SHIP IT
Twelve weeks. Not eleven. Not forever.
Hold to build momentum — release inside the shipping window.
human mode · est. 2024 · cyprus · greece · pakistan · uk · zimbabwe
Hi. We're the humans.
You've met KAI — our studio, in conversation form. We're the ones who taught it everything it knows. Kakushin is our innovation studio: strategy, engineering and design under one roof, with a deliberate bias toward technology that leaves people better off.
Partners in life and in work — a strategist and an AI builder, building the studio we wished existed when we started out. Around us: a senior team across engineering, design and strategy.
what we believe
Ideas are everywhere.
Execution is rare.
Innovation meets purpose. We work with startups, nonprofits and organisations across healthtech, edtech and impact — and we've supported 90+ startups across Europe, the US and Africa. Where many firms hand over slides, we hand over products.
- Ship products, not slides. Every engagement ends with something a user can hold, click or sign up for. Deliverables, not decks.
- Senior squads only. The people you meet write the code, the brand and the pitch. No silent re-staffing.
- Weekly demos. Real software every Friday from week two onward. If you don't see it, the engagement isn't healthy.
- Optimise for impact. Work that matters past the funding round.
On names: 革新 — kakushin — means radical renewal. The small, daily version of that idea is 改 — kai. It's what we named the AI you just met.
the architect · CTO
Behind every product KAI shows you, there's an architect — turning the studio's ideas into systems that ship, across five countries and one twelve-week rhythm.
what we do — five disciplines, one studio
- AI integration
- LLM, RAG & agent workflows; voice, vision & multimodal UX; evals & guardrails.
- MVP engineering
- Complete builds with senior squads — web, iOS, Android, backend — plus a stack your team can take over.
- Brand & identity
- Naming, visual systems, motion, web, decks & sales kits.
- Business strategy
- Go-to-market, pricing, fundraising narrative, EU funding paths.
- Growth
- Activation & retention loops, experiments, product analytics.
how we work — the studio loop
- wk 1–2DiscoverProblem framing, 8–12 user interviews, a technical north star.
- wk 3–6DesignBrand system, product UI and motion — in tandem with the engineering plan.
- wk 7–10BuildProduction MVP in sprints. Real users by week eight.
- wk 11–12LaunchPublic launch, investor-ready deck, roadmap & handover.
where we go deepest
- Healthtech
- From triage to caregiver tools — clinical decision support and regulated data pipelines. Pilots with hospitals across Greece and the EU; HDHC member.
- Edtech
- Adaptive curriculum engines, tutor & teacher copilots, multilingual content — for schools, universities and ed-startups across Europe and Africa.
- Brand & impact
- Brands and products that ship together. Startups, nonprofits and environmental initiatives — innovation meets purpose.
some of the work — the shipping log
Thirty-six lines in the registry. Here are ten — open a line to read it.
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AI triage for doctors — sub-minute pre-assessment with clinician-grade guardrails. FHIR/HL7-native, clinicians in the loop.
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A calm, always-on advisor for families of people living with dementia. Voice-first, multilingual — presented at Unicorn Pitches Nicosia ’26.
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Adaptive edtech — AI-native learning for schools and universities.
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Fashion-fit recommendation — right size, first order.
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Machine-sounding drafts, rewritten to read like a person — detection-aware, tone-preserving.
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Coffee-cup reading as a ritual — computer vision meets tasseography in a playful mobile app.
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Structured debate, online — take a side, make your case.
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Web3 fan engagement for sport — ownership, rewards and matchday energy.
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CEFR-aligned English lessons from an automated pedagogical pipeline — built with teachers.
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A B2C marketplace for Greek olive oil — from grove to doorstep.
what founders say
"We went from a deck to a paying pilot in eleven weeks. Kakushin doesn't waste a sprint."— Founder, healthtech · Athens
"The team treated our brand and our codebase like one product. That's rare."— Co-founder, edtech · Lisbon
"They pushed back on the right things. The MVP we shipped is the MVP we should have wanted."— CTO, B2B SaaS · Nairobi
recognition, independently given
- FoundersBeta Top 100 Companies to Watch 2026 — ranked #78 (also listed 2025)
- F6S Top 40 — ranked #40
- HDHC — member of the Hellenic Digital Health Cluster since 2024
- Top Female Founders & Leaders 2024 — Aletia Trakakis, FoundersBeta
- Press — AP News · The Founders Press · Marketers Media
- Purpose — UN Global Compact participant · Women's Empowerment Principles signatory
- 2024Studio founded in Cyprus, with a foot in Athens. Joined the HDHC.
- 2025AINTE pilot live. F6S Top 40. 90+ startups supported.
- 2026FoundersBeta Top 100. DementiaBuddy beta, presented at Unicorn Pitches Nicosia.
write to us
Tell us what you want to build.
A real person answers — usually one of us. Tell us the product, the market, and what success looks like in twelve weeks.
— Spiridoula & Aletia
P.S. If you're an early-stage founder, ask KAI about Founders12, our twelve-week program. That's the only time we'll mention it.