about sprigr

Built by a builder and an engineer.

Two brothers on the Gold Coast. One builds things. The other writes things.

One runs a 12-person construction company in Brisbane. The other spent twenty years writing the kind of code that has to work. Sprigr is what happens when the admin pile lands on the builder's desk and the engineer can fix it at the source.

the founders

Brothers. Different toolkits.

Sprigr happens where the two overlap.

  • JG

    James Greben

    Co-founder · the operator

    Owner and licensed builder at LSR Services, Brisbane. 24 years in construction. QBCC licensed (150 092 24). James is the voice of the customer: if a Sprigr workflow does not hold up on an LSR job, it gets fixed.

    Diploma of Building and Construction. Certificate III in Carpentry. Commercial fitouts, passive fire and strata maintenance.

    lsrservices.com.au
  • CG

    Chris Greben

    Co-founder · the engineer

    Twenty years shipping production systems at Y Combinator startups and large enterprises. Inventory, payments, real-time data, AI automation. Chris writes the code and picks up the phone when something breaks.

    Full-stack software engineer. Previously shipped systems at YC startups and at scale across fintech, SaaS and e-commerce.

    chris@sprigr.com
the story

How Sprigr came to be.

Five chapters, in order. The operator, the engineer, the two products, and where that leaves us today.

  1. the operator

    James runs the kind of business Sprigr is built for.

    James Greben is the older brother. He started as an apprentice carpenter in 2001 and now runs LSR Services, a 12-person building and maintenance company in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. QBCC licensed, 24 years in construction, specialising in commercial fitouts, strata maintenance, passive fire and commercial renovations. His weeks are the archetype of the admin Sprigr is built to remove: supplier invoices, SWMS packs, variations, compliance records, crew scheduling, Xero reconciliation. Every product decision gets pressure-tested against what LSR needs on a Tuesday afternoon.

  2. the engineer

    Chris has spent twenty years writing code that had to work.

    Chris Greben is the younger brother. Two decades shipping production systems across e-commerce, manufacturing, fintech and SaaS, at Y Combinator startups and large enterprises. Inventory management, payment processing, real-time data pipelines, AI automation. The kind of work where downtime costs money and bugs cost customers. When James kept describing the admin pile at LSR and nothing on the market could do it, Chris started writing the thing himself.

  3. sprigr search

    Search was slow and expensive. So we rewrote it.

    Every hosted search product wanted your data on their servers, charged per query, and added 50 to 200 ms of latency on every keystroke. Sprigr Search is a search engine written in Rust that compiles to WebAssembly and runs in the browser. No server calls. No data leaving the client. Queries under 10 ms, with hybrid semantic search on every plan.

  4. sprigr platform

    An operations hub, not an afterthought.

    When agents got good enough for real work, every platform stuck security on last: shared databases, access-control lists, policies that break the moment someone misconfigures one thing. Sprigr is built the other way around. Every business gets an isolated sandbox, credentials decrypted only at runtime, approval gates with teeth, and a full audit trail on every action. The architecture does the work, not the policies. James has been running it on LSR for the better part of a year, and every rough edge found there is gone.

  5. today

    Two products. Two brothers. Built on the Gold Coast.

    Sprigr is a founder-led company headquartered on the Gold Coast, Australia. Sprigr Platform coordinates the tools you already use, builds your workflows and approvals with AI, and runs your back office with isolated infrastructure and a full audit trail behind every action. Sprigr Search is a client-side search engine written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly, running in the browser. The product surface stays deliberately small: fewer knobs, fewer leaks, more throughput.

the products

Two products. One philosophy.

Search and the operations hub, both built on the same insistence on architecture-level guarantees.

  • Sprigr Platform

    The operations hub above your stack. Coordinates your CRM, accounting, email, calendars and messaging. AI builds your workflows, approvals and dashboards; the platform runs them. Isolated storage per business, encrypted credentials, a full audit trail on every action. Read about the platform

  • Sprigr Search

    Client-side search written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly, running in the browser. Results under 10 ms, no per-query charges, no data leaving the client. Import via the REST API, your users search locally. Also available as a REST API and an MCP server for AI agents. Read the search docs

how we think

Three things we mean.

  • Security is architecture.

    If cross-tenant data access cannot happen at the infrastructure level, you do not need to audit every query to prove it. Build it right, not bolted on.

  • Same guarantees at every scale.

    A three-person business gets the same isolation as a large enterprise. The architecture does not care what plan you are on.

  • Keep it simple.

    Every config option is a chance to misconfigure. Every abstraction is a place for bugs to hide. Ship less, ship it right.

get in touch

Questions, partnerships, or just saying hello.

Founder-led, on the Gold Coast. Chris reads every email and picks up the phone.

chris@sprigr.com See the platform