Vedant Soni wearing a blue tie, standing in front of a brick wall

Vedant Soni

I am really good at building intuitive software. Due to this skill, I have found a fair share of success in consumer facing products.

I like taking an idea all the way to something people can actually use.

Something I excel in is getting to know the user I am building software for to ensure the best user experience. I found that this is the edge to making good applied AI products.

I'm currently finding the next big thing to solve. I'm also an AI engineer at Texas A&M, working on the future of AI at the university as the team's only student software engineer. I created the Texas A&M Harness. My software is used by 70,000 people across all TAMU facilities.

A few things I've built:

  • Fern, communication tools for nonverbal kids, with 12,500 users. Now home to TalkR.

    I could have charged for it, but I didn't want to. I used a browser-based LLM to keep it free and brought it to underprivileged schools in Pakistan and South America.

  • 10HAI Game Show: I helped my friend Martin Lee build and film 10HAI, a humans-versus-AI game show. I built all the games and software. Super fun experience.
  • [Redacted due to legal issues] — deeptech; computational neuroscience for agents; 35,000 users. Backed by researchers at Google DeepMind, The Residency, and Founders Inc.

    In my YC interview, Diana Hu and François described me as a strong founder they would normally back, but said the product needed a bit more traction. We got that traction, but ended up leaving the company.

    Vedant Soni standing behind the Y Combinator sign
  • Piller, bespoke AI for real estate firms and realtors. I built AI agents before they were popular and made my first six figures in revenue.
  • , a platform for finding pickup basketball games. I learned the basics of building iOS apps, distribution, and social media content creation. The content got over 3 million views in one summer.

I also had three other startups that failed horribly. I learned a lot and got it out of my system.

I also build open-source tools, including Merchant Agent, Teachy, and OmniWork.

My research at Texas A&M has spanned AI agents and robotics:

  • ART Lab ($1.2 million in lab funding): I was the lead, working on applied AI for robots. I built an Anduril Lattice-inspired framework and a robot swarm hivemind.
  • DIGIT Lab ($500,000 in lab funding): I was the lead, working on data extraction and cleaning using AI agents.

I also founded Eden, a university-backed undergraduate lab, and served as its principal investigator. We put emotions and decision-making into robots. For example, if a robot didn't like someone, it could refuse their requests or proactively take action of its own. It was my fastest project to complete.

I believe the future of the world will be shaped by:

  1. Coexisting with robots.
  2. Protecting people from AI labs and systems.
  3. Human creativity becoming invaluable as intelligence becomes a commodity.

Outside of building, I used to be Grandmaster in League of Legends.

I love chatting about products and what people are building. Say hello.