bajji Launches "PontWorks," an AI-Powered Business System Development Service with Fixed Monthly Fees

Bajji Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Taito-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Shinya Kobayashi; hereinafter "bajji") has commenced offering "PontWorks," a monthly fixed-price service for developing AI-native business systems for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-sized companies.

PontWorks supports order management, inventory management, quotation/invoice management, AI-OCR, RPA, and modification of existing systems, providing a working product from the first month.

In conventional contract development, high initial development costs, long development periods, and high modification costs after delivery are common challenges. PontWorks, with its AI-centric development structure, builds a verifiable product from the first month and continuously improves it.

PontWorks offers three plans—S, M, and L—available from 200,000 yen per month with zero initial cost. The minimum contract period is six months, with continuous development and improvement even after release.

*The conventional development equivalent is an estimate based on our assumption of developing functions of a similar scale with a typical contract development structure. Actual development costs may vary depending on requirements, external integrations, data migration, security requirements, and operational maintenance conditions.

Background: System development for SMEs is becoming more expensive and time-consuming.

In many SMEs, operations are dispersed across Excel, FAX, email, paper, old core systems, and individually introduced SaaS, making double entry and verification tasks prone to occur.

However, when attempting to systematize and automate such operations, conventional system development faced the following challenges:

* Initial development costs tend to be high * Requirement definition and development take a long time * Modification costs after delivery tend to be high * System internals tend to become black boxes * It is necessary to adapt operations to SaaS * It is unclear how to incorporate AI into operations

Many SMEs, which often lack sufficient in-house IT personnel, find it difficult to proceed with systematization despite feeling the need for operational improvements. PontWorks offers a new option to address these challenges through AI-native development.

What is PontWorks?

PontWorks is a monthly fixed-price service that combines AI development agents with human AI orchestrators to rapidly develop and improve business systems.

It supports existing system modification, AI-OCR, RPA, and business automation, gradually building the necessary functions for the field.

PontWorks primarily targets companies facing challenges such as:

* Operations dispersed across Excel, paper, FAX, and email * High modification costs for old core systems * Desire to streamline order, inventory, quotation, and invoice management * Wanting to introduce AI-OCR and RPA * SaaS not fitting their business operations * Lacking sufficient in-house IT personnel

Development targets include order management, inventory management, quotation/invoice management, inquiry management, AI-OCR-based document reading, internal knowledge search, and modification/replacement of existing systems.

The primary target companies are mid-sized to small and medium-sized enterprises with 20 to 1,000 employees. It is expected to be utilized in industries where business flows tend to be complex, such as manufacturing, wholesale, retail, logistics, and service industries.

Features of PontWorks:

1. Provides a working product from the first month

With PontWorks, instead of spending months on requirement definition alone, we build tangible screens and basic functions from the first month. We quickly provide login, list screens, input forms, search, CSV import, and simple dashboards, and proceed with improvements based on on-site feedback.

2. Fixed-price development with zero initial cost, starting from 200,000 yen per month

PontWorks offers pricing plans with zero initial cost, starting from 200,000 yen per month. Three plans—S, M, and L—are available to choose from according to the company's size and development needs.

Overview of pricing plans:

* S Plan: From 200,000 yen/month, total 1,200,000 yen over 6 months, equivalent to 15,000,000 yen in conventional development. * M Plan: From 400,000 yen/month, total 2,400,000 yen over 6 months, equivalent to 30,000,000 yen in conventional development. * L Plan: From 600,000 yen/month, total 3,600,000 yen over 6 months, equivalent to 100,000,000 yen in conventional development.

*The conventional development equivalent is an estimate based on our assumption of developing functions of a similar scale with a typical contract development structure. Actual costs may vary depending on requirements.

3. Continuous development model by AI orchestrator

Human AI orchestrators organize customer requests and, utilizing AI development agents, proceed with design, implementation, testing, and improvement. Even after release, continuous improvements are made in response to changes in operations.

Instead of aiming for perfect requirement definition from the outset, we foster a system that adapts to business needs through actual use.

4. Prevents vendor lock-in by...