Vol.064 — AI Native, the Japan Edition (Day 1): What Took Us Two Weeks and 30 Slides Now Takes Two Minutes
Date: 2026-08-08 | Newsletter
Key Summary
Vol.064 opens a brand-new strand from Functional AI Partners — “AI Native, the Japan Edition” — running in parallel to the English series about Zenta’s own Singapore accounting team. Where that one follows his back office, this one follows a real customer turning their own work AI Native, told exactly as it happens, wins and stumbles alike. Day 1’s client is a cosmetics-maker CEO who already uses ChatGPT two hours a day — so far ahead that FunAi’s “AI business diagnosis” was pointless. Instead Zenta showed the CEO how his own AI staff work; the CEO was drawn to AzimahX, Zenta’s AI Webmaster, and signed up on the spot for a four-session custom training. The reason was simple: no one in the company could write HTML, so they kept paying an outside web agency. The first hour of Day 1 went entirely to setup — installing the desktop app, enabling work mode, handing over AzimahX’s config, connecting Chrome, logging into the server. Then they asked AzimahX to change a job title on the About page. Two minutes later, done. The 30-slide PowerPoint they used to brief a human web contractor — and the two weeks that one edit used to take — had become two minutes. An Obon shipping notice on the homepage: another two minutes. By day’s end they had, in the CEO’s words, a web manager who works 24 hours and takes plain-language requests. What Zenta did all day was mostly watch two people enjoy themselves — seeing someone else feel the same fresh astonishment he once felt the first time he ran AzimahX. The one message: going AI Native takes no special skill, no switch to a hard new tool, no specialist hire — just ask AI to do your usual work, in your usual words, because the person already doing the job is the best AI user of all. Day 2 next: a “health check” of the company’s own website. Do it simple (シンプルにAIを) — your usual work, in your usual words.