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SOMA Systems

The company that builds the systems.

SOMA Systems builds the systems. Umwelten Institute builds the evidence.

SOMA Systems develops products, software, and sensing infrastructure that respond to changing human capacity. It owns and commercializes the SOMA Engine, Somatag, Somapod, and related product and IP development.

The Somatag pendant beside its interchangeable stone faces — mother-of-pearl, cream, jade, and tiger's-eye — on warm linen
Fig. 01 — One platform, many surfaces

A hardware-agnostic platform — the interface is interchangeable; the intelligence is shared.

What it is

The commercial home for the adaptive loop.

Where Kutuhala Studio researches and Umwelten Institute generates evidence, SOMA Systems builds and brings to market. It is the company that turns the studio's thinking into products people can hold and systems institutions can deploy.

Two clear lanes
SOMA SystemsBuilds the systems — products, software, sensing infrastructure, IP.
Umwelten InstituteBuilds the evidence — research, frameworks, public-interest guidance.
What it builds & owns

One engine. Many surfaces.

A shared intelligence layer, expressed through interchangeable interfaces and infrastructure — so the same governed loop can reach the body, the home, and the care team.

The intelligence

SOMA Engine

The adaptive intelligence layer — sensing, interpretation, anticipation, intervention, adaptation.

Open → The first interface

Somatag

A discreet jewelry-form sensing and haptic interface, worn close to the body.

Open →
In development

Somapod

An environmental surface for the loop — extending support beyond the body into the room.

Concept stage
For the avoidance of doubt
SOMA Systems is
A commercial adaptive-systems company. The owner and commercializer of SOMA Engine, Somatag, and Somapod. The builder of sensing infrastructure and product IP.
SOMA Systems is not
The nonprofit, or the evidence-generation body. Owned by Umwelten Institute, which builds evidence, not products. A maker of clinical claims that research has not yet established.
The entity architecture

How the work is held.

Christine Galligan Founder & principal
Practice · field labKutuhala StudioResearch, foresight, and design — the active practice. Nonprofit · evidenceUmwelten InstituteBuilds the evidence. Does not commercialize.
Commercial · systems — you are hereSOMA SystemsBuilds and commercializes the systems.

Nero Systems is retired; Wonder Lab is historical. Kutuhala Studio is the active practice. SOMA Engine should not be described as a nonprofit asset unless counsel explicitly structures it that way.