This is Hamamoto Ryuta from TIMEWELL.
TIMEWELL (headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa; CEO: Hamamoto Ryuta) announces that ZEROCK, TIMEWELL's enterprise sales and marketing AI, has been selected for the NVIDIA Inception Program. This article covers the NVIDIA Inception Program in detail, ZEROCK's technical architecture, and what the selection means for the product's development roadmap.
What Is the NVIDIA Inception Program?
The NVIDIA Inception Program is NVIDIA's official support program for AI and data science startups at the growth stage, providing both technical and business development support.
Program Scale and Overview
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Participating companies | 19,000+ worldwide (as of December 2025) |
| Cost | Free — no equity required |
| Application criteria | No restrictions by funding stage |
| Focus areas | AI, data science, deep learning |
Key Support Benefits
Startups selected for NVIDIA Inception receive:
- Technical development resources: Free training credits from NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI), access to SDKs and toolkits
- Cloud infrastructure: Free cloud credits from NVIDIA and partners (Nebius AI Lift program provides up to $150,000 in credits)
- Hardware access: Preferred pricing on select GPU hardware and software
- Investor network: Access to VCs via Inception Capital Connect
- Marketing support: Official badge and co-branded content use
For AI startups, access to NVIDIA's GPU infrastructure and training resources has a direct impact on development speed and model performance.
What Is ZEROCK: Japan's Autonomous Sales and Marketing AI
ZEROCK is an autonomous AI agent for enterprise sales and marketing developed by TIMEWELL. Focused specifically on the sales and marketing domain, ZEROCK executes the full cycle autonomously: prospect identification, initial outreach, ongoing follow-up, and proposal materials management.
Three Technical Differentiators
1. AI Appointment: Optimized Message Generation
For each prospect company, ZEROCK auto-generates and sends high-conversion messages calibrated to that specific organization's context. The design principle: "one company, one tailored approach" — AI-generated proposals grounded in evidence rather than templates.
2. Deep Optimization for Japanese Business Culture
Overseas AI tools cannot replicate Japan's specific business communication requirements. ZEROCK is purpose-built for:
- Keigo (formal language) system: Appropriate honorific and polite expressions calibrated to the counterpart's role and relationship
- Ringi process understanding: Proposal design aligned with Japan's internal approval decision flows
- Organizational hierarchy: Approach strategies that account for corporate rank structures
3. Low-Hallucination Architecture
ZEROCK's core technical foundation uses RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and a memory infrastructure. The design principle is evidence-first: AI-generated outputs are grounded in retrievable sources, minimizing the risk of factually incorrect or invented information.
Multi-Agent Architecture
CTO and Director Naito Kazuki on ZEROCK's technical foundation:
"ZEROCK's core is a multi-agent architecture running an autonomous loop of plan → execute → verify → learn. We will use NVIDIA Inception Program resources to optimize processing speed and strengthen the learning infrastructure."
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Why TIMEWELL Can Build a High-Security Enterprise AI Agent
For enterprise AI, security and information governance are the most important requirements. TIMEWELL's capability to address these requirements rests on three foundations:
1. Track Record of AI-Human Collaborative Work Support
Since its founding, TIMEWELL has provided business support and efficiency services to clients ranging from large enterprises to SMEs. The approach: understand the deep characteristics of knowledge work that humans perform, then architect the AI replacement based on that understanding — not from a purely technical direction.
2. Security and Information Governance Expertise
TIMEWELL's core team includes multiple members who held security and information management responsibilities in large enterprise IT departments and new business development divisions. They understand the strict security standards that enterprise environments actually require — which is why TIMEWELL can build AI agents that organizations are confident deploying.
3. Engineering Team from Major Japanese Corporations
TIMEWELL's development team includes engineers with prior experience at organizations including NTT and Panasonic.
| Development Capability | Detail |
|---|---|
| Security design | Robust architecture by engineers from large-enterprise information system departments |
| Infrastructure | Encrypted storage and communications on domestic AWS Japan regions |
| Quality control | QA framework based on large-scale system operation experience |
| Development speed | Startup-level agility |
The Significance of NVIDIA Inception Selection
Selection for the NVIDIA Inception Program represents recognition of ZEROCK's technical quality and business potential at a global standard.
Benefits of Selection
- GPU processing optimization: Leverage NVIDIA's latest GPU resources to improve ZEROCK's inference speed and training efficiency
- Learning infrastructure: Skill development for the engineering team through Deep Learning Institute training
- Global network: Participation in the 19,000+ AI startup network
- Investor access: Expanded fundraising opportunities via NVIDIA's VC network
ZEROCK Roadmap
Using NVIDIA Inception Program resources, ZEROCK is targeting further development in the following areas:
- Expansion from sales/marketing into a general-purpose AI agent platform
- Further strengthening of the high-security desktop environment (Mac and Windows)
- Deepening the multi-agent architecture with 100 coordinated mini-agents
- AI super-agent capability for event operations and seminar management
TIMEWELL's Business Vision: "Creating the World's #1 Challenge Infrastructure"
TIMEWELL operates under the vision of "Creating the World's #1 Challenge Infrastructure" — using AI to accelerate the conditions that enable more people and organizations to take on ambitious challenges.
| Business Pillar | Service | Overview |
|---|---|---|
| Developing challengers | TIMEWELL WARP | New business development support, AI talent development programs |
| Increasing venues for challenge | TIMEWELL BASE | AI-powered next-generation event platform |
| Increasing challengers' time | ZEROCK | High-security autonomous AI agent |
TIMEWELL has been selected for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's J-StarX program, the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency's FASTAR program, and Kanagawa Prefecture's KSAP program — recognition within Japan's startup ecosystem.
TIMEWELL's mission is to redefine Japan's strength in hospitality through AI, and to build a market environment where anyone can pursue ambitious challenges.
Summary
- The NVIDIA Inception Program supports 19,000+ AI startups globally with technical and business development resources
- ZEROCK is an autonomous sales and marketing AI deeply optimized for Japanese business culture and communication norms
- RAG-based infrastructure and multi-agent architecture deliver low hallucination and high security
- Engineering team with NTT and Panasonic backgrounds builds robust infrastructure on domestic AWS Japan regions
- NVIDIA Inception selection accelerates GPU processing optimization and learning infrastructure development
- TIMEWELL advances its "challenge infrastructure" vision through three integrated businesses: ZEROCK, BASE, and WARP
References
- NVIDIA Inception Program for Startups
- NVIDIA Inception for AI Startups: Everything You Need to Know - Thunder Compute
- ZEROCK - High-Security Autonomous AI Agent
- ZEROCK Mac Version Official Release - PR TIMES
- ZEROCK Autonomous Sales AI Selected for NVIDIA Inception Program - TIMEWELL