Co-Founder / CEO
Taiki Mishima
Over the past few years, the conversation about AI has moved from whether it works to how to use it. The tools are already here. Even so, in many companies ideas still stall before they take shape — no one with the skills, no time, no one able to make the call. The reasons look much the same everywhere. We treat that not as a sign of the times but as a problem that design and process can solve.
I founded this company at this age because I could not find a reason to wait. The change underway now did not look like the kind you can catch up with after gaining experience first. Some things are visible only from inside the change. So rather than learning first and starting later, we chose to learn while building.
Our name, Gugen, is 「具現」. People, organizations and society are not finished forms. Refine an idea, build it, learn from what happens, and begin again. We want to see how far that repetition takes us.
Inside the company, I want what people build to come back to them. Recording who did what, and connecting that record to how they are evaluated and paid. It sounds obvious, but doing it properly takes deliberate design. As we grow, this is not something I intend to put off.
We would rather take the time to compound real value than chase a short-term result. Create value through implementation, turn what we learn into assets, develop people, and return it to research. The businesses are designed so that cycle connects.
The people building alongside me right now are students and those who have just entered the workforce. A place where people who are still growing can genuinely create value is, I believe, what a company will look like from here. Our vision is 「人と機械、社会、自然が「共進化」する「文明」をつくる。」 Founding the company was only the starting point.
