Our Story
Why we built Sparkient
We spent years building systems where speed and intelligence both mattered, systems that needed to make smart decisions in milliseconds. AI platforms that used LLMs for remarkable reasoning — but at 1–3 seconds per call and costs that scaled linearly with every request.
We kept running into the same two gaps. Rules engines are fast but fragile. LLMs are intelligent but slow and prohibitively expensive at scale. The space between 10ms and 100ms — fast enough for any hot path, intelligent enough for real judgment — was completely empty. And nobody had solved the economics: how do you get LLM-quality decisions without paying per-request?
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 — at effectively zero marginal cost.
“We took slow intelligence and made it fast.”
— Peter Dobson, Founder