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What we do

Revitalizing Japan through craft — powered by creativity and technology

Our four businesses grow out of three ways of making: next-generation, efficient making with AI; conventional making that combines human design and engineering; and zero-to-one making born from the creativity and handwork of artisans.

If making were food, these would be ready meals, dining out, and a home-cooked meal. Home cooking is inefficient — yet its touch and the care behind it stay in our memory. Choosing among the three depending on purpose and situation, sometimes blending them, and weaving Japan’s own culture and traditions into the mix: we believe this is the shape of making to come, and our way of revitalizing Japan.

AI CoachingAI Coaching
  • Apparel

    Apparel

  • AI Development

    AI Development

  • Application Development

    App Development

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Making

Three ways of making,
one goal: a more vibrant Japan

Philosophy

Beyond efficiency, we also value makingthat can be felt and remembered

In an age of ever-greater efficiency, we cherish the way we face each and every piece — where human creativity and the sensibility of artisans live on. That, we believe, is a value only makers can leave behind.

An apparel brand fusing traditional Japanese beauty with contemporary culture(Tradit / Love Japanese Culture)

Apparel

An apparel brand fusing traditional Japanese beauty with contemporary culture

Under the concept “Carrying the beauty of Japan into modern dress, out to the world”, we launched Tradit, a new brand of sneakers, leather shoes and hats made with kimono fabric (trademark pending: application no. 2026-88545). By bringing Nishijin-ori and Kyo-yuzen textiles and the skills of artisans into street and casual fashion, we aim to deliver Japan’s traditional culture to younger generations in Japan and abroad.

  • Kimono-fabric sneakers
  • Kimono-fabric leather shoes
  • Kimono-fabric caps & hats
  • Brand concept design
  • Artisan collaborations
  • D2C / e-commerce operations

Coaching that walks alongside you in putting AI to work

AI Coaching

Coaching that walks alongside you in putting AI to work

A coaching service for makers — engineers, designers, artisans and anyone who creates — to master AI and accelerate their own work. We walk alongside you through the challenges unique to makers: adopting generative AI and coding agents, designing prompts and workflows, building skills and a career for the AI era, and embedding AI in your team. Through dialogue, we also share how to choose among and blend three ways of making: efficient making with AI, conventional making centered on human design, and zero-to-one making by the hands of artisans.

  • 1-on-1 AI coaching
  • Generative AI adoption
  • Agent workflow support
  • Prompt design sparring
  • AI-era career design
  • Team AI enablement

End-to-end development that builds generative AI and machine learning into your operations

AI Development

End-to-end development that builds generative AI and machine learning into your operations

Our strength is turning generative AI and machine learning from “experiments” into systems tied directly to business value. We support you end to end — AI readiness assessment → PoC → production → in-house enablement — and build AI that keeps being used on the ground. Our proposals draw on the latest real-world cases, including generative AI chatbots for call-center efficiency, RAG systems built on internal knowledge, and company-wide standardization of AI coding agents.

  • AI readiness assessment
  • PoC design & build
  • Automation apps
  • RAG systems
  • AI chatbots
  • AI agent design
  • ML model development
  • Prompt training

Planning, design, development and maintenance of applications

Application Development

Planning, design, development and maintenance of applications

A development partner that stays with you from requirements definition to post-launch growth — improving business processes, reducing costs and launching new businesses in line with your strategy. We combine modern methods such as Agile, DevOps and Cloud Native with waterfall-style approaches, and propose the way of working that best fits your organization. With an “AI-native development setup” that builds generative AI (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and more) into the process, we deliver quality and speed together.

  • Requirements & design
  • Business systems
  • Web applications
  • Mobile applications
  • Legacy modernization
  • DevOps / CI/CD
  • AI-native development
  • Long-term maintenance / SRE

Talk to us about your business

Initial consultations and rough estimates are free.Tell us about your current challenges and where you want to be.

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