Omohibito Inc. announced that its joint research project, “Empirical Research on Design Principles and Institutional Implications of Hybrid Loneliness and Social Isolation Measures Based on Advanced AI Consultation,” has been selected under the Toyota Foundation’s 2025 special theme, “New Human Society Co-created with Advanced Technologies.” The three-year project began on May 1, 2026 and will run until April 30, 2029, with a grant of 8 million yen. The study focuses on residents in welfare-related areas such as caregiving, disability, and healthcare who face loneliness, isolation, and complex difficulties because they are not connected to necessary public systems and support. It will examine how effectively a hybrid support model, combining AI-based comprehensive identification and presentation of available programs with human accompaniment, can improve residents’ connection to public systems. The research will neutrally compare the effectiveness and limitations of three support channels: AI consultation, human-operated SNS consultation, and existing public service counters. It will propose design principles for consultation DX in local government, especially the division of roles between AI and human supporters, and will address normative and institutional issues such as residents’ self-determination, ambiguity of administrative responsibility, fairness, and reliability. Findings will be shared publicly as policy recommendations, municipal guidelines, and academic outputs. Omohibito CEO Moe Kaneko has cared for her father, who has early-onset Lewy body dementia with Parkinsonian symptoms, together with her mother since she was 17. As a former young carer and current double carer, she has spent 14 years navigating multiple administrative systems and has directly experienced the structural problem that “systems exist, but do not reach the people who need them.” In fiscal 2025, Omohibito was selected for Sakai City’s public-private partnership demonstration project o