About Practora

Built by people who have sat on both sides of the ledger.

Practora combines finance operations judgement with product engineering. Spark is what that looks like in practice: a teammate that does the preparation work and keeps the decision trail visible.

Kendra Blignaut and Grant Sloane, co-founders of Practora
Kendra Blignaut and Grant Sloane

Why we exist

Finance teams need leverage they can defend.

Kendra brings finance and operations experience from inside the workflows Spark now prepares. Grant brings product and engineering experience from fintech products that had to work reliably at scale.

We started Practora because most finance teams do not need another place to log into. They need month-end work, supplier follow-up, and entity context prepared where the team already works.

Spark is built around that idea: do the admin, expose the working, and let the finance owner approve the result.

Finance-led

Spark is shaped by people who have lived the close, not just observed it from a product spec.

Approval-first

The product prepares work, but finance judgement and sign-off stay with the team that owns the books.

Built into the tools you use

Slack and Xero stay the working surface. Spark adds preparation, context, and traceability around them.