# Spark Innovations, LLC Spark Innovations, LLC is a **Delaware shell LLC managed by [[Michael Montfort]]** — the same organizer/manager behind [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] (the Conway developer of record) and [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] (the Port of Little Rock "Project Boar" developer). It is the developer-side entity named as the "Company" on the [[Conway Corporation]] [[Conway Corporation Project Stratus NDAs|Project Stratus staff NDAs]] (Tier-1), and it is independently reported (Tier-3) as an early affiliate of the confirmed-Google West Memphis / [[GROOT LLC]] / Project Pyramid project. Its tie to the Montfort shell cluster is now established at the registry level (Tier-2); the ultimate principal behind it remains unidentified on the present record, per [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]]. ## Corporate registration (Arkansas SoS) The Arkansas Secretary of State business registry (primary public record, [Spark Innovations LLC entity record](../../web%20archive/2026-05-29/sos-corp-search.ark.org/spark-innovations-llc-sos-record.md), retrieved 2026-05-29) shows a single "Spark Innovations LLC": - **Spark Innovations LLC is a Delaware limited liability company** ("State of Origin: DE"; "Foreign Limited Liability Company"), registered to transact business in Arkansas on **2024-11-25** — about a month after the [[Project Stratus Utilities Meetings and Site Visit|October 2024 Conway utilities site visit]] and roughly ten weeks before Forgelight and Willowbend (both 2025-02-11). - Arkansas filing # **811524872**; status **Good Standing**. - Registered agent: **Corporation Service Company** (300 S. Spring St., Suite 900, Little Rock) — the same national agent used by Forgelight and Willowbend. - Delaware address: **2801 Centerville Road, PMB 811, Wilmington, DE 19808** — the same private-mailbox building as Forgelight (PMB 160) and Willowbend. - Officers: **DAVID THOMAS**, Incorporator/Organizer; **[[Michael Montfort]]**, Manager. ## The Conway Project Stratus NDAs (Tier-1) The Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement signed by Conway Corporation's [[Zach Gardner]] (2025-10-14) is between "**Spark Innovations, LLC**, for itself and its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates ('Company')" and the Participant; **New York** is the governing law and venue (a contract-forum choice, distinct from the entity's Delaware domicile). Conway Corporation staff signed these NDAs and the [[Conway Development Corporation]] team ([[Corey Parks]]) forwarded them "to the company" — placing Spark Innovations on the developer side of the Project Stratus table. The AR registry returns only one "Spark Innovations LLC" (the Montfort shell above), so the NDA counterparty is, on the available record, that entity. See [[Conway Corporation Project Stratus NDAs]]. ## A third Montfort shell — relationship to Forgelight and Willowbend The registry now establishes what the produced record alone could not: **Spark Innovations is a third Montfort-organized Delaware shell in the Arkansas data-center cluster**, alongside [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] and [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] — same manager ([[Michael Montfort]]), same registered agent (CSC), same Wilmington DE private-mailbox building. The Conway project therefore ties into the Montfort shell cluster through **two** distinct entities: Forgelight (the MOU developer of record) and Spark Innovations (the NDA "Company"). Per [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] / [[D003 Synthesis]], the shared-Montfort / shared-vendor registry pattern is **not, by itself, identification of the ultimate principal** — Montfort is a serial organizer and the shells share a common commercial registry-vendor stack used by many unrelated entities. A third shell of the same pattern does not change that calculus on its own. ## The confirmed-Google West Memphis appearance (Tier-3) What is qualitatively new is the **destination** of one of these shells. Trade-press reporting (web research 2026-05-29, [constructionowners.com extract](../../web%20archive/2026-05-29/www.constructionowners.com/groot-spark-innovations-west-memphis-project-pyramid.md)) names "Spark Innovations LLC" as an early affiliate of the West Memphis / Bollinger Road project — "**Spark Innovations LLC, an affiliate linked to the endeavor**, had plans for a roughly **$3 billion** investment" — the project later carried by [[GROOT LLC]] as "Project Pyramid" and **publicly confirmed to be Google's**. Because the AR registry shows only one Spark Innovations LLC, the West-Memphis-reported "Spark Innovations" and the Conway-NDA "Spark Innovations" are, on the available record, the **same Montfort shell**. **The restraint that still applies.** This links a Montfort shell (Spark) — as a *since-superseded earlier* affiliate — to the West Memphis site that is independently confirmed as a Google build (the confirmation attaching to [[GROOT LLC]], not to Spark), *and* places that same shell in the Conway project's NDAs. That is a materially stronger structural link than the Forgelight↔Willowbend "twin shell" pattern — but the West-Memphis-to-Spark association is **Tier-3** (trade press, not a primary record), and Montfort's shared-organizer role is not, per [[D003 Synthesis]], identification of the principal. Dialectic [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] (2026-05-29) tested whether this strengthened link revises the Conway framing and **reaffirmed restraint** (`resolved-via-D003`): record the stronger Tier-2 structural link, but **the wiki does not, on this record, assert that the Conway / Project Stratus project is Google's**. The transitivity "Google at West Memphis + Spark at West Memphis + Spark at Conway → Google at Conway" is invalid absent any showing that Spark is a Google-exclusive vehicle. ## Notes - **Tier-2 registry facts vs. Tier-3 destination.** The corporate facts above (Delaware origin, Montfort as manager, CSC agent, filing #, dates) are Tier-2-solid. The West Memphis affiliation is Tier-3; the ultimate-principal inference (Google) remains `confidence: low` and unasserted per the restraint standard. - **Adjudicated by D005.** Dialectic [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] (2026-05-29) tested whether this finding revises the Conway principal-attribution framing and **reaffirmed restraint** (`resolved-via-D003`): it is a stronger Tier-2 structural link — recorded as such — but not an identification; the Conway principal remains unidentified. The synthesis explicitly ratified this page's framing and identified **Montfort's professional role** (in-house officer vs. formation-firm organizer) as the dispositive remaining fact. - **DAVID THOMAS** (Spark's Incorporator/Organizer) is not otherwise in the corpus; identifying him is a secondary lead.