Ayres Capital doesn't invest at arm's length — it builds. Every venture below was designed, developed, and brought to market inside the company, and every one is still operated here. Software, books, storefronts, services: different businesses, one standard of work.
The portfolio's flagship: an applied-AI consulting practice that helps small and mid-sized businesses put artificial intelligence to work across content, operations, and customer communication — always designed with humans in mind. Its platform, Maestro, runs the CRM and email for this whole portfolio, and is offered to clients under their own brand.
Visit Player Piano AI →
A micro-learning app that teaches genuinely useful real-world skills — from cooking to the outdoors — in short, interactive lessons with photo challenges that get you off the screen and doing. Fifty skills at launch. Less passive scrolling, far more learning by doing.
Visit Skill Spark →
A marketing engine for indie app makers — people who can build software but never get around to selling it. Connect the app you shipped and it writes the launch: positioning, store copy, a dated plan, and thirty days of posts, all specific to your product. Makers who outgrow the stand graduate into Player Piano AI.
Visit Lemonade Stand →
The company's publishing imprint: original near-future fiction and considered, character-driven storytelling, released under the Dewar Yearns pen name. Its first novel, Fair Enough, is available on Amazon, with a six-book series — The Service Area — in production behind it.
Visit Millennial Press →
A Canadian e-commerce brand curating quality goods from real Canadian makers — products inspired by, and designed to celebrate, the Canadian identity and spirit. The storefront is in development, sourced through direct relationships with makers across the country.
Visit True North Supply →
Considered home services for the Greater Toronto Area — landscape and interior design, premium maintenance, and smart-home integration — backed by a tightly curated shop of premium smart-home goods. Everything home, considered.
Visit ACE Home →
Classic-car sourcing for collectors and enthusiasts — finding prime examples of the eighties, nineties, and two-thousands classics worth owning, and bridging the gap between passion and purchase.
Visit ACE Auto →