Entering an Era Where Hundreds of Thousands Retire Annually: AI Knowledge Platform 'Expert Graph' Launched to Pass On Executives' and Experts' 'Judgments' to the Future

CROSS Business Producers Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kotoba Miki; hereinafter "the Company"), a professional firm specializing in business development, has launched the beta version of "Expert Graph," an AI knowledge platform that structures the knowledge, experience, and decision-making criteria accumulated over years by executives and skilled professionals through AI, reconstructing them as transferable knowledge assets for the next generation.

Starting today, the Company is also launching a call for three pilot partner companies facing challenges in business succession, technical knowledge transfer, or R&D knowledge inheritance.

Official Website: Expert Graph

The Challenge of "Judgment Succession" Facing Japanese Enterprises

In Japan, the population aged 65 and over exceeds 36 million, accounting for approximately 29% of the total population. Additionally, the average retirement age for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners has risen to around 70, making business succession a critical management challenge for many companies.

*Source: Cabinet Office, White Paper on Aging Society 2025; Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, White Paper on SMEs; SME Agency, Business Succession Materials

However, corporate competitiveness is not solely supported by manuals and data.

Why was this decision made?

What failures were learned from?

What priorities guide decision-making?

What perspectives are used to view customers and technology?

Such tacit knowledge, backed by human experience, forms the foundation of corporate value. Yet, in many companies, this knowledge remains dependent on individuals and is at risk of being lost upon retirement or departure.

CBP identifies this as the "judgment succession" challenge and has developed "Expert Graph," now completing its beta version.

What is Expert Graph?

"Expert Graph" is a knowledge succession platform that uses AI to structure not "what people know," but "how people think and make decisions." By analyzing interviews, dialogues, work experiences, and decision-making processes, it reconstructs "decision criteria," "rules of thumb," "problem-solving patterns," "specialized knowledge," and "values" into a knowledge network. The goal is to achieve the succession of decision-making itself, not just information storage.

💻 Official Website: https://www.expertgraph.fun/

Expected Application Areas

Business Succession: Succession of founders' and executives' management philosophies and decision-making processes

Technical Succession: Transfer of know-how and on-site judgment from skilled technicians

R&D Knowledge Succession: Succession of experimental insights, failure learnings, and technical judgments accumulated by researchers and developers

Sales Succession: Transfer of negotiation know-how and customer engagement skills from top sales personnel

Professional Support: Knowledge assetization for professionals such as lawyers, accountants, and consultants

Utilization of Patented Technology

The beta version of "Expert Graph" leverages CBP's patent-pending knowledge structuring technology.

The aim is not to store human knowledge as mere information, but to inherit it as a knowledge asset that includes decision structures and thinking patterns.

Call for Pilot Partner Companies

We are currently seeking companies to participate in the "Expert Graph" pilot project.

[Number of Companies]: Limited to 3

[Target Companies]: - Companies planning business succession - Manufacturing - Construction - Infrastructure operators - R&D departments - Corporate research institutes / technical research institutes - Specialized trading companies - Professional service firms - Consulting firms

[Implementation Content]: - Knowledge collection and interviews - AI analysis - Expert Graph construction - Knowledge succession model design - Utilization report delivery

*The pilot project will be conducted on a paid basis.

Apply to become a pilot company (limited to 3)

Integration with CROSS Graph

"Expert Graph" utilizes CBP's patent-pending knowledge structuring technology.

The goal is to inherit human knowledge not as mere information, but as a knowledge asset that includes decision structures and thinking patterns.

*Official CROSS Graph website: https://cross-graph.com/

*What is CROSS Graph?

This service is a knowledge platform that, using the Company's proprietary "future forecasting methodology" combined with survey data from approximately 200 global companies provided by Data Resources Inc. (DRI), a 100% subsidiary, enables businesses to co-create medium- to long-term strategies with AI.

*Expert Graph is part of the CROSS Graph platform.

CEO Statement

"The cost of handling information has significantly decreased thanks to generative AI. However, human judgment and insight cultivated over years of experience cannot be easily inherited. We aim not to replace humans with AI, but to use AI to pass on human wisdom to the future. 'Expert Graph' is our initiative to connect the knowledge assets cultivated by executives, researchers, engineers, and sales professionals across various fields to the next generation.

We hope to preserve the valuable tacit knowledge held by Japanese companies and link it to new value creation."

CROSS Business Producers Co., Ltd. President and CEO, Kotoba Miki

[Company Overview: CROSS Business Producers Co., Ltd.]

In December 2025, the Company officially launched the AI platform "CROSS Graph." Guided by the purpose of "capturing societal changes and delivering value to society through business development," it supports business development through future prediction-based business design (Future Drawing©). Since its founding, the Company has collaborated with IFTF (Institute for the Future) in the United States, providing strategic recommendations and field surveys to enterprises. Awards include APAC Entrepreneur's "The Most Inspiring Japanese Entrepreneurs of 2021" (2021), the Wood Design Award (2021), and The Silicon Review's "5 Best Management Consulting Firms to Watch" (2022). The Company has launched the "Vision 2050" future prediction program and begun offering Future Drawing©. It has strengthened its global market intelligence capabilities by acquiring Data Resources Inc. (DRI), a long-established research firm providing survey data from around 200 companies worldwide, as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Company Name: CROSS Business Producers Co., Ltd.

Address: 4F, Shin-Tokyo Building, 3-3-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005

Representative: Kotoba Miki

Founded: October 3, 2011

URL: https://crossproducers.com

Inquiries regarding this announcement: CROSS Business Producers Co., Ltd.