An AI/ML lab built by a marketer who got tired of waiting for one.
VAI Five is the AI and machine-learning practice of VAI Private Limited, Bengaluru, founded in 2025 by Vishal. It exists because small and mid-sized Indian companies have the data and the problems but no team to connect them — and because its founder spent ten years on the buying side of that gap.
The founder
Vishal is a computer-science engineer who completed the one-year AI/ML programme at IIT Madras after a decade in digital marketing, specialising in SEO, performance marketing and marketing technology. He founded 021 Digital, an AI-native performance-marketing and creative agency, and runs VAI Five as its technical sibling.
That combination shapes how VAI Five works. Marketing taught him that models are judged by business outcomes and nobody cares about the architecture; engineering taught him that outcomes come from evaluation and boring, well-supported tooling. Both are in the method.
What the two companies do
| Company | What it does | Start there if |
|---|---|---|
| VAI Five | Synthetic data, private-data agents, custom ML, fine-tuning, forecasting, marketing-automation systems | You have data and a decision that should improve |
| 021 Digital | Performance marketing, creative and paid media | You need growth run for you, including paid channels |
| seoclock.in | Self-serve SEO and AI-search audits | You want a fixed-price reading of your website first |
Company details
- Legal entity: VAI Private Limited, incorporated December 2025, registered in Karnataka, India.
- Location: Bengaluru. Clients across India; remote elsewhere.
- Contact: hello@vaifive.com, or the contact page.
- Founder: Vishal on LinkedIn.
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