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your business.

We build custom AI systems, data products, and the software around them. From discovery to deployment, our senior engineers work alongside your team.

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01 / ProductMINARAI BY FOUNDRY LABS

Minarai

FDEs Automated

Capture expertise from interviews, documents, and data. Connect it into a process model your team can use for training, insight, and automation.

Minarai demo connecting an expert interview to a process model
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02 / ProgrammeFOUNDRY LABS

FDE & DS
Excellence

Build the team
that delivers.

Four sessions for Forward Deployed Engineers and five for Deployment Strategists. Choose either track or both, with two-hour workshops built around your team’s real customer work.

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Engineering / Case studies

Advertising. Hiring.
Brand protection.

Explore the business problems, workflows and systems behind our work.

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The founders

Experience built
in the field.

Startup building, enterprise AI deployment and decades of operating in Japan. Our founders bring experience across the business, engineering and operational sides of putting AI to work.

Ilya Kulyatin

Ilya Kulyatin

Co-founder & CEO

Startup founder. Tokyo AI founder.

Ilya brings a background in quantitative research and machine learning, with experience building startups in Singapore and New York. Through Tokyo AI, he connects Japan’s founders, researchers and investors with the global AI community.

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Declan Clowry

Declan Clowry

Co-founder & CTO

Six years at Palantir.

From individual contributor to Enterprise Lead, Declan led teams of Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Strategists in the UK, Germany and Japan. His deployment experience spans healthcare, defence and manufacturing.

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Cedric Wagrez

Cedric Wagrez

Co-founder & COO

20+ years in Japan’s tech sector.

Cedric’s experience spans Stability AI, TaskUs and Gengo. He has led AI data strategy, operations and cross-functional teams, combining international AI experience with two decades of working in Japan’s technology ecosystem.

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