Applied AI studio · Hospitality · Finance · Education
Sparked Labs builds small, sharp AI tools that amplify what your people already do well. We embed with your team for 2–6 weeks and leave you with a tool they'll use on Monday.
Sound familiar?
Briefs get skimmed. Decisions made on calls never reach a task list. Training fades before anyone uses it. Most of that is friction, and friction is what small tools are good at removing.
Absorb
“We move too fast for people to actually absorb everything.”
Pre-reads that surface what matters in any document, with the source one click away.
Follow through
“Half the decisions we make verbally never get followed up on.”
Voice capture that turns a call into tasks in the tools your team already uses.
Retain
“The team reads the brief but doesn't retain it by the time we're in the room.”
Learning that adapts to each person, with short spaced practice so it sticks.
Where we work
We embed with one team, find the friction and build the tool that removes it. These are the kinds of tools we build.
Front-of-house to back-office
AI that absorbs the noise of bookings, reviews and rosters, so your team stays focused on the guest in front of them.
Typical builds
Read the deal. Read the books. Read the room.
Tools that pull the load-bearing facts out of contracts, statements and decks, with citations and a clear list of flags.
Typical builds
Schools, tutors and learning teams
AI that meets each learner where they are: adaptive practice, instant feedback, and a clear view of what to teach next.
Typical builds
From the lab
Eight products built and run by the studio: cited, board-ready intelligence for tax, compliance and investment teams, and everyday apps for learning and reading. Every one does one job exceptionally well, and the same habit goes into every client build.
Sourced, board-ready answers to expensive questions, with every claim cited.
Market expansion
The expansion verdict, in minutes.
Turns a six-week site feasibility study into a board-ready Go / No-Go verdict on up to 208 cities, for venues, restaurants, hotels and the investors behind them. Grounded in live market data, with every claim sourced.
Transfer pricing risk
A living TP risk index.
Scores transfer-pricing audit risk for every transaction class and jurisdiction a multinational is exposed to, built entirely from public primary sources and kept up to date, so it doesn't go stale like a one-off study. For Heads of TP and Group Tax.
Regulatory change
Know what changed. Know what to do next.
Tracks around 200 obligations across 24 jurisdictions, from Economic Substance to CRS and UBO registers. When a rule changes, it tells corporate and trust service providers which entities are newly in scope, the deadline and the owner, with a citation on every line. Your entity book never leaves your network.
Energy investment
Where to write the first cheque.
A sourced, ranked comparison of African power-sector markets that tells a private solar investor where to invest first, and shows its working.
Small apps for learning, reading and getting things done.
Early years learning
KS1 practice, made easy for parents.
Curriculum-aligned maths worksheets, spelling practice, phonics activities and reading logs for Reception to Year 2. Built for busy UK parents.
Speed reading
Read everything. Faster.
A free RSVP speed reader. Import a PDF, article or ebook and read at 300–800 words per minute, with intelligent pacing and ORP highlighting. Works in any browser, no account needed.
Family organisation
One calm place for family life.
Bring the family calendar, shopping lists, meals and chores together. Forward a school email, snap a flyer or say what needs doing, then review the suggested events and tasks before adding them.
GCSE revision
Swipe your way through GCSEs.
Bite-sized revision cards matched to your exam board's spec, 30 seconds each. Made for revising on the bus, in bed or between lessons. Free to start.
How an engagement runs
Six weeks from first conversation to handover, drawn to scale. Most of the time goes into hardening the tool your team has already chosen to use.
1Days 1–3
We sit with your team and watch the work. We find the hours that are quietly bleeding out, and agree what a win looks like.
2Days 4–14
By day ten your team is using a working tool. Rough, fast and real. We improve it against actual usage, not a roadmap document.
3Weeks 3–6
We polish the tool that earned its place, document everything and hand over the keys. You own the code, prompts and docs.
What we believe
We build tools that make people sharper, not tools that think for them. Every build starts with one question: how can AI remove friction from something your people already do well?
Real tools in real hands, early. Everything ships lean, then improves through what people actually use, not what a committee predicted.
We don't build platforms. We build focused tools that do one job exceptionally well, then connect them to the systems your team already relies on.
Why we exist
Most AI projects fail because they try to replace work. The work that matters can't be replaced. It can only be amplified. We build small, sharp tools that sit next to your people and make them faster, calmer and harder to surprise.
Sparked Labs
Questions
General assistants are powerful, but they depend on every person writing a good prompt, every time. We build the context, prompts and workflow into a purpose-built tool, so the whole team gets the same quality with no setup.
That's why we build small. Each tool does one job and plugs into the systems your team already works in, so it removes steps instead of adding another login.
We build it with them. Your team is using a working prototype from around day ten, and we only harden the parts they keep reaching for.
We agree data handling before anything is built: which systems the tool can touch, where processing happens, and what never leaves your environment.
Pricing is tailored to the team and the problem. After a 30-minute call we'll scope the work with you and put a price on it before anything starts.
You keep everything: code, prompts and documentation. Keep us on to extend the tool, or run it yourselves. There's no lock-in either way.
Start here
Book a 30-minute call. We'll tell you straight whether we can help, and if we can't, who can.