ITAJIMA & CO.

事業

Building businessesbefore the market exists.

Itajima & Co. is not a trading company that buys and sells predetermined products. What we buy is technology honed in one industry. What we sell is a new business in another.

The trade is one flow: we read the technology to find its next customers, shape it into a product that sells again and again, and run the business that grows out of it — together, as a principal.

heavy industry × robotics

読み解く

Read

We break your technology, equipment, and know-how down into units of what they can do.

AI and robotics into heavy industry. Industrial robots into film and spatial design. Autonomous driving into infrastructure inspection.

We don't transplant technology as it is; we match it against another industry's problems and reconfigure it into a form that works in its new field. Your next customers appear outside the factory.

prototyping and field trials

売れる形にする

Make it sell

We don't let a new customer end at a one-off delivery.

We define the application, iterate through prototypes and field trials, and design pricing, quality standards, delivery, maintenance, and regulatory compliance. What you keep is a product that sells again and again — a new line of revenue.

joint development in the field

共に営む

Own it together

Once the business has grown, we take part as a principal, not as a contractor.

Joint development, intellectual property, software, brands, equity investment, joint ventures — we choose the form that fits each business.

Rather than adding layers to the supply chain, we share the risk and the returns, and hold the business value we help create — together.

FIELDS

We begin with the industries that physically move the world: machinery, shipbuilding, metals, robotics, and AI.

  • Shipbuilding
  • Machinery
  • Metals
  • AI
  • Robotics
  • Film
  • Logistics
  • Inspection & maintenance

事例

The crossings havealready begun.

These are crossings Itajima & Co. is working on now. Most projects run under non-disclosure agreements, so names and details are withheld — we describe each as far as confidentiality allows.

Heavy industry × AI

AI × Heavy industry

Turning dormant equipment data into faster decisions.

Industrial sites accumulate equipment data that never gets used, and decision criteria that live only in people's heads.

We compose that scattered knowledge into a form AI can work with, and connect it to decision-making on the floor and in management.

Film sets × industrial robots

Industrial robots × Film

Turning factory-grade precision into camera work.

The repeatable precision of industrial robots has been confined to factories.

We bring that precision to film and spatial production, where it performs camera moves no human hand can reproduce — building robots a new market outside the factory.

Plant inspection × autonomous robots

Autonomous driving × Inspection

Sending robots where inspectors cannot climb.

Large plants and infrastructure still have places people cannot safely reach.

We redeploy autonomous driving technology to inspection and maintenance, turning dangerous diagnostics into a machine's job.

Past work

A selection of what we built as a development partner before our current business.

Cloud

Cloud migration of on-premises servers

Migrated a core healthcare system from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud — improving availability and security while cutting operating costs.

Robotics

Voice-interactive robot system

Built an integrated robot system handling speech recognition, transcription, and AI-generated responses end to end, enabling natural human–robot conversation.

Sensing

Object-detection sensor

Developed an object-detection system based on 2D image recognition, matching the accuracy of conventional vision sensors at a fraction of the cost.

Systems

Medical XR communication platform

Supported development of an XR communication platform for clinical settings — from network infrastructure to GUI and web applications — now deployed at a university hospital.

Systems

Sales system for real estate

Automated prospect discovery with a custom crawling and analysis system, sharply reducing the time sales staff spend building customer lists.

Generative AI

AI-powered document assistant

Designed and built an application that streamlines internal document creation, with a customizable prompt system tuned to each team's workflow.

Blockchain

Digital residency token

Supported the Yamakoshi project's token combining digital residency with art, building a fiat payment system so supporters outside the region could take part.

Blockchain

Digital art issuance

Provided technical support for releasing a renowned artist's works as NFTs, implementing smart-contract-based sales and revenue sharing.

進め方

From “we don’t know what it can do” to a self-running business.

  1. Talk to us

    Tell us about your technology, equipment, or problem. An early-stage idea is fine.

  2. Decode

    We enter the field and break capabilities down into units of “what can be done.”

  3. Verify

    We match them against problems in other industries, prototyping and proving where needed.

  4. Launch

    We design the first product, customer, pricing, and channel, until the market runs on its own.

Field information is handled under a non-disclosure agreement.

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