Breaking conventional wisdom with AI to create the future standard for business processes!
Recently, D-POPS GROUP made an investment in BLUEISH Inc., which operates the industry-specific AI workflow “Omni Workspace”, and we have begun walking together as fellow members of our Venture Ecosystem.
☆The press release regarding this investment in BLUEISH Inc. is here:
https://d-pops-group.co.jp/en/column/blueish/
For this article, we interviewed Akira Tameto, CEO and founder of BLUEISH Inc., about the behind-the-scenes story of the company’s founding and his thoughts on his AI business.
① What was the impetus for founding your company?
I always upheld the policies of “high technical capability”, “creation of good products”, and “pursuit of victory with everyone involved”. At that time, rather than creating some kind of service within that framework, I found value in creating what customers were seeking.
However, no matter how high the technical skills or how well I managed development teams, projects would go up in flames due to various factors. And when these projects failed, I witnessed many people suffer.
To enable the “creation of good products” where clients, developers, and users of the product would all feel satisfied, I realized I had no choice but to take a central role myself. This thinking led me to establish BLUEISH Inc.
And now, AI is going to revolutionize the modern era. So, BLUEISH will also achieve through AI services the vision our company upholds: “Realizing a society where companies can grow through our value creation, and all the people involved can share the wealth.”
② Please give us a brief summary of your services.
“BLUEISH Agents” is a corporate AI program platform based on the new concept of companies essentially “hiring” AI agents.
Until now, similar services have been built on the framework of AI chatbots geared towards corporations. However, we are surpassing this framework by preparing diverse AI programs (which we call agents) specialized to various skills and industries in order to automate and streamline all kinds of work with minimal intervention. Since these individual AI agents can be assigned to specific tasks—e.g., accounting, customer service, translation, etc.—the resulting framework can effectively support entire companies from back offices to job sites.
③ What makes your company superior to similar companies?
BLUEISH is quite capable of developing these individual AI agents, but our greatest strength is orchestrating all of them into an AI agent platform.
When generative AI became wildly popular, AI development companies split into two types: companies developing LLMs (Large Language Models) and companies developing ecosystems using LLMs. BLUEISH chose the ecosystem side, abandoned the chatbot format, and was the first to attempt developing AI agents.
④ What have been your biggest challenges since starting this company?
Despite being a system development company, our clients were mostly in the hospitality and sports industries, so we were also heavily affected by COVID. Through that experience, we learned many things and became stronger. After overcoming those hardships, BLUEISH has emerged all the more resilient!
⑤ What do you most expect from your shareholders?
We hope that our shareholders will resonate with our company’s slogan of “Create the future standard for business processes” and ride the wave of AI agent innovation together with us as we push forward. We expect a partnership that will support us, with a long-term view, until the day comes when we see our business grow and share the wealth through the power of BLUEISH Agents.
⑥ What is the best part about receiving investment from D-POPS GROUP?
Our company has been greatly stimulated by D-POPS GROUP’s cooperative ability and visionary approach. We believe this investment will serve as a major engine to accelerate the next giant leap forward of our BLUEISH Agents. Through the synergy created with D-POPS GROUP, our system for creating unique value will become even more robust, and we will definitively be able to pioneer an innovative future!
⑦ What aspects of “realizing a Venture Ecosystem” resonate with you?
BLUEISH is passionate not just about providing technology, but about building an ecosystem that establishes new future standards for the entire industry. We believe that when diverse companies collaborate, explosive synergy will emerge through the power of digitalization and AI.
⑧ What is your ideal vision for the company 10 years from now?
In 10 years, BLUEISH aims to become an indispensable presence in Japan.
Our company will further expand the potential of LLMs, and we will lead the charge in digital transformation both domestically and internationally, establishing new standards for corporate growth on the basis of our future concept of incorporating quantum computing into LLMs. Founded on our passions for “high technical capability” and “creation of good products” that we have upheld since the beginning, we intend to be a company that drives the market forward with amazing innovations and brings prosperity to society as a whole!
⑨ What challenges do you foresee in achieving that future?
One of BLUEISH’s challenges is to remain a platform that quickly and flexibly responds to the rapid changes in AI technology and also captures our clients’ diverse needs. To accomplish this, we will need to further strengthen our domestic and international partnerships, and to continue evolving without being afraid to try new things in order to realize our mission of digitalizing all business processes.
⑩ Any closing comments you’d like to briefly share?
We are pioneering the future and breaking conventional wisdom with passion and technical prowess through our AI agents to “Create the future standard for business processes”. Together with BLUEISH Agents, we will bring about business process innovations that amaze everyone and make it possible for our company to grow and share the wealth! With that same passion and enthusiasm, we hope that you will all join us in facing this challenge! Thank you very much!
BLUEISH Inc.
Company President and CEO: Akira Tameto
Address: 5F VORT Motoazabu, 3-1-35 Motoazabu, Minato, Tokyo
Established: February 9, 2018
Company Website: https://www.blueish.co.jp/