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The Future Is Purpose and Intent-Driven: How Nico Asha’s AI Patents Are Redefining Gen Z Expression Infrastructure

In partnership with Sparkeey

By Will Jones

In April 2024, at the Cebex Behaviour Conference in Prague, Nico Asha stood before a cross-section of Europe’s behavioral scientists, technologists, and policymakers and posed a question few in enterprise tech had seriously considered: “Why should our calendars still function like typewriters?”

The audience, many of whom came from public policy and cognitive research backgrounds, was introduced to a calendar mobile app called Sparkeey. On the surface, it looked aesthetically Social with under the hood structurally solid calendar features for the triple identified Gen Z. Behind it was a larger design in motion: a non techie Founder in stealth filing AI patents in Ireland, building a decentralized product team, with an ambition to create an dynamic hybrid infrastructure system for Gen Z and A, aiming to interpret one thing humanity has never digitized properly: purpose and intent.

Sparkeey, Nico Asha explained, wasn’t just built to manage time. It was designed to interpret it—to translate behavioral patterns, social vibe cues, and digital footprints into dynamic, real-time expressions of identity. Her message was clear: in a world where selfhood is constantly evolving, static digital IDs and tools are obsolete

At the heart of that mission are two AI-powered systems, Ilyn Flyn and Flynlink, both of which hold patent-pending status and Flyn a registered core Trademark. These systems are not enhancements to an existing product; they are core architecture, created to redefine what it means to “show up” online, whether at a sports event at a stadium, an online meeting, a university event, a branded activation, or a workplace meeting. 

Static Profiles Are History

 “We don’t use fax machines or  typewriters anymore, so why are we still building digital IDs that behave like them?” Nico asked during a keynote at the Cebex Behaviour Conference in Prague. Her own chosen name, Nico Flyn a dynamic expression of self-identity as a Digital Nomad, shaping the hybrid future.

Sparkeey’s emerging design drive of “intent-driven identity” is poised to disrupt Old tech giants’ static identity empire, which has functioned to the needs of Generations X, Boomers, and Millennials for two decades: static, unexpressive, commodified user data. The Ilyn Flyn and Flynlink systems function by interpreting users’ real-time behaviors, contexts, and self-expressions to create fluid digital expressions. Instead of uploading a profile picture or filling out a settings menu, users reveal their identity by how they live—what they share, schedule, avoid, or react to while controlling their expression of privacy.

While traditional Iconic Static Tech has leaned on cookies, spamming, phishing, and passive data scraping, Sparkeey’s technology is designed to be opt-in, contextual, and, according to its founder, Nico Asha, “respectful of  digital autonomy.” 

A Startup Thinking 

What makes Sparkeey’s vision True is the infrastructure being quietly laid beneath it. The Founder has filed and been awarded Design patent protections in the U.S. (Design Patent No. D1,088,021 S), registered product designs with the European Union (RCD 008737746-0001), and built a global decentralized team sharing the same dynamic vision.  As a calendar cum scheduling product designed for Generations Z and A, Sparkeeys’ design for the mobile and the desktop view is truly evolutionary, and people should embrace it while it’s still free to download and use. 

The layered calendar product is now live and gaining traction among Gen Z creatives and Sports persons, and this is just the beginning. A new “Bizz DM” system is being tested for civic and campus broadcasts, sports events, and brand activations, enabling administrators to broadcast to all Sparkeey users in a particular city, region, or event cluster. Partnerships and collaborations are being hammered out in stealth. 

“Purpose, Intent, AI will be the Big 3  driving economics, stock markets, ratings, transactions,” Nico Asha says. 

Gen Z Infrastructure

Sparkeey positions itself as an offering of sustainability, dynamic identity, privacy, expression, and digital inclusion. With the intent of embedding itself into the lives and routines of athletes, influencers, and graduates across Europe and the Americas, Sparkeey is what Nico calls “a 35% product—something that lives in hearts and minds rather than product categories”  with just about enough AI power. 

This strategy is gaining traction only because it’s driven by Nico Asha’s high-energy persuasion and her M&A skills picked up at EY: partnerships with Vogue in Prague, the British Beauty Council in the UK, and Most Contagious in New York have given the tech product brand and cultural credibility. Nico Asha is currently in ongoing talks with football clubs and TikTok influencers, which suggest Sparkeey is gearing up for mass activation across youth and sports. 

But there are risks, behaviourally, over 70% of Gen Z are not habituated to using calendars. Most people don’t understand the difference between a project management tool and a calendar. Purpose and Intent AI is fundamentally a new concept and untested, much like vibe coding.   

The Bigger Picture

Despite these concerns, Sparkeey is undeniably ahead of the curve. It has identified a vacuum – an absence of dynamic purpose-built infrastructure for Gen Z and Alpha—and filled it with a product that is as much cultural as it is technical.