Independent Intelligence Studio · Tokyo

R▱UT1

Private, bilingual tools for real-world coordination.

R▱UT1 is an independent AI studio in Tokyo building privacy-first tools for everyday coordination, starting with daily life and moving toward industrial systems. Below: what's live, and where we're headed.

Products

What we're building

Two live products built from real daily friction and refined through use.

Live · Web & iOS

Home Brain

Your family's second brain. One private, bilingual app for meals, pantry, tasks, and household coordination, with AI that turns the mental load of running a home into something shared and organized. Built for families living across Japanese and English.

Visit home-brain.app App Store

Live

Kikitori Live

A privacy-first bilingual speech tool for live transcription, translation, and structured notes. Audio is not retained, and users control their transcripts.

Visit kiki-tori.com

Questions

Three questions we keep pulling on

The studio is organized around three directions, each grounded in shipped products or lived technical questions.

Bilingual intelligence Japanese and English as a first-class problem: translation, live transcription, mixed-language workflows.
Private operational memory AI that organizes recurring load without exposing more than necessary.
Applied industrial AI A process engineering background and long-term interest in dependable AI for complex real-world systems.

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Contact

Collaborate or get in touch

R▱UT1 is open to conversations with builders, researchers, and partners working in bilingual AI, privacy-first products, speech interfaces, and applied industrial AI.

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