Two brothers in Brisbane. One runs a 12-person construction company. The other spent 30 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.
One builds things. The other writes things. Sprigr happens where those overlap.
Owner & 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 doesn't hold up on an LSR job, it gets fixed.
Diploma of Building & Construction · Certificate III in Carpentry · Specialist in commercial fitouts, passive fire, and strata maintenance.
LSR ServicesThirty years shipping production systems. Y Combinator startups and large enterprises. Inventory, payments, real-time data, AI automation. Chris is the one writing the code and the one who 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.comJames 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. James's weeks are the archetype of the back-office pain Sprigr is built to remove: supplier invoices, SWMS packs, variations, compliance records, crew scheduling, Xero reconciliation. Every product decision in Sprigr Platform gets pressure-tested against what LSR actually needs on a Tuesday afternoon.
Chris Greben is the younger brother. He's spent three decades shipping production systems across e-commerce, manufacturing, fintech, and SaaS. 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 actually do it, Chris started writing the thing himself.
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. Sub-10 ms queries with hybrid semantic on every plan.
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 signed audit trail on every action. The architecture does the work, not the policies - so the operations hub above your stack is genuinely yours. James has been running it on LSR for the better part of a year; every rough edge we found there is gone.
Sprigr is a founder-led company headquartered on the Gold Coast, Australia. Sprigr Platform is the operations hub above your stack: it coordinates the tools you already use, scaffolds your workflows and approvals with AI, and runs your back office on autopilot - with isolated infrastructure and a signed audit trail behind every action. Sprigr Search is a client-side search engine written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly, running in the browser. We keep the product surface deliberately small: fewer knobs, fewer leaks, more throughput. Questions, ideas, or partnerships: chris@sprigr.com.
Search and agents, both built on the same obsession with architecture-level guarantees.
The operations hub above your stack. Coordinates your CRM, accounting, email, calendars, and messaging. AI scaffolds your workflows, approvals, and dashboards; the platform runs them on autopilot. Isolated storage per business, encrypted credentials, signed audit trail on every action.
Full audit trail, role-based access, MCP access for your IDE. Learn moreClient-side search written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly, running in the browser. Sub-10 ms results, zero per-query charges, no data leaving the client. Import via REST API, your users search locally. Faceted filters, analytics, and hybrid semantic search built in.
Also available as a REST API and MCP server for AI agents. Learn moreIf cross-tenant data access can't happen at the infrastructure level, you don't need to audit every query to prove it. Build it right, not bolted on.
A three-person startup gets the same isolation as a Fortune 500 company. The architecture doesn't care what plan you're on.
Every config option is a chance to misconfigure. Every abstraction is a place for bugs to hide. Ship less, ship it right.