Mission

Set employment in motion
and build the age of AI

Why now

What is happening

Japan has three problems and they arrive in order
They look separate — they share one root

11 millionworkers short by 2040

The gap is not in office work but in work done with the body: care 25.2%, driving 24.1%, construction 22.0%. More people will not close it.

¥6.7tndigital deficit, 2024. Tripled in a decade, largest in the OECD

AI investment runs at ¥43tn in the US against just over ¥1tn here across five years. Pricing power sits with the supplier.

12.4 yearsaverage job tenure. The US: 3.9

Two employer changes per career against twelve; 3.1% business closure against 11.1% in the UK. Nobody moves, so capability never compounds.

Vision

In the age of AI,
value gathers around people’s time.

AI finishes searching, writing and calculating in an instant. Robots are beginning to take on work on site. Even so, some steps are left to people at the end: talking on the phone, checking a place in person, handing something in at a counter, taking responsibility for saying “this is fine”. The faster AI gets, the more the overall speed is set by these people.

Yet in Japan, those people will be 11 million short by 2040, and the ones already working stay with the same company for 12.4 years on average. So Japan keeps buying its AI from abroad, and ¥6.7tn a year flows out of the country.

Value gathers around whatever is scarcest. AI can be bought; the time of people who work on site cannot be imported. The country that can move its scarce human time to where it is needed will take the value of the age of AI.

The root

The safety net was put inside
the company — not the state

Leaving therefore costs a great deal, and resources never move from low returns to high ones. It is not that people are unwilling; the system was built this way, and treating it as a matter of individual willpower changes nothing.
So rather than pushing people to move more, we change what moving means. Contract work lets someone shift part of their hours without quitting. For people living abroad it amounts to taking on Japanese work without moving to Japan. No employment is created, so no licence is needed.

Goals

What we are aiming at

Gather people’s timeBring together people across Japan who can work in their spare time, without quitting their jobs
Close the deficitDo more than buy AI: combine AI and people to use it well, and cut the ¥6.7tn that leaves each year
Make Japan good at using AISplit what AI does from what people do, and put AI’s power to work inside Japan
Judge by the workNot the school, not the employer — the work done and how it was rated
Make moving possibleWork without quitting, and without relocating
Bring people’s timeWhere AI stops, bring a person in from AI — phone calls, checks on site, checking what AI made

How

How this works

PostThe client posts the job. It can also be posted straight from an AI such as Claude or ChatGPT
ApplyWorkers apply to the jobs that are posted
ChooseThe client chooses from the applicants and signs a contract for the work
We hold and releaseWe hold the payment, and release it once the client has checked the delivery

Sources: Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Recruit Works Institute, “Future Forecast 2040”; Bank of Japan balance-of-payments statistics; national figures and press reports for AI investment; national statistics for tenure, job changes and closure rates.