Closing the gap between management and engineering.
Fushikaden K.K. is an advisory firm in Tokyo, founded in 2011. We take on technical and organizational due diligence, and the design and delivery of AI adoption — with the same person accountable from start to finish, and no layers of subcontracting.
What we do
Where we sit
We built a company, sold it, and now work on the buyer’s side.
The founder built a mobile game business to just under 30 employees, and sold that business to Appirits in 2018. For the two years that followed he served as Appirits’ Executive Officer and CTO, leading an engineering organization of 300–400, and was involved in the company’s IPO preparation (Appirits listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2021). In 2021 he founded a software development company and, as its Representative Director, grew it to around 150 people.
MONOBE Eiji
Not an outside adviser. An owner who has run development organizations.
In software since 1999. Representative Director of two companies, and Executive Officer and CTO over an engineering organization of 300–400. Hiring, financing and shutting things down were decisions made in his own name — which is a different position from advising an organization on how to improve.
- Both sides of the table
- The most senior technical role and the most senior management role, both held in practice. That is why a symptom in the organization can be explained through the code, and a symptom in the code through the organization.
- Operator, not commentator
- The firm has run its own work on AI agents in production for three and a half years. The same structure is what we design for clients.
- Writing, in English
- How Japanese software organizations actually make decisions — hiring, vendor structures, and what due diligence on Japanese targets turns up that the deck does not.
Corporate information
- Name
- Fushikaden K.K. (株式会社風姿華傳)
- Corporate number
- 7010701026220
- Established
- September 2011
- Representative
- MONOBE Eiji, Representative Director
- Address
- 7F B701, 2-2-1 Kitasaiwai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-0004, Japan
Get in touch
We are not taking on new engagements at present — the founder currently serves as an officer of another company. Messages are still welcome. A LinkedIn message is the fastest route; we reply within three business days.