From restaurant floor to AI implementer.

Hands-on restaurant operations background meets AI × automation. Solo practice in Tokyo, building production systems for restaurants and small businesses.

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About

I'm Masahito Hebiishi (蛇石 真民). I spent eight years on the floor at Skylark Holdings, one of the largest restaurant groups in Japan, before transitioning to engineering. Today I design, build, and operate AI and automation systems for restaurants and small businesses — alone, end to end.

8 years — Restaurant operations

Floor work at Skylark Holdings: operations, numbers, staff training, daily store running.

Transition — Self-taught engineering

Moved to engineering to fix the inefficiencies I saw daily. React, Next.js, FastAPI, Cloud Run.

Now — Solo practice

Notion, Google Apps Script, AI, and web apps. Five products running in production. Based in Tokyo.

What I do

Restaurant AI search optimization (LLMO / AIO)

Get restaurants visible in ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Perplexity, and — in Japan — LINE Agent i. Structured data, content engineering, monthly measurement.

LINE Official Account AI integration

LINE AI Chatbot (β) setup, Q&A engineering, preparation for the LINE OA AI Mode launching summer 2026. Specific to the Japanese market where LINE dominates.

Notion + Google Apps Script automation

Database design, relations, automated sync with Sheets/Forms/Gmail. 4,200+ Notion page sync flows shipped.

AI embedded in workflow

Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini APIs for summarization, classification, report generation. RAG-based internal knowledge search (8,200+ chunks, 87.5% accuracy in production).

Custom web applications

React / Next.js / FastAPI / Cloud Run. Internal tools to consumer SaaS. Currently operating five production apps.

Products in production

aiyolab — AI learning platform for registered dietitians

2,400+ national exam questions with AI explanations, AI meal-plan generator, RAG-based nutrition chat. Three-tier subscription.

Next.jsPrismaPostgreSQLClaude APIGemini APIStripe

Hidamari — Anonymous peer support SNS

Mental-health focused anonymous community. Crisis keyword detection and SOS button built in. iOS / Android.

ReactFirebaseCloud RunCapacitor

LLMO Dashboard — Brand visibility audit across 4 LLMs

Test how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity describe a brand. Integrated reports with competitive deltas and action items.

ReactExpressPostgreSQLStripe

LeadNavi — Sales lead generation SaaS

Auto-collected prospect lists via Google Places API and scraping. Team management and Stripe billing built in.

StreamlitPostgreSQLCloud RunStripe

AI BI Tool — Restaurant analytics with natural language

Natural language → SQL → charts → AI interpretation, end to end. Built for small restaurants who can't afford an analyst.

FastAPIReactEChartsClaude API

Why solo

Design, implementation, and operation are the same person. No broken telephone between requirements and code, no runbooks written by people who never ran the system.

Floor-trained intuition shapes the design: I know what "the staff won't use this" looks like before code is written.

Decision speed is the moat. A LINE message at noon can become a deployment by evening.

Get in touch

If you're working on restaurant tech, AI-in-messenger-app strategy, or AI automation for SMBs, I'd be happy to talk.

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