CRANE CONSULTATION HOUSE — Since 2004

Design the structure.
Build the business.

From business design to sales, promotion, and AI implementation.

CRANE CONSULTATION HOUSE works as a small team alongside owner-led companies. We organize field knowledge, propose new businesses, build the promotional website and sales path, and move quickly toward the first paying customer.

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Yukichi Ito  /  伊藤 雄吉 Business Architect · Investor · Initiator of Ontology incubation
About

How I work.

Yukichi Ito — business architect and investor

I am a consultant and investor who designs the structure of businesses. I draw on neurophysiology and the psychology of perception to organize how a company, its customers, and its decision-makers understand a problem.

For more than twenty years I have worked on one question: why does a business hold together? I look at both the numbers and the structure by which a company functions in society, then connect that structure to sales activity, promotion, operations, and implementation.

I joined the management of Kanko Yuchi Inc. (観光誘致株式会社) in 2018 and was responsible for the business as a whole. I served as representative director from 2021 and sold my shareholding in March 2025.

In 2026 I organized this work as CRANE CONSULTATION HOUSE (伊藤雄吉相談所). Today we provide three separate forms of support—collaborative business development, ongoing advisory, and spot consulting—alongside investment, free learning resources, and practical classes.

Services

Three separate ways to work together.

Our priority is collaborative business development: the Consultation House team joins the field and helps build a new business, not just a plan. Previously offered only to existing partner companies, this service is now open to a small number of new collaborations as our team grows.

PRIORITY

Build and launch a new business together

Collaborative business development

Commercialization decision in up to 10 weeksDefine the proof in two weeks; jointly build a working solution in up to eight more

Our team joins your operation, organizes information about the business, customers, workflows, numbers, and people, and uses AI to accelerate research and implementation—from the proposal and promotional website to the sales path and first delivery. You see something working before deciding whether to commercialize it.

  • A selective program for consequential, testable business problems
  • Your executive sponsor and field owner build alongside our team
  • Test a working offer, website, sales path, or operating workflow
  • We make a capped proof investment; a fixed contract applies only if you commercialize
Discuss a collaboration

Work on management continuously

Ongoing advisory

Custom monthly engagement

Regular sessions covering business design, sales, promotion, organization, and AI adoption. For companies that want an ongoing outside perspective on decisions and execution.

Discuss advisory support

Focus on one decision or problem

Spot consulting

¥50,000/ hour, before tax

A focused session for management questions, business-model review, revenue structure, sales initiatives, or a new-business idea. We clarify the situation and decide the next concrete action.

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Portfolio

Companies I support and back.

A selection of companies I am currently involved with as investor, advisor, or board member — each doing real work in its field.

  • Liquitous, Inc.

    liquitous.com →

    Digital consensus-building / participatory democracy

    CEO: Hiroyuki Kurimoto Forbes JAPAN 30 UNDER 30 (2023)

    A company answering "how do citizens take part in politics?" with technology — social infrastructure, not just an IT product.

  • 1House-per-Person, Inc.

    1house-perperson.com →

    Real estate × vacant-home regeneration

    Investor & board member

    Regenerating Japan's vacant houses, one at a time. I am involved in business design as an investor and board member.

  • Sesshu Shigen, Inc.

    Food × AI & media

    Board member

    Crossing "food" — a human fundamental — with AI and media. I am involved from revenue-model design as a board member.

  • Art&Arts LLC

    artandarts.jp →

    Legal education × the arts

    Led by Soichiro Yamazaki, author of Kodomo Roppo

    Led by the author of the bestselling Kodomo Roppo ("Children's Law"). I advise on business design.

  • Seedhouse, Inc.

    seedhouse.co.jp →

    Education / life-career design

    CEO: Kotomi Kobayashi Cabinet Office Challenge Award (2019)

    Led by an award-winning specialist in education and career design, whose vision closely overlaps with my own SOVREN thinking.

Free resources & practical classes

Build a business with AI.

We publish the material needed to build a business with AI for free. The SOVREN Framework covers company information, customer understanding, business planning, communication, promotional websites, revenue models, and the division of work between people and AI.

You can read the web materials without registering. For people who need help applying them to their own company, practical classes are also available in online and in-person formats.

Some educational programs that use this framework are operated by partner organizations. AIP School is operated by Seedhouse, Inc.; Yukichi Ito contributes to its business design, learning materials, and use of AI. It is separate from CRANE CONSULTATION HOUSE.

Media / YouTube

Watch the business being built.

Yukichi Ito presenting the weekly one-person company report

Ishikettei-ist by Yukichi Ito

伊藤雄吉の意思決定ist is the YouTube program operated by CRANE CONSULTATION HOUSE. It documents the unfinished work: what a zero-employee company built, stopped, measured, and decided each week.

The weekly live series, One-Person Company Report, reviews the numbers, actions, decisions, and current obstacles behind the Consultation House, its collaborations, and its free learning resources.

  • This week's numbers and changes
  • What we did—and stopped doing
  • What we decided—and have not decided yet
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Contact

Get in touch.

For collaborative business development, ongoing advisory, spot consulting, investment, or the SOVREN Framework, contact us by DM or email. Tell us briefly who you are and what you want to move forward.

You do not need a polished proposal. A short explanation of your company, the current situation, and the project or problem you want to address is enough to start.

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Email

kichisinger@gmail.com

Based in

Yokohama · Tokyo · Miura · Colombo