Challenging with 'Human Power' in the AI Era: The Contrarian Strategy of a Professional Group! IU Consulting Integrates a Tokyo Social Insurance Labor Consultant Corporation
IU Consulting Group will integrate RIMONO Work-Life Design in July 2026, investing 80M yen to open a Shinjuku base for integrated tax and labor consulting, utilizing AI to reinvest in human-centric support.
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IU Consulting Group (Headquarters: Toshima-ku, Tokyo; Group Representative: Yu Iwanaga / Group Co-Representative: Yuki Degawa, hereinafter referred to as 'our group'), which provides consulting services for small and medium-sized enterprises and wealthy individuals across 16 locations with a tax accountant corporation as its parent body, announces that it will integrate the social insurance labor consultant corporation RIMONO Work-Life Design (Headquarters: Hachioji-shi, Tokyo; Representative: Takeshi Nishishige, hereinafter referred to as 'RIMONO') into its group effective July 2026.
Along with this, the group will invest a budget of approximately 80 million yen, the largest in its history (*), to open its second Tokyo office in Shinjuku in July. This office will house our group's advisory-specialized team 'Mirai Base' and members of RIMONO, co-creating an integrated consulting service of tax × labor affairs. *Excluding self-owned building construction
## Further Maximizing 'High Value-Added Services' with Approximately 8,000 Hours Annually Created through AI Utilization
With the utilization of AI, professional services that are limited to 'mere input work' such as bookkeeping and filing are being weeded out, and the demand for 'consultants' who support management decisions based on deep trust is increasing. Under these circumstances, our group promotes thorough efficiency through AI utilization. We have succeeded in creating over 8,000 hours of spare time annually across the entire group.
However, our true strategy is not 'mere efficiency'. It is to reinvest the enormous amount of time created by technology into analysis to deeply understand the client's situation, dialogue on-site, and 'responsiveness' to build strong relationships of trust.
We aim to be a group of professionals like 'blue-collar' workers who stand by management and sometimes tackle on-site challenges in a down-to-earth manner, rather than 'white-collar' workers who only state sound arguments. Now that knowledge is commoditized, having a sense of ownership at all times and pushing management decisions when it counts is crucial. We are convinced that such craftsman spirit, which AI can never imitate, will become the greatest added value.
## A Strategic Base for 'Finance × Labor' Challenging with the Largest Budget in History
In an era where telework and online interactions are accelerating, and professional services are becoming increasingly 'non-face-to-face', we dare to make the largest investment in our history to open this physical base. This is because what supports a manager's lonely decisions is not a sound argument over a screen, but the 'human power' refined by sitting knee-to-knee and sharing even the subtleties of facial expressions.
In the phase where a company accelerates its growth, issues where 'investment (finance)' and 'people (labor)' are complexly intertwined inevitably arise. If information remains divided between the tax side and the labor side, it is difficult to present essential improvement measures. The Shinjuku office, which will open in July 2026, will combine our group's know-how in tax, finance, and succession with RIMONO's knowledge in the labor field to aim for the resolution of management issues from multifaceted perspectives.
And by providing subjective accompaniment to the extent of declaring, 'If I were the president, I would choose this path', we create an environment where managers can confidently step on the accelerator for growth. We are convinced that the accumulation of these challenges will lead to the realization of a 'comprehensive department store for small and medium-sized enterprises' that solves all management issues in a one-stop manner, and ultimately, it is the one and only path to embody the group vision 'Bringing richness to the future of Japan'.
Along with this, the group will invest a budget of approximately 80 million yen, the largest in its history (*), to open its second Tokyo office in Shinjuku in July. This office will house our group's advisory-specialized team 'Mirai Base' and members of RIMONO, co-creating an integrated consulting service of tax × labor affairs. *Excluding self-owned building construction
## Further Maximizing 'High Value-Added Services' with Approximately 8,000 Hours Annually Created through AI Utilization
With the utilization of AI, professional services that are limited to 'mere input work' such as bookkeeping and filing are being weeded out, and the demand for 'consultants' who support management decisions based on deep trust is increasing. Under these circumstances, our group promotes thorough efficiency through AI utilization. We have succeeded in creating over 8,000 hours of spare time annually across the entire group.
However, our true strategy is not 'mere efficiency'. It is to reinvest the enormous amount of time created by technology into analysis to deeply understand the client's situation, dialogue on-site, and 'responsiveness' to build strong relationships of trust.
We aim to be a group of professionals like 'blue-collar' workers who stand by management and sometimes tackle on-site challenges in a down-to-earth manner, rather than 'white-collar' workers who only state sound arguments. Now that knowledge is commoditized, having a sense of ownership at all times and pushing management decisions when it counts is crucial. We are convinced that such craftsman spirit, which AI can never imitate, will become the greatest added value.
## A Strategic Base for 'Finance × Labor' Challenging with the Largest Budget in History
In an era where telework and online interactions are accelerating, and professional services are becoming increasingly 'non-face-to-face', we dare to make the largest investment in our history to open this physical base. This is because what supports a manager's lonely decisions is not a sound argument over a screen, but the 'human power' refined by sitting knee-to-knee and sharing even the subtleties of facial expressions.
In the phase where a company accelerates its growth, issues where 'investment (finance)' and 'people (labor)' are complexly intertwined inevitably arise. If information remains divided between the tax side and the labor side, it is difficult to present essential improvement measures. The Shinjuku office, which will open in July 2026, will combine our group's know-how in tax, finance, and succession with RIMONO's knowledge in the labor field to aim for the resolution of management issues from multifaceted perspectives.
And by providing subjective accompaniment to the extent of declaring, 'If I were the president, I would choose this path', we create an environment where managers can confidently step on the accelerator for growth. We are convinced that the accumulation of these challenges will lead to the realization of a 'comprehensive department store for small and medium-sized enterprises' that solves all management issues in a one-stop manner, and ultimately, it is the one and only path to embody the group vision 'Bringing richness to the future of Japan'.