Category development and sales enablement
Research, buyer context, supplier criteria, product explanation, and launch materials when a specialist category needs more than a generic campaign.
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Independent judgment first. Delivery when the evidence supports it.
MKUltraman helps organizations already working in Japan make fragmented tools, unclear ownership, and stalled digital work clear enough to govern. Start with the free self-check or a $175 live Technology Decision Session. Written diagnosis, implementation, and recurring governance are separate engagements.
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Currently accepting scoped advisory inquiries for Japan operations
Best fit
Leadership and operating teams already responsible for Japan-side work and facing a real vendor, AI, workflow, reporting, migration, or systems decision.
- A consequential decision with visible operating stakes
- Independent judgment before predetermined tooling
- The people responsible for adoption and ownership can participate
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Evidence Selected operating record Verified roles, representative work, and redacted artifact structures without unsupported performance claims. Process How engagements work Scope, access, ownership, reporting, vendor coordination, handoff, and verification. Buyer fit Japan side operating fit How the work fits organizations already operating in Japan or directly responsible for Japan side operations.
Technology Health Check
Use this when leadership needs a written view of the relevant tools, ownership, dependencies, and material risks before more money or organizational effort is committed.
What you receive
- A map of the relevant tools, workflows, dependencies, and responsible owners
- Material risks, unclear assumptions, and failure points separated from lower-priority noise
- Prioritized findings and practical next-step choices
- A written report and debrief for leadership and operating owners
Format Fixed scope; schedule confirmed in proposal
Deliverable Written report + debrief
Starting from $1,000
The Health Check is diagnosis. It does not quietly include implementation, guaranteed savings, or an invented quantified outcome.
Infrastructure Roadmap and Implementation
Use this when the diagnosis supports a roadmap, migration, workflow redesign, reporting layer, or working operational system, and the organization is ready to own the result.
What the engagement can include
- Target-state roadmap, scope, dependencies, sequence, and named ownership
- Tool consolidation, migration, workflow design, automation, or reporting implementation
- Testing with the people who will operate the system
- Documentation, handoff, and verification against the agreed success conditions
Required from the client
- Access to the relevant operating context and decision makers
- Participation from the people responsible for adoption and ownership
- Timely decisions when scope, risk, or tradeoffs need leadership judgment
Scope Defined before implementation
Deliverable Roadmap or working system + documentation
Starting from $3,500
This is not generic software implementation. The work begins only when the operating problem, ownership, and success conditions are clear enough to scope.
Fractional Technology Advisory
Use this when technology decisions keep returning and leadership needs recurring senior judgment across vendors, roadmap priorities, operating risk, and organizational ownership.
What the advisory covers
- Decision support for vendors, platforms, AI use, workflow changes, and roadmap priorities
- Vendor oversight and challenge without predetermined endorsement
- Recurring review of ownership, delivery risk, dependencies, and next decisions
- Continuity between leadership intent and the people carrying the work
What it does not cover
- Help-desk tickets or generic outsourced IT support
- 24/7 incident response or a managed-service promise
- Staff augmentation or unbounded implementation work
- Responsibility that properly belongs to an internal owner or contracted vendor
Cadence Defined to fit the governance need
Boundary Advisory, oversight, and operating review
Starting from $1,200 / month
The retainer is senior judgment and governance. New implementation work is scoped separately when required.
Selective capabilities
Useful when they support the operating problem, not equal primary service lines.
Category development and media production can be scoped when they are necessary to make a product, place, or specialist offer clear and usable. Akiyaz and cultural projects remain separate ventures and proof-bearing operating work, not MKUltraman consulting offers.
Media production and documentation
Field photography, video, written context, and page-ready assets when operating or commercial value depends on place, provenance, or physical evidence.
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