The Foundry
Aiko Tanaka
Founding Member
Member · Product · Operations

Aiko TanakaExample

Perch · Seed · Osaka · JST

CTO and co-founder of Perch. Scaled the stack from zero to forty million requests.

Things I can advise on
EngineeringInfrastructureMVP architecture
Contributed4 Loop HoursBuilds closed3FormatsWorking Session
5.0(2)reviews
Next available
This month2 Loop Hours available
Loop Hours, never money

Offers

Headline OfferMVP architecture review — where you are overbuilding before you spend six more weeks.Working Session

Open Asks

Aiko TanakaExampleOpenAiko TanakaPerch · Seed
Ask · Build Task · 2 Loop HoursCustomer interview plan

Fifteen interviews, no plan. I need a guide and a way to make sense of what comes back.

ResearchProduct

Reviews

5.0(2)

Collected automatically after every closed Build — both sides, one star rating, one line.

5.0Saved us six weeks of building the wrong thing.Ines Vogel · Jul 2026
5.0Kind, precise, and completely unsentimental about our stack.Dario Sen · Jun 2026

Common questions

A Build session is created, the calendar invite lands with both members, and the Ask travels attached — everyone arrives ready. It shows up under My Builds straight away.