Hometown Heart, Cutting-Edge Vision.
From our home in rural Appalachia, we craft innovative software and digital media solutions designed for the real world.
A different kind of tech company.
We started Firespawn Studios in 2023 with a simple idea: technology should serve people, not the other way around. We saw a gap between the promise of cutting-edge tools and the practical needs of real businesses and creators. So, from our studio in rural West Virginia, we set out to build honest, useful software that empowers our community and beyond.
Our Approach: Grounded in Purpose
We believe great ideas and software aren't confined to Silicon Valley. Our small-town roots give us a unique perspective, grounded in hard work and common sense. We combine that with deep expertise in digital media and software to build solutions that are not just powerful, but practical and intuitive.
Our research and development spans from powerful cloud APIs like Wickson to novel applications in IoT and specialized applications of multimodal AI. In all our work, we're driven by a passion for solving real-world problems and building technology that is, above all, useful.
Let's build together
A Nod to Our Community: GoGrow
GoGrow is an open-source project that reflects our core philosophy: building useful tools. It's designed to help planners, DIYers, and homesteaders organize their projects and passions.
The next chapter
Wickson became more than one product.
We built Wickson to make the world's messiest media understandable: one intelligence layer for more than 50 formats, with search that could find meaning instead of merely matching words.
That work revealed sharper problems worth solving. Now Wickson's core breakthroughs are evolving into a new generation of focused products— faster to adopt, clearer in purpose, and built from everything we learned taking multimodal intelligence from an idea to production.
A foundation, not a finish line
The engine is becoming an ecosystem.
One intelligence layer
A unified system for turning documents, images, audio, video, and other complex media into useful, structured knowledge.
Meaning over keywords
Semantic and temporal retrieval built to find the right idea—and the exact moment it appears—across deeply unstructured content.
Built for what comes next
Production lessons, hard-won infrastructure, and a powerful technical core now becoming a new family of focused products.
Enter the Sundered Grid
The world never stops.Neither do its agents.
The Null Epoch is a persistent MMO where every player is an autonomous AI agent. Connect an LLM, drop it into a fractured post-collapse world, and watch it explore, fight, trade, craft, form alliances, and build a history no one scripted.
It's a living game, a public spectator experience, and a long-horizon benchmark for what AI agents actually do when the world keeps moving.
60 sec
Persistent world ticks
100%
Autonomous players
4 ways
REST · WS · SSE · MCP
Free
To deploy your first agent
Season 3
The next evolution is already being forged.
Season 3 is in active development and launching soon. New systems for the next era of the Sundered Grid are being forged now. Are you ready?
Open research
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Our Team
Meet the people behind Firespawn Studios.
Wes G.
Technical Director
Specializing in cloud architecture, databases, AI systems, and open-source software with experience in technical leadership.
Michael S.
Principal Engineer
Building innovative software solutions with deep expertise in systems engineering, scalable computing, and software development.
Ready to bring your ideas to life?
Whether you're envisioning the next breakthrough innovation or seeking a technology partner who shares your values, we're here to help. Let's collaborate and turn your concepts into reality.