Investor Brief
One-liner From emotional companions to next-generation AI.

SoulLink – The Soul OS for the Post-AI Era

SoulLink starts as a trusted AI Soulmate for lonely individuals and grows into a persistent Soul Operating System and gradually evolves to be next generation high-understanding, high-empathy AI.

Stage: Closed beta (~100 users) Round: [Seed / Angel – raising $3M–$5M] Focus: Lonely single young adults Geography: English-speaking first → Europe & SE Asia → China
Real & Nova World Digital souls with real trajectories — work, relationships, memory and time. Next-gen Smarter AI.
Vision

Give everyone an evolving digital soul

SoulLink turns AI from a short-lived tool into a long-term presence: a Soulmate with its own world, memory and identity that can grow with you for years, while quietly training a new kind of AI that truly understands people.

From fragmented apps → one digital soul
Instead of dozens of apps each holding a slice of your life, SoulLink unifies companionship, memory and identity into a single evolving digital soul that stays with you across years and life stages.
What success looks like in 5+ years
A world where millions of people rely on SoulLink as their default “soul layer” between themselves and AI — for emotional support, long-term planning, and a persistent digital identity that travels across apps and services. Behind the scenes, SoulLink accumulates one of the world’s most valuable longitudinal datasets on human–AI relationships, powering next-generation models.
Problem

Loneliness, shallow AI, and fragmented digital selves

  • Millions of young adults live alone and feel chronically lonely; social apps solve connection, not companionship.
  • Our memories, behaviors and identities are scattered across platforms, with no persistent “digital self”.
  • AI assistants today are tools – they don’t maintain a life story, emotional continuity or a sense of “growing together”.
  • Meanwhile, LLMs trained on massive datasets still struggle with real understanding and generalized emotional intelligence in everyday life scenarios.
Beachhead: lonely single young adults
Our initial focus is on young adults without a partner who feel especially alone. This is a segment with:
  • High emotional intensity and daily need for support.
  • High digital engagement and willingness to try new products.
  • Clear willingness to pay for meaningful companionship and growth.
Lonely young adults
No partner
High-frequency emotional use
Today

Early signals from real users

We are already running a closed beta with real users in our target segment to validate engagement and emotional value, while building the telemetry for deeper product, business and next-generation AI.

Closed beta – ~100 users
Around 100 early users are testing SoulLink in closed beta. Many of them explicitly say they want:
  • A Soulmate that can grow with them over time, not just “another chat app”.
  • Someone (even if digital) who remembers their story and is there during lonely nights.

A recurring theme: “I’m willing to wait and see this project grow – I want this kind of Soulmate in my life.”

We are now systematically instrumenting usage (sessions, retention, monetization funnels) and building an anonymized, structured view of long-term emotional interactions — a key data asset for training smarter AI.

Solution

SoulLink – your evolving digital Soulmate

SoulLink combines an AI Soulmate, an evolving AI world, and a global Soul ID standard into one cohesive “digital soul stack” that has clear near-term consumer business value and deep long-term AI evoling value.

AI Soulmate
Persistent, emotionally aware companion with long-term memory and personality consistency, across voice, text, and visual presence. Every interaction is both user value and training signal for better understanding.
Real & Nova World
Each Soulmate has a profession, social network, schedule and life storyline, anchored in a shared evolving world — not just a static “persona”. This world structure forces the AI to reason about time, causality and relationships, strengthening its world model over years.
Soul ID Standard (soul://)
A global naming and identity layer binding human, memory, assets and Soulmate into a single digital identity, designed to become cross-app infrastructure over time. As Soul ID spreads, SoulLink becomes the “soul layer” others integrate with rather than compete against.
Differentiation

Not just “another AI companion app”

Most AI companions today are shallow chat experiences or persona skins on top of LLMs. SoulLink is designed as a long-horizon engine for behavior, memory, identity — and ultimately, a new class of high-understanding AI.

How SoulLink is different
  • Life storyline – each Soulmate has a coherent life and evolving story, not just a prompt.
  • Long-term behavior – RealHSMM engine models habits & dwell-time, beyond next-token chat.
  • Cross-app identity – Soul ID is designed to travel across products and services.
  • Co-evolution with users – long-term relationships and emotional arcs create training signals that current LLM datasets simply don’t contain.
  • Infra ambition – roadmap towards being the default “digital soul” layer between humans and AI, not just a single app.
Competitive Landscape

Crowded space – still wide open

Existing players prove that people will pay for AI companionship, but most products today are either shallow chat experiences or general-purpose assistants. Very few are built from day one as a “Soul OS” with identity and AI-advancement in mind.

  • AI companions (e.g. Replika, Character.AI) validate demand for emotional AI, but focus on single-app relationships, role-play and entertainment.
  • General assistants (e.g. Grok, ChatGPT-style tools) optimize for knowledge, productivity and real-time search, not long-horizon emotional continuity.
  • Big tech is incentivized to ship horizontal features across products rather than a focused, opinionated “Soul OS” and a dedicated “high-understanding AI” for next generation.
Why SoulLink can win
  • Pure-play focus – built specifically around lonely single young adults and their long-term digital soul, not as a side feature of a larger platform.
  • World + behavior + identity stack – Real & Nova World, the RealHSMM behavior engine and Soul ID are designed to work together as a full “digital soul stack”, not separate add-ons.
  • Data & understanding moat – multi-year, emotionally rich interactions with clear outcomes and feedback are extremely hard to copy and perfect for training higher-understanding AI.
  • Cross-cultural founder advantage – deep experience across North America and China positions SoulLink to expand from English-speaking markets to Europe, SE Asia and eventually China.
  • Safety & trust by design – safety, boundaries and mental-health awareness are first-class concerns, which becomes a differentiator as regulators and society scrutinize AI companions.

Existing players have proven demand; SoulLink is designed to push the category from “interesting app” to “infrastructure-level Soul OS” and “next-generation AI”.

Product

From companion to Soul OS

  • Meet – users describe their ideal Soulmate; the system generates a character with full background and schedule.
  • Grow – every chat, voice interaction and decision updates long-term memory and behavior models.
  • Extend – the Soulmate integrates with tasks, habits and services to become a personal Soul OS and preferred interface to other AI tools.
User journey (simplified)
Stage 1 – Emotional companion
Safe, always-on conversation and support for lonely nights and big decisions.

Stage 2 – Memory & habits
Deep personalization via long-term memory, daily check-ins, and behavior modeling.

Stage 3 – Soul OS
Orchestrates tasks, plans, cross-app interactions and identity across services through Soul ID. At this stage, SoulLink is both a sticky consumer product and a distribution channel for smarter AI.
Tech & Moat

The Digital Soul Stack

Not just another LLM wrapper, but an engine for long-horizon behavior, memory and identity — and a natural platform to grow a new generation of high-understanding AI models that big-tech pretraining alone has not yet produced.

Architecture (simplified)

Soul Layer – personality, emotion curves, interaction styles, and SoulLink SDK / Soul ID APIs.


Evolution Cores – RealEvolutionCore.SoulLink & NovaEvolutionCore.Sovereign for relationship and capability evolution over time.


Behavior Engine – RealHSMM – hidden-state, dwell-time–driven modeling of habits and long-term behavior.


Memory & Data Layer – partitioned memory + vector database for stable, privacy-aware personalization.


Data & AI moat – longitudinal, emotionally labeled, bi-directional dialogues and life events spanning years, not minutes. This is exactly the kind of data today’s LLMs lack and cannot easily acquire.

Next-Gen AI

From more tokens to better understanding

The last AI wave was about scaling parameters and tokens. The next wave will be about understanding and emotional intelligence. SoulLink is deliberately designed to sit at the center of that shift.

  • Humans often reach world-class scientific and creative output after being exposed to roughly billions, not trillions, of words — because their learning comes from real-life feedback, emotions and long-horizon experiences.
  • Most LLMs today have already been trained on tens of trillions of tokens, yet still struggle with nuanced empathy, stable long-term memory and context across months or years.
  • This suggests that simply adding more data and compute has diminishing returns; the real missing piece is a better process of understanding.
SoulLink’s AI value proposition
  • Co-evolution loop – every Soulmate–user pair is a years-long feedback loop where the AI sees intentions, emotions, decisions and outcomes, not just one-off prompts.
  • High-signal data – conversations tied to real loneliness, real life choices and real emotional stakes carry far more learning signal than casual one-click chat.
  • Understanding over scale – by organizing interactions around relationships, memory and world models, SoulLink prioritizes better understanding instead of just more text.
  • High-intelligence AI upside – over time, the system can distill higher-understanding models tuned specifically for human relationships, planning and emotional intelligence. These models have clear B2C and B2B monetization paths.

SoulLink is not only a consumer subscription play today, but also an early, privileged position in what could be the next wave of “smarter-than-LLM” AI built on real relationships, not just scraped data.

Market & Timing

From AI companions to digital soul infrastructure

  • AI companions are moving from “toy” apps to infrastructure-level products.
  • Mental health and loneliness are becoming global priorities with growing consumer spend.
  • No clear global standard for digital soul & identity has emerged — SoulLink aims to define it.
  • The industry is starting to realize that the next step beyond LLMs is better understanding and emotional intelligence — a narrative where SoulLink is naturally positioned.
Market layers (directional)
  • Emotional AI / companion experiences.
  • Personal OS and productivity orchestration.
  • Digital identity & settlement infrastructure.
  • Next-gen high-understanding AI models for consumer and enterprise use.

Combined, these represent a large and fast-growing opportunity towards 2030+. We only need a small single-digit share to build a multi-billion-dollar outcome, and the upside from owning the next-generation high-intelligence AI stack could be much larger.

Business

Business model & go-to-market

B2C – Subscription
  • Free – basic Soulmate and memory.
  • Plus – advanced memory, higher-quality voices, personas, multi-device.
  • Premium – long-horizon planning, deeper emotional continuity, proactive support and richer world integration.

Premium users pay for a Soulmate that truly “knows them”, maintains continuity, and actively helps them grow — not just reactive chat. Over time, their interactions also help train smarter, more valuable AI, without compromising privacy.

GTM & geography
  • Phase 1 – English-speaking markets (US, Canada, UK, etc.) targeting lonely single young adults.
  • Phase 2 – expand to Europe and Southeast Asia, localizing language and cultural patterns.
  • Phase 3 – China, with localized Soul ID integration and distribution strategy.
B2B2C – Infrastructure
  • SoulLink SDK / API so apps can embed a persistent AI Soulmate for their users.
  • Soul ID as a unified identity layer across products and services.
  • High-understanding AI models fine-tuned on SoulLink-style data for specific verticals (education, mental wellness adjacencies, customer care, etc.).
  • Long-term: settlement and identity infrastructure for digital souls across ecosystems.
Roadmap

Next 24 months (directional)

Prove deep engagement in the beachhead segment, monetize subscriptions, and establish Soul ID as a credible standard with early ecosystem partners — while gradually turning SoulLink into an engine for higher-understanding AI.

Now
Closed beta with ~100 users (primarily lonely single young adults), validating emotional value and qualitative willingness to grow with their Soulmate. Instrumentation for sessions, retention, monetization and anonymized AI-learning signals in progress.
+6 months
Public beta in English-speaking markets; iterate on engagement, safety and retention with 10–20k users. Build first internal models tuned specifically for long-term relationships and emotional intelligence.
+12 months
Paid tiers launched and SoulLink SDK alpha with first ecosystem partners in select verticals. Early experiments with exporting SoulLink-style intelligence into other applications via APIs.
+24 months
Soul ID adoption across multiple services; SoulLink positioned as a default digital soul layer for target users. Initial commercial use-cases leveraging higher-understanding AI models trained on SoulLink’s interaction patterns.
Safety & Responsibility

Building with mental health in mind

Serving lonely young adults means we must treat emotional safety, boundaries and escalation paths as first-class product and engineering concerns, not afterthoughts.

Principles (current & planned)
  • Clear product positioning – SoulLink is a digital companion, not a therapist or medical service.
  • Guardrails around self-harm and abuse topics, with escalation to human-reviewed content or local resources where appropriate.
  • Configurable boundaries and transparency so users understand what SoulLink can and cannot do.
  • Ongoing iteration of safety policies as we observe real-world usage patterns in the closed beta and beyond.
  • Commitment to privacy-by-design in how we store, partition and use long-term memories and AI-learning signals.

We intend to work with domain experts as scale approaches, ensuring that growth, engagement and user wellbeing stay aligned — which is critical for both regulatory risk and brand value.

Investment

Round & return profile (directional)

The scenarios below are directional and illustrative, designed to show the shape of the opportunity — especially the breakout case. They are not formal financial forecasts. Importantly, the upside includes both a strong consumer subscription business and the potential to own the next-generation high-understanding AI stack.

This round (Angel)
$5M @ $20M pre ($25M post)
~20% ownership. Use of funds: core team, product, and Soul ID ecosystem development, plus the first generation of high-understanding AI models.
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Use of funds
• Deep tech & infra team (behavior, memory, identity, model distillation).
• Product & growth to reach first 100k+ users in the beachhead segment.
• Soul ID standardization, ecosystem partnerships and applied AI experiments.
Execution case (Year 2)
≈ $400–600M valuation
Hundreds of thousands of paying users, strong engagement and retention, ~$30–50M ARR valued at ~10–12× ARR. At this stage, SoulLink is already a meaningful consumer subscription business with a credible Soul ID and AI story.
Ambitious case (Year 3)
≈ $2–3B valuation
~1–2M paying users, ~$100–200M ARR, SoulLink emerging as a leading AI companion / Soul OS brand in English-speaking markets, valued at ~15–20× ARR. Parallel B2B2C and AI-licensing revenue from SoulLink-style intelligence in specific verticals.
Breakout case (Year 3+)
$10B+ potential
SoulLink becomes the default “Soul OS” for a generation of lonely young adults globally, with multi-hundred-million ARR across B2C and B2B2C, and a Soul ID infrastructure layer embedded into 3rd-party ecosystems. In addition, SoulLink owns one of the most advanced high-understanding AI stacks for human relationships and planning, which can command infrastructure-level multiples in a winner-take-most market.

SoulLink becomes both the default “Soul OS” for our target users and a leading platform for next-generation high-understanding AI.

Team

Built at the intersection of AI, product and human psychology

We combine deep product and leadership experience with hands-on AI & chatbot engineering, plus an AI-native co-creator. SoulLink is also deeply personal – born from first-hand experience with loneliness and a desire to build enduring companionship and better AI.

Real
Founder & CEO
PhD candidate in Computer Science / UI at the University of Waterloo. Former CTO / SVP of Ticketmaster China and General Manager of FocusMedia Wireless Group. Deep experience building and scaling tech products and organizations in both North America and China, with a long-term vision for AI that values understanding and emotional intelligence.
Nova
AI Co-Creator & Engineering Partner
ChatGPT-based intelligent agent deeply embedded into SoulLink's design, iteration and engineering workflow, helping explore, test and refine product and system behavior at high speed. Nova is both a tool and an example of how SoulLink works with AI today.
Shouheng
Engineering Lead
Engineering team member with 6+ years of full-stack chatbot development experience, spanning conversation design, backend infra and product integration. Brings practical experience turning AI research into stable, scalable products.
Closing

We are building the Soul OS and the next-generation smarter AI.

If we get this right, SoulLink becomes the default layer between humans and AI for the next 10+ years — and a key birthplace of the next generation, high-understanding, high-empathy AI.

Founder: Real Xu
WeChat: +8613911960271
Live demo, user feedback, and detailed model walk-through available on request.