Productivity

Sona8

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Sona8 uses AI voice agents to interview employees about how work gets done. Consulting, transformation and corporate development teams use it to hear from more people and follow up after changes.

Employees open a link and speak in their own language. The agent asks follow-up questions, and teams compare problems across sites and departments. We’ve completed 10,000+ employee interviews and signed one of the world’s top three consulting firms.

We’re building the context layer and operating system for strategy teams: combining employee knowledge with company data to understand operations, improve processes and put decisions into action. The same context will guide AI agents as they take over work, so the company keeps what it learns.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Thilo Tamme

Founder/CPO

Founder of Sona8. Previously, Project Lead at BCG X and AI Researcher at TUM for conversational agentic-AI.

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Founded 2026 · Source

Origins

Thilo and I worked on the same consulting project. We did over 70 stakeholder interviews, then had to manage the stakeholders during implementation, which meant aligning the same people over and over. In the nights we went running a lot in that time. On one of those runs we started asking what if we automated the whole thing. An AI would be strictly better at every step. It asks better questions because it has heard the other interviews, it analyzes with all the context, and it can go back a month later and ask again.

Founder account As recorded 2026-09-15

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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