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Building the AI that defines how people live — and how cities take shape.

Starting with the review every building must pass, in service of safe cities everywhere.

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Why we work on this

The laws of building and urban planning define how we live and what our cities become.

The origin of modern urban planning law traces back to Britain's Public Health Act of 1848. In industrial-revolution London, the population surged, factories and homes stood side by side, sewage treatment could not keep up, and epidemics took many lives. To keep that tragedy from repeating, cities learned to separate the places where people work from the places where they live.

Ever since, every fire, flood and earthquake — every traffic jam, every episode of pollution — has rewritten the rules of buildings and cities, all over the world. The safety we now take for granted rests on rules refined through generations of danger and failure.

Today, the system that upholds those rules is faltering. In country after country, the professionals who carry out building review grow fewer as workforces age and shrink — while environmental standards and ever-accumulating regulation keep raising the burden of review. The mechanism that protects daily life is nearing its limits in much of the world.

To keep people and cities safe, we build AI agents that automate the code-compliance review every structure must pass — then expand into adjacent work and the industry's challenges as a whole. Protecting daily life through rules is a universal practice. With state-of-the-art research and technology, we build solutions that support daily life everywhere.

02

One of the world's largest industries, still blank space for AI

Global construction is a ~$16-trillion-a-year market: roughly $2.2 trillion in the US alone, about $4 trillion in China, and ¥100 trillion (~$700 billion) in Japan. One of the largest industries on earth — and one of the least digitized.

Harvey in legal, Sierra in customer service — vertical AI agents that take on entire professional workflows are growing explosively worldwide. Building review is the blank space that wave hasn't reached. That's where we chose to begin.

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What vertical AI agents make possible

General-purpose AI "knows" building codes — but it can't review. Extracting attributes from drawings with sources, cross-checking them against statutes, and flagging issues with confidence scores and citations takes deeply domain-specific engineering. mign already automates hundreds of review items at over 90% accuracy.

And the system compounds: every customer's data and every piece of reviewer feedback makes the AI more accurate, which drives more usage, which builds more data. That flywheel is the core of our moat.

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The last moment to shape what this company becomes

mign is in its customer-validation phase. Multiple leading companies — global enterprises among them — use our product on paid contracts while we scientifically validate product–market fit. To accelerate, we have raised several hundred million yen from leading venture capital firms.

Join now and you don't ride a finished business — you decide its shape. That discretion, and that responsibility, belong to the core members who join at this stage.

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Prove it in the hardest market. Then scale it everywhere.

We chose one of the world's strictest and most complex review regimes — Japan — as our first proving ground. Accuracy that holds up against more than 100,000 statutes and local ordinances holds up in any market.

Automating permit review is only the entry point. On the accuracy and trust built here, we expand: to the applicant side — developers and design firms — to review and inspection work beyond permits, and to markets including the US and Asia.

Beyond that, we aim to generalize the very process of creating vertical AI agents and bringing them to the world. We will keep turning the work adjacent to review into specialized AI agents — and then, across industries, transform all kinds of professional work into agents. Our goal is to let anyone easily build 'AI employees' that inherit their company's culture, know-how and expertise, and share them inside and beyond the company — a factory for vertical AI agents. It makes a company's history something that can be stably inherited, accumulated, and passed on to the next generation.

Permit review automation

  • Deeper review
  • Expansion to applicants
  • Global expansion

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Strategy as science

We treat strategy as a testable hypothesis about what to abandon and what to bet on. Decisions run on hypothesis-and-validation loops, not intuition — randomized controlled trials show founders trained in the scientific approach outperform those who aren't. We run management itself as science.

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Engineered by researchers at the frontier

A team beyond borders, built around graduates of top universities and research institutions in each country and holders of doctoral degrees, implementing frontier technology directly into the product. 35% of our technical members hold PhDs, channeling insights honed at the research frontier of AI, machine learning and architecture straight into product development.

We don't just follow the latest research. We publish our own work, primarily at the world's top conferences, and share what we learn with the global research community. Because research and implementation sit this close together, we deliver a level of accuracy and reliability that general-purpose AI cannot reach.

Open roles

  • Finance

    Persona

    • Early- to mid-stage investment experience at a VC firm
    • A background in investment banking, private equity, or financial strategy advisory
  • Industry Expert & Product Manager

    Persona

    • A user of products like ours — a certified confirmation inspector, architect, or municipal building-guidance official
    • Deep knowledge and experience of the real estate and construction industry
  • Business Development

    Persona

    • A background at a strategy consulting firm
    • Experience in enterprise IT sales or IT consulting
  • AI Engineer

    Persona

    • An internationally distinguished track record
    • AI development experience at a general-purpose (frontier) AI company
  • HR

    Persona

    • HR experience in a high-intensity organization
    • Early-stage startup HR through to IPO or exit
  • CXO Candidates

    Persona

    • Took a startup from the 0→1 phase to IPO or exit as a CXO or equivalent core member
    • Planning to found your own startup in the next 3–5 years

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