AX & Business Produce
We don't stop at installing AI. We stay until the work and the business change.
Generative AI now lets anyone plan and research at speed. What separates success from failure is the human commitment and on-the-ground execution layered on top. AUDENTIA uses AI to the fullest and stays with you end to end, from concept to revenue.
Three businesses
Deciding where AI pays off, implementing it on site, and building it into a business require very different capabilities. AUDENTIA offers them as three separate businesses.
DSDeployment Strategist / upstream AI deployment design
We join AI product vendors in the customer-deployment phase and own the upstream decision of where AI should be applied: mapping business processes and identifying where AI fits, designing AI agent and workflow architecture, building the rollout scenario with KPIs and ROI, and presenting to executives. Our AX proposals focus on companies with field-heavy operations such as manufacturing, food, logistics and construction.
FDEForward Deployed Engineering / on-site implementation
We work inside the client's operation and build generative AI into industry-specific workflows — requirements, architecture, development, on-site rollout and operations design, end to end. Examples include credit review and approval in finance, site surveys for facility works, dispatch for regional transport, and customer-data use in restaurants. We design so that people make the final call, with logs and audit trails that make every decision traceable.
Business ProduceNew business and monetization
Across five areas — new business development, AI & DX, global and sales expansion, financing, and profit improvement — we take businesses from concept to revenue. We don't stop at the plan: the same team carries out sales, partnerships, hiring and fundraising.
Five areas we produce
We propose the right form of support for wherever your challenge starts. Areas can be combined.
Execution-led sales planning
We design the sales strategy and help win customers hands-on, working in the field from lead generation to meetings and closed deals.
AI & DX business development
We build systems that teach AI your internal challenges and automate their resolution, supporting everything from technology selection to implementation.
Global and sales expansion
We support execution from overseas market research and strategy to selecting local partners and generating leads.
Business planning and financing
We build financial plans that model the business quantitatively, and support fundraising through both equity and debt.
Profit improvement of existing businesses
We break existing businesses down into their drivers, set KPIs to maximize profit and support execution, optimizing sales, procurement and logistics as a whole.
How we work
We work with you across five steps, from analysis to continuous improvement. Support for individual phases is also available.
- Step 1AnalysisClarify issues, map workflows, analyze data
- Step 2StrategyBusiness concept, marketing and organization strategy
- Step 3Detailed designOperations design, KPI design, tool requirements
- Step 4ImplementationTool rollout, execution, on-site support
- Step 5Operate and improveMeasure impact, improve operations, ongoing support
Track record
54 business-creation and AI & DX projects we have supported. Client names are withheld; each entry summarizes what the work involved.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
PM for a large-scale sports-anchored urban development
Project management for a large-scale urban development anchored by a stadium and arena, covering business planning, specification coordination and project cost control, and schedule management end to end.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
New business development for a regional MaaS app
Planned a subscription-based sightseeing app to promote regional tourism, leading budget acquisition, negotiations with transport and tourism operators, and the build-out of UI/UX and the data platform.
- Sales expansion & global
Global expansion support for a yen-denominated stablecoin
Supported the global expansion of the first licensed Japanese yen stablecoin, including rollout to overseas chains, liquidity provision, and lobbying of the FSA and government.
- Sales expansion & global
Japan market entry for an overseas speaker manufacturer
Supported the Japan expansion of an overseas manufacturer founded 35 years ago through sales strategy, building a direct sales structure, and profit maximization (5% margin improvement).
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Idle-asset new business for a major transport & real estate group
Planned and developed new businesses leveraging the group's urban development, transport infrastructure and real estate resources, with end-to-end support from synergy creation to monetization.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
New business development for a major food manufacturer
Planned new businesses in healthcare and sustainability leveraging the company's food development capabilities and distribution network, from market research through building sales channels.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
National branding of branded livestock for a major power company
Market research and brand strategy to build a national brand for branded livestock products, driving a project involving producers, JA, local governments and restaurants, and planning PR initiatives.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
New business mentoring for a musical instrument maker
Supported trend analysis of the music technology market, competitive benchmarking and new product concepts, continuously identifying growth areas and proposing commercialization.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Running a municipal accelerator program
Operated an industry-government-academia accelerator for seed-stage entrepreneurs, supporting business plan refinement, fundraising, and building a mentoring structure.
- Financing, value-up & social impact
Portfolio company value-up for a PE fund
For a niche-leading custom commercial vehicle company, drove customer segment definition, persona analysis, messaging strategy and LTV improvement initiatives.
- Financing, value-up & social impact
Comprehensive support for a food-waste protein business
Supported business planning and sales for a next-generation protein business, plus supply chain analysis, a P&L model and an investor-facing business plan.
- Financing, value-up & social impact
Fundraising support for a blockchain project
Developed the business plan and white paper for a proprietary blockchain, and supported the launch with investor pitch materials and fundraising negotiations.
- Sales expansion & global
Launching a Tokyo sales office for a specialty contractor
Launched a new Tokyo-area sales office for a commercial kitchen equipment installer, supporting competitive analysis, customer targeting, sales strategy and partner development.
- Financing, value-up & social impact
Scholarship scheme design for a foreign care-worker NPO
Designed and set up a scholarship scheme for an NPO supporting the career development of foreign care workers, and supported donation strategy and partnerships with government, companies and educational institutions.
- Sales expansion & global
Southeast Asia market entry support service
Hands-on support for Japanese companies entering Southeast Asia, covering market risk and opportunity analysis, local partner selection, business plan writing, and sales support.
- Sales expansion & global
Export channel development for agricultural and marine products
Supported Kyushu producers and businesses aiming to export overseas, from market selection and demand research to export regulation compliance, business meeting support and logistics design.
- Financing, value-up & social impact
Fundraising for a genome-editing biotech startup
Business strategy and fundraising support for a biotech startup, covering investor pitches, regulatory strategy and industry-academia partnerships.
- Financing, value-up & social impact
Value-up of a used-car platform
Enhanced the business model and sales strategy of a used-car trading platform, driving CAC reduction, LTV improvement, B2B partner development and revenue structure optimization.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Business development for a mobility advertising platform
Developed a mobility advertising platform combining LED signage vehicles with location data, designing partnerships with rail and transport infrastructure and an effectiveness measurement framework.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Regional revitalization project using 3DCG video
As a regional revitalization project during COVID-19, planned and produced an online fireworks festival using CG and video technology (CAD, Blender, UE4, etc.).
- Financing, value-up & social impact
Value-up and IR improvement for a listed company
Comprehensive support for business and financial value to improve ROE, PER and PBR, covering business analysis, medium-term planning, IR communications and investor engagement.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Launching B2B cross-border remittance for a major payment processor
At a payment processor handling around JPY 9 trillion in annual transactions, launched a new B2B international remittance service between Asia and Japan under a Type I funds transfer license, supporting strategy, regulatory and service design, alliances and launch on a 24-month roadmap.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Launching and leading development of a site survey app
As HQ, led a new business digitizing the site survey step of equipment installation with smartphone photos and AI analysis, building the business plan including a five-team structure, no-visit quotation UX, a tiered fee model and IP strategy.
- Sales expansion & global
Nationwide rollout and external sales of a regional AI dispatch app
Repositioned a ride-dispatch app built in-house by a regional taxi company, building an attack list of 62 peer companies, prioritized outreach and draft sales contracts, and driving its conversion into an externally sold SaaS.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Medical tourism partnership program with a major railway company
Planned and executed a partnership program with a major railway company for an inbound medical tourism business, designing collaboration with medical institutions, travel agencies and transport operators, integrated travel-checkup-sightseeing operations, and channels for affluent customers.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Commercializing a GIS and AI urban OS and securing funding
Planned an urban data platform combining GIS and AI and secured its budget, driving collaboration with local governments, research institutions and the private sector, grant and research funding proposals, and an implementation roadmap.
- Sales expansion & global
Distribution sales partner for a hair care brand
Joined as a distribution sales partner for high-quality natural hair care products, selecting target segments, designing and executing referral, direct mail and web-form outreach, and handling first meetings to launch a recurring-revenue business.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Data center market entry strategy for a diversified electronics maker
For full entry into the AI-driven data center market, developed a clean energy procurement and GX power strategy using PPAs, identified entry areas differentiated by optical communications and photonics-electronics convergence, and drafted collaboration scenarios with hyperscalers.
- Sales expansion & global
North America market research for a precision instrument maker
To strengthen product branding in North America, identified priority customer segments (pharma and biopharma R&D, CDMOs, academic KOLs), formed key buying factor hypotheses, and designed, ran and reported in-depth interviews and surveys.
- Financing, value-up & social impact
Investing and hands-on support for a turnaround & succession fund
Executed investments in and supported management of regional turnaround and business succession deals, covering sourcing of 10+ companies, financial and business due diligence, deal structuring, and hands-on financial and growth strategy for portfolio companies.
- Business development, PM & regional creation
Feasibility study of new aquaculture business opportunities
Supported a major food manufacturer's feasibility study of new aquaculture businesses, analyzing business models and revenue structures, researching trends by fish species and feed needs, and comparing offshore and land-based farming.
- AI & DX
Planning and launching an AI recruiting service
Supported the planning and launch of an AI-powered mid-career recruiting service, from needs discovery and business plan development to prototype development and validation.
- AI & DX
Technology research on AI on-demand transport
Technology research and partner selection for rolling out AI on-demand transport and ride-dispatch apps, including specification analysis of dispatch and routing algorithms.
- AI & DX
Technology research on external tech for car sharing
Researched the adoption of external technologies such as smartphone-based vehicle operation for car sharing, supporting safety assurance, analysis of OEM collaboration and validation of vehicle control issues.
- AI & DX
Market research on humanoid robot adoption
To select target industries for entering the humanoid market, organized, analyzed and reported on competitor trends, technology adoption by industry, and entry strategy.
- AI & DX
Product rollout of an AI visual inspection system
Owned an AI visual inspection system for manufacturing QC end to end, from product requirements to sales and customer deployment, driving spec proposals for higher accuracy and pilot test design.
- Web3 & blockchain
Marketing strategy for a Web3 project
Marketing strategy and sales support for a Web3 project, including assisting with tokenomics design, community building and partner alliances.
- AI & DX
Capital strategy for a sewer inspection DX startup
Capital strategy and investor relations for a sewer pipe inspection DX business using AI image recognition, covering fundraising scenarios, IR materials and business positioning.
- AI & DX
IT marketing and data utilization for a long-established restaurant
IT marketing and data consulting for a kaiseki restaurant founded over 60 years ago, defining a data analytics foundation for LTV growth, menu optimization and channel strategy.
- Web3 & blockchain
PM and team leadership for a flagship DEX
Led a 15-person cross-functional team for a flagship DEX on Fantom, achieving USD 66.5 billion in cumulative trading volume and USD 1.2 billion in TVL.
- Web3 & blockchain
Leading development of a DEX with LP tracking
Led development of a DEX with an LP points tracking system, from technology selection for the frontend (React/TS) and backend (FastAPI/Python) to team management.
- Web3 & blockchain
Launching a security platform for AI agents
Led architecture design, BD and pre-seed fundraising for a security platform for AI agents on the Sonic mainnet.
- Web3 & blockchain
Building next-generation DAO governance infrastructure
Designed and developed governance infrastructure for DAOs, leading fundraising and strategy for a next-generation platform with departmental structures, scoped permission management and automated execution.
- AI & DX
Solo development of a privacy-focused AI diary app
Built an offline-capable PWA with AI diary summarization, handling everything from design to release single-handedly on Python and AWS serverless.
- 3DCG, XR & creative
Full-CG promotional video for a residential subdivision
A promotional video for a residential subdivision commissioned by a local government, recreating the pre-construction homes in full CG (UE5, Twinmotion, Blender).
- AI & DX
E-coupon platform for town walking events
Developed an e-coupon system for town walking events, distributed and redeemed on LINE, reducing the cost of managing paper coupons (Django, LINE LIFF, Heroku).
- 3DCG, XR & creative
Building a browser-based metaverse space
Built a metaverse space that runs entirely in the browser using Vket Cloud, digitally recreating local streetscapes with LiDAR scanning.
- 3DCG, XR & creative
WebAR business card app prototype
A WebAR demo in which a 3D character appears when a business card is held up to a smartphone camera; no app needed, runs in the browser (A-Frame, AR.js).
- AI & DX
Serverless backend development across multiple projects
Ran multiple projects in parallel built on IaC and serverless architecture with AWS Lambda/CDK and type-safe API design.
- AI & DX
AI for investment and credit review at a Type I securities firm
Led generative AI implementation across an alternative investment platform's processes from deal sourcing through review, structuring, offering and asset management, designing auto-drafted credit assessments and deal summaries, review checklists and disclosure document drafts.
- AI & DX
AI credit scoring design for factoring review
Standardized and automated person-dependent credit review with AI, defining requirements for an engine that takes financial statement PDFs, bank transaction records and interview logs to generate a weighted score (financials 40%, qualitative 25%, risk detection 35%) with instant rejection flags, plus anomaly detection for embezzlement and misuse of funds.
- AI & DX
Customer deployment support for an enterprise AI platform
Joined an AI product vendor's deployment phase, supporting business process inventories, identifying AI use cases, designing AI agent and workflow configurations, deployment scenarios and KPIs, and executive proposals for multiple companies in manufacturing, food, logistics and construction.
- AI & DX
"Physical AI" co-development with an infrastructure inspection leader
Designed a co-development scheme for field-deployed AI combining on-site hardware such as inspection cameras with anomaly detection and deterioration prediction AI, drafting three structures (contracted PoC, joint research, PPP operating platform) and leading a co-creation scheme built on unified AI judgment criteria.
- AI & DX
PM for a major credit card payment platform system overhaul
As full-time PM, drove migration of core systems including transaction processing and fraud detection, leading the master schedule, issue and risk management, migration planning (data migration, cutover and fallback), English bridging with offshore development, and external connectivity testing.
Frequently asked questions
- How does an AX engagement work?
- We work with you in five steps: analysis (clarifying issues, mapping workflows, analyzing data), strategy, detailed design (operations, KPIs, tool requirements), implementation, and operation and improvement. Support for individual phases is also available.
- Where can AI agents be deployed?
- We build generative AI into industry-specific workflows. Examples include credit review and approval in finance, site surveys for facility works, dispatch for regional transport, and customer-data use in restaurants.
- Does handing work to AI remove human judgment?
- No. We design so that people make the final call, with logs and audit trails that make every decision traceable.
- Can you help with more than AI deployment?
- Yes. Across new business development, AI & DX, global and sales expansion, business planning and financing, and profit improvement, we take businesses from concept to revenue.
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