Trust infrastructure for expert-led innovation.

Sparki is a managed B2B marketplace where companies post innovation challenges and Sparki assembles vetted cross-disciplinary expert pods — with a transparent trust layer that surfaces identity, roles, and boundaries before work begins.

About Sparki

What we're building, and why.

Vision

Trust infrastructure for expert-led innovation.

Every temporary team formed for a high-stakes project starts with transparent roles, boundaries, and behavioral accountability. A four-layer moat — trust data, workflow, expert network, enterprise trust — compounds into a position no horizontal marketplace can replicate.

Mission

Make assembling expert teams safe and transparent.

Structure every introduction, boundary, and collaboration step so companies replace opaque, transactional freelancer platforms with accountable, trust-gated pods.

Problem

The bottleneck is trusted formation, not messaging.

Companies need cross-disciplinary talent for short innovation projects but cannot vet credibility, define boundaries, or align expectations before work starts. Existing freelancer platforms are transactional and low-trust.

Solution

Managed B2B marketplace + white-box trust layer.

Companies post paid innovation challenges; Sparki assembles vetted cross-disciplinary pods. Every introduction, role, boundary, collaboration rule, and observed behavior is transparent before work begins — via a Transparent Intro Flow covering identity, purpose, role, boundaries, allowed next steps, and completion safety.

Target customer

Mid-market innovation teams running 2–6 week sprints.

Mid-market companies exploring AI adoption, corporate innovation teams, startup accelerators, venture studios, and enterprise product teams needing rapid prototypes at $10K–$100K+ per engagement.

The four-layer moat

A trust stack horizontal marketplaces can't replicate.

Layer 1Trust data — verified identities, references, observed behavior, completion safety
Layer 2Workflow — Transparent Intro Flow gates every pod before work begins
Layer 3Expert network — vetted cross-disciplinary specialists matched to the challenge
Layer 4Enterprise trust — auditable boundaries, roles, and accountability for buyers
How a pod forms

Transparent Intro Flow, end to end.

01

Post challenge

Company submits a scoped innovation brief and budget.

02

Pod assembly

Sparki composes a vetted cross-disciplinary expert pod.

03

Transparent Intro

Identity, purpose, roles, and boundaries surfaced before work.

04

Boundaries set

Allowed next steps and completion-safety rules locked in.

05

Sprint

Pod executes a 2–6 week innovation sprint with observed behavior logged.

06

Review & handoff

Auditable record of contributions, decisions, and outcomes.

Who it's for

Built for teams running high-stakes innovation sprints.

Mid-market companies

Exploring AI adoption without internal talent.

Corporate innovation teams

Standing up rapid prototypes outside of core IT.

Startup accelerators

Running cohort sprints that need expert depth on demand.

Venture studios

Validating new ventures with on-call cross-disciplinary pods.

Enterprise product teams

Prototyping new product lines under enterprise governance.

Revenue model

Marketplace take rate, enterprise subscriptions, trust-layer licensing.

Marketplace15–25% take rate on $25K–$50K project contracts
EnterpriseSubscriptions from $12K to $100K+ per year
Trust layerFuture licensing of the trust infrastructure itself
Talk to us

Have a high-stakes innovation challenge?

We're onboarding pilot buyers and vetted experts now. Tell us about the project and we'll respond with scoping options.