Takajo AI Lab · Kyoto & Tokyo

Takajo鷹匠AI Lab — an AI research lab named after the falconer's art.

A lab for using AI with discipline.

We set the standards for how prompts are written, run a human-review learning program, and build an adversarial review engine that audits AI output. A small lab, grown from more than 1,000 prompt reviews.

Projects — three forms of one question

One question, three shapes

How do you actually use AI — not demo it, use it? The Lab answers in three forms: a standard, a program, a review engine.

01 / Standard

prompt-as-code v0.3.0

Prompt Engineering Standards

A language specification for prose written to be executed. Undefined variables, ambiguous instructions, and hallucinations treated as syntax errors.

02 / Program

Learn Premium full · AI Review soon

Submit work, get it reviewed

A learning program where submissions are actually executed and reviewed. Premium — human review, 5 teams max, currently full. AI Review — CriticChain-powered, in preparation.

03 / Engine

CriticChain v0.x

Adversarial Review Engine

A pipeline where one AI audits another's output and forces it to revise. Eleven agents on LangGraph, looping through Draft → Critique → Refine. Published under AGPL-3.0.

Work — for organizations

Strategy and learning, held together

For companies in Japan: a year-long advisory engagement, paired — if it fits — with the human-review learning program.

01

AI Strategic Partner

Strategic Audit & Advisory

A year-long engagement with leadership. Initial audit, roadmap, implementation review — the same person at the same table, for a full year. Limited to very few clients per year.

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Learn — Premium Plan

Human Review, for Teams

A learning program for company teams. Hatanaka runs each submission on the current model and writes the review by hand. Five teams, currently full; an opening may appear in about three months.

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Founder

Takaho Hatanaka

畑中 たかほ

Founder, Takajo AI Lab
Strategic Audit & Advisory 鷹匠 AI 研究室 主宰

More than a thousand prompt reviews taught me that most AI advice stops at the surface of the prose. The Lab is what happens when you stop stopping there — when you run the prompt, read the output, and write down what actually broke.

Those notes became three things: a standard for how prompts should be written, a program for teaching that standard through real submissions, and an engine that enforces it automatically. Each feeds the others. More on the Lab →