CAREER
Rebuilding the structure of
being chosen — this time for AI.
Twelve years in SEO. In 2018 I founded TriHatch and grew MEOcheki, a SaaS product for driving footfall to physical stores, past a cumulative 100,000 stores. Through two M&A exits, the work has always been the same: measuring and reproducing the structure by which something gets chosen in search.
At the turning point where the subject of search shifts from people to AI, LLMOcheki — and Itera, Inc. — are that same methodology extended to AI search.
Until now, nobody could see whether they were being chosen in an AI answer. What you cannot see, you cannot improve. That is why we start by measuring. Not intuition and experience, but iterating on improvements grounded in observed data. Only that accumulation, we believe, turns coincidence into results you can reproduce.
CAREER
From execution on the ground
to running the business.
After two disaster relief deployments with the Japan Self-Defense Forces, I worked in full-commission sales, as a Hiroshima branch manager and as a web director, before joining TriHatch in 2021. There I served as head of the MEO division, head of new business and Executive Officer and COO, and in 2026 I co-founded Itera, Inc. with Takayuki Muto as Managing Director and COO.
Having worked the whole range — from the front line of sales through direction, launching new businesses and company-wide operations — my responsibility at Itera is running the business and the systems that let us execute.
You do not have to answer from guesswork.
Start by measuring.
