Our Story
Last year I developed TFCC, a repetitive strain injury in my wrist, from years of heavy keyboard use. I still had the same work to do: long reports, docs, and articles. But I couldn't type the way I used to.
Voice input became my default. And it forced me to rethink a question: how do we actually interact with AI in this new era?
The shift isn't "AI writing." It's human–AI collaboration.
Most tools treat AI as something you consult after you write—generate, rewrite, paste, repeat.
But knowledge work doesn't happen in batches. It happens as a continuous stream: thinking, drafting, revising, deciding. The quality of the output depends on whether you can stay connected to your own intent while you're creating.
In an AI world, the real challenge isn't whether machines can produce words. It's whether humans can steer meaning—without losing their train of thought, their voice, or their agency.
We don't need more features. We need a better interface.
For decades, we've adapted ourselves to the keyboard: compressing ideas into keystrokes and accepting the cognitive overhead as "normal."
But AI changes the physics of work. When intelligence becomes abundant, the bottleneck moves to the front of the pipeline: input—how ideas enter the system, how intent is expressed, and how collaboration stays fluid.
The next interface should feel less like operating a machine, and more like continuing a thought.
Voice isn't the destination. Seamless input is.
Voice is powerful, but real work isn't a 100% voice-only world.
Sometimes you're in a meeting. Sometimes you're on a train. Sometimes you're editing a single sentence, writing code, or simply don't want to speak. And even when voice is available, you still need precision—names, numbers, quick corrections, and those tiny edits that keep your meaning intact.
So the goal isn't "talk instead of type." The goal is one continuous input experience where voice and keyboard can take turns—without friction, without mode switching, without breaking your flow.
That belief became soink.
We're building soink around a simple principle: the best tool is the one that disappears.
Not because it does less—but because it interrupts less.
soink is our attempt to create a new kind of input layer for knowledge work: one where your words can arrive naturally, where AI supports the process instead of hijacking it, and where your workflow doesn't fracture into modes, windows, and handoffs.
What we're optimizing for
- ✓Flow — keep momentum, reduce context switching
- ✓Agency — AI should follow your intent, not overwrite it
- ✓Continuity — collaboration should happen during creation, not after
- ✓Accessibility — hands-free writing isn't optional for many people; it's a necessity
We're not trying to replace typing with voice. We're building a better way to express ideas—so humans and AI can work together more naturally, in the same place, in the same flow.
