About Us

One founder. One mission.

Vinci Advisory was founded by Toby Carroll to help established Australian businesses adopt AI with complete confidence in its security, governance, and impact. We don't just deploy tools, we train your team so every person spends their time in their highest zone of genius.

The Story

How Vinci started.

Vinci started with Toby. Before software engineering, Toby built a career as a musician, then founded, grew, and sold a successful business of his own.

He went on to study software engineering, treating technology as a way to optimise businesses, sharpened by his years actually running one.

Toby built one of Australia's earliest AI platforms for small business, and spent the next few years inside more than 150 Australian businesses advising on where AI genuinely helps and where it does not.

That is where Vinci came from. The patterns that make AI accessible to even the least technical people, delivered responsibly, by someone who has done the work.

The name came from that idea. Leonardo Da Vinci, the ultimate example of someone operating at their full capacity across every discipline. Vinci Advisory was built to help businesses create that environment for their people.

The Team

Who you'll actually be working with.

Toby Carroll

Founder

Toby has worked directly with over 150 businesses across security, trades, marketing, property, finance, agriculture, distribution, and professional services. He leads every Blueprint engagement, sitting with teams, mapping workflows, and identifying the operational bottlenecks that cost businesses time and margin without anyone noticing.

His background is in full stack engineering, design, and systems thinking. But what sets him apart is that he's spent thousands of hours inside real businesses understanding how people actually work, not how an org chart says they should.

He built his first AI consultancy before the market knew it needed one. Now he trains teams on the systems that allow them to 10x their output.

What We Believe

How we think about business.

AI isn't the strategy. Your operations are.

AI is a tool. A powerful one. But deploying it without understanding how your business actually runs is how companies end up with more complexity, not less. We start with operations. AI follows.

Your team should be in their zone of genius.

Every hour your best people spend on admin, data entry, or chasing information is an hour they're not doing the work that grows your business. We build systems that give them that time back.

Security isn't optional.

Your client data, your IP, your internal knowledge. None of it should be floating through public AI tools. Every system we build is governed, permissioned, and secure. No exceptions.

Start small. Prove it. Then expand.

We start with your highest-impact problem, prove it, then expand — not everything at once. Every step delivers something your team can use immediately.

Want to see what we'd find in your business?

Book a Blueprint and within days you'll have a clear map of exactly where your team is losing hours — and what to fix first. Most teams lose 10–30 hours a week to work that doesn't need a person.

Book a Free Discovery Session

We take on a limited number of founding clients each quarter.

Continuity

Who delivers if Toby is unavailable

For now, every Vinci engagement is delivered by Toby personally. That is deliberate. AI training done well is a small studio operation, not a hire-and-scale agency, and the people who pay for the room deserve the person they hired to be in it.

If Toby cannot make a scheduled workshop, the workshop is rescheduled at no cost. It is not reassigned to someone the client has not met. If Vinci ever grows past that model, existing clients will be told before it changes, not after.