The world's third-largest property market still runs on hanko seals, fax machines and closed networks — while nine million homes sit empty and foreign capital can't easily get in. That gap between an analog, over-regulated industry and a wave of global demand is exactly where KAGI is built.
Not opinions — measured, public, and cited. Each is a reason the market is stuck, and a reason software that respects the regulation can win.
Most proptech tries to route around Japan's rules and stalls. We treat the regulation as the core and make it programmable — six principles the platform is built on.
The 180-night cap, guest registry, lodging tax and reporting live as rules and effective-dated tables — computed, not checked by hand.
The regulation changes constantly; the core never does. Each rule, channel and payment provider is a swappable adapter behind a stable interface.
Fax, hanko, e-contracts, IT重説 and closed networks are wrapped behind clean adapters — so the messy analog world meets a modern API, not the other way round.
Over unreliable legacy systems, every action happens exactly once and every sensitive access is logged to an immutable trail. Safe by construction.
Passports and the guest registry are field-level encrypted, access-audited and retention-governed under APPI — by design, not as an afterthought.
Every yen is decomposed and reconciled, visible to the owner in their language and currency — the direct answer to a market trained to distrust its middlemen.
Acquire → operate → report for the owner, while owning no buildings ourselves. Software makes each additional unit nearly free to run.
Every regulatory turn raises the barrier for amateur hosts and deepens the switching cost for owners already on the platform.
Transparent settlement and a hard no-両手 rule are a real differentiator in a market taught to distrust brokers.
Guarantor, language, tax, remote operations, cross-border settlement — handled.
KAGI is the Japan real-estate initiative of mobiAI, Inc. — an operating company applying AI across mobility, logistics, development, cosmetics and real estate.
A mobiAI company