About Takiki

Built solo in Tokyo, for families adapting to life in Japan.

Who's behind this

I'm Luke. I live in Tokyo with my wife and our child. Like many foreign residents here, we didn't arrive speaking near-native Japanese — and life in Japan still routes a lot of daily logistics through phone calls in polite Japanese. Booking a doctor for a child, calling a hair salon, confirming a school enrollment, rearranging a delivery: any of these can become a 20-minute rehearsal-and-dread loop when you're still learning the language.

Takiki is the tool I wanted my own family to have. It places these calls in fluent Japanese on the user's behalf, returns the result in their language, and along the way captures the vocabulary you can keep practicing afterward. The second mode — Takiki Talk — grew out of my own kid asking to "just talk to a robot in Japanese."

Why this matters

Migrant families are some of the most motivated language learners on earth — and the most likely to be defeated by a missed phone call. Takiki removes the call as a blocker so the learning can keep happening.

Japan has roughly 3.4 million foreign residents, and a growing share of them are families with school-age children. The first one to two years are disproportionately friction-heavy. If Takiki can take the dread out of "I have to call somebody" for even a single family this year, the product has earned its keep.

Trust and safety

Every outbound call opens with the assistant identifying itself as an AI calling on behalf of the user — in line with Japan's 総務省 guidance on automated voice. One call per explicit user click, never bulk, never marketing. Voice audio is retained for seven days and then automatically deleted; full details on the Privacy Policy. The Terms of Service spell out what we will and will not do on your behalf.

Stay in touch

Email: app@luke.archi
X (Twitter): @luk3arch1
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Stage: Private beta · public launch planned for late 2026

Want early access? Email me — I add trusted households to the beta allowlist one at a time, so the calls we place stay rare and real.

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