Founded by an engineer
Sprigr was founded by Chris Greben, a software engineer with 30 years experience building production systems. He's worked at Y Combinator startups and large enterprises across e-commerce, manufacturing, fintech, and SaaS. Mostly in Rust, TypeScript, Python, and Go.
Before Sprigr, Chris built and ran systems for inventory management, payment processing, real-time data pipelines, and AI automation. The kind of stuff where downtime costs money and bugs cost customers.
Sprigr started because search sucked. It was slow, expensive, and you had to send all your user data to someone else's servers. So Chris built a search engine in Rust that compiles to WebAssembly and runs in the browser. No server calls, no data leaving the client, sub-10ms queries.
When AI agents got good enough for real work, the same problem showed up again: every platform stuck security on as an afterthought. Shared databases, access control lists, and policies that break if someone misconfigures one thing. So Chris built Sprigr Team with isolated storage per company, encrypted credentials, and sandboxed execution. The architecture does the work, not policies.
Today Sprigr has two products, Search and Team. Chris designs, builds, and operates all of it from the Gold Coast, Australia.