Built for the crews, with the crews.

SPARK exists because catching a code mistake five minutes after the picture is taken is cheaper than catching it five days later. We built the tool we wanted our crews to have.

The problem

Electrical apprentices learn on the job. They study the National Electrical Code in night class, then walk onto a site and try to apply 600+ pages of regulation to a panel they've never seen before. The journeyman or foreman who'd answer their questions is usually working a different floor, a different building, or a different jobsite entirely.

The result: small mistakes that aren't caught until the inspector walks the job, or a foreman drives across town to take a look. Either way, somebody is paying — in callbacks, in fines, or in apprentices who quit because they feel like they're guessing.

We kept thinking — what if the apprentice could just take a picture of what they were working on and get an answer? Not a perfect answer. A useful one. Right now, in the moment, with the code section cited so they could learn the why. — Kayla Comalli, co-founder & CFO

What we built

SPARK is an iOS and Android app that does exactly that. An apprentice photographs their work, and SPARK runs it through a two-pass AI pipeline grounded in the 2023 NEC. The first pass identifies what's in the picture. The second pass retrieves the specific code sections that apply and streams back a Pass/Fail verdict with citations to the articles, sections, and tables it checked.

Foremen get a parallel view of the same data: when their apprentices submit work, it lands in a review queue they can clear from their phone. Approve, correct, or coach — without driving site to site.

Why we're qualified to build this

SPARK is co-founded by Anas Assara, an electrical contractor who runs crews in the field. Every product decision is pressure-tested against the question "would my apprentices and foremen actually use this on a real job?" If the answer is no, it doesn't ship.

That's why SPARK shows you which NEC sections it checked, instead of just saying "Pass." It's why dev mode exists so a foreman can see both views during training. It's why the camera is one tap from the home screen — because gloves and small icons don't get along.

And it's why this isn't a chatbot wrapped around an electrical code search. The 2023 NEC is the ground truth: 17 articles, 535 sections, and 40 tables are indexed and retrieved deterministically before the AI ever generates a verdict. The AI explains the code — it doesn't invent it.

The team

Anas Assara

Chief Executive Officer · Co-Founder

Runs electrical crews on real jobsites and brings the field perspective to every product decision. The foreman workflow inside SPARK comes directly from how Anas reviews his own crew's work — if a feature wouldn't survive a day in the field, it doesn't ship.

Kayla Comalli

Chief Financial Officer · Co-Founder

Builds and ships SPARK end-to-end — the mobile app, the AI pipeline, and the backend infrastructure — while running the business side. Reachable at kayla.comalli@gmail.com.

Where SPARK is today

SPARK is live on the iOS App Store and currently in closed beta on the Android Play Store. It's free during the beta. The roadmap is being shaped by what we hear from the crews actually using it — if you have feedback, it goes straight to a real person, not a ticketing queue.

Get in touch

Press, partnerships, electrical training programs interested in piloting SPARK, or apprentices and foremen who want to be part of the beta — email kayla.comalli@gmail.com.