About
Our story and the people behind Omoikane.
How we started
Omoikane was built because someone close to me — a thoughtful, experienced operator with a track record in international development and the cultural sector — was applying to twelve jobs a week and getting nothing back.
The problem wasn’t that her CV was bad. Her CV was good. The problem was that she was spending eight hours per application getting it good — translating her experience into the right register, finding the matching evidence, drafting a letter that didn’t sound desperate, double-checking the company against her values. The eight hours were correct. They produce strong applications. But they don’t scale to a real job search, and at that volume they consume the energy that the actual hiring conversations need.
So this is the workspace that does the slow translation work — accurately, with full citation, in your voice — so the human stays human-shaped for the parts of the search only humans can do.
The name comes from 思兼神 (Omoikane), the kami of wisdom and deliberation in Japanese mythology. The kami who is asked to think before the gods act. The product’s whole behaviour is in the name.
Who we are
Omoikane.Coach is a small two-person operation.
Elli.Z.G. is the legal owner and the public face — content, copy, UI, UX. The product feels the way it feels because Elli designs every screen and iterates from there. Omoikane.Coach is registered as a Dutch eenmanszaak (sole proprietorship) in Leiden, the Netherlands, in Elli’s name; she is responsible for customer relationships, data handling, and product decisions. LinkedIn · withelli.com
Kyriakos Papadopoulos is the engineer behind the build — the Rust application, the infrastructure, the AI-dispatch and safety layers, and the production hosting that already runs two other agentic systems alongside Omoikane. LinkedIn · kyriakos.papadopoulos.tech
Together we overlook the whole project — Elli leading on what the user sees and how it speaks, Kyriakos leading on what runs underneath. Not a launch. Not a Series A. A tool, maintained.
What’s under the hood:
- Hosted in Amsterdam and Athens. Two-site high-availability, synchronously replicated, EU-only.
- Claude Opus drives the drafting work. Citation is enforced — every claim about you traces back to a line in your own evidence. The system can’t invent.
- Self-hosted everything else. Authentication, storage, search, observability, vector database. The only third-party dependencies are the LLM provider (Anthropic) and the payment processor (Stripe). No analytics, no tracking, no AI-training-partners.
- Open-source where possible. All infrastructure components are FOSS-licensed — Authentik, Qdrant, MariaDB, Caddy, n8n, LangFuse. We pay for what we use; we don’t depend on companies that could disappear.
If you find it useful, the best thing you can do is use it carefully. If it doesn’t fit your situation, the second-best thing is to tell us why.
The legal entity, registration numbers, and contact channels are documented on the Imprint page.