SparkTales is a Canadian generative AI company. Our flagship, Lyra, turns a passage, a lesson or a legend into an illustrated story you can explore. We also build AI apps and tools, and bring AI into the systems teams already run.
Storybook BibleBuilt with Lyra
An illustrated reading experience that connects Bible stories with the people, places and ideas around them.
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LocusNative Mac app
A native Mac app that brings AI agents to your files, terminal and browser, with the model and permissions you choose.
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A self-hosted support platform that connects answers to approved sources and puts staff in control of replies.
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Our flagshipThe SparkTales story engine
Lyra is the studio software behind every SparkTales story. AI does the heavy lifting; people make the calls that matter.
Our ethos
Keeping a person in the loop isn’t a feature we add at the end. It’s how SparkTales builds AI, starting with Lyra.
A story can begin as a scripture passage, an outline, a lesson plan, a myth, a historical episode or a classic tale.
Characters, places, props and art styles live in reusable reference packs, so a face, a robe or a fishing boat looks the same on every page and in every story.
A four-step builder shapes the idea, sets who it is for and picks the artwork. Every run is costed, and nothing starts until someone confirms it.
Review agents look for continuity, style, outfit, text, source and metadata problems, page by page. They flag; editors decide.
A finished story goes to a private review first. Going live is a separate, deliberate step that a person takes.
Products
An interactive home for the stories, people, places and ideas of the Bible, designed for the whole family.
A native Mac workspace where AI agents work in your files, terminal and browser, with the model you choose and the permissions you set.
An open-source, self-hosted AI support platform: your own help centre, chat and customer portal, or an agent in your Zendesk, answering from approved knowledge with citations.
Build with us
The systems behind our own products are available for the right projects, built to the same human-guided standard.
Tell us what you’re buildingPut Lyra, our story engine, to work on your own stories: license it for your team, or have us run it for you, from source material to reviewed, illustrated stories and everything around them.
Agents and AI tools for your team or your customers, built the way we build our own products: clear permissions, visible costs and a person signing off before anything goes out.
Forward-deployed engineering: we join your team, connect models and agents to the data and tools you already run, design in permissions, costs and approvals, then hand it over.
Case studies
A closer look at Lyra, the stories it powers, and the workspace that gives every job the right agent.
All case studiesLyra is the SparkTales story engine: the software we use to turn a passage, a lesson or a legend into an illustrated story you can explore, with reference art for consistency, review agents that check every page, and a person’s sign-off before anything is published.
If you have stories worth telling well, such as a collection, a curriculum or a tradition, and want them illustrated consistently at more than one reading level with activities alongside, Lyra lets a small team do what would otherwise take a much larger one, without giving up review.
Yes. You can license Lyra for your team, or have us run it for you, from source material to reviewed, illustrated stories and everything around them.
Talk to usA person. Every run is costed and confirmed before it starts, review agents flag problems and editors decide what changes, and publishing is a separate step a person takes.
Characters, places, props and art styles are defined once as reusable reference packs. Every illustration is anchored to them, and the visual review checks each page against the approved references.
Quizzes, colouring pages, seek-and-find games, artifact records with 3D models, links to the Bible map, and narration.
No. Lyra isn’t tied to one tradition. It makes Bible stories today, and it was built for mythology, history, classics and folklore too.
Yes. Storybook Bible is built with Lyra, Locus is our free, open-source Mac workspace for AI agents, and FieldKit is open-source, self-hosted AI support. We also build AI apps and tools for others, and bring AI into the systems teams already run.
Write to hello@sparktales.io and tell us what you’re working on: a story collection, an app, or a system you’d like to bring AI into.
Company
We pair capable AI systems with human judgment and craft.
The systems let a small team build far more than it otherwise could. People decide what the work means, who it is for and what goes out with our name on it.
SparkTales brings together software engineering, research, visual design and traditional storytelling. Technology should not make stories feel less human. It should help us notice more of what makes them matter.
Partners, investors, press, a project you want built, or a question about what we’re making: one address reaches the team.
