Let us research
your problems.

We take inquiries from anyone: individuals, small businesses, local groups. We listen to the “Isn't there something we can do about this?” of places short on people and budget, then build and deliver a dedicated app or system. Machines you no longer use can be revived as on-site tools too. We serve clients worldwide, online.

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If even one
applies to you.

A small organization's problems aren't solved by big systems. We build a system of just the right size, fitted to how you work today.

Every year, annual reports and filings to the authorities eat up weeks
Every time the person in charge changes, the know-how disappears
Member lists, dues and event records are scattered across Excel and paper
The website and PR haven't been updated in years
We'd like to try AI but don't know where to start
Running a shop or business alone, phone calls and taking bookings tie up my hands
Our budget is limited and we hesitate to hire a vendor

Bring sleeping machines back to life.

Tablets you no longer use, old PCs, spare phones. Show them to us before you throw them away. We swap out the insides and turn them into tools that work on site.

An unused Android tablet

A touchable second screen for your PC

It mirrors the PC screen wirelessly and can be operated directly by touch. Two units at once are supported.

Sub-Monitor-kunIn service

A phone left over from an upgrade

A PC remote and button pad

A trackpad, Japanese text input and a one-tap button pad. It runs even on models a few years old, as long as they have Android 8 or later.

PocketPadReleased

A tablet PC over 10 years old

A dedicated video-making machine where children's drawings talk

Targets devices with a 3rd-generation Core i5 and 4 GB of memory. When powered on, only this app starts, and it works without internet.

E-ga-Go!In development

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Why ask this Lab

This is where we differ from developers who only think at a desk.

Illustration

A mobile lab, driving all over Japan.

The Director develops while moving base from Miyazaki to Nagasaki, Osaka, Chiba and Niigata in a Honda N-VAN kei van with Tom the white tabby cat aboard. “Worldwide support” is more than words. Everything can be done online, and within Japan, if we're passing through your area, we can visit in person.

Read about the Director

A developer who knows the field

Warehouses, renovating old houses, transporting robots. The Director himself stands on site in work clothes. We build tools having learned firsthand how hard it is to run things on paper and phone calls.

We use it thoroughly ourselves before handing it over

First solve our own problems, then use the result every day to check it before releasing it. In that order, we have developed 17 gadgets, from phone apps to in-vehicle displays, chat bots and streaming systems.

Explaining without jargon

The Director is writing the book “Learning IT Through Society”, which explains IT by comparing it to how society works (Vol. 1: “A Program Is a Company”). Staff workshops follow the same approach. We also tell you costs up front, matched to how you'll use it, such as “about ¥X if used 50 times a month.” If there is a way to do it without spending money, we suggest that first.

We know NPO paperwork

We have experience supporting an NPO through its annual report and government filing right up to the deadline: member counts, activity records, accounting figures. Knowing where people get stuck, we build the system.

The shelf of inventions

Press a number to see the tool and “how your organization could use it.”

For your organization

Screen mockup

Case study: read about RoadTalk

We don't just build it
and walk away.

We leave why we built it that way, and how it was set up, in handover documents. Even when the person in charge changes, the system and its records stay with your organization, and the next improvement can start from those records.

The position of a button, a single line in a notification, the effort of moving from paper. Tools that go unused lose on the details. Working through them one by one is the Lab's rule.

What you can ask for

Even “I don't know who to ask” is fine. Just come as you are.

See everything we can do See the price breakdown

How a request works

1. Consult usTell us your problem as it is, on LINE. It doesn't need to be well organized.
2. Show usBy video call and screen sharing, you show us how your work flows today. If you're nearby, we can also visit.
3. PrototypeWe first send you something that works. Your impressions from trying it let us refine the details.
4. Deliver and documentWe finish the setup online and put usage and background into handover documents. Later consultations start from the same records.

Researchers wanted!

Want to solve regional problems together through invention? Development, design, know-how from the field. Mostly online, so you can join from anywhere in the world.

See the recruitment details