Limited to 10 Companies: Build Task-Specific AI Agents with Zero Initial Investment – SHIFT Launches 'AI Immediate Workforce Campaign' via Advanced FDE

SHIFT Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Daisuke Tango; Prime Market: 3697; hereinafter 'SHIFT'), a company supporting the creation of marketable software services and products, announces the launch of the 'AI Immediate Workforce Campaign' on Friday, July 3, 2026. This campaign, delivered through its solution 'Advanced FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering)', enables companies to build task-specific AI agents with zero initial investment.

This campaign is available to only 10 companies. SHIFT will provide free support from evaluating AI applicability for target tasks, selecting AI agents, to building task-specific AI agents. After construction, SHIFT will seamlessly connect clients to the operational and improvement phases—including organizational adoption support, continuous improvement, and BPO—leveraging the strengths of Advanced FDE. This comprehensive support ensures solid integration into business operations and advances the creation of next-generation workflows where humans and AI collaborate, promoting the 'immediate workforce readiness of AI'.

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Background of the Campaign

Currently, many companies are adopting generative AI and AI agents to improve productivity and address labor shortages. However, with the rapid diversification of AI products, challenges have emerged—such as difficulty in selecting the right technology for specific business needs and failure to integrate AI into actual workflows, leading to underutilization.

In response, since January 2026, SHIFT has offered 'Advanced FDE', a solution that selects the optimal AI technology based on a vendor-neutral stance to solve customers’ core challenges, while providing end-to-end support through implementation and adoption. With proven success in supporting AI adoption for government agencies and enterprises across various industries and sizes, and having established an internal methodology through extensive AI utilization, SHIFT has automated 892 back-office tasks and built 2,395 task-specific AI agents as of March 2026. This has enabled the company to project a workload reduction equivalent to approximately 210 full-time employees by the end of August 2026, validating a highly effective operational model internally.

An AI agent only becomes 'immediately effective' when it operates in the field and delivers tangible results. However, the Advanced FDE program has revealed that high initial costs and uncertainty about success are major barriers preventing many companies from achieving 'immediately effective AI agents'.

In light of this, SHIFT is launching the 'AI Immediate Workforce Campaign' under Advanced FDE to support companies taking their first step toward AI adoption. By offering free support—from identifying target tasks to building AI agents—SHIFT aims to build high-performance, immediately effective task-specific AI agents for 10 selected companies. Through subsequent adoption support and BPO integration, SHIFT will help these organizations build next-generation workflows where humans and AI collaborate, driving business transformation at an unprecedented pace.

Case Studies: Achieving 'Immediate Workforce Readiness' with Task-Specific AI Agents

Industry-Specific Use Case: Major Megabank Achieves Annual Workload Reduction of Approximately 5,380 Hours

SHIFT supported the development and deployment of AI agents specialized in core operations for a major megabank with over 10,000 employees. The introduction of these core-task-specific AI agents is expected to reduce annual workload by approximately 5,380 hours.

- Automation of International Standard Assessment in Investment Risk Evaluation: AI enables automatic judgment, eliminating time-consuming manual cross-checking.

- Automation of Financial Product Contract Review: AI identifies discrepancies in contracts and generates improvement suggestions, reducing review effort and minimizing oversight risks.

- Automated Extraction of Registry Information: Automatically extracts specific data from registries and automates file transfers, accelerating proposal creation.

- Automation of International Wire Transfer Data Checks and Corrections: Automates format validation and file corrections for international wire transfer data files.

- Scope of Support:

- PoC implementation for target tasks

- Development of task-specific AI agents

- Infrastructure setup and operation

Back-Office Use Case: 90% Reduction in Accounting Department’s Invoice Processing Workload, Achieving Annual Reduction of Approximately 2,400 Hours

SHIFT developed and deployed task-specific AI agents for invoice processing within its own accounting department. The introduction of these AI agents reduced workload by 90%, projecting an annual reduction of approximately 2,400 hours.

- Target Tasks:

A series of invoice-based processes, including data retrieval and updates from the expense settlement system, and reconciliation between invoices and approval documents.

- Implementation Impact:

- Automation of Invoice Processing: For over 1,700 monthly invoices, the system automates data retrieval from the expense settlement system, assignment of voucher numbers, correction of compound journal entries and descriptions, verification of approval content, and determination of accounting accounts. This drastically reduces manual verification and correction efforts previously performed by staff, shifting job focus to verification tasks and achieving 90% automation of the entire process.

- Smoothing of Closing Procedures: Automation has distributed and smoothed the workload of accounting closing tasks, which were previously concentrated during specific periods.

Examples of AI Agent Applications by Industry and Task

SHIFT supports the development of AI agents specialized for any industry, sector, or business function. From core operations unique to specific industries to non-core daily tasks common across sectors, SHIFT delivers optimal technology selection and AI-driven process transformation based on task content, frequency, and complexity.

For industries and tasks not listed below, SHIFT can also propose customized implementation and adoption plans tailored to each client.

About 'Advanced FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering)'

'Advanced FDE' is a hands-on solution that selects the most suitable AI technologies and generative AI products from a vendor-neutral standpoint—without being tied to specific AI products or vendors—and provides end-to-end support from implementation to on-site adoption.

Unlike conventional FDE, Advanced FDE does not treat the introduction of proprietary products as its goal. Instead, it leverages extensive experience in supporting AI adoption for government agencies and large enterprises, along with a proven internal methodology developed through comprehensive use of generative AI (91% utilization rate). By deeply understanding each client’s unique workflows and on-site needs, SHIFT supports clients from implementation through operation and continuous improvement, ensuring successful outcomes in productivity enhancement, cost reduction, and standardized work quality.

※ Press Release on the Launch of 'Advanced FDE' (Announced January 21, 2026)

URL: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000122.000018724.html

Details of the Campaign

Campaign Name

AI Immediate Workforce Campaign

Target Companies

Companies interested in 'Advanced FDE' or 'AI-Driven Business Process Outsourcing Support | AI