Our Story
Why we built Sparkient
We spent years building systems where speed and intelligence both mattered. High-frequency trading systems that needed to make smart decisions in milliseconds. AI platforms that used LLMs for remarkable reasoning — but at 1–3 seconds per call.
We kept running into the same gap. Rules engines are fast but fragile. LLMs are intelligent but slow. The space between 10ms and 100ms — fast enough for any hot path, intelligent enough for real judgment — was completely empty.
The insight was simple: use the LLM as a teacher. Let it make thousands of decisions offline, carefully, with all its reasoning power. Then compile that intelligence into a fast model. Ship the compiled model. Get LLM-quality judgment in under 100 milliseconds.
“The best decisions shouldn't take the longest.”
— Peter Dobson, Founder