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 squad of about twenty-four 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.
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.
inside kai
Sixteen minds.
One intelligence.
Ask KAI anything, and this is who really answers — the engineers, designers and people operations it learned everything from, across five countries. Flip a card to hear them in their own words.