Sona8
Voice agents that talk to employees enabling transformations
Founders
- Anton HantelFounder/CEO
- Madeleine MalmstenFounder/CTO
- Thilo TammeFounder/CPO
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About Sona8
Sona8 is a voice agent that talks to every employee about how their work gets done. Consulting, transformation and corporate development teams spend a large part of every project on stakeholder interviews and stakeholder alignment, and still only hear from a small share of the people affected. Each employee gets a link and talks to the agent for about 20 minutes. The agent asks follow-up questions, for example why a step is still done by hand or who else is involved. From the conversations we build process maps and a list of the problems people described, by site and team. During the implementation, the agent goes back to the employees involved after each initiative and asks whether it was implemented and what changed. The result is a project management office that has talked to every employee. Today consulting firms buy it for the stakeholder interviews at the start of an engagement. Transformation and corporate development teams buy it to run the implementation of a change program. Over time this becomes the way a company knows how it runs. Sona8 reads the systems the company already uses, connects them to what employees said, and keeps the picture current by asking again. Before a decision, you ask what it would do across sites and teams and get an answer from the whole company. A small team steers a company-wide program that used to need a large one. And AI agents inside the company come here first to learn how the work is done before they change anything.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Sona8: questions
Which YC batch was Sona8 in?
Sona8 was in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch (F26).
Is Sona8 still active?
Y Combinator lists Sona8 as active.
Who founded Sona8?
Sona8's founders, as listed on its YC page: Anton Hantel (Founder/CEO), Madeleine Malmsten (Founder/CTO), Thilo Tamme (Founder/CPO).
Where is Sona8 based?
Sona8 lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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