Tokyo-based Sakana AI shipped its first commercial product ‘Sakana Marlin’ this week. Sakana team positions it as a Virtual CSO (Chief Strategy Officer). It is a B2B autonomous research agent built for enterprises.
Marlin does not answer in seconds like a chatbot. You give it one research topic. It then runs autonomously for up to about eight hours. Each run returns a long report plus a presentation slide deck. Sakana says a single session issues hundreds to thousands of LLM queries.
What is Sakana Marlin
Marlin is an enterprise research agent, not a chat assistant. You give it one topic or question. It then plans hypotheses, browses sources, and verifies findings on its own. It compresses weeks of strategy work into hours.
The deliverable is structured for decision-makers. The Japanese announcement describes reports of dozens of pages. The English announcement cites reports of up to roughly 100 pages. At a press hands-on, reports ran 60–100 pages and cited 60–80 sources. Each report includes a main body, references, and appendices. Presentation slides are generated using image-generation AI.
