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Brittany Arthur
Brittany Arthur
Founder & CEO, Design Thinking Japan
Her Thesis

“If AI is the answer — what’s the question?”

For most of her career, Brittany has worked at the intersection of how people think and how technology gets built.

Her observation: production is no longer the competitive moat. The tools to create are everywhere. What’s genuinely scarce is the judgment to know what to create.

We are in the moment of architecture. The organizations that understand this will design the next decade. DTJ exists to develop that judgment — in leaders, and in the products we build with them.

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The Studio

DTJ is a senior team of AI engineers, designers, and strategists operating from Daikanyama, Tokyo.

Every person here holds dual capability — design thinking methodology and technical implementation. The discovery phase and the build phase share the same team. The insight survives into the product.

Our team has shipped AI across healthcare, agriculture, autonomous systems, financial services, and robotics — from patent to production. We write code. We ship software. Every engagement ends with AI running in production.

DTJ limits its engagements deliberately. The craft requires it.

Engineering
Founded Accenture’s first GenAI Garage. Multiple AI patents. Accenture Inventor of the Year.
Architecture
Former Master Architect at Accenture — the role that certifies other enterprise architects. 19+ years in production software.
Infrastructure
20+ years cloud-native architecture. Patents in data quality. Published author. CSA certified instructor.
By the Numbers
40+
Countries with patents
3,000+
Professionals trained
14
Countries reached
10+
Years in production AI
Daikanyama
Tokyo. Daikanyama.

One of the city’s quieter, more deliberate neighborhoods.

The kind of place where you go to think carefully before you build something.

Our clients are in Tokyo · São Paulo · San Francisco · Berlin · and everywhere in between.
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Two ways to reach us.

Have a question or want to explore working together? Brittany, our CEO, is most active on LinkedIn.

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