Monday's Idea, Powered by AI on Friday: Initial Engine Launches 'CAIO Beside' AI Implementation Service Directly Linked to Management
Initial Engine Inc. has launched 'CAIO Beside,' a monthly accompaniment service where experienced CTOs and CAIOs work alongside executives to instantly transform business challenges into AI-powered solutions. This service aims to accelerate generative AI adoption and utilization for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing prototypes from the first week, unlike traditional DX consulting.
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Initial Engine Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director CEO: Matsusaburo Tsukuda) has launched 'CAIO Beside,' a monthly accompaniment service where experienced CTOs and CAIOs work alongside executives to instantly transform business challenges into AI-powered solutions. While traditional DX consulting operates on a 3-6 month cycle of 'hearing → report → proposal,' this service provides prototypes from the first week, immediately converting executives' inspirations into 'working systems,' thereby accelerating small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engaged in generative AI adoption and AI utilization promotion.
■ Background: To resolve the shortage of 'AI strategy command centers' in companies
With the rapid spread of generative AI, the necessity of promoting AI utilization in companies is widely recognized. On the other hand, a survey conducted by CDO Club Japan in 2025 revealed that the installation rate of CAIOs (Chief AI Officers) in Japanese companies remains at a mere 4%, with 41% of AI promotion being concurrently handled by CDOs. *
Currently, major consulting firms are successively launching CAIO support services, but these services primarily target large corporations, focusing on strategy formulation and organizational design using global frameworks. The reality is that they do not reach the specific challenges faced by SMEs, such as 'stalled PoCs,' 'over-reliance on specific individuals,' and 'lack of executors.' To fill this market gap, we launched CAIO Beside with a new model that 'simultaneously verbalizes and implements.'
*Source: CDO Club Japan 'Survey on the Status of Chief AI Officer Installation and AI Adoption/Utilization in Japanese Companies' https://cdoclub.jp/news/7055/
■ About the Monthly Accompaniment Service CAIO Beside
The biggest feature of CAIO Beside is that an 'implementer,' not just an 'advisor,' sits next to the executive. The team is primarily composed of experienced CTOs and CAIOs, who simultaneously verbalize management challenges and implement AI solutions. This structurally eliminates the fatal time lag in traditional DX support and AI adoption support, which arises when 'report creators' and 'system creators' are separate.
■ Comparison with conventional services
■ Pricing and Introduction Flow
The process begins with a free initial session (60 minutes, online). We will listen to the executive's challenges and demonstrate what can be done on the spot. Fees will be incurred only after a decision to continue is made after the initial session. Subsequently, clients transition to either the Monthly Accompaniment Standard (800,000-1,500,000 JPY/month) or Monthly Accompaniment Premium (1,500,000-3,000,000 JPY/month), receiving weekly sessions in addition to ongoing AI implementation.
Free Consultation:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8JeUOidwYPJpucSQtdvS5BtkAzRnYgcsbVOUADaa6OuWvQQ/viewform
■ Service Provision Team
Matsusaburo Tsukuda, Representative Director CEO
Independent from the DX business division of a game company with 10 billion JPY in sales. Defined DX that connects management and technology as the essence of business and established Initial Engine.
Ryuta Sato, Director CTO / CAIO
Possesses both the 'ability to materialize' as a CTO and the 'ability to show the way' as a CAIO. Responsible for end-to-end AI implementation and organizational design.
Company Profile
Company Name: Initial Engine Inc.
Representative Director CEO: Matsusaburo Tsukuda
Established: April 2024
Business Activities: Full-stack DX Agency Business
Corporate Philosophy: 'Our wisdom and experience where they are needed.'
■ Background: To resolve the shortage of 'AI strategy command centers' in companies
With the rapid spread of generative AI, the necessity of promoting AI utilization in companies is widely recognized. On the other hand, a survey conducted by CDO Club Japan in 2025 revealed that the installation rate of CAIOs (Chief AI Officers) in Japanese companies remains at a mere 4%, with 41% of AI promotion being concurrently handled by CDOs. *
Currently, major consulting firms are successively launching CAIO support services, but these services primarily target large corporations, focusing on strategy formulation and organizational design using global frameworks. The reality is that they do not reach the specific challenges faced by SMEs, such as 'stalled PoCs,' 'over-reliance on specific individuals,' and 'lack of executors.' To fill this market gap, we launched CAIO Beside with a new model that 'simultaneously verbalizes and implements.'
*Source: CDO Club Japan 'Survey on the Status of Chief AI Officer Installation and AI Adoption/Utilization in Japanese Companies' https://cdoclub.jp/news/7055/
■ About the Monthly Accompaniment Service CAIO Beside
The biggest feature of CAIO Beside is that an 'implementer,' not just an 'advisor,' sits next to the executive. The team is primarily composed of experienced CTOs and CAIOs, who simultaneously verbalize management challenges and implement AI solutions. This structurally eliminates the fatal time lag in traditional DX support and AI adoption support, which arises when 'report creators' and 'system creators' are separate.
■ Comparison with conventional services
■ Pricing and Introduction Flow
The process begins with a free initial session (60 minutes, online). We will listen to the executive's challenges and demonstrate what can be done on the spot. Fees will be incurred only after a decision to continue is made after the initial session. Subsequently, clients transition to either the Monthly Accompaniment Standard (800,000-1,500,000 JPY/month) or Monthly Accompaniment Premium (1,500,000-3,000,000 JPY/month), receiving weekly sessions in addition to ongoing AI implementation.
Free Consultation:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8JeUOidwYPJpucSQtdvS5BtkAzRnYgcsbVOUADaa6OuWvQQ/viewform
■ Service Provision Team
Matsusaburo Tsukuda, Representative Director CEO
Independent from the DX business division of a game company with 10 billion JPY in sales. Defined DX that connects management and technology as the essence of business and established Initial Engine.
Ryuta Sato, Director CTO / CAIO
Possesses both the 'ability to materialize' as a CTO and the 'ability to show the way' as a CAIO. Responsible for end-to-end AI implementation and organizational design.
Company Profile
Company Name: Initial Engine Inc.
Representative Director CEO: Matsusaburo Tsukuda
Established: April 2024
Business Activities: Full-stack DX Agency Business
Corporate Philosophy: 'Our wisdom and experience where they are needed.'