About Intersect

Why we built Askhub

Japanese enterprises are not short of AI ambition. By 2023, most mid-to-large organizations had at least one AI pilot underway, leadership backing, and a defined use case. What they didn't have was a production agent. When Takuya Matsumoto began working on enterprise AI deployments in Tokyo, the same pattern appeared in every engagement: the AI problem was solvable in weeks. The integration problem — connecting kintone records, SAP modules, SharePoint libraries, and proprietary REST APIs into something an LLM could actually query — was consuming twelve to eighteen months and most of the budget.

The underlying AI wasn't the bottleneck. The connectors were. Every organization solved the same integration problems from scratch, with custom middleware that needed its own maintenance, its own documentation, and its own on-call engineers. AI pilots died not from bad AI, but from organizational exhaustion before the first agent ever reached an end user.

Intersect was founded in Shibuya in 2023 with a single thesis: build the integration layer once, correctly, for the specific stack that Japanese enterprises actually run — and give every DX team a five-week path from idea to production agent. Askhub is that platform. The connectors, the Japanese-language NLP tuning, the APPI-aligned data controls, and the white-glove implementation model are all there because we have seen what happens without them.

We are not a large SI firm. We do not take on every engagement. We take on the ones where the use case is clear, the data is accessible, and the team is ready to deploy something real.