EnconneWorks
Track Record
Projects led by our CEO, Shinya Yano.
IP Utilization & Corporate Tie-ups
- Sword Art Online × Suntory "ZONe" tie-up campaign
- Persona 5 × Tokyu Railways real-life mystery-solving event
- Street Fighter × Mitsubishi Estate esports tournament at the Marunouchi Building
- Improving internal IP information flow and the B2B licensing sales process
New Business Development
- Digital adaptation of a tabletop RPG (Call of Cthulhu TRPG)
- Corporate IT training built on N High School's educational assets, co-sold with NewsPicks
- Prototype development of a fan-funded advertising business, later launched by a group company
- Producing the partnership and joint-business study between Nagoya University and the KADOKAWA Group
- Development and sales of a Card Linked Offer business (advertising on credit card companies' online statements)
- Development of a restaurant referral service with Tabelog and a major airline
Business Turnaround
- Turnaround of an e-book business, returning it to an operating profit
- Support for the TV anime adaptation of a well-known original work, covering sales, contract negotiation, P&L and cash-flow planning, and contracts; later handled a lawsuit over unpaid fees with the client
- A turnaround plan for a video sales business, plus a database tracking profit and loss by title
- Introducing management accounting at an acquired company (designing cost allocation and accounting schemes)
Regional Revitalization & Alliances
- Producing the partnership between Airbnb and KADOKAWA, including a campaign to raise awareness of home sharing
- A sake brewery tourism partnership and book with Pasona and the Miyagi inbound DMO
- Membership of an expert committee on Mitsubishi Estate's redevelopment of the Marunouchi and Yurakucho area, plus consulting
- Project leader of a travel program KADOKAWA undertook for the Reconstruction Agency
- Communications consulting on Kobe City's population decline measures
Public Sector & Education
- Selected for the first domestic cohort of "Shido Next Innovator," the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's program for next-generation innovators
- Produced the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency's entrepreneurship education manual, leading the project and supervising content; also ran about 50 pilot classes at five schools nationwide
- Project lead for the first year of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's entrepreneurship program for elementary and junior high school students
- Advisor on business attraction and relocation promotion for Kochi Prefecture
- Mentor at the Osaka Innovation Hub
- Seminar speaker for the management innovation committee of the Osaka Printing Industry Association
AI Products
- AltBot: a bot for real-time translation across 15 languages on Discord, offered worldwide. Responses in under a second, full synchronization across languages, flat-rate pricing, and no data sent to external services
- Patent pending for efficient translation-specialized AI using a proprietary tokenizer
- Developing an AI model specialized in simultaneous speech translation
Includes work done while employed at KADOKAWA Corporation, Digital Garage, Inc., the Asia Partnership Fund Group and Kyocera Communication Systems Co., Ltd. All rights to each project belong to the respective companies.