Designing a home has always been a process of vision meeting constraints, a dance between creativity, regulations, and technical feasibility. Maket is reimagining that process.

Founded in Montréal by Patrick Murphy, Stéphane Turbide, and Simon Vallée, Maket empowers anyone, from architects and builders to homeowners, to generate and refine architectural floor plans in seconds. Users can describe what they want in plain language (“a three-bedroom house with an open kitchen and lots of natural light”), and Maket instantly generates multiple, code-aware design options ready to explore in 2D or 3D.

What Canva did for graphic design, Maket is doing for architecture: democratizing access to creation.

From Vision to Platform

The idea began with a simple question: What if designing a home could be as easy as sketching a thought?

Patrick and Stéphane, both passionate about architecture and user experience, started developing the core generative engine in partnership with Mila, Montréal’s world-leading AI institute. Patrick brings a background in design and growth, shaping Maket’s path from product to market. Stéphane spent over a decade as an architectural technologist, witnessing firsthand the cost and complexity faced by non-architects. Their third co-founder, Simon Vallée, a veteran product leader and three-time founder with exits to Groupon (OpenCal), Slack (Spaces) and Figma (Flight), joined to help shape that vision into a world-class product. 

Today, Maket’s platform enables users to instantly create, edit, and visualize realistic floor plans. Behind the simplicity lies a complex generative AI system that learns from every project created, improving with each iteration. With over a million users and millions of plans generated, Maket is building a powerful data flywheel and a deep technical moat.

The Next Chapter: From Consumers to Builders

As Maket grows, its mission of democratizing architectural design extends to professionals,  empowering builders and developers with the same intuitive AI tools that made design accessible to everyone.

Its proprietary models, refined through millions of user interactions, now serve as the foundation for a professional-grade platform that can compress weeks of front-end design into minutes. Builders can generate compliant plans, adapt them to local codes, and instantly visualize options for clients all while reducing costs and accelerating time-to-market.

This evolution positions Maket not only as a creative tool but as a core design infrastructure for the construction industry, bridging the gap between design intent and build execution.

AI Meets Architecture

Maket’s core innovation lies in its AI-powered design engine, which combines deep learning, architectural rules, and reinforcement learning to generate realistic, buildable layouts. The system understands adjacency constraints (like placing bedrooms near bathrooms), respects local zoning and building codes, and can even suggest style variations on demand.

By compressing weeks of early-stage design work into minutes, Maket delivers tremendous efficiency for professionals and creative freedom for individuals. For architects and home builders, it’s not just a productivity tool; it’s a new way to think about design.

A Team Building for the Long Term

Maket’s founding team brings a rare blend of expertise:

• Patrick Murphy (CEO) blends creativity, product vision, and storytelling.

• Stéphane Turbide (COO) grounds the company in deep architectural and technical rigor.

• Simon Vallée (CPO) brings two decades of experience building intuitive and category-defining products with global reach..

Together, they’re shaping an entirely new category at the intersection of architecture, design, and AI.

Why We Invested

At Amiral Ventures, we back founders using AI to reinvent traditional industries. Maket represents that vision perfectly: a category-defining company born in Québec, tackling one of the world’s most entrenched, analog sectors, architecture and construction.

We believe the next generation of design software will be conversational, data-driven, and generative. Maket is leading that shift. The company’s technology, user growth, and ambition position it to become the global reference point for AI-assisted design, a new standard for how spaces are imagined and built.