act autonomously
Proprietary workflow automation tailored to vertical-specific processes
Domain-specific models and fine-tuning that understand industry nuance
Deep integration with vertical software/data systems that create sustainable moats
Human-in-the-loop and real-world feedback systems that improve over time

We build for impact, speed, and defensibility. Every company we build is designed to become the operating system for its industry.

The AI landscape is littered with LLM wrappers pretending to be companies. We go deeper.

Our technical stack includes:

Agentic architectures that can reason and act autonomously
Proprietary workflow automation tailored to vertical-specific processes
Domain-specific models and fine-tuning that understand industry nuance
Deep integration with vertical software/data systems that create sustainable moats
Human-in-the-loop and real-world feedback systems that improve over time

We build for impact, speed, and defensibility. Every company we build is designed to become the operating system for its industry.

04. Platform Thinking From Day One

We don't build point solutions. We build platforms.

Every product we create is architected with expansion potential — starting focused, but designed to become comprehensive industry operating systems. We think in terms of:

Network effects that make the product more valuable as it grows
Data advantages that compound over time
Integration points that create switching costs
Ecosystem plays that attract third-party developers and partners

The goal isn't just to solve one problem. It's to become indispensable to how an entire industry operates.

We don't build point solutions. We build platforms.

Every product we create is architected with expansion potential — starting focused, but designed to become comprehensive industry operating systems. We think in terms of:

Network effects that make the product more valuable as it grows
Data advantages that compound over time
Integration points that create switching costs
Ecosystem plays that attract third-party developers and partners

The goal isn't just to solve one problem. It's to become indispensable to how an entire industry operates.

05. We Scale With You. Or Step Back Gracefully

We're here to help you get off the ground, fast and smart. Once the company reaches self-sufficiency (product-market fit, strong team, etc.) we reduce involvement.

We don't create dependency. We create momentum.

You grow. We celebrate, and stay close as strategic allies who helped architect your foundation.

Our success is measured not by how long we stay involved, but by how quickly you no longer need us to be successful.

We're here to help you get off the ground, fast and smart. Once the company reaches self-sufficiency (product-market fit, strong team, etc.) we reduce involvement.

We don't create dependency. We create momentum.

You grow. We celebrate, and stay close as strategic allies who helped architect your foundation.

Our success is measured not by how long we stay involved, but by how quickly you no longer need us to be successful.

06. Speed as a Competitive Advantage

In AI, timing is everything. Technology advantages erode quickly. Market windows close fast.

That's why we can go from concept to MVP in months, not years. Our integrated approach, combining domain expertise, world-class engineering, and go-to-market execution, creates unprecedented speed to market.

While others are still fundraising for their first hire, we're already building and testing with real customers.

In AI, timing is everything. Technology advantages erode quickly. Market windows close fast.

While others are still fundraising for their first hire, we're already building and testing with real customers.