# Prince Yoshiko Intes · Founder, Yoshi Labs

## Short bio (one line, 30 words)

Prince Yoshiko Intes is the founder of Yoshi Labs, a Filipino AI-native studio in Davao that ships its own products and rebuilds the operating layers of companies around artificial intelligence.

## Medium bio (one paragraph, ~80 words)

Prince Yoshiko Intes is the founder of Yoshi Labs, an AI-native studio based in Davao, Philippines. Born and raised in Davao, he migrated to Canada in 2020 and spent four years in Calgary before returning to the Philippines to build the AI-native infrastructure of Filipino business. He works closely with his brother Ryemuel, who founded Bleuspace, the 25-property short-term rental operator that is Yoshi Labs' transformation case study and the foundation of Bleuspace OS. Prince directs the lab; he does not write code.

## Long bio (~200 words)

Prince Yoshiko Intes is the founder of Yoshi Labs, a Filipino AI-native studio based in Davao, Philippines. He was born and raised in Davao, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, where his family ran small businesses and where the surrounding economy ran on Excel, paper, and ten-thousand-message group chats. He held that observation through his childhood and into his early twenties without knowing what to do with it.

In 2020, his family migrated to Canada and settled in Calgary, Alberta. He spent four years there, learning the patience of long winters and the discipline of slow building. His family still lives in Calgary. He still considers it home in the part of him that has been held by enough winters.

He returned to Davao to build Yoshi Labs after observing two things at once: the global shift toward AI as a new operating layer, and the near-total absence of Filipino-built tools to meet that shift. The Philippines sits at three percent AI adoption while seventy-seven percent of its businesses want digital tools. He believes a Filipino lab can build the AI-native infrastructure of an entire country, and that the lab should be built now, in our own voice, before foreign labs arrive to do it for us.

He directs the building. He does not write code.

## Quick facts

- **Name:** Prince Yoshiko Intes
- **Title:** Founder, Yoshi Labs
- **Based in:** Davao, Philippines (family in Calgary, Alberta)
- **Born:** Davao, Philippines
- **Migrated to Canada:** 2020
- **Returned to Davao:** 2024
- **Founded Yoshi Labs:** 2026
- **Co-founder of Bleuspace:** With his brother, Prince Ryemuel
- **Email:** prince@yoshilabs.io
- **Website:** https://yoshilabs.io
- **Founder essay:** https://yoshilabs.io/founder/

## Quotes available for use

> "Most companies bolt artificial intelligence onto the side of what they already do. We take it deeper than that — into the operating layer of the business — and rebuild from the inside out."

> "AI is not a Western thing. AI is the new operating layer for every business, everywhere. The countries and companies that internalise this first will be unrecognisably ahead of the ones that bolt it on later."

> "I don't write code. I direct the building."

> "The lab is small on purpose. We take on one transformation at a time and ship two products a season — because that is what working with intention looks like."

> "Filipino-first is not a market choice. It is a brand DNA call. Cormorant on capiz. Mass times in PHT. Peso pricing. Built here, for here, then exported."

For longer interviews or specific topics, write to **prince@yoshilabs.io**.