Designing the social infrastructure for the AI era
g9n is a Japanese AI-native company that designs workflows, services and organisations around AI-and-human collaboration — for SMEs, regions, and the arts and cultural sector.
Why we exist
Build a society in which humans spend their time on creation, not on rote tasks — through AI.
The essence of the AI era isn't efficiency. It's the redistribution of human time. g9n exists to put that redistribution into society at scale.
Mission & Vision
Mission
Expand what is possible for SMEs, regions, and the arts and cultural sector — through AI-native services and workflow design.
Delivered through a three-layer model: AI Native Transformation (organisational change), AI Native Products (in-house SaaS), and AI Native Society (social implementation).
Vision
A world in which AI is not a replacement for humans, but infrastructure that extends humanity itself.
A world where everyone uses AI fluently, and small teams reach the intellectual productivity of large enterprises — a future that revitalises Japan's shrinking workforce and its SMEs.
What we care about
Not abstract "DX" or "AI efficiency" — but how to design human society for the AI era. Here are g9n's four guiding standards.
Time, not Tasks
AI's goal should be the redistribution of human time, not raw efficiency. Reducing rote work and returning time to creation is our top priority.
AI Native by Default
We don't retrofit AI. We design workflows, services and organisations from the start around human-AI collaboration.
Small by Design
We build the technology and structures that let small teams operate with the intellectual productivity of large enterprises.
Social Implementation
We focus on social implementation that reaches SMEs, regions and the arts and cultural sector directly — not contracts, but transformations co-created with our clients.
How we're different from typical AI companies
Typical AI company
- · "We deploy AI."
- · "We improve operational efficiency."
- · "We build chatbots."
g9n
- · We redesign how work itself happens in the AI era.
- · We design the division of roles between humans and AI.
- · We rebuild local regions, culture and SMEs for the AI era.
Company information
| Legal name | g9n LLC (g9n 合同会社) |
|---|---|
| Address | Wind Ebisu Bldg. 8F, 2-4-8 Ebisu-nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021, Japan |
| Representative member | Taro Katsura |
| Founded | 12 December 2021 |
| Established | 13 June 2025 |
Lines of business
- 1Workflow, organisation and process design powered by AI agents
- 2Planning, development and operation of AI-native products and SaaS (regional currency, art, weddings, community, etc.)
- 3Implementing AI-era social infrastructure (regional, cultural, educational, ageing-society contexts)
- 4Planning, development, distribution and maintenance of software, web services and mobile applications
- 5System development and implementation support using AI and blockchain technology
- 6Consulting (AI, workflow design, organisational change, arts-related, etc.)
- 7Any activities incidental or related to the above
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