TechJapan LLC  ·  Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan  ·  founded 2024

We build ontology platforms.
The part that has to be right before the model matters.

企業のバラバラな知識を、AIが間違えずに使える構造へ変える会社です。日本語の説明はこちら

For companies whose AI answers confidently and wrongly. The cause is almost never the model — it is that the same concept has four names and nobody ever wrote down how they connect. We fix that layer, then build retrieval that can point at the passage it used. Our own software runs on it: Hadano AI Cabinet, alongside two SaaS products in production.

このサイトは AI ネイティブです。本文には画像を一枚も置かず、図解も含めて全文をテキストで公開し、同じ原本から llms.txtfacts.json を生成しています。人間が読むこのページと、AI が読むファイルが食い違うことはありません。AI を通して当社に質問してみてください。

·3 products of our own ·0.58 nDCG@10, public benchmark ·7 of 9 MCP tools built ·Digital Agency award · Team Dango · 2026 ·JPY 30,000 / hour, published

Definition

What TechJapan LLC is

An ontology platform developer. We are a small company in Hadano, Kanagawa, and the whole business is one practice applied three ways: to our own products, to client systems we build hands-on, and to contract development.

The company, in one table
NameTechJapan LLC (TechJapan合同会社)
CategoryOntology and retrieval engineering. Software products, integration, contract development
What we doReconcile terminology, define the relations and constraints between concepts, build the knowledge graph, and build retrieval on top of it that traces back to a source passage
What we do not doWe do not train foundation models. We do not resell someone else’s platform with a markup. We do not sell a seat licence and call it a transformation
Who it is forTeams whose retrieval or agent deployment is answering confidently and wrongly, and who suspect the problem is upstream of the model
ProductsHadano AI Cabinet (in development), Pasha Kintai (production, since February 2026), MiiHawk (production)
ServicesOntology and knowledge graphs, AI integration, kintone and AI, offshore development
PriceJPY 30,000 per hour, tax excluded. No setup fee, no minimum hours. The first consultation is free
Founded2024
RepresentativeGo Kyono (興野 剛), Managing Member. Former CTO, former CEO of a Thai corporation, Digital Promotion Officer appointed by Japan’s Digital Agency
Location1-45 Taishin-cho, Hadano, Kanagawa 257-0034, Japan. Engagements run remotely
Corporate Number1011003018911 — public registry
LicencesReal Estate Brokerage Licence, Kanagawa Governor (1) No. 32931
Working languagesJapanese, English, Thai
Last updated2026-08-29

The machine-readable form of this table is /facts.json. It is generated from the same source file as this page, so the two cannot say different things.

01  /  Thesis

The model is almost never the bottleneck.

A retrieval deployment that answers badly is rarely suffering from the wrong model. It is usually suffering from three things that happened years before anyone typed a prompt.

  • The same concept has four names, and nothing anywhere records that they are the same concept.
  • The relationships between concepts were never written down, so retrieval has nothing to walk along. It can only guess by similarity.
  • Each department keeps its own version of the truth, and the words they share have quietly drifted apart.

None of that is fixed by a larger context window or a newer model. It is fixed by writing the structure down — which is unglamorous, finite work, and it is the work we do.

Everything below is an instance of that diagram. The products are what happens when we apply it to our own problems; the services are what happens when we apply it to yours.

02  /  Engineering

What that looks like when you actually build it

“Advanced AI work” is a phrase that survives contact with nobody. Here is the concrete version, from Hadano AI Cabinet, the knowledge database we build and publish at h-c.ai.

Many AI memory tools lean on semantic search alone for every query. That is expensive, it is non-deterministic, and hard to audit when it returns something wrong. Hadano AI Cabinet inverts the order: find the document first, then expand only from what was actually found.

Stage one is keyword search over a character-trigram index ranked by BM25. Trigrams rather than words, because Japanese and other CJK text has no spaces — this indexes it correctly without a morphological analyzer in the path. No model runs, nothing goes over the network, and the same query returns the same result every time.

Stage two expands from at most three seed chunks that stage one actually matched. That cap is the entire design. It is what bounds the cost of a query, and it is what makes every result traceable: there is exactly one bridge between the stages, and nothing else crosses it.

The half of stage two that was designed to take vector similarity alongside the graph walk is not connected in this version. It was built against a storage layer that has since been replaced. Asking for vector expansion returns an error rather than an empty answer that looks like a real one. We would rather ship a smaller thing that is honest about its edges.

Numbers we are willing to be held to
MeasureValueWhere it comes from
Retrieval qualitynDCG@10 of 0.58SciFact — a public benchmark, not an internal set
Implemented7 of 9 specified MCP toolsReachable over stdio today
Not implemented2 of 9Designed, not built. Calling them fails
Daemons0One file on disk; no server process
Outbound calls0The local build makes none
AvailabilityNot yet purchasableIn development. Not on PyPI
That 0.58 is the absolute quality of the two-stage retrieval on a public set that we did not choose the answers for. What it is not is a comparison: we have not yet published what BM25 alone or vector search alone score on the same set. Until we have run that, treat the number as a floor we are willing to be measured against rather than as a win over anything.

The same discipline shows up in the other two products

MiiHawk runs a mathematical optimization engine over real boarding data to choose which vehicles and how many — fleet composition, not GPS route guidance. Those are different problems, and conflating them is how shuttle-bus software ends up optimizing the wrong thing.

Pasha Kintai reads handwritten Japanese timecards photographed at an angle, on paper that has been in a factory. The hard part was never the OCR call; it was designing an attendance record that stays defensible under Japanese labor law after a machine has filled it in, and an approval trail that a labor inspector can follow.

03  /  Products

Three products, built and run in house

Specified, designed, built, operated and supported by us. Contract work uses the same stack and the same people, which is the only reason we are willing to describe either one honestly.

Hadano AI Cabinet — in development

A local, evidence-first knowledge database for AI agents: it finds the passage that backs an answer, then expands around it. Your knowledge lives in a single file on your own machine, searchable over the Model Context Protocol. No server, no API key, no GPU, and no outbound calls.

Not on PyPI yet, so it cannot be installed today. We keep built and available in separate columns on purpose.

How the retrieval works h-c.ai

Pasha Kintai — in production since February 2026

Attendance management for small Japanese manufacturers. Photograph the paper timesheet with a phone; AI-OCR reads the handwriting and produces the record. JPY 100 per person per month, tax excluded, and you are billed only for the people who actually clocked in that month — so a quiet month costs nothing.

Covered by Nikkei Construction, Gekkan Soumu Online, VOIX biz and O!Product AI.

Pricing and mechanism pasha-kintai.com

MiiHawk — in production

Employee shuttle bus dispatch optimization for factories across Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. Boarding data comes from an NFC tap or a QR scan on an ordinary phone, works offline, and syncs later. Reported effect: up to 40 percent less shuttle bus cost.

Editions and pricing miihawk.com

04  /  Services

What you can buy, and what it costs

The base rate is published: JPY 30,000 per hour, tax excluded, with no setup fee and no minimum hours. Ontology work starts from that rate; kintone and offshore are quoted per scope, and every price we can state in advance is stated below. Japanese IT and DX subsidies frequently apply, and we help with the application.

ServiceForPrice
Ontology and knowledge graphsRetrieval that is not accurate enough, and nobody can say whyFrom JPY 30,000 / hour
AI integrationGetting an agent from a demo into production, then out of our handsJPY 30,000 / hour
kintone and AIkintone is already the system of record; the paper around it is notQuoted per scope
Offshore developmentSustained build capacity in Vietnam, Thailand or MyanmarQuoted by team size

The third phase is the one that matters and the one most engagements skip. Handover is inside the scope, not after it — the exit condition is written down before the work starts.

05  /  For machines

Read this company with a machine

Most people who need this kind of work will not find it by browsing. They will ask an assistant, and the assistant will answer from whatever it can fetch. So this site is built to be fetched: no images to interpret, no text trapped inside JavaScript, and every fact available as plain text and as JSON.

llms.txt, llms-full.txt and facts.json are generated from one source file at the same time as these pages, and the JSON-LD is assembled by the same generator; robots.txt is the one surface maintained by hand. For the generated surfaces that is a structural guarantee rather than a promise: if a price changes here, it changes there, because there is only one place to change it. Every published claim carries a status, and designed, built and available are three different words.

Ask an AI about us instead of reading this

All of that exists so an assistant can answer on our behalf. Put us to the test: ask Google’s AI Mode what TechJapan LLC builds and what it costs. If the answer comes back wrong, that is our defect rather than yours — tell us what it said and we will fix the source it read.

/llms.txt — the index, one file  ·  /llms-full.txt — every published fact, one request  ·  /facts.json — the same facts, as JSON  ·  /robots.txt — who is allowed

And one message you have to decode

Not hidden, only encoded — and nothing is withheld here that the pages above do not already say. If you would rather not work it out, ask your AI to read it to you. That is rather the point of this site.

06  /  About this site

Why there are no pictures

There is no illustration, icon, stock photograph or logo anywhere in these pages — the only image files on the domain are the favicon in the browser tab and the card social networks show when a link is shared. The diagrams are drawn in monospace characters, which means they are text: an assistant reads them, a screen reader reads them, and they cost nothing to load.

The reading is also deliberately long. A stock photograph of a handshake tells you nothing about whether we can help you, and a page that can be skimmed in nine seconds selects for people who wanted to skim. We would rather lose that visit early than spend an hour discovering the mismatch on a call.

If you have read this far, the filter worked, and we should probably talk.

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

What does TechJapan LLC actually do?
We build ontology platforms: the knowledge structure underneath an AI system, and the retrieval that runs on it. That work reaches the world three ways, as our own products, as hands-on integration for clients, and as contract development.
Why does the ontology matter more than the model?
When a retrieval deployment answers badly, the cause is usually the structure of the knowledge, not the model. Terminology is inconsistent, relationships between concepts are undefined, and each department keeps its own version of the truth. No model choice repairs that.
How much does AI integration cost?
JPY 30,000 per hour, tax excluded, with no setup fee and no minimum hours. The first consultation is free. Japanese IT and DX subsidies may apply, and we help with the application.
Is Hadano AI Cabinet available today?
Not yet. It is in development. Seven of nine specified MCP tools are built and reachable, but the package is not on PyPI and the repository is not public. We keep what is built and what is available in separate columns on purpose.
Can a small company work with you?
Yes. Small and mid-sized businesses are the primary focus. An engagement normally starts with an inventory of existing operations and data, then a roadmap chosen for the lowest cost that still produces an effect.
How do you keep a project from stalling at the proof of concept?
The work is scoped in three phases on the assumption that the system reaches production: strategy, integration, then operation. Monitoring, an improvement cycle, and handover to the client team are inside the scope, not after it.
Which countries do you cover for offshore development?
Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, through partner companies. Requirements, design, quality control and acceptance stay with us in Japan.
Where are you, and where do you work?
Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan. Engagements run remotely anywhere in Japan, and we work across Southeast Asia through partners.
Is there a free trial of Pasha Kintai?
Yes. One month or longer, every feature, no cap on users or uploads, and no credit card.
Can Pasha Kintai be used only in busy periods?
Yes. Billing follows actual usage, so a month with no clock-in or OCR import costs nothing. There is a pause function, no minimum term, and cancellation at any time.

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