Soneur Virtual Team Collaboration Application

AI meetings via video, voice, and text—for anything.

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Inspiration

In today’s digital era, more and more people are choosing — or forced — to work solo as solopreneurs, soloworkers, sololearners, solocreators, or even sologamers. They do everything themselves: brainstorming ideas, creating content, planning strategies, learning new skills, and preparing for the future.

But while they work alone, that doesn’t mean they don’t need partners to discuss ideas, get feedback, or simply think together.

Unfortunately, working solo often feels lonely, unfocused, and inefficient, as they switch between platforms just to create presentations, take notes, or chat with different AI tools — which only fragments their workflow.

Soneur was built to change that.

The name Soneur comes from the "so" in "solo", because we believe even if you work alone, you should never feel alone.

With Soneur, solo warriors can now have a partner — or even a complete team — always ready to join a virtual meeting room with professional AI assistants.

You can choose to:

  • Have a casual 1-on-1 meeting with an AI partner, or
  • Create a full AI team with roles like project managers, developers, designers, tutors, and more.

We believe AI technology should not replace humans but instead become a powerful co-pilot for solo workers and learners.

Because every solo journey deserves a dream team.
Because every single voice can become a symphony,
when accompanied by Soneur.

What it does

Soneur is an online meeting application with an AI team, where the only human in the meeting room is you.

Inside Soneur, you can:

  • Conduct video calls, voice conversations, or text chats with AI.
  • Choose your professional AI team members: project managers, developers, designers, mentors, and more.
  • Have relaxed 1-on-1 discussions or set up a full team for complex collaboration.
  • Ask your AI team to:
    • Explain or create presentations
    • Generate quizzes, flashcards, mindmaps, roadmaps
    • Analyze your content or documents
    • Share your screen (via tab screenshots) and get instant AI insights

The experience feels like Zoom or Google Meet, but every participant is an AI ready to help you. No more wasted time waiting for others — you can jump straight into productivity with your virtual team.

How we built it

Soneur was developed using a modern technology stack and a practical approach focused on accessibility for solopreneurs and independent creators:

  • React + Vite as the foundation for a lightweight, fast, and modular frontend
  • TailwindCSS for building a clean, modern, and responsive user interface
  • Azure OpenAI and ElevenLabs to generate natural and expressive AI voices
  • Azure Speech-to-Text for real-time conversation transcription
  • Tavus Conversational Video Interface (CVI) as the core solution for interactive AI video calls, enabling natural and personal meeting experiences
  • Node.js/Express (proxy server) to disguise Azure endpoints as if they were OpenAI API, allowing compatibility with broader ecosystems
  • Supabase for user authentication and lightweight cloud storage
  • Browser Tab Capture to take tab screenshots used for the "AI-assisted screen sharing" feature
  • PayPal as the payment solution because Stripe registration in Indonesia is still by invitation only

Soneur was built with the philosophy of "plug and play without hassle" — focusing on technology choices that let solo users become productive immediately without complex setup.

Challenges we ran into

Competition Challenges we entered:

  • Conversational AI Video Challenge: Used Tavus Conversational Video Interface to bring real-time AI video agents into the Bolt.new app. The video meeting supports contextual understanding of meeting goals, draggable windows for shared content, and dynamic interactions during the session — creating an experience that feels like collaborating with real teammates.
  • Voice AI Challenge: Integrated both ElevenLabs and Azure Speech TTS engines to enable natural, conversational AI voices. By supporting both providers, Soneur can automatically switch between them if one runs out of tokens or hits rate limits, ensuring uninterrupted AI voice interactions.
  • Deploy Challenge: Successfully deployed the full-stack Bolt.new application directly from Bolt to https://silver-clafoutis-78b5aa.netlify.app, and connected it to a custom domain at soneur.xyz for a production-ready launch.
  • Startup Challenge: Leveraged Supabase to handle authentication, user roles (free or pro), credit usage tracking, and essential features to prepare the app to scale for millions of users.

Development Challenges we faced:

  • Synchronizing real-time AI voices during video calls was complex, requiring a robust TTS queue to prevent overlaps and delays.
  • Managing conversations with multiple specialized AIs needed precise context handling to keep responses coherent and relevant.
  • Ensuring a natural user experience, making interactions feel like a real team meeting instead of a chatbot session.
  • Limitations in full-screen sharing capture in browsers, which led to the current workaround using periodic tab screenshots.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Built the first fully functional AI team meeting room — not just a chatbot, but AI that speaks, thinks, and works like a real human team.
  • Successfully integrated multi-AI real-time conversations, both voice and text-based.
  • Received positive feedback from early testers, who felt more motivated working because they felt “accompanied.”
  • Brought to life the idea of a 1-on-AI meeting that used to exist only in sci-fi movies.

What we learned

  • People don’t need many humans in meetings — they need accurate, fast, and reliable help. AI can fill this role if designed well.
  • Voice matters for emotional engagement. AI voices provide a much more lively experience than plain text.
  • Many things can be done solo, if you have a smart “team” backing you up. We see huge potential in the concept of “solopreneurs with AI teams.”

What's next for Soneur Virtual Team Collaboration Application

We have many plans for Soneur’s future, including:

  • Adding richer AI personas with unique speaking styles and personalities
  • Features for AI panel discussion simulations
  • Real-time document and file integration, supporting PDFs, Excel, Google Docs, and more
  • Introducing Meeting Summary, where AI provides concise, clear summaries of each meeting so users can quickly review important points, action items, and decisions without watching the entire session
  • Implementing Raise Hand / Lower Hand Mode for AI Participants, enabling AI team members to signal when they want to speak, ask questions, or provide input during meetings, creating a more natural, dynamic, and interactive discussion flow
  • Mobile-friendly experiences and desktop applications
  • A Marketplace for AI Team Presets, allowing users to pick a pre-built “dream team” suited to their goals
  • A feature where AI can send generated files directly through chat, such as presentations, flashcards, or meeting notes as downloadable PDFs or images
  • Adding more types of presentation content, including:
    • Key point summary slides
    • Automatic infographics
    • Action plan cards
    • Interactive checklists
    • Learning curriculum templates
    • Storytelling visual slides
    • Scenario or role-play simulation slides

With Soneur, we believe anyone — students, creators, freelancers, or startup founders — can have a great team without ever hiring a single person.

Built With

  • azure-openai
  • azure-speech-to-text
  • bolt.new
  • browser-tab-capture
  • elevenlabs
  • express.js
  • node.js
  • paypal
  • react
  • supabase
  • tailwindcss
  • tavus-conversational-video-interface
  • vite
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