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CHIERO INC.

Turning tilt
into structure.

The world is always tilted somewhere. Find the gap, bet your own capital, and turn it into something that keeps running on its own. CHIERO Inc. is an investment and R&D company based in Fukuoka, Japan.

200+BOOKS PUBLISHED
400KSOCIAL FOLLOWERS
1B+TOTAL VIEWS

Business

Three things. That's all.

Art, books and advisory work belong to the same flow. Revenue from that work goes into what we make next.

01

Investment & R&D

Investing on our own judgment, and research and development using AI. We keep only what survives verification. This is the core of turning tilt into structure.

02

Advisor to Founders

Sitting alongside business owners as they make decisions. Not handing over answers from outside — putting into words the answer the owner already holds but has not yet been able to say. Where and how to put AI into a business gets decided here too.

03

Publishing & Media

Over 200 books published. Through books and social media, we record ways of thinking and the tools that go with them, and deliver them to the people who need them.

Books

Philosophy, Eastern thought, and AI in practice. Over 200 titles.
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An Introduction to Hagakure for Beginners reached #1 on Amazon Japan in the History & Geography Reference / White Papers category. All titles are in Japanese.

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Products

Built because they should exist — in-house, with AI. Free to use.

ART

Tokoyo

A point has no position of its own. It is fixed only by its relations to the other points.
Take the relations away and the shape goes with them.

Forty thousand points look like a living thing — not because of the points, but because of what holds between them. Thin the points out on screen and, at some count, the shape is gone. The same equation is still running.

The same creature drawn with 40,000 points, 625 points and one point

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Media

Places we were invited to

InterviewInvited onto the talk show “Kobayashi's Room” to talk about running a business alone. In Japanese.

TelevisionProvided footage to Nippon TV's The Tetsuwan DASH for its “Surprising Facts About Octopus” special — one of Japan's longest-running prime-time programmes. We were credited on air as the source.

Founder

CHIERO (Kou Nakata)
CHIERO

CHIERO — Kou Nakata

FOUNDER & CEO

Born in Fukuoka, Japan. Studied IT and medicine at Kyushu University Graduate School, then left the research path to become a professional street performer — on the streets of Fukuoka and Tokyo, and as far as Sydney, Australia. Juggling and magic, stopping a hundred people in the first thirty minutes.

After about two years at an IT company in Tokyo working on marketing and problem-solving, he returned to Fukuoka and founded CHIERO Inc. in December 2020. Today he works on investment and R&D funded by his own capital, advises business owners, builds products, and writes. In April 2026 he completed “AI Business Insights 2026,” the AI Management endowed course at the University of Tokyo.

History

This is a one-person company, so the company's history and the founder's are not kept apart. They are the same line.

  1. 2013Studied IT and medicine at Kyushu University Graduate School (Systems Life Sciences). While still enrolled, left the research path to become a professional street performer. From the streets of Fukuoka and Tokyo to Sydney, Australia. Juggling and magic — a hundred people stopped in the first thirty minutes. His stage name, Chikkoi Piero (“the little clown”), later became CHIERO.
    The handwritten sign: My name is CHIERO / Juggling!
    The handwritten sign he set on the pavement back then. The company name comes from here.
  2. 2018Joined an IT company in Tokyo. Two years on the ground in marketing and problem-solving. The instinct for the moment a person stops walking, learned on the street, gained logic and numbers here. Both halves of the current work came together.
  3. 2020Returned to Fukuoka. Founded CHIERO Inc. in December. No employees — started alone.
  4. 2022Launched a video advertising business. Repetitive work goes to AI; people face only the decisions — the shape still in use today was settled here.
  5. 2023Interviewed in April by the business media Shin-R25 for its “The Next Creators” feature. In July, appeared as the first guest on the YouTube programme “The Philosophy of a Founder.”
  6. 2024Began publishing on Kindle. From philosophy and Eastern thought to practical books on AI. If you cannot write it, you do not yet understand it — that is why he keeps writing.
  7. 2026Completed “AI Business Insights 2026,” the AI Management endowed course at the University of Tokyo (Department of Technology Management for Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering), in April. The course covers the fundamentals of AI, applied research, corporate case studies, and how organisations should be shaped — an outside yardstick laid against work already underway.
  8. NowInvestment and R&D at the core, alongside advising founders, building products, and writing. Over 200 books published. Provided footage to Nippon TV's The Tetsuwan DASH. Alumnus of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community, and a councillor of the Ishibashi Scholarship Foundation, a public interest foundation in Fukuoka.

Company

Name
CHIERO Inc. (株式会社CHIERO)
Founder & CEO
Kou Nakata
Founded
December 2020
Address
Cercle Imaizumi 404, 1-3-23 Imaizumi, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0021, Japan
Business
  1. Investment & R&D
  2. Advisor to founders
  3. Publishing & media

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