【Surpassing 150 Adopting Companies】Equipped with patented technology for "unified management" from recruitment to retention. HR marketing tool "MyRic" solves critical turnover issues and accelerates business expansion.

Brain Lab, Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Norihiro Nakae; hereinafter "Brain Lab"), provider of the HR marketing tool "MyRic" (Service site: https://myric.jp/retention/), which helps increase recruitment and reduce turnover, is pleased to announce that the number of companies adopting the service has surpassed 150 in approximately one and a half years since its launch.

"MyRic" holds proprietary technology (Patent No. 7734919) for a "Customer Attraction and Talent Retention Management System" that consistently manages everything from recruitment activities to post-hiring retention support. Against the backdrop of recent labor shortages, the effectiveness of this technology in "retention and turnover prevention"—going beyond mere "recruitment support"—has been confirmed by many companies, leading to this expansion in adoption.

Brain Lab will continue to further promote initiatives that support the sustainable growth of companies based on this patented technology.

Background of Expansion: Growing Importance of Connecting Recruitment to "Retention" Currently, with the decline of the working population in Japan, corporate recruitment costs are on a constant rise. The early turnover of hard-won talent is a major management loss, making "how to keep them active for a long time (retention)" the most critical issue.

However, many conventional HR services are specialized in recruitment or job matching, and systems that consistently support post-hiring follow-ups and the identification of turnover risks have not been sufficiently established.

To solve these challenges faced by companies, our company developed a system that provides end-to-end support from recruitment to retention, establishing proprietary technology that analyzes employee surveys and communication to quantify turnover risk. In addition to obtaining a patent, its practicality has been supported by many companies, leading to the adoption by over 150 companies in just about a year and a half since the service started.

Details of the Patented Technology The greatest feature of this service is its ability to seamlessly visualize everything from pre-hiring application motivation to post-hiring turnover risk, rather than just job posting management.

- Pre-hiring Matching Support: By distributing job information to job seekers and managing it in connection with linked websites, the system calculates application status and motivation (application prediction index) based on the job seeker's access status. - Post-hiring Retention Support: Surveys are distributed to employees at regular intervals, and response history is accumulated. A turnover score (turnover prediction index) is calculated based on the content of the responses. - Integration from Customer Attraction (Recruitment) to Retention (Turnover Prediction/Follow-up): Conventional job management systems tend to be limited to "posting job information and managing application status," lacking mechanisms to consistently manage post-hiring turnover prevention and retention support. This invention integrates customer attraction (recruitment) with retention (turnover prediction/follow-up), allowing for integrated management without information gaps and enabling continuous follow-up from recruitment to post-employment through numerical tracking.

1. Data Integration of Recruitment and Retention It connects stakeholders such as job seekers, recruiters, post-hiring employees, and external consultants within a single system, providing unified management from recruitment and matching support to regular post-hiring follow-ups.

2. Risk Visualization via "Turnover Score" By analyzing employee responses and LINE interactions to visualize a "turnover score," companies can identify risks early and take appropriate actions. It covers a wide range of key factors affecting retention, such as mental health, motivation, compensation, and relationships with supervisors.

3. Talent Pooling of Former Employees It is equipped with a mechanism to accumulate information even if an employee leaves, allowing them to be treated as "job seekers" again and turned into a talent pool.

Overview of Patent Registration Invention Name: Customer Attraction and Talent Retention Management System and Customer Attraction Patent Number: Patent No. 7734919 Patent Holder: Brain Lab, Inc. Registration Date: August 29, 2025

Future Outlook Brain Lab will further evolve "MyRic," which is based on this patented technology, and will promote the improvement of analysis accuracy using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the expansion of integration with major communication tools.

Leveraging the insights gained from the 150 companies that have adopted the service, we aim to become the "infrastructure of the HR industry" that enables companies to maximize employee engagement.

About Brain Lab, Inc. We develop and provide top-tier core systems for the recruitment and staffing industry. We offer cloud-based operational systems for staffing and recruitment agencies, "CAREER PLUS" and "MatchinGood," which have been introduced to over 1,800 companies ranging from major HR firms to small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as the HR marketing tool "MyRic," which helps increase recruitment and reduce turnover.

Brain Lab, Inc. Company Overview [Company Name] Brain Lab, Inc. [Headquarters] 3F CANAL GATE SHIBAURA, 4-12-38 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo [Establishment Date] November 2002 [Representative] Norihiro Nakae, President and Representative Director [Business Content] Consulting support for recruitment and staffing operations; Development and sales of operational management systems for recruitment and staffing agencies [Corporate Site] https://www.brainlab.co.jp [Service Site] Retention support for non-desk workers: https://myric.jp/retention/ MA/Retention support for staffing agencies: https://myric.jp/ma/haken/ MA/Retention support for recruitment agencies: https://myric.jp/ma/syokai/

Brain Lab, Inc. is a group company of ZIGExN Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President and CEO: Jo Hirao; TSE Prime: 3679).

ZIGExN Co., Ltd. Company Overview [Company Name] ZIGExN Co., Ltd. [Securities Code] 3679 (TSE Prime) [Headquarters] 3-4-8 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo [Establishment Date] June 1, 2006 [Representative] Jo Hirao, Representative Director, President and CEO [Capital] 125 million yen (as of March 31, 2025) [Business Content] Life Service Platform Business [Major Group Companies] Rejob Co., Ltd., Brain Lab, Inc., Upbase Co., Ltd., Beyond Borders Co., Ltd., Ties Co., Ltd., Awesome Agent Co., Ltd., Apple World Co., Ltd., TCV Co., Ltd., and A company, ZIGExN VeNtura Co., Ltd., CORDA Co., Ltd., Hoken Mammoth Inc. [URL] https://zigexn.co.jp

About the ZIGExN Group Our group upholds the purpose of "Update Your Story - Update your future," and provides over 40 services in the life event domain (recruitment, housing, cars, travel, etc.) that update the futures of all people standing at life's crossroads. We were listed on the TSE Mothers in 2013, moved to the TSE First Section in 2018, and transitioned to the Prime Market in 2022. Since listing, we have been actively engaged in expanding our business areas through M&A and continue to achieve discontinuous growth.