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Read more →Twenty years of running a business, pointed at the next one.
You know your business.We know how to turn itinto something digital.
You already know where the work breaks, and you have ideas. What is hard to see is how AI and software actually turn either one into a product.
You do not need a specification. We begin by deciding, together, what is worth building at all.
No documents required · 60 minutes, online · Japanese, Korean or English
BEFORE WE TALK
Have you caught yourself thinking any of these?
"How much longer will a person have to do this?"
Phone calls, spreadsheets, email, the same manual step repeated all day.
"AI could probably handle this — probably."
You hear about AI constantly, but not what it would change in your company.
"I have the idea. I have no idea where to start."
You can see what is needed; the path from there to a service is missing.
"What am I even supposed to tell a development firm?"
There is no requirements document, and no plan to write one.
That is fine.Sorting that out is where our work starts.
WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE
Not knowing IT is not the problem.
Twenty or thirty years in one industry gives you something a software company cannot easily acquire: experience of the actual work. The only gap is knowing how to move that experience into software.
Your side
Industry experience · Knowledge of the floor · Customers · Problems · Ideas
Our side
Framing the problem · Service design · Applying AI · Design · Build · Validation
A new digital business, and work that runs differently
Knowledge of the floor and analysis by machine, combined until it holds a business shape.
HOW WE START
We do not start building straight away.
When someone says "build me this", we do not answer with a quote. We ask three things first.
Client
"Please build this for us."
Rapid Development
- 01
"Why is it needed?"
Understanding why it is needed comes before deciding what to build.
- 02
"What is actually needed here?"
We do not build every request. We find the problem that matters most and start there.
- 03
"Let us test a small piece first."
Before large money is committed, we build the most important part for real and check it.
Building the wrong thing quickly helps no one.
Knowing what should be built comes first.
BEFORE / AFTER
Could any of this work at our company?
BEFORE
Orders arrive every day by phone, fax and email.
AFTER
Customers submit online and the orders organise themselves.
Where AI belongs — that is part of what we work out together.
PROCESS
We never open with a large build.
Four stages, and at the end of each one, stopping is a normal outcome.
STEP 01 · 60-minute conversation
We listen.
Your business, and whatever is weighing on it right now.
Decision point — stopping here is a perfectly good outcome.
STEP 02 · Diagnosis
We decide what should be done.
What to build, and just as importantly what not to build.
Decision point — the findings are yours to keep. Diagnosis alone is fine.
STEP 03 · Validation
We build something small and check it.
One critical piece, built for real and tested where the work happens.
Decision point — whether to continue is entirely your call.
STEP 04 · Build and operate
We build properly — only what survived the check.
Full development, then continuous improvement against real usage data.
FIT
Who we work best with.
GOOD ○
- Knows their industry and their business well
- Has a real problem on the floor they want solved
- Is willing to try an approach nobody has tried here
- Can take a specialist's opinion on what they do not know
- Wants to grow it while checking, not all at once
- Has the decision-maker in the room
Probably too early —
- "AI is everywhere, build us something with it."
- There is no problem anyone is trying to solve
- Every judgement and every risk is to sit with the vendor
- The goal and the direction keep moving
- Every feature must ship complete on day one
If we are not the right fit, we will say so.
Sometimes the better answer is to build nothing at all.
CASES
Less about what we built,
more about which problem it solved.
SERVICES
Find the box that fits
where you are now.
Five services we build and run ourselves. The first check in every box is free — and if it isn't a fit, we'll say so first.
60-minute talks, free every time
To.Owners with something to build“I can picture it, but I don't know what to hand over, or how much.”
Client development · AI × low-code
Rapid Development
We sort out the work with you, build something small, test it on site — and only then build it properly.
How it goes
- 0160-min talkWe listen to your business first
- 02DiagnosisWhat to build, and what not to
- 03ValidationTest a small prototype on site
- 04Build & runBuild only what has been proven
At the end of every stage you can choose to stop there.
See how we workOn this page · four stages
Free 3–5 minute self-check
To.Owners eyeing Japan“Would our product sell in Japan? I don't know where to begin.”
Japan market entry for Korean companies
WatareruWhat holds companies back is usually the order of steps, not the product. Four steps, all the way to Japan.
Korea to Japan in four steps
- 1Self-check
- 2Rules & labels
- 3Partner
- 4In Japan
We find where you are and settle the one thing to do first.
Start the free self-checkwatareru.com · opens in a new tab
Free 3-minute check
To.Wholesalers buried in morning orders“Every morning one person sorts out all the orders that piled up overnight.”
Food & produce wholesale · Order management
YUTORERU Order Management
Your customers keep ordering the way they do. We bring the scattered orders into one place and cut the re-typing.
How orders come together
- LINE
- Fax
- Phone
- One screen
You don't have to ask customers to order a new way.
Try the free checkyutoreru.com · opens in a new tab
Free until you see the screens
To.Shops selling on marketplaces“Sales come in, but I'm left with no customer list to reach out to again.”
Online shops · Customer list
YUTORERU Shop Management
Keep Rakuten and Qoo10 as they are, and gather scattered customers into one LINE-based list.
How customers come together
- Rakuten
- Qoo10
- Other malls
- LINE list
We won't ask you to leave the marketplaces. Your current sales stay as they are.
See your list's front door, freeyutoreru.com · just your shop's URL
Free 30-second check
To.Owners with a WordPress site“I saw the news about a PHP vulnerability. Is our company site at risk?”
Moving WordPress sites
PHP Free
We move your site to a setup with no PHP, so there are fewer doors to attack. Start by checking where it stands.
Check it right now
If your site doesn't need to move yet, we'll tell you so.
Try the 30-second checkOn this site · just enter a URL
Consultations are always free
To.Owners who haven't decided“I'm not sure which one fits. Is it all right to ask about this?”
Not sure which box?
Start with a talk
You don't need to know any IT terms. Tell us the problem as it is. If none of our services fits, we'll say so.
We start with 60 minutes of listening to your business.
Book a 60-minute talkGoes to the enquiry form below
PRICING
First we decide whether
your problem should be built at all.
We will not tell you it is impossible to say until we have quoted. The price of the smallest step is published here.
Most chosen
Diagnosis and design
Decide what should be built
¥500,000
- A diagnosis of the work as it is done today
- What to build, and what not to build
- First pass at the screen flow and UI
- A rough estimate for the full build
- Take it to another firm if you prefer
Validation
Test one assumption for real
Quoted after the conversation
- Scope fixed from the diagnosis findings
- A first version that genuinely runs
- Works on mobile
- Analytics instrumented
- One month of fixes after launch
Build and operate
Grow the validated thing into a business
Quoted after the conversation
- Full development, once validation has passed
- Monthly improvements and new features
- Analytics reporting
- Unlimited consultation, answered within 24 hours
- Support for running the blog and content
※ Prices exclude tax. ※ The 60-minute conversation is free, as often as you like. ※ You can stop at the end of any stage. There is no additional invoice.
If you would rather read a little before talking
Worth reading before you commission anything
Wondering how this applies to your company?
Bringing it half-formed is completely fine.
FAQ
Questions we get often
Not at all. What we want to hear about is your business, not technology.
COMPANY
At the centre of technologyis not technology, but people.
ATATAKAI Digital began from that one sentence.
More about the company- Name
- ATATAKAI Digital (株式会社あたたかいデジタル)
- Representative Director
- Jeensuk Yang
- Founded
- 3 August 2022
- Address
- Toyosu Sail Park Building 2F, 2-1-9 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0061
CONTACT
Start with the business you have been running for a decade.
You do not need to know what to build, and you do not need a document. One "this part really should change" is enough. We will start there.
60 minutes · Free · Online · Japanese, Korean or English