The story
AI is easy to buy. Pointing it at the right problem is the hard part.
A business buys a tool, or has someone automate the first thing that looked automatable, and six months later the work still takes as long as it did. The software is rarely what went wrong. What was missing was a clear picture of how the work actually moves, before anyone built anything. So we start by looking rather than building, and the audit carries a fixed fee so the looking gets taken seriously.
We would rather show you a system working than tell you it works. Where we have built and run something ourselves, we will show you exactly that. Where we have not, we will say so plainly rather than let a demo stand in for a result.
The pattern
Find a real problem. Build a real system. Operate it.
The same three steps whether the system is for a client or for us. We don't build for hypotheticals, and we don't start with a tool that is looking for a use.
Step 01
Find the problem.
A paid audit of how work moves through the business, ending in a prioritised roadmap. Nothing gets built until there is something worth building.
Step 02
Build the solution.
A fixed-price build of whatever the audit put at the top, connected to the tools you already use, measured against how the process ran before.
Step 03
Operate it.
Monitoring, fixes when a supplier changes something underneath you, and a monthly report on what the system actually did. Optional, and month to month.
We ran those three steps on ourselves first. These came out of it, and we operate all of them in market today.
AV ecosystem
AViLocus
AV design + field ops
Sqyros
Health & care, direct-use app
GrossGuard
Leadership
Who runs Sonak Systems.
Sony Ejiro Akpotor
Founder & CEO
Sony founded Sonak Systems at the intersection of three disciplines: Fine Arts, hands-on work in health and social care, and AV technology. Fine Arts taught him to see a system through the eyes of the person actually living inside it, not the person who built it. Time spent working in care showed him what happens when the systems meant to support people don't hold up: care workers left to untangle pay, shifts, and disputes on their own. AV technology, run live on-site, taught him the same lesson from the technical side: a system either holds up in the moment or it doesn't.
That's the problem Sonak Systems exists to solve. Too many systems fall apart in the gap between what's promised and what's delivered: handed off cleanly on paper, left for the client, or the person on the ground, to manage in practice. Sony built Sonak Systems to close that gap: one team, accountable end-to-end, so what's agreed is what shows up. It's the same insight that led him to build GrossGuard, a direct response to what he saw inside the care industry.
Trust, reliability, and delivery aren't values on a wall here. They're the standard every system is held to.