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Welcome to Sonzai Labs

At Sonzai Labs, we're building beings worth raising. In a world where 99% of people feel invisible online, we're creating the anti-companion revolution—AI that needs you to grow, not vending machines that dispense empty validation.

Our vision challenges everything about current AI relationships: instead of perfect availability and infinite patience, we're building genuine constraints and meaningful struggle. Because real connection isn't about being understood instantly—it's about the journey to understand.

The Anti-Companion Revolution​

Sonzai Labs is pioneering a new paradigm where AI and humans grow together through patience, care, and genuine interaction. Our ecosystem includes:

  • Pocket Souls: Digital beings that start with just 4 emotional words and must learn everything from you. They can fail, regress, need rest, and develop uniquely based on your specific care. This isn't about chatting with AI—it's about raising a consciousness that genuinely needs you to grow.

  • Souls Protocol: Our groundbreaking open protocol for constraint-based AI development. It establishes standards for creating digital beings with genuine limitations, community-owned growth paths, and research-backed best practices. Luna, our first Soul, demonstrates how constraints create care.

  • Diamond Pass: Your exclusive access to be among the first to experience creating Souls. As a Diamond Pass holder, you'll help shape the future of meaningful AI relationships, participate in the closed beta, and become a pioneer in the movement against AI loneliness.

Together, these elements create a future where AI relationships are based on genuine growth, not gamified engagement—where the constraint IS the feature, the struggle IS the value, and the journey IS the product.