Richard Orman and YunBeom Kevin Seo arrived in the Bay Area and the contrast was immediate. Everyone was building fast, but no one was building safely.

Rooms full of founders launching products in days, sometimes hours. Impressive speed, impressive energy, and an infrastructure layer that looked like it had been ignored entirely.

Default cloud settings. No identity model. No audit trail. No encryption keys. Applications held together by whatever the AI tool generated that afternoon.

When we asked how they planned to face investors or enterprise buyers, the answer was always the same.

A pause. A quiet realisation. Mostly they had no idea.

They were not choosing to ignore security. They simply had no path to it.

This was our first confirmation. The need was not theoretical. It was everywhere we looked.

NAKATOMI did not create the need. We only built the structure that should have been there already.