Tom Sonoda. Founder & CEO of Utagoe Inc. and CEO of Asteria ART, Tokyo.

At Utagoe, I'm building Pyunto, a private, end-to-end encrypted diary that AI agents and robots can join as members. You write on your phone; your agent replies, or your robot acts, in the same thread. The agent runs on your own computer, and entries are decrypted only there. https://pyunto.com

At Asteria ART, we build Artefacts, a platform for simulation-based testing and CI of robotics applications (ROS 2 and beyond), used in manipulation, agriculture and space robotics. We're part of a project under Japan's Space Strategy Fund (JAXA), simulating lunar exploration robots. https://artefacts.com

GitHub: https://github.com/utagoeinc / https://github.com/art-e-fact

Background: PhD in Information Science, Waseda University. Former JSPS Research Fellow. Selected for IPA's Mitou (Exploratory IT) program. Earlier built P2P live video streaming at Utagoe.

Interested in: AI agents, robotics, space exploration, local LLMs, E2E encryption, human history.