Things

Custom Software Development · Manufacturing & Industrial Software
4open roles
1backers · Global Brain
13stories in the press
19technologies in use

Overview

Things is a software company that supports manufacturers with PRISM, a cloud platform for product development and engineering data management. PRISM uses generative AI to structure drawings, defect reports, test data and procurement information so that veteran know-how becomes reusable, and the company hires software engineers, interns and forward deployed AI engineers. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Funding and backers

Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
1
Global Brain
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 8%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

$497k – $841k per year · In office · Tokyo
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In office · Full-Time · Tokyo
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Prisma
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Chakra UI
DevOps
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
AWS Fargate
Amazon S3
Amazon ECS
Design
Figma
Management
Miro
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In office · Tokyo
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Prisma
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Chakra UI
Mobile
Clean Architecture
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
AWS
AWS Fargate
Amazon S3
Amazon ECS
Design
Figma
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
21/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
121 days
faster than 9% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
50% ▲
Solutions
50% ▲

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Things over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
19
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Frameworks & libraries
Chakra UI
Nest.JS
Next.js
React.js
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
Figma
GitHub Actions
OpenAI
Developer tools
Prisma
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
RAG
CI/CD
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Connections

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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors1
Global BrainVia a fund
535 portfolio companies

News

News Digital Seams 1 month ago
Should you give the scarcest things to the fastest coders?
Lately, I've been thinking about a warning I read over a decade ago. It was in the course registration system at Carnegie Mellon University, and it said this: Warning: No Automated Requests Please be responsible when accessing the registration system. Att
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News Christopher Meiklejohn 1 month ago
The Things I Wanted to Make
This essay expands on Rift, which I published in May, and follows what's happened since. It was originally commissioned but ultimately wasn't accepted for publication. I'm sharing an edited version...
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News bbc.com 1 month ago
'Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the internet more annoying
Someday we'll redesign the internet for tools like this. Until then, you're in for a wild ride.
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News The Washington Post 2 months ago
Building big things in the U.S. is hard. A Senate deal aims to fix that.
A sweeping bipartisan plan takes aim at the bottlenecks scuttling new infrastructure.
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News BloombergNEF 2 months ago
The Electric Trucking Market's Record Rise: Three Things to Know
BloombergNEF published its latest US data center capacity forecast, packed with insights about developers, timelines, regional market dynamics and on-site power considerations. Here are our key takeaways.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Tokyo
Tokyo Japan
HQ
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering $851k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Product
seen since Dec 2023 job postings