AIO Soken Inc.

AIO Soken Inc. (AIO総研株式会社) is a Japanese AI strategy and consulting company established in October 2025 and headquartered on the 18th floor of JR Shinjuku Miraina Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It positions itself around two organizing concepts: AI Operations (AI Ops), meaning the continuous optimization and automation of business operations using AI, and AI Optimization (AIO), meaning the analysis and redesign of entire business processes and business models with AI to improve productivity and competitive advantage. The firm describes itself as a comprehensive research institute that innovates corporate processes and business models along these two axes. The company offers an integrated set of services spanning strategy formulation and consulting, AI Optimization (AX), brand building (Brand Ops), AI-driven development and Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) training, security assessment and publishing of AI-generated applications (AIO Ship), and AIO/LLMO measures for AI search optimization. Its stated mission is to take responsibility not merely for introducing AI but for producing results, closing the gap between AI adoption and business outcomes. It serves clients from startups to large enterprises across manufacturing, finance, real estate, media, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and consumer goods. AIO Soken highlights partnerships with university-originated deep tech, citing industry-academia collaboration with institutions such as Gunma University and the University of Tokyo, and says it bridges research seeds to commercialization. It also emphasizes founders' operating experience across primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. The company is led by two representative directors, Yoshihisa Kaino and Yuki Saito. Kaino graduated from N High School's entrepreneurship department and Keio University SFC, founded a company while in high school, and previously led the NPO New Creator Org; he sold Extem Inc., an AI and system development training company he founded in 2024, in November 2025. Saito graduated from Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering and completed an MBA at GLOBIS, worked as a production technology engineer at Japan's largest steelmaker using deep learning, and worked at Recruit before becoming independent in 2022. As a young private company founded in 2025 with stated capital of 1 million yen, AIO Soken is a small but ambitious player in Japan's AI consulting market. Its differentiation rests on end-to-end delivery, government subsidy-supported training programs, and a blend of strategy consulting with hands-on AI implementation and talent development.

AIO Soken Inc. was established in October 2025 as a Japanese AI strategy and consulting company. It was founded by Yoshihisa Kaino and Yuki Saito, who serve as representative directors. The company was created to address a gap its founders observed: although AI had become widely discussed, many companies were adopting AI without achieving results. AIO Soken's stated mission is to take responsibility not just for introducing AI but for ensuring outcomes, providing support from strategy formulation through implementation and continuous optimization. The firm is headquartered on the 18th floor of JR Shinjuku Miraina Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and has stated capital of 1 million yen. It organizes its offering around two concepts: AI Operations (AI Ops), the continuous optimization and automation of business operations using AI, and AI Optimization (AIO), the analysis and redesign of entire business processes and business models with AI. Its services include strategy and consulting, AI Optimization (AX), brand building (Brand Ops), AI-driven development and FDE training, AIO Ship for security assessment and publishing of AI-generated applications, and AIO/LLMO measures for AI search optimization. AIO Soken emphasizes industry-academia collaboration with university-originated deep tech, citing Gunma University and the University of Tokyo, and says it bridges research seeds to commercialization. It also highlights its founders' operating experience across primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, including manufacturing, finance, real estate, media, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and consumer goods. Co-founder Yoshihisa Kaino graduated from N High School's entrepreneurship department and Keio University SFC. He founded a company while in high school and has supported clients from requirements definition through UI/UX design, implementation, and operations. For seven years he served as representative of the NPO New Creator Org, promoting AI training and STEAM education for students and providing educational opportunities to more than 3,000 people. In 2024 he founded Extem Inc., an AI and system development training company, which he sold in November 2025 as the business expanded. He also serves as Partner CTO at AdOps Inc. Co-founder Yuki Saito graduated from Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering and completed an MBA at GLOBIS. He worked as a production technology engineer at Japan's largest steelmaker, developing production technology using deep learning, and later worked at Recruit in business planning and new business promotion. He has been involved in startup management, including in aquaculture, and became independent in 2022. Drawing on operating experience from primary to tertiary industries and from large enterprises to startups, he supports startup management, new business launches at large companies, business development with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and university-originated ventures from the University of Tokyo and Gunma University, handling generative AI-centered management strategy formulation and execution. As of its founding, AIO Soken is a private company with no disclosed parent or group affiliation. It is a young entrant in Japan's AI consulting market, differentiating through end-to-end delivery, government subsidy-supported training, and a combination of strategy consulting with hands-on implementation and talent development.

• 2025

  AIO Soken Inc. established in Tokyo, Japan.

• 2025

  Co-founder Yoshihisa Kaino sells Extem Inc., an AI and system development training company he founded in 2024.

An end-to-end AI strategy and implementation partner that takes responsibility from strategy through implementation, talent development, and operational adoption, rather than merely introducing AI tools.

• Strategy formulation and consulting

  Business strategy and roadmap formulation, DX promotion and business reform support, capital policy and fundraising support, management team formation and organizational development, alliance building, and new business development.

• AI Optimization (AX)

  Business process analysis and visualization, AI substitution potential assessment, AIO strategy formulation and execution, AI tool introduction and implementation, AI training and workshops, and operational support and continuous improvement. Stated result: 33–50% reduction in sales activity man-hours.

• Brand building (Brand Ops)

  Brand strategy and concept formulation, brand guidelines and design production, brand management AI tool development, and operational support and continuous improvement. Stated result: delivery in as little as 4 months, first-year cost from about 2 million yen.

• AI-driven development / FDE training

  AI-driven development and Forward Deployed Engineer training supported by Japan's Human Resources Development Subsidy, with up to 75% subsidy for SMEs and 60% for large enterprises, plus a wage subsidy of 960 yen per hour per participant. Covers strategy, PoC, production development, and operational adoption.

• AIO Ship

  Security assessment and publishing service for AI-generated applications: static analysis by folder upload based on OWASP, dependency package CVE matching, CISA KEV-based prioritization, Japanese-language remediation reports, publishing via dedicated URL, and continuous re-scanning with new CVE notifications.

• AIO/LLMO measures (AI search optimization)

  Designing so that company information appears in answers returned by ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, and Perplexity, covering diagnosis (AIO Analyzer), structured data and entity design, improving content reachability for AI crawlers, and llms.txt and AI agent protocol preparation.

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