Marcio Miike Jr.

Algoboa

Algoboa is my company. We help companies build AI into their everyday work, and we help businesses reach customers in Japan and overseas. I founded it in Tokyo in July 2025.

The top of the Algoboa website: the Algoboa logo and the words AI adoption and development, international expansion and Japan market entry
The Algoboa website

The name

Algoboa comes from two Portuguese words: algo, something, and boa, good. Something good.

Portuguese is the language of the country where I was born, and where my family has had a coffee farm since the 1930s.

Why I started it

On my family’s farm, much of the work is judgment that nobody has written down. Reading the soil and the weather. Knowing the state of a plant. Keeping a buyer’s trust. It works until the person who knows it is gone.

Companies have the same problem. Information is scattered, the reasons behind decisions are hard to trace, and too much depends on a few experienced people. The larger the company, the more it costs.

Algoboa exists to put what people know into systems that others can use every day.

A satellite image of a small town surrounded by green fields and patches of red earth
Bandeirantes, the town in Brazil where my family’s farm is. Image: Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 and 2017), CC BY 4.0, brightened.

What we do

  • AI AI adoption and system developmentWe review how the work is done, find where AI helps, and build the tools: document search, answer drafting, summaries, document writing. Then we connect them to the systems already in use and keep improving them.
  • Markets International expansion and Japan market entryFor Japanese businesses going abroad and overseas businesses coming to Japan. We decide who to reach and what to say, write the content in English, find buyers, and take part in the sales talks.

The second service comes from RIKYU, where I do the same work for Japanese matcha.

The two services as shown on the Algoboa website: AI adoption and system development, and international expansion and Japan market entry
The two services on the Algoboa website.

How we work

  • 1Understand the current situationThe workflows and systems, or the product, the customers and the way it is sold today
  • 2Define the workScope, cost, schedule, and how the result will be judged
  • 3Carry it outBuild the system, write the content, approach the buyers
  • 4Review and improveTime saved, actual use, what customers said

Most of our AI work so far has been with manufacturers. I work with each client directly.

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