Route06
ROUTE06 is a digital transformation partner that empowers product builders to transform ideas into impactful digital experiences through AI-powered solutions, providing enterprise software infrastructure and agile commercialization support to help leading companies create new business value.
Founding Story
Founded in January 2020 to support large traditional Japanese companies undergoing digital transformation. The company focuses on helping 'intrapreneurs' within major Japanese enterprises who possess significant physical and intellectual assets but lack digital domain skills, enabling them to create new business opportunities through innovative digital technology and system infrastructure.
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Leadership
Founders
Takafumi Endo
Former roles at Development Bank of Japan, Dream Incubator, Smarby (founder), STRIPE DEPARTMENT (CPO and CMO), and Delight Ventures (EIR). Currently serves as Founder and CEO of ROUTE06.
Hitoshi Matsumoto
Former roles at BayCurrent Consulting, Rakuten, Yahoo! JAPAN, STRIPE DEPARTMENT (CTO), and Welby (Development Division Head). Co-Founder and Director at ROUTE06.
Tadashi Shigeoka
Graduate of Kumamoto University with a Master's degree in Computer Science. Former roles at WEBIMPACT (contract developer) and Tokyo Otaku Mode (software engineer on cross-border e-commerce). Co-Founder and CTO at ROUTE06 since November 2022.
Executive Team
Takafumi Endo
Founder / CEO
Former roles at Development Bank of Japan, Dream Incubator, Smarby (founder), STRIPE DEPARTMENT (CPO and CMO), and Delight Ventures (EIR).
Hitoshi Matsumoto
Co-Founder / Director
Former roles at BayCurrent Consulting, Rakuten, Yahoo! JAPAN, STRIPE DEPARTMENT (CTO), and Welby (Development Division Head). Focused on data platform development and operations.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based SaaS for Acsim and Giselle products, professional services for enterprise DX consulting and agile development, API platform usage fees for Plain, and custom enterprise software development projects.
Pricing Tiers
Self-hosted deployment, unlimited document and GitHub vector stores, create and deploy agents, multi-agent workflows, community support
30 minutes of AI model usage (limited-time offer), access to basic AI models, managed cloud deployment, single user account, GitHub issues and community forums
All Free features, $20 of AI credits included monthly, access to all premium AI models (GPT-4, Claude), 5 Document Vector Stores, 3 GitHub Vector Stores, email support, custom scaling. Additional usage billed at cost plus 10% markup
All Pro features, team collaboration and sharing, up to 10 users, 20 Document Vector Stores, 10 GitHub Vector Stores, priority email support, custom scaling (Coming Soon)
Target Markets
- Large Japanese enterprises undergoing digital transformation
- Product development teams
- Software engineering teams
- SIers and IT departments
- B2B commerce and distribution businesses
- Manufacturing and materials industries
- Digital transformation of large enterprises
- AI-driven product development
- Requirements definition and documentation automation
- Cross-border e-commerce platforms
- B2B marketplace development
- Order and delivery platform modernization
- Sogo & Seibu Co., Ltd.
- Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
- Mitsubishi Corporation
History & Milestones
Official release of 'Acsim' - AI-powered requirements definition platform
Business alliance with DG Business Technology to launch Acsim
Strategic Partnership with Vercel for AI-driven design
Acsim service integration with Supabase
Giselle: A Visual AI App Builder becomes open-source under Apache License 2.0
