Non-Engineer CEO Creates 400 Hours Annually: Free Distribution of 'Claude Code Handbook for Business Owners'

Comix Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Akihiro Suzuki) is offering free distribution of the 'Claude Code Utilization Handbook for Business Owners,' which compiles the generative AI management know-how that CEO Suzuki has practiced in-house over the past year. This document is aimed at SME executives who view AI as a 'tool for engineers' and are hesitant to take the first step. It explains where to start, how to connect AI to business operations, and how to expand its use throughout the organization, along with specific prompts.

■ Background and Challenges: The 'Management Gap' in Generative AI is Widening

The business use of generative AI varies significantly by company size. According to a 2025 survey by Tokyo Shoko Research, 43.3% of large companies utilize generative AI, compared to only 23.4% of SMEs, a gap of approximately double. The most common reasons for not adopting AI are 'not knowing the use case' and 'not knowing where to start.'

Among executives in particular, misconceptions such as 'I thought it was for engineers because it has 'Code' in the name' or 'I signed a contract but neither I nor my employees use it' are blocking the path to adoption. Meanwhile, routine executive tasks like meeting minutes, proposals, and email replies are areas where generative AI is most effective.

Therefore, Comix decided that firsthand information from a 'non-coding executive' about what and how they actually used AI would encourage other executives in similar positions to take their first step, and made the CEO's practical records available as a free handbook.

■ Content Provided: Overview of the Distributed Handbook

This handbook reorganizes the know-how from 17 columns for executives written by CEO Suzuki over one year into 11 chapters and 38 pages. The main contents are as follows:

1. Three Skills to Try in the First 30 Days

Extracting next actions from meeting minutes, analyzing email style and drafting replies, and creating a management dashboard with Notion. Each skill includes practical prompts that can be used with copy and paste.

2. Design Procedure for 'Skillization'

Explains a 6-step process for saving your company's work procedures as Markdown files for easy retrieval, along with the design principle of 'writing decision criteria and reasons, not just steps.'

3. Verbalizing Tacit Knowledge and Deploying it Across the Organization

Introduces a dialogue template to extract decision criteria from the executive's mind, a 'top-down DX' approach where the president is the first user, and methods to lower psychological barriers by sharing failure examples.

As measured by the CEO himself, processing meeting minutes was reduced from 1 hour to 15 minutes per session, and proposal creation from 2-3 hours to 45 minutes per document. This resulted in a total conversion of 35-38 hours per month (over 400 hours annually) of work time into 'thinking time,' documented with before-and-after figures.

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■ Features

- Firsthand information from an executive: This is not an external guidebook but a record of actual practice by a non-coding executive in their own company. The actual prompts used are included verbatim.
- Assumes a small start: Based on the philosophy of 'don't aim for perfection from the start' and '40% completion is fine,' it explains steps to experience the first results in 30 minutes.
- Designed to connect to business: Instead of general AI usage, it directly links to weekly tasks that executives must perform, such as meeting minutes, emails, and weekly reports.
- Maintains that responsibility for decisions remains with humans: Rather than leaving everything to AI, it positions AI as a thinking partner under the premise that the executive makes the final decision.
- Also clarifies failure patterns in organizational deployment: Shows realistic deployment steps to avoid the common pitfall of 'just handing out accounts and calling it done.'

■ Target Users and Use Cases

Target Users

- SME executives interested in generative AI but unsure where to start
- Executives and senior management who have contracted for tools but haven't seen them adopted internally
- Executives looking to verbalize their own decision criteria for eliminating reliance on specific individuals or for business succession

Use Cases

- Structuring meeting minutes from negotiations and meetings on the same day and sharing next actions
- Analyzing your company's writing style from past emails and preparing draft replies for different clients
- Organizing weekly management information into a dashboard to shorten Monday morning status checks

■ Future Outlook

Comix believes that for SMEs with limited personnel, the most realistic path to results is not using generative AI 'broadly and shallowly,' but cultivating its use 'narrowly and deeply' in line with the company's own operations and context. In addition to the free distribution of this handbook, the company will continue to support executives in creating a state where they can 'live with AI' through its e-learning platform 'Comix Academy,' which specializes in generative AI utilization, and individual consultations that support everything from identifying tasks to initial skill design.

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--- Comix Co., Ltd. Company Profile ---

Head Office: 2F Kondo Building, 15-4 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Representative: CEO Akihiro Suzuki

Established: September 2007

Business: Productivity improvement support through generative AI, sales support for B2B businesses, freelance professional talent introduction, etc.

Web: https://www.comix.co.jp/

Comix Academy: https://www.comix.co.jp/academy/

[Contact]

TEL: 03-5459-5394　MAIL: n.adachi@comix.co.jp　Contact: Comix Co., Ltd., Naruo Adachi