warre&vavasour
Bow Valley · —:—

Named for the men, not the journals.

A full-service AI lab in Canmore, Alberta, building for the people who do Canada’s real work.

01The name

warre & vavasour are the names on the journals.

The firm is named for the men who wrote the Warre and Vavasour journals — the original handwritten records that were the first documents our models were trained on.

That is where we learned we could walk into an archive, consume unprocessed handwritten documents and images, and hand back usable artifacts: searchable text, structured records, georeferenced maps, and cohesive stories.

02The lab

A full-service AI lab for trades and suppliers.

We build for the floor, the field, the shop, the site — the work you can point at. We find the public work, read the tender package, build the business plan around the project with you, and install and support the tools that carry it.

If Canadian companies are going to bid Canadian work, understand Canadian supply chains, and protect Canadian industrial capacity, then the AI layer underneath that work matters. We build on Cohere first, and we say exactly what runs where, including the parts that still depend on US providers.

03Why we build

AI promised 5X productivity.
Most small businesses got a chatbot that writes mediocre marketing copy.

The gap is not the models. It is the work of fitting them to a real business: the tender that closes Thursday, the quote that needs pricing, the idea the owner never had time to start. That is the work we do.

04The work

Three ways to work with us.

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