AI Factory Launches "AI Komei on IDX × Tokkyo.AI" for Food and Agriculture Industry, Addressing 17 Key Japanese Government Sectors!

AI Data Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Takahito Sasaki; hereinafter "AI Data"), a company specializing in the utilization of corporate data and AI, is pleased to announce the launch of "AI Komei on IDX × Tokkyo.AI ― National Food OS," a generative AI integrated platform specialized for the food tech industry, within the "Food and Agriculture" domain, one of the 17 key sectors identified by the Japanese government.

This service is an industry-specific AI platform that solves management challenges spanning agriculture, food manufacturing, logistics, food service, alternative foods, nutrition, and exports, through a dual structure of AI Komei on IDX (Food Management Advisor OS) and Tokkyo.AI (Food IP Advisor OS).

▼AI Platform for Food Distribution and Food Service Industry: AI FoodChain on IDX

https://www.idx.jp/aifactory/list/food/

Background: The "Complex Challenges" Facing Japan's Food Tech

Japan's food industry is a core national sector responsible for food security, healthy longevity, GX (Green Transformation), regional revitalization, and export industries simultaneously. However, in reality, it faces numerous structural challenges:

- Data Fragmentation: Data from farms, factories, logistics, retail, and food service are not connected, leading to weak supply-demand forecasting and increased food waste.

- Climate/Raw Material Risks: Extreme weather and volatile raw material prices cause chronic instability in procurement and supply.

- Disruption of Skill Transfer: On-site know-how is highly individualized, making quality dependent on specific individuals and hindering improvement speed.

- Delay in High Value-Addition and Exports: Inability to scientifically explain functionality and fermentation value prevents achieving premium prices overseas.

- Lagging IP Strategy: Japan lags behind the US, Europe, and China in fermentation, alternative proteins, and process/formulation patents, creating a structure where "even with technology, we cannot win."

To solve these complex challenges holistically, AI Data has developed the "National Food OS" concept.

Main Features of National Food OS

1. Food IDX ― Consolidating "One Knowledge Base" from Farm to Export

Documents and data from various domains such as farmland, yield, weather, raw material procurement, manufacturing processes, quality, inventory, logistics, consumer purchasing, nutritional functions, and export regulatory requirements are consolidated as knowledge.

This creates an environment where AI can cross-reference and analyze information previously managed disparately by different personnel, significantly improving the speed of access to information necessary for management decision-making.

2. Seven Management Advisory Functions (AI Komei on IDX)

Industry-specific knowledge is stored in a team drive, providing the following advisory functions:

● Supply-Demand Advisor: Analysis of demand trends, identification of waste factors, and support for reduction.

By converting past sales data, inventory records, and order history into knowledge, it provides analysis of supply-demand patterns, identification of waste factors, and reference information for ordering decisions. This accelerates decision-making for personnel.

● Production/Manufacturing Advisor: Process optimization and quality stabilization.

By converting process manuals, quality records, and trouble cases into knowledge, it supports instant search for similar cases, cause analysis, and proposal of improvement measures. AI substitutes the process know-how of veterans.

● Risk Advisor: Climate, raw materials, BCP (Business Continuity Plan).

By converting supplier information, BCP procedures, and past trouble cases into knowledge, it supports instant reference to response procedures during risk occurrence, search for alternative suppliers, and automatic preparation of BCP documents.

● Product Value Advisor: Functionality and brand design.

By converting product specifications, research data, and competitor information into knowledge, it supports organizing appeal points for different targets, generating product descriptions, and visualizing differentiation grounds. It verbalizes "why it is chosen" with data.

● Export Advisor: Country-specific markets and regulatory compliance.

By converting country-specific regulations, labeling requirements, certification standards, and past response cases into knowledge, it supports regulatory verification for each export destination, preparation of application documents, and instant reference to local Q&A. It builds the "power to pass" for overseas expansion.

● Management/Investment Advisor: Capital investment and new technology PoC (Proof of Concept) judgment.

By converting investment cases, PoC reports, and technology evaluation reports into knowledge, it supports searching for similar investment projects, organizing judgment criteria, and providing instant access to information necessary for decision-making. This significantly reduces "preparation time" for management meetings.

● IP Advisor: Patent strategy, technological sovereignty, and strengthening international competitiveness through Tokkyo.AI.

3. Tokkyo.AI ― Food IP Advisor OS

It builds a global food patent map in the fields of fermentation/microbial control, cultivated meat, alternative proteins, functional foods, and process/formulation/manufacturing patents.

It extracts dominant areas in the US, Europe, and China, and identifies blank areas that Japan should target. Based on process improvement records and research data registered as knowledge by personnel, AI suggests "potential points of invention" and supports the consideration of IP strategies applicable at each phase of research, product development, and patent application.

It picks up "points of invention" from on-site process improvement data and links research → product → patent in an end-to-end manner (※).

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4. Immediate Utilization of Industry-Specific Knowledge

The AI Factory model, based on "AI Komei on IDX," sets up templates and knowledge specialized for the food tech industry in a team drive.

Introducing companies can immediately begin AI analysis and decision-making support utilizing industry knowledge.

Use Cases

Food Manufacturers: Optimization of manufacturing processes, quality stabilization, and high value-addition through visualization of product value.

Agriculture/Agri-businesses: Supply-demand management and BCP strengthening through integration with weather and yield data.

Food Service/Retail Companies: Improved demand forecasting accuracy, waste reduction, and advanced pricing strategies.

Alternative Food/Fermentation Startups: IP conversion of PoC data, international patent strategy, and export expansion support.

Future Outlook

AI Data Inc. will continue to support the strengthening of Japan's food tech industry competitiveness and the establishment of a sustainable food system through the National Food OS concept.

In the future, we will promote:

- Enhanced integration with agricultural IoT and sensor data

- Expanded collaboration with functional food and nutrition databases

- Functional expansion to support regional food cluster formation

- Promotion of automation for international standards and export regulatory compliance

and contribute to establishing an industrial foundation where Japan leads the world through "Food × Technology × Intellectual Property."

▼▼▼ Watch the Video ▼▼▼

AI Komei on IDX × Tokkyo.AI, Restoring National Competitiveness: Japan's 17 Growth Strategy Areas, Food Tech Edition

https://youtu.be/67fTxKDsnXY

About AI Data Inc.

Name: AI Data Inc.

Established: April 2015 Capital: 100 million JPY (Capital Reserve: 1.525 billion JPY)

President & CEO: Takahito Sasaki

Location: Metrocity Kamiyacho Bldg. 4F, 5-1-5 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo

URL: https://www.aidata.co.jp/

AI Data Inc. has been engaged in businesses that protect and utilize corporate and individual data assets for over 20 years, based on data infrastructure and intellectual property infrastructure. Trusted by over 10,000 companies and 1 million customers, its "Data Ecosystem Business," which encompasses data sharing, backup, recovery, migration, and erasure, has won the BCN Award for 17 consecutive years as the top-selling product.

In data infrastructure, it provides IDX cloud data management and recovery services, and has earned high praise in the legal field through forensic investigations and evidence disclosure services, which received the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award.

On the other hand, in IP infrastructure, it supports IP management and monetization through its group company's patent search and application support system 'Tokkyo.Ai' and the construction of an IP marketplace that enables patent trading. Integrating these, it is developing a fusion platform for data and IP using generative AI 'AI Komei'. Furthermore, it is focusing on nurturing young engineers in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense, contributing to strengthening social infrastructure through data management and IP protection.