matagi

Backed by icebreaker.vc

About us

AI for the many, not the few.

AI is changing how work gets done, but most businesses are being left behind. We build specialized agents to close that gap, one industry at a time.

A quiet winter trail through a mountain forest
マタギ

Matagi, traditional winter hunters of northern Japan

AI is moving fast. Most businesses are not.

The benefits of AI are concentrated among a small group: the engineers and technical teams with the skills, tools and budget to build with it. Everyone else hears the promise but cannot reach it in any meaningful way.

Whole industries run on phone calls, paperwork and software from another decade. The businesses that can experiment with AI pull further ahead, while the rest fall behind. Not because they lack ambition, but because the technology was never built for them.

Our mission

Level the playing field.

We go where AI adoption is lowest and build agents that do real work there. We map how each industry operates into a knowledge graph, connect it to the company's own data, and ship agents that can act on it. The toolkit we build with is available to you too, so any team can build its own.

Specialized agents

Agents built for one industry's real work, not general chatbots.

Industry knowledge

Knowledge graphs and context networks that let agents operate with judgment.

The same toolkit

The toolkit we build with, open to any team that wants to build its own agents.

Built to keep running

Hosting, data, tools and deployment handled, so agents stay at work.

A name from the mountains of Tōhoku.

The Matagi (マタギ) are the traditional winter hunters of the Tōhoku mountains in northern Japan. Moving through deep snow and forest calls for patience, tracking, and a profound understanding of the terrain.

That spirit shapes our work. We learn an industry before we build for it. We follow the details. We carry only what serves a purpose.

How the name shapes the work.

01

Learn before changing

We start with the people, tools, rules and decisions that already shape the work in an industry.

02

Follow the details

The small handoffs and repeated tasks show where an agent can help and where it cannot.

03

Carry only what serves a purpose

We favor focused agents that earn their place over more software, more layers and more upkeep.

Ambition should be the only limit.

A one-person business should be able to work like a team of ten. Start with one agent that takes real work off your team.

Work with us