Sherpa & Company Provides Sustainability Information Disclosure Support Cloud "SmartESG" and AI-Powered Response Generation Service "Answer Ease" to Seikagaku Corporation
Sherpa & Company has begun providing its sustainability information disclosure support cloud "SmartESG" and AI-powered response generation service "Answer Ease" to Seikagaku Corporation. This aims to enable Seikagaku Corporation to centralize sustainability information management and streamline responses to evaluation bodies.
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Sherpa & Company Inc. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Jun Sugimoto; hereinafter "Sherpa") announced that it began providing its sustainability information disclosure support cloud "SmartESG" and AI-powered automatic response generation service "SmartESG Answer Ease" (hereinafter "Answer Ease") to Seikagaku Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & President: Ken Mizutani; hereinafter "Seikagaku Corporation") on April 1, 2026.
Seikagaku Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that aims for sustainable development with society, guided by its management philosophy of "Originality, Fairness, Dreams, and Passion," and its management creed to "contribute to human welfare by creating useful and safe products based on carbohydrate science, respecting academic principles, and supplying them widely to the world."
Following Seikagaku Corporation's decision to adopt "SmartESG" and "Answer Ease," Sherpa commenced service provision in April 2026. Seikagaku Corporation aims to standardize and streamline the entire process from information collection to disclosure by centrally managing its sustainability information on the cloud using the "Database" function. Furthermore, it plans to utilize "Answer Ease" to efficiently respond to various evaluation bodies, including "CDP" (※), for which Sherpa is an accredited provider, by leveraging AI.
(※) Sherpa Certified as a "CDP Silver Accredited Solution Provider"
https://cierpa.co.jp/posts/20250902
Through the provision of "SmartESG," Sherpa will continue to support its client companies in further advancing their sustainability management.
■ About "SmartESG"
"SmartESG" is a data platform that centralizes sustainability and ESG data scattered within companies and supports strategic sustainability management. The four core functions of "SmartESG" streamline sustainability information disclosure operations and enable advanced analysis. "Database" and "Workflow" visualize the collection and management of internal data that tends to be siloed, while "Focus" and "Benchmark" provide advanced AI-powered analysis. "SmartESG" contributes not only to enhancing corporate information disclosure and strengthening stakeholder engagement but also to accelerating the formulation and execution of sustainable management strategies.
https://smartesg.jp/
■ About "SmartESG Answer Ease"
"Answer Ease" is an assist function that automatically generates draft responses to sustainability-related questionnaires using AI, based on a company's existing data. By utilizing AI as an assistant in the task of responding to sustainability and ESG-related questionnaires, which often consumes significant time and effort for companies, it reduces operational burden and achieves substantial efficiency gains. Furthermore, by presenting references that serve as the basis for the responses, it addresses hallucination risks and ensures accuracy.
https://smartesg.jp/answerease
Company Overview
Company Name: Sherpa & Company Inc.
Representative: Jun Sugimoto, Representative Director & CEO
Location: TERRACE SITE GOTANDA 1F, 3-6-32 Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Established: September 2019
Capital: 100 million JPY
Business: Development and provision of sustainability information disclosure support cloud "SmartESG," operation of ESG/sustainability-focused media "ESG Journal Japan," and provision of consulting services "ESG Advisory" by sustainability experts.
Corporate Website: https://cierpa.co.jp/
Recruitment Site: https://cierpa.co.jp/recruit
Seikagaku Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that aims for sustainable development with society, guided by its management philosophy of "Originality, Fairness, Dreams, and Passion," and its management creed to "contribute to human welfare by creating useful and safe products based on carbohydrate science, respecting academic principles, and supplying them widely to the world."
Following Seikagaku Corporation's decision to adopt "SmartESG" and "Answer Ease," Sherpa commenced service provision in April 2026. Seikagaku Corporation aims to standardize and streamline the entire process from information collection to disclosure by centrally managing its sustainability information on the cloud using the "Database" function. Furthermore, it plans to utilize "Answer Ease" to efficiently respond to various evaluation bodies, including "CDP" (※), for which Sherpa is an accredited provider, by leveraging AI.
(※) Sherpa Certified as a "CDP Silver Accredited Solution Provider"
https://cierpa.co.jp/posts/20250902
Through the provision of "SmartESG," Sherpa will continue to support its client companies in further advancing their sustainability management.
■ About "SmartESG"
"SmartESG" is a data platform that centralizes sustainability and ESG data scattered within companies and supports strategic sustainability management. The four core functions of "SmartESG" streamline sustainability information disclosure operations and enable advanced analysis. "Database" and "Workflow" visualize the collection and management of internal data that tends to be siloed, while "Focus" and "Benchmark" provide advanced AI-powered analysis. "SmartESG" contributes not only to enhancing corporate information disclosure and strengthening stakeholder engagement but also to accelerating the formulation and execution of sustainable management strategies.
https://smartesg.jp/
■ About "SmartESG Answer Ease"
"Answer Ease" is an assist function that automatically generates draft responses to sustainability-related questionnaires using AI, based on a company's existing data. By utilizing AI as an assistant in the task of responding to sustainability and ESG-related questionnaires, which often consumes significant time and effort for companies, it reduces operational burden and achieves substantial efficiency gains. Furthermore, by presenting references that serve as the basis for the responses, it addresses hallucination risks and ensures accuracy.
https://smartesg.jp/answerease
Company Overview
Company Name: Sherpa & Company Inc.
Representative: Jun Sugimoto, Representative Director & CEO
Location: TERRACE SITE GOTANDA 1F, 3-6-32 Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Established: September 2019
Capital: 100 million JPY
Business: Development and provision of sustainability information disclosure support cloud "SmartESG," operation of ESG/sustainability-focused media "ESG Journal Japan," and provision of consulting services "ESG Advisory" by sustainability experts.
Corporate Website: https://cierpa.co.jp/
Recruitment Site: https://cierpa.co.jp/recruit