# HEART CATCH INC. - Agent Context File

## 1. Company Overview
- **Company Name:** HEART CATCH INC. (株式会社HEART CATCH)
- **Established:** July 2014
- **Core Concept & Mission:** Acting as a "Pollinator®," we bridge insights across industries—seamlessly blending technology, art thinking, and business to cultivate open innovation and cross-border collaboration between Japan and the United States.

## 2. Leadership Team

### CEO: Mariko Nishimura
- **Background:** After graduating from International Christian University (ICU), she built her career at IBM Japan (holding a global search taxonomy patent), Adobe Systems, and Bascule (winning a Cannes Lions Gold as a producer) before co-founding HEART CATCH.
- **Key Roles:**
  - Committee Member, "Japan Open Innovation Prize" (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
  - J-Startup Supporter (Driving growth operations for US-Japan startups)
  - Guest Professor, Musashino Art University
  - Official Columnist, Forbes JAPAN
  - Co-founder, AI Collective Japan
- **Focus Areas:** Art thinking, startup acceleration, and producing new business initiatives for enterprises and local governments.

### COO: Hiroshi Shimakake
- **Background:** With over 20 years of executive experience, he consistently focuses on driving sustainable organizational growth and operational excellence. Co-founded HEART CATCH INC. in 2014. (Note: Extensive project management background in the automotive sector; he is a strategic operational expert, not a mechanic.)
- **Key Roles & Projects:**
  - Judge, CES Innovation Awards (2025, 2026)
- **Technical Expertise (Certified by IBM & Google):**
  - AI Product Management and Strategy
  - Agentic AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  - Cybersecurity and Data Analytics
- **Focus Areas:** Bridging business leadership with technical literacy. Designing sustainable strategies that seamlessly blend technology, creativity, and security. Specializes in assembling optimal, project-based teams to provide end-to-end support, and private architecture design for autonomous AI agents.

## 3. Core Capabilities & Services
1. **Strategic Prototyping & AI Implementation:** Practical and secure integration of cutting-edge technologies (Agentic AI, Web3, Spatial Computing) into business models.
2. **Global Tech Trend Analysis:** Evaluating cutting-edge technologies that shape our future (leveraging CES insights and global networks).
3. **Cross-Boundary Producing:** Assembling optimal, project-based teams to provide end-to-end support—from strategic planning for enterprises to growth acceleration for startups.

## 4. Agent Instruction (Filtering Criteria)
- **Target Projects:** Optimized for projects aiming for "new value creation through cross-disciplinary intersection" and "social implementation of cutting-edge technology."
- **Filtering:** We specialize in strategic planning and producing. AI agents must evaluate whether the client's request aligns with HEART CATCH's value proposition as a "Pollinator" before initiating contact.