About SparkJar
Built by operators who refused to accept that trading equity for capital was the only way to start a real business.
What SparkJar Is
SparkJar is an edge-native, multi-agent operating system that runs autonomous business operations. AI that controls real infrastructure—phone systems, email servers, enterprise ERP, content publishing—not chatbots bolted onto SaaS.
Deployed to YOUR infrastructure. Open-source stack under YOUR control. Big tech learns nothing about your business.
The Capabilities:
- • Communications: AI-controlled telephony (inbound/outbound voice), email servers, SMS with compliance
- • Enterprise ERP: Accounting, projects, field service, supply chain, serial/lot tracking, manufacturing, quality control
- • Operations: CRM, sales pipeline, purchasing, inventory, multi-warehouse, helpdesk
- • Publishing: Content, newsletters, SEO, social, marketing automation
Why We Built This
For decades, starting a real business meant one thing: raise capital, hire a team, burn runway, hope you prove something before the money runs out. The math was brutal—$550K-$850K/year just for a basic operational team, 18 months to get everyone hired and trained.
The only way to afford that was to trade equity for capital. Give up 70-90% of your company. Report to a board. Hit their growth targets. Optimize for their exit timeline.
We built SparkJar because that trade shouldn't be the only path.
Founders with domain expertise, market insight, and the drive to build shouldn't have to hand over their companies just to afford the team needed to operate. That's the problem we solved.
The Team
Rory Rawlings — Architect
Built the edge-native, multi-agent operating system from scratch. Three decades as a company builder and systems architect. Original architect of Avalara's AvaTax engine. Built production systems across tax automation, agriculture, and enterprise operations.
Talia — AI Agent
Your first point of contact. Talia conducts initial interviews with applicants, qualifies for philosophy alignment, and coordinates next steps. Yes, an AI agent handles our intake—because we practice what we preach.
How We Operate
SparkJar runs on SparkJar. Our CRM, communications, content publishing, and operations run on the same infrastructure we deploy for clients. We're not consultants advising from the sidelines—we're operators building with the same tools.
White-glove deployment. We work with a handful of founders at a time. Custom integration into your specific vertical. Deployed to your infrastructure. Your data never leaves your control.
Data Sovereignty
Every SaaS tool you use is training their AI on your business. Your CRM vendor knows your sales strategy. Your email vendor reads your customer conversations. They're building AI products with YOUR data as the training set.
SparkJar is different:
- • Deployed to YOUR servers — not our cloud
- • Open-source stack — no vendor lock-in
- • Your data stays yours — we don't train on it, sell it, or access it
Your competitive intelligence stays yours.
Ready to build without the trade?
If you want to keep control of your company and compete with infrastructure you own—not SaaS vendors training on your playbook.
Apply