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
From our portfolio
100%
of delivered projects reach production
5
languages across the platforms we build
24h
maximum response time
Senior-only
no juniors, no hand-offs
What we do
From generative AI to technical leadership: we step in where technology has to produce measurable results, not slides
Generative AI systems on proprietary data, built to ship: conversational assistants with verifiable citations, RAG, agents and editorial pipelines
Web apps, PWAs and native apps end-to-end: from first MVP to a product that scales, with Next.js, React and React Native
SEO-first multilingual sites and platforms with headless CMS: content you manage yourself, on architectures designed for reuse, including white-label
Technical leadership for teams without a CTO yet: architecture, 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
Class Editori · Milano Finanza
Milano Finanza's generative AI
Italy's first autonomous generative AI system applied to economic and financial news. It answers in natural language drawing exclusively from Class Editori's journalistic sources, with citations you can inspect in every answer
Robin S.r.l. · Monrif Group
The newsroom's AI assistant
A browser extension that sits next to journalists inside their CMS: real-time SEO analysis while the article takes shape, editorial guideline checks, and AI generation of headlines, summaries and tags
Digispark 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
Network 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, headless CMS, member area and realtime chat
How we work
A lean process designed to reduce risk and ship early
We understand goals, constraints and how success will be measured. A free intro call, then a clear proposal with timeline and costs
Architecture, prototype and documented technical decisions. We pick the simplest stack that holds the problem
Weekly iterations with continuous demos. Automated quality: tests, reviews and CI/CD from day one, with AI-native workflows
Deploy, observability and evolution. Self-hosted or cloud, with predictable costs and the freedom to grow without lock-in
FAQ
Digispark is a software engineering studio based in Milan, Italy. We design and build generative AI systems (conversational assistants, RAG, agents), web and native apps, multilingual platforms with headless CMS, and we provide technical consulting and leadership
Production-ready AI systems on proprietary data. Commissioned by Cutowl, our founder worked on the engineering of MF GPT, Milano Finanza's (Class Editori) generative AI system with answers grounded in certified sources. As a studio we built Ai-Light, the AI assistant that Monrif group newsrooms use daily inside their CMS
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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