GTF to Launch 'GTF AI Thinking Engine' as a Thinking Support Platform for the AI Era on August 1

Advance Provision Starting August 1

'GTF Thinking Academy', a thinking skill learning platform for the AI era, will implement the 'GTF AI Thinking Engine', a thinking support foundation for brainstorming business and operational challenges, starting August 1.

The GTF AI Thinking Engine is a proprietary AI engine continuously tuned by integrating existing AI with a database containing GTF's (Global Taskforce) copyrighted IPs. This database includes strategy building skills, business analysis know-how, and control checks for project management office (PMO) operations cultivated from GTF's core hands-on corporate restructuring, turnaround, and business investment businesses. Through this AI engine, a free, unlimited text-based 'AI Thinking Partner' feature will first be implemented within the Academy starting August 1.

Thinking Business Support Ranging from Free Text-Based Advice to Professional Document Output

### Features Provided Through the GTF AI Thinking Engine

**'AI Thinking Partner'** The 'AI Thinking Partner' (scheduled for release on August 1, 2026) is a free brainstorming partner for students to use daily. In response to issues, AI outputs, proposals, and judgment memos inputted by the student, it provides text-based advice GTF-style on discussion points, blind spots, and questions that need to be verified next.

**'AI Thinking Staff'** The 'AI Thinking Staff' (scheduled for release on October 1, 2026) is planned as a paid service offering advanced support, including generating output materials such as proposals, plans, and execution blueprints. * General standalone availability of the AI Thinking Engine will be decided based on usage data and improvement status within the Academy.

Background of the New Service

With the spread of generative AI, drafting texts, summaries, research, and proposals can now be done in a short time. However, this has created issues in corporate and individual workflows, where people feel they have worked just because AI provided an answer, leading to uncritical use of outputs, failure to verify premises and evidence, and an inability to explain the reasons behind decisions.

GTF Thinking Academy believes that what is needed in the AI era is not the 'ability to make AI produce answers,' but rather the training of 'subjective' 'issue-setting' skills: 'what to ask,' 'what to doubt,' and 'how to judge and execute.'

The GTF AI Thinking Engine is a platform for students to apply the thinking methods they have learned to their actual daily business, operational, and career challenges. The goal is not just to acquire thinking techniques, but to cultivate thinking ability in practical work by brainstorming daily challenges using the GTF method.

What is the GTF AI Thinking Engine?

The GTF AI Thinking Engine is a proprietary AI engine tuned based on the database accumulated from GTF's core business. Implemented in advance within the GTF Thinking Academy, it is a thinking support platform linked to diagnostics, learning materials, and practical challenges for critical thinking skills, starting with proactive issue setting. The 'AI Thinking Partner,' the first service to be provided, is a free, unlimited text-based service. By inputting their challenges, AI outputs, proposals, meeting notes, and judgment memos, students can learn the connection between the following insights and critical thinking skills.

**A continuous loop: Diagnosis ⇒ Understanding current status ⇒ Learning ⇒ Application to practice ⇒ Review ⇒ Re-diagnosis ⇒ Confirmation of improved thinking skills**

- **Organizing issues**: Separating claims, evidence, premises, and unconfirmed items. - **Presenting blind spots**: Indicating easily overlooked counter-evidence, alternatives, stakeholders, and execution risks. - **Questions to verify**: Specifying the questions that need to be checked next. - **Thinking skill perspectives**: Providing viewpoints such as interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation. - **Learning to revisit**: Connecting to relevant learning materials and review points within the Academy.

* The 'AI Thinking Partner' and 'AI Thinking Staff' are not features that create finished products on behalf of the student. They are strictly thinking support services designed for the individual to proactively set issues, make independent judgments, and move to execution.

Reason for Advance Provision in the Academy

The engine is first provided within the Academy to develop it as an 'OS for thinking' linked with diagnostics, learning, practical tasks, and review, rather than just a simple AI chat. In the Academy, students can systematically learn critical thinking through 'AI Thinking Design,' 'AI Thinking Audit,' and 'AI Thinking Practice,' after understanding their current status via the 'GTF-CTPA Standard' diagnostic.

Comments from Representative Partner Hidetsugu Yamanaka

'What is truly necessary in the AI era is not uncritically having AI provide answers. It is subjective issue setting: how to define your problem, which premises to doubt, what to verify, and upon what value criteria—including unstated conditions—to make judgments. The GTF AI Thinking Engine is the foundation for training that ability in practical work.'

Future Developments

- **August 1, 2026**: 'AI Thinking Partner' advance provision for Academy students. - **October 1, 2026**: 'AI Thinking Staff' paid service planned.

About GTF Thinking Academy

Since its establishment in 2001, GTF Co., Ltd. has focused on corporate restructuring and turnaround through hands-on team secondments, primarily for listed companies. The Academy systemizes this practical knowledge into a comprehensive critical thinking platform based on global academic evidence.