SkyStone Inc. (Headquarters: Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture; Representative Director: Yasuhiro Ohara), provider of the management support SaaS 'Minna no Manager,' has launched a free tool called 'Management Karte' starting June 29, 2026. This tool automatically generates job postings, performance evaluation sheets, and development checklists by simply entering a company's website URL to diagnose its management challenges.

The tool primarily targets multi-location and multi-branch companies facing the challenge of 'lack of managers, making organizational operations difficult' during expansion phases. It quickly verbalizes recruitment, evaluation, and development criteria—previously reliant on experience and intuition—using the company's own unique language.

Moreover, what sets this apart from conventional HR tools that merely 'visualize' data is its ability to translate these standards into specific, actionable steps for frontline managers.

▼ Service website:

https://karte.minmane.net

Development Background: The Growing Problem of 'Management Personalization' in Expanding Companies

Labor shortages have become a top strategic business issue.

According to a survey by Teikoku Databank, as of April 2026, 50.6% of companies reported a shortage of full-time employees—marking the fourth consecutive year over half have felt this shortage in April.

Corporate bankruptcies due in part to labor shortages reached 441 in fiscal year 2025, the highest on record and the first time exceeding 400 in a single fiscal year. (Source: Teikoku Databank, 'Corporate Trends Regarding Labor Shortages,' April 2026, among others)

The burden of this situation is most heavily concentrated on frontline managers.

A survey of 1,366 middle managers found that 94.9% reported 'high workload' (Source: Stam En Inc., November 2024).

Meanwhile, another survey showed only 16.7% of employees aspire to become managers (Source: Pasona Research Institute, 2025), indicating a simultaneous crisis of 'lack of candidates for management roles' and 'overburdening of current managers.' In store-based or location-based businesses, rapid expansion further exacerbates this issue, making it impossible for development efforts to keep pace.

In particular, industries such as food service, retail, healthcare, beauty, and logistics—where companies expand by several locations annually—repeatedly face the following structural challenges:

- Struggling to decide 'who should become the new store manager' with each expansion, often resulting in pulling experienced staff from existing locations, weakening them

- Manager and area manager hiring and development failing to keep up with expansion speed

- Having a vague idea of 'what kind of store manager we want,' but failing to articulate it into formal hiring or evaluation criteria

- Company presidents or executives conducting interviews directly, but using inconsistent, subjective judgment criteria

- Performance evaluations conducted only once or twice a year using Excel or paper, leading to ritualistic, ineffective processes

In other words, while companies sense that 'people aren't growing' or 'there's no one we can delegate to,' they fail to pinpoint exactly where the problem lies—in hiring, evaluation, or development.

It is precisely this 'inability to define the contours of the problem' that is the biggest obstacle to management effectiveness in growing companies.

'Management Karte' was developed to address this ambiguity—transforming vague challenges into structured insights from the minimal input of a company URL, and visualizing the current state of a company's management in a single diagnostic report: 'This is how our management currently stands.'

In an era where only about one in six people aspire to management roles, the old assumption that 'things will work if we just assign capable people' has reached its limits.

Service Overview: Enter a URL and Receive Outputs in 'Your Company's Own Words'

'Management Karte' automatically generates and diagnoses the following by simply entering a company's website or recruitment page URL:

1. Management Diagnosis Karte (Summary): A diagnostic report providing an overview of challenges and key points across hiring, evaluation, and development, all visible on one screen

2. Recruitment Outputs: Job posting text, required/preferred qualifications list, interview evaluation sheet, and decision rationale memo

3. Evaluation Sheet: A performance evaluation sheet structured around two axes: 'Company Values' and 'Job Competencies'

4. Development Checksheet: A practical sheet for daily 1-on-1 meetings and reviews, detailing development items, check points, and next responsibilities

5. Action List Generation Demo: A demonstration showing how the created standards can be transformed into concrete 'next actions' for frontline managers

Rather than using generic templates, the tool's key feature is generating outputs in the specific language of each company, based on information extracted from its website.

Even when insufficient information is available, the tool supplements with a standard model (reference model) to ensure outputs are practical and usable.

Three Key Features of Management Karte

1. End-to-End Verbalization of Hiring, Evaluation, and Development

Instead of creating job postings, evaluation sheets, and development sheets separately and from scratch, this tool generates all three seamlessly from a single diagnostic process.

The criteria used in hiring directly connect to post-hire evaluations and daily development, forming a continuous thread.

2. Goes Beyond 'Visualization' to Suggest 'Next Actions'

Most HR tools stop at analyzing and visualizing problems, leaving unanswered the critical question: 'So, what should frontline managers actually do?'

'Management Karte' allows users to experience how evaluation items and development perspectives can be transformed into prioritized, concrete actions (e.g., 'Confirm the employee's concerns and expectations during 1-on-1 meetings').

3. Visualizes 'Sources of Information' to Ensure Transparency and Trust

Each output clearly indicates its source: 'Extracted from company homepage,' 'Extracted from recruitment page,' 'Reflected from user input,' or 'Supplemented by standard model.'

This transparency into why certain content was generated by AI ensures users can confidently use the outputs as-is or use the sources as guidance for editing.

How to Use

1. Enter your company's website or recruitment page URL

2. The system automatically extracts company and recruitment information (users can optionally supplement missing details)

3. Receive the 'Management Diagnosis Karte' as a summary

4. Dive deeper into areas of interest (hiring, evaluation, development) to receive finalized outputs

5. Edit and adjust as needed, then copy or download in Word or Excel format

Integration with HR SaaS 'Minna no Manager'

The hiring requirements, evaluation axes, and development perspectives generated by 'Management Karte' serve as the foundation for implementation within the full-featured management support SaaS 'Minna no Manager.'

Even if evaluation axes and development perspectives are created in Excel, they often fail to be operationalized. 'Minna no Manager' ensures continuous monitoring of team conditions and consistently provides managers with 'next actions' to take.

'Management Karte' provides 'problem visualization and a simulated experience of success,' while 'Minna no Manager' delivers 'ongoing execution support.' This division of roles enables organizations to function effectively without overburdening individual managers.

Results in Operational Phase ('Minna no Manager' Case Studies)

At Doutor Coffee Shop's Osaka Ekimae Dai-Ichi Building branch, a new store manager from a different industry used skill visualization combined with 1-on-1 meetings and training to improve their headquarters evaluation (VR test) from a C to a B rating.

Additionally, the branch achieved zero customer complaints for three consecutive months due to improved service attitudes. On the staff side, employees who visualized their strengths and weaknesses saw alignment between self-evaluations and manager evaluations, leading to salary increases in some cases.

The store manager noted that while it's impossible to monitor every employee when the team is large, the system allows focused support for those showing signs of distress or overload—highlighting tangible benefits in daily operations.

This outcome embodies the ultimate goal of the seamless experience from 'Management Karte' to 'Minna no Manager.' (Source: 'Minna no Manager' Implementation Case Studies)

CEO Statement

The ideal of 'good management' or 'fair evaluation' differs from company to company.

That's why, on the ground, managers are forced to rely on experience and intuition, leading even top performers to burn out. We aim to change the current state where management depends on individual talent or luck.

'Management Karte' is the first step—an entry point that helps companies realize, 'So this is our actual challenge.'

Just by entering a URL, companies can instantly receive clear standards for hiring, evaluation, and development to use starting tomorrow. And it doesn't end with 'creating and forgetting'—it connects directly to frontline managers' actions.

We hope to bring this experience to as many growing companies as possible.

Company Overview

- Company Name: SkyStone Inc.

- Address: 8F, Osaka Ekimae Daini Building, 1-11-4 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

- Representative: Representative Director Yasuhiro Ohara

- Business: Development and provision of management support SaaS 'Minna no Manager'

Media Inquiries

SkyStone Inc. Public Relations: Urakami

Email: k.urayama@skystone.co.jp

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