Studio

A creative practice built inside an engineering company.

Sparq+ exists because we kept watching operators we respected get stuck on the part of their business their customers actually see. Platform was fine. Product was fine. The site, the brand, the campaign? Nobody owned it. We're not a content shop bolted onto a tech firm. We're the creative practice the work asked for. Brand, campaign, the way the business runs, all shipping as one thing.

Origin

We were the team people kept asking for.

For years, TechSparq engagements ended the same way. Platform was live. Data was working. Then somebody would ask, "ok, who designs what the customer sees? who shoots it? who runs the campaign?" We kept hiring partners. The work kept showing up late. Eventually we stopped outsourcing it and built the practice ourselves. Sparq+ is what came out. Same team that built the system, building the layer customers actually see.

The studio at work
The studio · In progress
Belief

Strategy and craft can't live in different rooms.

We're skeptical of work that wins awards and loses revenue. Just as skeptical of work that hits the metric and reads like nothing. Our job is to keep both promises at once. Brand and business in the same brief. Strategy and shoot in the same week. The work has to look unmistakable and earn its keep. Both. Always.

Operating principles

Five things we hold ourselves to.

01

Brief discipline

No work starts without a brief that names a business outcome. If we can't name it, the brief isn't ready.

02

Stay close

We work alongside your people, not over their shoulder. The team you start with is the team that ships. We leave the room sharper than we found it.

03

Ship in weeks

If the strategy ships in weeks, the work ships in weeks. Not quarters. Not someday. Now.

04

Earn the receipt

Every deliverable has a metric on it. We track it, share it, keep tuning it. The number is the contract.

Lineage

A practice of TechSparq.

Sparq+ is part of the TechSparq family of practices. TechSparq builds the digital systems behind retail, gaming, amusement, media, and DTC operators. Sparq+ is the creative and AI studio inside that practice. The two work together when the work asks for it, which is most of the time.

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Leadership

The people running the studio.

Vince Pass
Managing Partner
01 / Vince Pass

Managing Partner, US

Vince runs the Sparq+ creative practice and works directly with operators on brand, campaign, and creative work.

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Toni Gannon
Partner · Program Lead
02 / Toni Gannon

Partner · Program Lead

Toni runs program management across the studio. Voiceover talent, UGC creator, and digital marketing professional in her own right. She's done every job she now manages, which is how deadlines move and nothing falls through.

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Jonathan Patz
Partner · Customer Success
03 / Jonathan Patz

Partner · Customer Success

Jonathan owns the relationship after kickoff. Customer success and project management — the operator's voice inside the studio. He's the reason a six-week brief actually ships in six weeks.

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Work with us

Bring us the problem. We'll bring the studio.

Name what's broken. We'll handle the rest.

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