Useful AI, not AI for show
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, but for a business, a non-profit or a founder, what matters is simple: does it save time, and does it improve the service you deliver? At Sonalys, a development studio based in Douala, Cameroon, we approach AI integration with that question in mind.
We integrate AI into three main kinds of use:
- Smart assistants. An assistant that answers your customers, patients, members or staff using your own information: internal documents, catalogue, procedures, follow-up history.
- Document processing and analysis. Reading invoices, contracts, forms or reports, extracting the useful information, summarising it and filing it automatically.
- Writing assistance. Drafting letters, replies, meeting notes or records that your team reviews and adjusts before sending.
AI can be added to a tool you already have, to a mobile app or to software we build for you.
You don’t need to understand how an AI model works to benefit from one. Our job is to choose the right technology, connect it to your tools and make it simple for your team to use. Where data is sensitive, as in healthcare, we agree with you on which information the AI may access and which stays out of reach.
Our process: test AI on your real cases
With AI, the only way to know whether a use case works is to try it on your real data. Our process is built for exactly that.
- Day 0 — free conversation. You describe your tasks, your documents and your recurring questions. We tell you what AI can do reliably, and what it should not do.
- Days 1 to 3 — clickable mockup. You see how the assistant or tool fits into your day-to-day work and you approve it.
- Step-by-step development. We build the integration and test it on your examples, with a demo every week.
- First testable version in 15 to 30 days at most. Your team uses it and we assess the quality of the answers.
- Adjustments, go-live and new uses. We refine the answers, widen the sources and add new use cases.
AI with guardrails and human oversight
Integrating AI responsibly means setting clear limits:
- the assistant answers from sources you choose;
- important decisions are still approved by a person;
- data access is controlled by role;
- you always know what the tool does and why.
We also measure results on your own examples before go-live, so you can judge the quality of the answers for yourself rather than take our word for it.
We apply the same principles to our own work. Our team works with AI as a full team member: it helps us build faster, write tests and document code. Everything it produces is reviewed and approved by a developer. That is what lets us offer short timelines without cutting corners, and advise you from daily practice rather than theory alone.
A real example: Continuum
For a medical practice in Switzerland, we built Continuum. The patient app offers a daily question, a health score, treatment reminders and appointment management. It also includes an AI assistant that answers patients’ questions based on their own follow-up.
The project also covers a bilingual website and the practice’s back-office. It is an example of AI built for a precise purpose, in a demanding field, within a clear framework.
Clients in Africa, Europe and worldwide
We are based in Cameroon and work remotely with clients worldwide. Our current projects run in Cameroon and Switzerland. Whether you need a full project or want to hire developers to add AI to an existing product, our remote team can step in.
- WhatsApp for quick messages;
- video calls to define use cases and approve each step;
- a demo every week to test the AI on your real cases;
- English or French, with assistants that can answer in several languages.
What you get
A concrete AI use case, built into your tools, tested on your data and kept under control. It can come with business process automation around it: receiving documents, sending replies, archiving.
Let’s talk about your AI project
Have a use case in mind, or just a feeling that AI could help? Tell us about your situation. After a free first conversation, you receive a clear proposal: what we integrate, how long it takes and what it costs.