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TIMEWELL Book Launch & ONE X 5th Anniversary Event
On February 2, 2024, TIMEWELL held its book publication event — celebrating the release of The Strongest Time-Saving Method: Do Only What You Love and Work 10x Faster (Goma Books) — along with the beta launch of the TIMEWELL web app and the 5th anniversary of ONE X Corporation. The event was held at PiO PARK in Haneda.
This article reports on the event: TIMEWELL's vision, how the service works, and key takeaways from the talk session.
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What TIMEWELL Is and What It's Trying to Build
Opening Session
TIMEWELL Co-founder and Representative Director CEO Ryuta Hamamoto and Co-founder and COO Naruhide Otani opened the event with presentations on the company's origins and direction.
Otani on the origins of ONE X:
"ONE X began five years ago when young employees from Toyota, Panasonic, NTT, and other large companies came together and asked: what should we do? We now work with NPO G-net on 'hometown side jobs' — solving local government and community challenges through professionals working in parallel careers.
Through working with these diverse side-job professionals, we realized: a team where each person's strengths complement the other's weaknesses produces far more than 1+1=2. When someone supports your weaknesses and you can focus on your strengths, what you want to do accelerates. We asked: can we systematize that? TIMEWELL is the answer. Many of our current TIMEWELL team members were part of ONE X from the beginning."
Hamamoto on TIMEWELL's vision:
"What drives me is supporting people who are challenging themselves. At TIMEWELL, we want to build the world's #1 challenge infrastructure — support for people who want to take on something meaningful but are crushed by lack of time. We want to re-energize Japan.
Our product vision is: all your time for what you want to do. Three features get us there. First, task decomposition — we help you identify which work should be handed off. Second, actual delegation — marketing and operations professionals handle the extracted tasks. Third, proprietary AI — to make the whole process dramatically more efficient.
When you finish work faster and free up time, your personal life improves too. We want to eliminate 'I have to give up work because of childcare or caregiving' as a thought pattern. You should be able to live your full life — professionally and personally. That state of being fulfilled and happy, body and mind, is what TIMEWELL means — and we want to build that world with everyone here."
The TIMEWELL Web App Beta
After a toast, the event moved to a walkthrough of the TIMEWELL web app beta, launched the same day.
Otani on how it works:
"When you want to delegate something to TIMEWELL, you first purchase points through the app. This eliminates the procurement overhead of traditional outsourcing: no lengthy internal approvals, no contract generation, no invoice back-and-forth.
No estimate is needed either — everything is request-ready immediately. With purchased points, you select from 40+ service categories. You can request anything from grant application research and document digitization, to content marketing work like interview articles, press releases, and landing pages.
If you're not sure what to delegate, a 30-minute session with us is all you need — tell us what's on your plate and TIMEWELL handles the rest. Progress and expected delivery dates are visible in the app at any time.
We built this for people who are always challenging themselves and want to eliminate work they don't want to do — so every hour goes to what they actually care about."
Talk Session: How to Live in a State of Being TIMEWELL
The product presentation was followed by a special panel discussion on the question: How do you live in a state of being fulfilled, happy, and well?
The session featured Yoichi Ito (Dean, Musashino University School of Entrepreneurship) and Chikako Morimoto (CEO, morich / AllRounder Agent).
Morimoto's Perspective
"I don't think most people are clear on what situations make them feel happy. Before anything else, knowing your own answer to that question is foundational.
For me, being surrounded by people I love is the happy state. And I find it deeply healthy when the state that makes me happy aligns with how I feel when I'm working.
When my brain is exhausted, it's usually because I'm doing something I don't want to do, something I'm not good at. To escape that: create conditions where you don't have to do the things you dislike. In other words — outsource them.
In a previous role I had an assistant. What I dreaded doing was exactly what she was good at and enjoyed. Something that would take me a full day took her 30 minutes.
There's something else that comes from having an assistant: you can share your wins. They've been alongside you through the difficult stretches. When something goes well, they're often more excited about it than you are.
When you outsource what you're not good at, your productivity spikes. And when your time and energy go to what you want to do, that energy eventually benefits Japan as a whole. I believe this mindset is necessary — for Japan, not just for individuals. I highly recommend trying it."
Ito's Perspective
"I'm more introverted than Morimoto-san. Left unchecked, I don't naturally build connections with people. So I've deliberately dismantled some of my own habits — for my own wellbeing.
Specifically: I stopped caring about how I'm perceived or evaluated when I talk to someone. I started thinking 'people are people, I am me.' Once I did, I stopped tensing up — and became genuinely much happier.
I have two full-time assistants myself. And there's still work that slips through. Sometimes I jump in with them and we all end up exhausted. That said — to do what you want to do, the work you don't want always accumulates alongside it.
In those moments, considering outsourcing to something like TIMEWELL is important. Not just for the tasks themselves, but because it forces you to look at yourself objectively. Start with that — the act of thinking 'what could I delegate?' — even before you actually do it."
Closing
The event closed with energy. The talk session left the room feeling that there are more ways to focus on what matters — and the conversation that followed, with guests forming new ideas and potential collaborations, ran until the last possible moment.
If you want to hand off the work you'd rather not do and focus on what you actually care about — or if you've been waiting to get back to work but feel like the conditions aren't right — reach out to TIMEWELL.