Seranova

Get PMs back to judgment and drive.

The offer

Admin, minutes, status chasing, and tool work go to AI. You stay on stakeholder alignment, priorities, and moving people and projects forward.

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Bilingual | 14+ years in Japan | Startups / SMEs / Gaishikei
AI Opportunity Matrix
Weekly PM Ops — Time Audit
Live
Task
Manual
With AI
Saved
Impact
Progress reporting
20 min
High ImpactHigh
Meeting notes & actions
10 min
High ImpactHigh
Stakeholder updates
30 min
High ImpactHigh
Risk & issue logging
15 min
MediumMed
Vendor coordination
45 min
MediumMed
Requirements drafting
1 hr
High ImpactHigh
Avg. time saved
0%
Hrs freed / week
~0 hrs
ROI potential
High
THE REAL COST

The best PMs lose the most time to work that is not the real job

01

Meeting notes and minutes

Hours disappear into recaps that arrive after the decisions have already moved on.

02

Chasing progress across chat and sheets

Status lives in Slack, email, and spreadsheets — so someone senior has to assemble the picture by hand.

03

Reports that arrive too late

Stakeholders get a snapshot that is already stale, then ask for another one.

04

Offshore and multi-site coordination tax

EN↔JP handoffs, time zones, and follow-ups eat the week before judgment work starts.

This is a design problem, not a talent problem. Hand the low-level repetition to AI, and put PMs back on judgment, drive, and people.

Fractional bilingual PM / PdM (monthly retainer)

Seranova embeds in your team for project and product governance and execution. AI compresses admin so human PMs focus on judgment, drive, and people. Not a ¥10M+ full-time senior hire — only the depth you need.

Judgment

Priorities, trade-offs, and decisions that actually move.

Drive

Keep people and projects moving to the next milestone.

People & trust

Stakeholder alignment and the human work that earns follow-through.

CORE SERVICE

Fractional Bilingual PM / PdM

A senior bilingual PM/PdM embedded in your team for project and product governance and execution. AI compresses admin so you focus on judgment, drive, and people. Not slide-only consulting, and not rotating juniors.

Fractional Bilingual PM / PdM
Explore in depth
Monthly retainer from ~¥500,000
FRACTIONAL PM / PdM — IN DEPTH

What work does a Fractional PM actually do?

Bilingual, generalist, AI-native, transparency-first - these four traits underpin every area below. Beyond this, there are 3 stages to go through as you move towards an AI native operation. Click a card for pain points and examples in each area.

Roadmap & Prioritization

Roadmap outdated on arrival, gut-feel prioritization, team disconnected from priorities.

1Seranova builds the roadmap on a clear framework (RICE/MoSCoW) and communicates changes.
2AI scores and re-prioritizes the backlog from live signals, drafts updates for review.
3AI maintains a living roadmap that reprioritizes itself and explains its reasoning to stakeholders.
Runs underneath every stage
All 8 areas feed one shared Command Center view
HOW IT WORKS

A 30-min call, then a retainer at the depth you need.

Not a hard sell. We confirm fit first. Monthly scope stays flexible.

1Free 30-min discovery call
2Optional fit period, or retainer start
3Monthly scope flexibility
PM / PdM — Monthly retainer
From
¥500,000/mo
Depends on scope. Embed only the depth you need.
Model
Monthly retainer
Senior bilingual PM / PdM embedded in your team.
Vs hire
A slice, not ¥10M+
Not a full-time senior hire — only the capacity you need.
AI TRANSFORMATION

AI Transformation Partner

A structured path from free AI diagnostic to a fully operational Delivery OS — designed around your workflows, implemented with your team, and sustained with ongoing system stewardship.

AI Transformation Partner
Explore in depth
Diagnostic → Implementation → Delivery OS
ALSO AVAILABLE — AI TRANSFORMATION

From free diagnostic to full operating system. At your pace.

You can enter at any stage. Each stage works better with the groundwork from the one before it. Start where you are — but know where the path goes.

1
START HERE — FREE

Free AI Readiness Check

Run our free AI audit tool in under 5 minutes. You get an instant readiness score across your operations — a starting point, not a full analysis.

Try the free audit
2
2–4 WEEKS · PROJECT-BASED

Paid AI Operations Audit

A structured 2–4 week engagement. Discovery calls with your stakeholders, workflow mapping, bottleneck quantification, and a prioritised AI implementation roadmap with ROI projections you can act on immediately.

See the full process
3
SPRINT OR ONGOING

AI Implementation Partner

We build across four areas: Process Redesign, Automation Builds, Knowledge Systems, and Custom Workflows — from tooling setup and configuration to custom builds and team training. Typically 4–8 weeks per sprint. Clients average ¥3M–6M in annual savings and 24× ROI by Phase 1.

4
ONGOING STEWARDSHIP

Delivery OS

Once your workflows and agents are live and your team runs them day-to-day, Delivery OS keeps the system healthy as your business grows — monthly health checks, quarterly re-audits, and KPI reviews. For teams with enough delivery complexity to need ongoing stewardship, not day-to-day operation.

DELIVERY OS — IN DEPTH

The operating system for how your team ships — powered by AI, run by you.

Delivery OS is the final stage towards becoming an AI native operation. Once workflows / agents are in place and your team runs the system day-to-day, Seranova can help maintain its health, evolve it as your business grows, and keep it tied to your KPIs.

Delivery OS — Pricing
Tier 1
¥200k–300k/mo
1–3 workflows · single team
Tier 2
¥400k–600k/mo
4–8 workflows · multi-team
Tier 3
Custom
Org-wide · departments
6-month minimum · quarterly checkpoint
Additional to Fractional PM retainer
FRACTIONAL PM / PdM — IN DEPTH

What work does a Fractional PM actually do?

Bilingual, generalist, AI-native, transparency-first - these four traits underpin every area below. Beyond this, there are 3 stages to go through as you move towards an AI native operation. Click a card for pain points and examples in each area.

Roadmap & Prioritization

Roadmap outdated on arrival, gut-feel prioritization, team disconnected from priorities.

1Seranova builds the roadmap on a clear framework (RICE/MoSCoW) and communicates changes.
2AI scores and re-prioritizes the backlog from live signals, drafts updates for review.
3AI maintains a living roadmap that reprioritizes itself and explains its reasoning to stakeholders.
Runs underneath every stage
All 8 areas feed one shared Command Center view
HOW IT WORKS

A 30-min call, then a retainer at the depth you need.

Not a hard sell. We confirm fit first. Monthly scope stays flexible.

1Free 30-min discovery call
2Optional fit period, or retainer start
3Monthly scope flexibility
PM / PdM — Monthly retainer
From
¥500,000/mo
Depends on scope. Embed only the depth you need.
Model
Monthly retainer
Senior bilingual PM / PdM embedded in your team.
Vs hire
A slice, not ¥10M+
Not a full-time senior hire — only the capacity you need.
ALSO AVAILABLE — AI TRANSFORMATION

From free diagnostic to full operating system. At your pace.

You can enter at any stage. Each stage works better with the groundwork from the one before it. Start where you are — but know where the path goes.

1
START HERE — FREE

Free AI Readiness Check

Run our free AI audit tool in under 5 minutes. You get an instant readiness score across your operations — a starting point, not a full analysis.

Try the free audit
2
2–4 WEEKS · PROJECT-BASED

Paid AI Operations Audit

A structured 2–4 week engagement. Discovery calls with your stakeholders, workflow mapping, bottleneck quantification, and a prioritised AI implementation roadmap with ROI projections you can act on immediately.

See the full process
3
SPRINT OR ONGOING

AI Implementation Partner

We build across four areas: Process Redesign, Automation Builds, Knowledge Systems, and Custom Workflows — from tooling setup and configuration to custom builds and team training. Typically 4–8 weeks per sprint. Clients average ¥3M–6M in annual savings and 24× ROI by Phase 1.

4
ONGOING STEWARDSHIP

Delivery OS

Once your workflows and agents are live and your team runs them day-to-day, Delivery OS keeps the system healthy as your business grows — monthly health checks, quarterly re-audits, and KPI reviews. For teams with enough delivery complexity to need ongoing stewardship, not day-to-day operation.

DELIVERY OS — IN DEPTH

The operating system for how your team ships — powered by AI, run by you.

Delivery OS is the final stage towards becoming an AI native operation. Once workflows / agents are in place and your team runs the system day-to-day, Seranova can help maintain its health, evolve it as your business grows, and keep it tied to your KPIs.

Delivery OS — Pricing
Tier 1
¥200k–300k/mo
1–3 workflows · single team
Tier 2
¥400k–600k/mo
4–8 workflows · multi-team
Tier 3
Custom
Org-wide · departments
6-month minimum · quarterly checkpoint
Additional to Fractional PM retainer
25+
Clients served (10+ AI implementations)
1K+
Newsletter subscribers

14+ years bridging technology and business in Japan.

25+ clients served, 14+ years in Japan. Seranova is not a generic vendor. We compress admin so PMs return to judgment and drive — AI supports your people, it does not replace them.

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Book a free 30-min call.

We reply within one business day (JST). A conversation to check fit — not a hard sell.

1Free 30-min discovery call
2Optional fit period, or retainer start
3Monthly scope flexibility
Tokyo, Japan

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Frequently Asked Questions

A fractional PM is a senior project or product manager who embeds with your team on a monthly retainer — senior delivery capability without a full-time hire. Seranova uses AI to compress admin (notes, status, reporting) so the human PM stays on judgment, drive, and people.

Yes. Japanese-only teams are a core fit. Meetings, notes, and stakeholder work can stay in Japanese. Bilingual support is there when you also have offshore or English-speaking stakeholders.

Start with a free 30-minute call. There is no hard sell and no commitment to start a conversation. Retainers are monthly and scoped to the depth you need; we can begin with a short fit period if that is more comfortable.

No. AI is a means, not the pitch. The offer is an embedded bilingual PM/PdM. Tools are chosen only where they actually compress admin so your people can do the real job.

Fractional PM/PdM retainers typically start around ¥500,000/month depending on scope. That is a slice of a ¥10M+ full-time senior hire — only the depth you need. Book a free 30-minute call and we will scope a proposal.

The audit remains available as a separate, optional path (including a free readiness check at audit.seranova.jp). It is not required to start a PM retainer.

MISSION

Seranova helps businesses run leaner, deliver better, and move towards becoming AI-native with confidence - by acting as a trusted, embedded delivery partner.

Seranova team collaborating on project delivery in Tokyo
VISION

We believe AI should feel like lift, not replacement — a quiet force beneath human ambition, carrying us higher than we could rise alone.

AI lift illustration — paper plane launching over Tokyo skyline
AI PROJECTS

Built with AI. Shipped in Japan.