About SoulPal
Pet monitoring should ease the anxiety of being apart—not create more work
I started SoulPal for a simple reason: my pets aren't the only ones who struggle with separation. I do too.
When I leave home, I want to know how they're doing. But after a full day of work, the last thing I want is another dashboard full of data to interpret. More information doesn't always make me feel calmer. Sometimes it just gives me more homework.
So we're building SoulPal to make staying informed feel lighter: ordinary signals become playful interaction through a living Pixel Twin, while information that may need your attention comes forward when it is useful.
The goal is simple: keep the reassurance, lose the homework.
The question behind SoulPal
Why couldn't monitoring feel more playful—and more reassuring?
Most pet technology can show location, activity, sleep and other measurements. Those details can be useful, but I don't want to spend every day studying reports just to understand whether things look normal.
I want technology to stay in the background on ordinary days. Let me enjoy the little moments. Then, when something changes, bring it to my attention and help me understand why.
That is the experience we're building SoulPal around.
From everyday signals to a Pixel Twin
The collar gathers signals such as movement, rest, location and routine. The app translates them into a living pixel version of your pet.
When your pet walks, lies down, sleeps or eats, their Pixel Twin can reflect that rhythm. The purpose isn't to tell you exactly what your pet is thinking or feeling. It is to make everyday information feel less like a report and more like a small moment of connection.
On ordinary days, the Pixel Twin turns those signals into playful interaction. Each week, a simple recap will bring recent activity and routines together. When a pattern may need your attention, a notice will let you open the details and see the relevant data behind it.
We're still developing the notice and weekly recap experience. The goal isn't to hide the information. It is to bring it forward when it is useful—without asking you to analyze another dashboard every day.
Yufen at four months old. 
Yufen at four months old.
What we've built so far
With help from a friend, we built our current hardware prototype. It weighs 21 g and measures 3.5 cm in diameter.
The prototype has helped us prove that the idea can take physical form, but it is not where we want it to be yet. It is still too large for my small Abyssinian cat, so one of our next priorities is making the hardware smaller and more comfortable for pets to wear every day.
The first four Pixel Twin actions—walking, lying down, sleeping and eating—are working in beta. GPS, geofencing, activity and sleep insights, reminders, family sharing, notices and weekly recaps are still being developed.
We would rather show what is working, explain what is still in progress and improve carefully than make promises the product cannot yet keep.
Want to see why our first four-legged pixel pets became little people?
Building more expressive Pixel Pals together
Four actions are only the beginning. Creating more playful, expressive movements takes extensive training data and thoughtful testing—more than a small team can create alone.
We hope to grow a pet-friendly community where people can choose to contribute training data, test the product, suggest and vote on new actions, and share the everyday stories behind their pets.
The goal is not simply to give Pixel Pals more animations. It is to make them feel more recognizable, personal and alive over time—while keeping the real pets at the center of what we build.
Aigo the Shiba and 98K the Corgi celebrating my birthday — 1 
Aigo the Shiba and 98K the Corgi celebrating my birthday — 2
Who we are
We're Lissy and Jet—a husband-and-wife team, and for now, the whole company.
I'm a graphic designer with a background in brand operations, and I'm also an embroidery artist. At SoulPal, I shape the visual world, the brand and our conversations with pet parents.
Aigo the Shiba and 98K the Corgi celebrating my birthday — 1Aigo the Shiba and 98K the Corgi celebrating my birthday — 2
Building SoulPal feels a lot like embroidery to me: patient, detailed, one stitch at a time. The difference is that this piece isn't meant to be mine alone. I hope to shape it together with pet parents, testers and future teammates—through the new actions they help us imagine, the feedback they share and the stories they tell about their pets.
We're building a real product, but the process feels like creating a living piece of work about the animals we love. That possibility fascinates me.
View Lissy's embroidery portfolio ↗
Jet has a background in AI solutions, helping turn complex model capabilities into practical systems. At SoulPal, he builds the hardware and backend.
He also creates the AI-assisted working environment behind our small team, helping people with different technical backgrounds use new tools with confidence and work more independently. As the team grows, he hopes to help each person use AI not as a replacement for their expertise, but as a way to expand what they can contribute.
We share our home with KK the Corgi, Aigo the Shiba and an Abyssinian cat. Our dogs appear most often in our story, but SoulPal is being built for both dogs and cats.
Together, we're building the product we wished we had: hardware designed for everyday comfort, and software that feels more like a companion than a report. We want to move carefully with promises and quickly with what we learn.
Right now: meet your Pixel Pal
The full SoulPal collar and app are still in development, but you can try the playful part now.
Upload one photo and we'll turn your dog or cat into a free Pixel Pal.
