Sonal Labs · § TeamFolio VII · MMXXVI

§ Team

Builders,
quietly.

Sonal Labs is intentionally small. Two founders, a short list of advisors, a handful of upcoming hires in research, engineering and applied programmes. We'll scale when the work makes us.

§ 01 · Founders

Founder

Tim Uzua

Founder & CEO

15+ years in engineering leadership, most recently Head of Tech at a UK HealthTech company. Led the hardware design and prototyping of Sonal end-to-end — through to a signed manufacturing contract and shipping production units in 2026.

Built the iOS and Android apps personally, and shipped them into ten languages. Committed his own capital to get Sonal to this point.

Engineering leadershipUK HealthTechHardware + software

Founder

Tony Ini

Co-founder & CTO

12+ years in software. System architect with a US cybersecurity background; specialist in AI voice and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Owns the overlap-native model stack and the memory-layer architecture behind Presence AI and Sonal OS.

Systems architectureCybersecurityVoice + RAG

§ 02 · Advisors

People who keep us honest.

Our advisors are practitioners in the rooms we build for. They tell us when our work would land — or wouldn't — with a real clinician, a real operator, the person at the other end of the microphone.

I.

Advisor

Jennifer Biam

Geriatrics Doctor · Cape Medicals

Practising geriatrician. Grounds our healthcare programme in what a doctor and a patient actually need out of a consultation record — including the patient with dementia, the carer who wasn't in the room, and the follow-up that has to be right.

HealthcareGeriatricsClinical advisory
II.

Advisor

Tersoo Hulugh

Operations Manager · Amazon

Product and strategy. Keeps us honest about what it takes to run a consumer-hardware operation at scale — supply chain, logistics, and the moment where a research artefact has to survive contact with a million customers.

OperationsConsumer hardwareProduct strategy

§ 03 · Hires we are making

A small list of people we're looking for.

We don't post public roles. If what we're building sounds like a problem you've been looking for, introduce yourself.

AI / LLM Engineer

Train the overlap-native base model and the diarisation pipeline. ML research + shipping.

Marketing Lead

Take a research-grade story to market without making it one. Editorial instincts welcome.

Head of Sales (Applied)

Secure pilot contracts in healthcare and legal. Trust-first sales, not volume.

Hardware Ops

Own supply chain and manufacturing partners as the wearable line scales.

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§ 04 · On building quietly

We are not the kind of company that grows by being loud. The models will do the talking.