Software & AI engineering studio · Milan
We turn ideas into products that actually work: AI systems used daily in the newsrooms of major national newspapers, apps with thousands of users and multilingual platforms for the international trade network born from the United Nations
Our work, live in production every day
Milano Finanza
the finance daily's AI assistant, engineered by our founder
QN and il Resto del Carlino
the AI assistant used daily in Monrif group newsrooms
App Store and Google Play
SuperGiù, our football culture game for iOS and Android
United Nations
the 5-language platform of the trade network born from the UN programme
What we do
From generative AI to technical leadership: we step in where technology has to produce measurable results, not slides
AI assistants that answer using only your content and your data, with sources in every answer: like the ones used daily in the newsrooms of major national newspapers
Web apps and iPhone and Android apps, from first version to a product that scales, refined in the details you notice while using them
Sites and platforms you update yourself, designed to be found on Google, in up to 5 languages
Technical guidance for teams without an in-house CTO: architecture decisions, audits and adopting AI in real workflows
Selected work
Real products, in production, with real users: from AI for financial news to the platform of the UN-born trade network
Artificial intelligenceClass Editori · Milano Finanza
Milano Finanza's ChatGPT
Milano Finanza's AI assistant answers readers' questions about markets, the economy and finance drawing only from Class Editori's journalistic sources, with citations you can inspect in every answer. It is Italy's first autonomous generative AI system applied to financial news
In the press: il Giornale · Quotidiano Nazionale
Artificial intelligenceRobin S.r.l. · Monrif Group
The AI in QN and il Resto del Carlino newsrooms
The assistant that sits next to Monrif group journalists while they write: it suggests AI-generated headlines, summaries and tags, checks editorial guidelines and analyses the article's SEO in real time, right inside their writing tool
In the press: Engage · ADVexpress
Mobile appDigispark product
The football culture duel
Who scored more? The Italian game that tests your football knowledge: build your streak of correct answers and challenge your friends. Born as a viral web app, now also a native iOS and Android app
Web platformNetwork born from the United Nations
The platform of the UN-born trade network
The platform of the Italian node of the World Trade Point Federation, the international trade network born from the United Nations programme (UNCTAD): an institutional site in 5 languages, self-managed content, member area and realtime chat
In the press: Il Sole 24 ORE · Il Giorno
How we work
A four-step path that reduces risk and gets you live early
We understand goals, constraints and how success will be measured. A free intro call, then a clear proposal with timeline and costs
We decide together what it will be: a prototype you can try and documented technical choices, always the simplest solution that holds the problem
Every week you see progress in a demo. Quality is checked automatically from day one, so issues surface immediately
The product goes live and we stay close: monitoring, evolution and predictable costs, with the freedom to switch supplier whenever you want
FAQ
Digispark is a software engineering studio based in Milan, Italy. We design and build tailored AI assistants, web apps and iPhone and Android apps, multilingual sites and platforms, and we act as technical guidance for companies
AI assistants ready for real use, built on our clients' data. Commissioned by Cutowl, our founder worked on the engineering of Milano Finanza GPT, Milano Finanza's (Class Editori) ChatGPT with answers grounded in certified sources. As a studio we built Ai-Light, the AI assistant that Monrif group newsrooms use daily inside their writing tool
Mainly TypeScript, Next.js and React for the web, Expo/React Native for mobile, PayloadCMS and Postgres for content and data, and the AI SDK with multi-model integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) for AI systems. We deploy to the cloud or self-hosted with Docker
No. We work with major publishing groups as well as SMEs, international organisations and startups. We size the approach and the investment to the problem: an MVP shouldn't be run like an enterprise platform
It starts with a free intro call to understand goals and constraints. Then a written proposal with scope, timeline and costs. We work in weekly iterations with continuous demos, so you see progress immediately and can steer
We're based in Milan and work with clients across Italy and Europe, remotely or on-site when needed. We reply within 24 business hours
Digispark was founded by Giovanni Improta, software engineer. The studio runs on a boutique model: a small, senior-only team, which means direct access to the people doing the work and no hand-offs
Tell us about it: we reply within 24 business hours with an honest opinion, even when the advice is not to build
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