Team

About

Based in San Francisco. A focused team built around practical AI delivery.

Kenko Ueyama

Managing Director & Co-Founder

Kenko managed a $2B+ PE/VC portfolio at Mitsubishi Corporation and co-founded a $500M joint venture with a Temasek group company. Then he switched from writing about systems to building them.

He serves as Senior Advisor at the Digital Data Design Institute (D³) at Harvard, and has partnered with 30+ organizations, including leading AI initiatives at GenerativeX (AI deployment engineering) and SC Digital (Sumitomo Corporation's digital consulting arm).

Johns Hopkins SAIS MA · HBS MBA

Mark McNeill

Managing Director & Co-Founder

Mark built operational systems at ANA (Japan's largest airline) and McDonald's Japan, designing workflows that scaled across thousands of frontline staff. He leads partnerships and delivery operations so projects move from concept to sustained usage inside real teams.

He turns executive mandates into systems that frontline teams actually adopt.

Stanford BA · HBS MBA

Our build philosophy

Not a slide-deck consultancy. Not an outside dev shop. We build inside your organization, transfer code and know-how, and stay until it sticks. The hard part isn't the model. It's making it your team's.

Operator-first scope

We start from where work is actually blocked, then design for the people who run the process daily.

Production over prototypes

We prioritize systems that can survive real constraints: messy data, approvals, and changing team ownership.

Handoff built in

Training, runbooks, and source code transfer are part of delivery, not an optional add-on at the end.

Where we operate

We work with teams across industries and geographies. We're based in San Francisco, with a Tokyo office for cross-border delivery when needed.

What clients keep

Codebase, documentation, training recordings, and a practical operating cadence your internal team can continue.

Let's talk.

One conversation to see if we're the right fit. No pitch deck.