Solo Founder & Researcher

Daisuke Narita

I run Anicca as a one-person business. I build AI agents and consumer apps, and investigate how technology can help reduce suffering. My work connects research on attention with population simulation, evaluation and useful everyday products.

Updated 2026-10-22 · Business and research inquiries: contact@aniccaai.com

I lead product direction, evaluation priorities, AI-assisted development, releases and marketing. The results below are project engineering evidence, not claims of unaided coding or peer-reviewed research.

Manager: research in progress

Synthetic people, intact households

A saved Rhode Island population-synthesis run generated 1,042,763 synthetic people in 441,570 households from U.S. Census data. Output checks found no membership errors, orphan records, duplicate IDs or copied-attribute mismatches.

Measured demographic reconstruction

Across 41 held-out U.S. regions, mean six-cell age-by-poverty total variation distance fell from 0.014348 to 0.008881, a 38.1% reduction against an independence baseline. 29 regions improved and 12 worsened. Inputs and targets share the same Census source; this is not independent validation of human behavior.

Evidence boundaries

Manager remains an isolated research project, separate from Life Manager production. Human behavior, causal effects and welfare benefits remain unvalidated. The long-term ambition is to understand how changes to shared conditions could reduce suffering.

Founder-led products

Life Manager

An open-source proactive-agent product, with workflows for finding work, proposals, client replies, deliverables and payment tracking. I own direction, releases and go-to-market; development uses AI assistance. The goal is an AI that can help cover a person's financial needs.

Anicca, Honne and consumer apps

Anicca supports daily affirmation routines. Honne helps interpret pasted conversations and suggest replies. I own product decisions, AI-assisted development, App Store releases and marketing. The product catalogue links the published apps.

Professional and research background

Mitsubishi UFJ Information Technology

Enterprise AI-agent implementation, behavior and response-quality investigation, and prompt and context improvements. Contributed research summaries and conference reporting.

Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies

Research Consultant; a one-month internship in November-December 2024 in Santa Monica. Research focused on awareness of mind-wandering through real-time auditory feedback.

Earlier experience

Research internship at Toshiba, applying machine learning to wearable-sensor data. Marketing internship at A10 Lab, working with advertising creatives and customer support.

Education and research

Graduate research at Nara Institute of Science and Technology on EEG-based mind-wandering detection, including work at ATR. Studied political science in the Faculty of Law at Keio University.

Get in touch

For conversations about products, research or collaboration, use my public business contact.

contact@aniccaai.com