Netsujo Selected for JETRO’s J-StarX Global Bootcamp Series in Kansai

Five days in Kyoto with Berkeley SkyDeck

J-StarX is an entrepreneur development initiative run in collaboration by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and JETRO. The Global Bootcamp Series is delivered in partnership with Berkeley SkyDeck, the startup accelerator founded at the University of California, Berkeley. The series includes bootcamps in Miyagi, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Fukuoka. The Kansai course is organized with the cooperation of Kyoto University.

The Kyoto schedule combined hybrid sessions on November 4–5 with in-person sessions on November 6–8. JETRO’s recruitment materials list short pitches, customer discovery, and product and market strategy as examples of the curriculum.

We will explain whose problem we aim to solve and why the work matters, alongside a description of the technology.

Our focus: Roles and responsibilities for AI agents

Netsujo develops and publishes Agent Role Contracts (ARC), open-source software that checks the consistency of declared AI-agent roles, work scopes, and review separation before execution.

For the Kyoto bootcamp, we prepared English pitch materials focused on ARC. We started with a practical question: when multiple AI agents divide up work, who is responsible for each task, and who reviews the result? We used that question to clarify the problem we are trying to solve and the value of our technology.

ARC checks consistency between declared rules and requested work. Runtime permissions and external effects remain the responsibility of the surrounding authorization, approval, and audit systems. We want to understand how this division of responsibilities can support real business workflows.

Three questions we want to test in global markets

1. Customer needs: What challenges do overseas teams face in assigning AI-agent work, defining change boundaries, and establishing independent review?
2. Product fit: How can ARC's declaration checks integrate with existing development, review, and approval workflows?
3. Commercial demand: Where could open-source adoption lead to a need for implementation or operational support?

Conversations with users and specialists will help us prioritize problems and make better product and business decisions.

From Kyoto to the next stage of validation

A separate selection process is planned after the domestic bootcamps. Selected participants will be eligible for a planned on-site program in Berkeley, United States, in February 2027. We will study the challenges overseas development teams face when integrating ARC into existing workflows and use those findings to refine our international-market hypotheses.

Based in Kyoto, we will continue working with developers and businesses in Japan and abroad to improve how AI-agent roles and responsibilities are defined and reviewed in practice. We will share further progress through our company updates.

If your team is interested in validating ARC against a real workflow or discussing a business collaboration, please contact Netsujo.

Related links

• JETRO: J-StarX Global Bootcamp Series in Kansai
• Agent Role Contracts product page
• Agent Role Contracts on GitHub