We invested in Maket, AI for Residential Architecture

At Blitzscaling Ventures, we’re always on the lookout for founding teams that combine vision, technical rigor, and relentless execution. Maket checks all three boxes and was discovered in Montreal through AI Salon, the global community bringing together AI startups, investors, and partners founded by Blitzscaling Ventures partner Jeff Abbott. Maket aims to become the “Canva for architecture” —automating home design while ensuring code compliance and collaborative functionality from ideation through permitting.

Founded by Patrick Murphy and Stéphane Turbide in Montreal, Maket reimagining architectural design with AI at its core. Maket has built a proprietary generative model trained on more than 65,000 floorplans—sourced through strategic partnerships with Mattamy Homes and Dessins Drummond—and is delivering a breakthrough product for homeowners, builders, and municipalities. Patrick brings growth and content marketing savvy while Stéphane, an experienced architectural technologist, ensures product-market alignment. With a lean team and deep roots in Mila, Montreal’s world-class AI ecosystem,

As of today, Maket has achieved substantial traction: over 600,000 registered users and a fast-closing B2B pipeline. Maket is entering the home construction market at the perfect moment. The North American housing crisis, persistent labor shortages, and rising AI adoption converge to create unprecedented demand for intelligent automation in design and permitting.

Traditional architectural workflows are slow, expensive, and misaligned with the urgency of housing supply shortages. Maket radically compresses time-to-design by allowing users—whether consumers or professionals—to generate personalized, compliant floorplans with just a few inputs. This unlocks meaningful economic efficiency: homeowners save thousands before ever engaging an architect; builders accelerate project pipelines; and municipalities can automate zoning reviews, relieving permitting bottlenecks.

We believe Maket’s potential goes far beyond North America. With early interest from the UAE, Turkey, and Japan, and a model scalable to new jurisdictions via LLM-based and AI agent driven zoning code synthesis, Maket has global platform potential.

Critically, Maket exhibits the kinds of network dynamics that define category-defining companies. (See our Blitzscaling Scorecard blog post to learn more about how Blitzscaling Ventures applies the blitzscaling framework to the evaluation of companies):

• Builders adopt it to save time and then direct clients to the platform.

• Users bring collaborators—designers, engineers, contractors—creating sticky local networks.

• As municipalities begin adopting Maket as their default planning interface, they create “protocol lock-in” within their jurisdictions, drawing in every stakeholder.

• These embedded feedback loops supercharge virality and retention.

• Meanwhile, every design created or modified on the platform improves the model—yielding compounding data network effects.

• Maket doesn’t just scale—it learns and improves with every use.

That’s why we believe Maket is on the path to becoming the operating system for residential architecture. The company is already a step ahead of the curve; now, it’s time to scale. We’re proud to be a partner in that journey.