I design and build them with you — then hand them over.
Most AI projects end with a tool your people do not own. I work inside your company to
redesign daily operations around AI agents — the roles, the permissions, and the approval gates —
and stay until your team runs them without me.
companies backed as investor, advisor, or board member
Approach
AI transformation you own, not one you rent.
In Japan, AX means AI transformation — reshaping how a company works around AI,
the way DX did for digital. I work as an outside partner: I build the operation with your people,
so the capability stays with your team after I leave — not with a vendor you keep paying.
01
Your information, structured
Customers, workflows, numbers, and people are organized into a structure both your staff and
your AI agents can read and keep up to date — the foundation everything else runs on.
02
Agents with clear roles
Each agent gets a defined job, the tools it may use, and the outputs it must produce. Every
write is checked against a schema, so mistakes surface immediately instead of piling up.
03
People who decide
Anything that leaves the company — an email, a payment, a published page — passes a human
approval gate. Your executives learn to run, inspect, and change the system themselves.
Engagements
Build. Operate. Transfer.
I build the operation with your team, run it alongside them until it holds, and hand it over. Three ways to start:
CORE
Build and hand over
AX build & handover
Working operation in up to 10 weeksTwo weeks to define what to prove; up to eight weeks to build it with your team
I join your operation, structure the information it runs on, and build the AI-run workflow with your executive sponsor and field owner — from the agents and approval gates to the website, sales path, or delivery process it serves. You see it working before deciding to keep it.
Selective: a small number of companies at a time
Your executive sponsor and field owner build alongside me
Every agent action that leaves the company is human-approved
A part-time AI lead inside your company: regular sessions to run, review, and extend your AI operations, and to coach the people who will own them. For companies without an AI leader of their own yet.
A focused session on where AI should — and should not — run in your company, what to build first, and where the approval gates belong. You leave with the next concrete action.
I run my own company on the same system I build for clients. Early on, one of my agents sent an
email to a client that I had not approved.
I did not answer that with a stricter instruction. I rebuilt the send path so that an agent can only
create a draft, and sending requires a separate step that always asks a person first. Unapproved
sending became structurally impossible, not merely discouraged.
I care more about what an agent cannot do than about what it can.
Capability improves every few months. Boundaries are what let a team trust the system enough to run
it themselves.
In the room
The work happens at the table.
Classes, workshops, and on-site builds in Japan. Executives and staff sit at their own laptops and build — I do not hand over slides.
Leading a working session
After a workshop
Every session is recorded and structured
Hands-on, at their own screens
A class around one table
About
I build businesses, run them, and hand them over.
I have been building and running businesses since 2004. I joined the management of Kanko Yuchi Inc.
(観光誘致株式会社) in 2018, served as representative director from 2021, and sold my shareholding in
March 2025.
My background is in cognitive science (Keio University). How people learn and how they decide is the
question underneath all of my work — and it is why my AI engagements end with people who can run
the system, not just a system that runs.
Today I work from CRANE CONSULTATION HOUSE (伊藤雄吉相談所) in Yokohama on three
things: leading AI adoption inside companies, investing in and advising the companies below, and
teaching founders and executives to build their businesses with AI.
I am in Colombo regularly and work with partners there. If you are building for the Japanese market,
I am usually a useful person to talk to early.
Portfolio
Companies I support and back.
Companies I am currently involved with as investor, advisor, or board member.
CEO: Kotomi KobayashiCabinet Office Challenge Award (2019)
Led by an award-winning specialist in education and career design, whose vision closely overlaps with my own SOVREN thinking.
The method, in the open
Read how the method works — free.
The method behind my engagements is published as the SOVREN Framework: how to structure
company information, understand customers, plan the business, and divide the work between people and AI.
You can read it without registering. If you want to apply it to your own company, contact me or
join a practical class.
伊藤雄吉の意思決定ist is a weekly live program in Japanese. It documents what a
company with no employees — run by one person and a team of AI agents — built, stopped, measured,
and decided each week.
