Book Sprints Limited

We are a distributed team of content facilitators, book designers, illustrators, and copy-editors who work with radical efficiency and are crazy about book production.

The original idea of a Book Sprint was initially conceptualised by Tomas Krag in 2005 as a collaborative writing process that would take place over several months. Building on this idea, Adam Hyde designed a method in 2008 for an intense, five-day sprint-style event to write documentation for Free/Libre Open Source Software. After seeing that this had potential, he experimented with it in a number of contexts over the next four years, testing and refining the method. In 2013 he founded the company Book Sprints Ltd and trained some new facilitators in what by then was a robust methodology. These facilitators have brought their own individual styles to the Book Sprints method. Around the same time, the company built up a production team of designers and editors, which very much shaped what we now offer as the Book Sprints services. We can now safely say that the method can be used for any subject, from industry guides to fiction.