Episode 1
Anything You Want, You Got It: Meet the Sparcks Stunt Team
Art by Mario Bucci (and an AI) · Words by the Sparcks team · · 3 min read
Every company has a motto. Ours is apparently “Anything you want, you got it,” and Mario has decided to show us exactly what that costs.
Norma is doing a backflip off a ramp in full leather. Someone is crossing a burning tightrope with the calm of a person who has walked into far worse client calls. Jim is leaping through a ring of fire, hair flowing, like the cover of an album that definitely has a guitar solo on it. Off to the right, someone in a headband is scaling the side of a burning building because the elevator was presumably down.
And standing calmly in the middle of it all, arms at her sides, is the one person who has clearly done this before and is waiting for everyone else to finish.
Where is Mario?
Notice the drone hovering in the middle of the shot. Mario has not confirmed that he is the drone. He has not denied it either.
Okay, but why
This is episode one, so let's be clear about the plan. Mario's images are a joke. The habit behind them is not. A year ago, an image like this would have meant hiring an illustrator and waiting a week. Mario made it in an afternoon, between spreadsheets, without opening a single design tool.
That same shift applies to the tedious parts of all our jobs: the first draft of a proposal, the meeting notes no one wants to write, the spreadsheet formula you'd normally google for twenty minutes. Anything you want, you (almost) got it.
The actual lesson
Describe the result, not the steps.
Mario didn't tell the AI how to draw a ring of fire. He described what he wanted to see. The same works for work: “Turn these notes into a one-page summary for a client who has five minutes” beats “summarize this” every time. Who it's for, what it's for, and how long it should be.
This week's challenge
Your turn - before the next episode
- Take the most annoying recurring task on your list this week - a status update, a recap email, a report you rebuild every month.
- Give it to an AI with three things: who it's for, what they need to do with it, and how long it should be. See how close the first draft gets.
Post what you tried in the team chat. Best result gets featured next week. Worst result also gets featured next week.