About AD Ventures: open source, ventures and web technology

A journey in design and technology

AD Ventures began in 2012 as a web agency, crafting websites for small, medium and large businesses. Over the years we added a technology consulting layer to help our clients navigate a fast-moving environment: Jamstack and Next.js, cloud infrastructure, and now artificial intelligence.

Different clients, different needs

Startups, independent entrepreneurs, charities, non-profits, SMEs and global companies: we have worked with many kinds of organisations. Each project is a chance to share stories with valuable people and help them create the best digital experience within their budget.

Technology that serves your project

We use the most suitable technology for your needs, not just the latest trend:

Web technology: Next.js and React for fast, secure and SEO-friendly websites, static export on a CDN, and headless CMS such as Decap CMS. WordPress, Drupal or Shopify when time to market matters most.
AI technologies: integration of Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Mistral AI and Google Gemini, AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors, and self-hosted open-weight models when confidentiality is required.
Collaboration and cloud: Nextcloud, Collabora, Jitsi and other open source tools.

Sovereign hosting

Where you host your website and data affects speed, security, cost and legal exposure. We work with major hosting providers and favour European, sovereign providers (OVHcloud, Scaleway, Hetzner, Infomaniak...) when your data must stay out of reach of extraterritorial laws such as the US CLOUD Act.

Open source and ventures

We believe open source is one of the best foundations for building durable ventures. We help founders choose licences and business models, and help investors understand the technology and communities behind open source startups.

Our values

We work with open source code, frameworks and software, and we respect the four essential freedoms of free software: the freedom to run the program as you wish, to study how it works and change it, to redistribute copies, and to distribute modified versions to others. We also care about digital sovereignty, privacy, accessibility and responsible use of AI.