Official Release of Company-Wide AI Partner 'Otasuke AI'. Cross-Functional Support for SME Management Challenges, from Subsidy Utilization to Sales and Recruitment Support

Nishikawa Management Center Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Otokuni-gun, Kyoto, Representative Director: Yutaka Nishikawa) has officially released "Otasuke AI," a company-wide AI partner that cross-functionally supports the management challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
We provide comprehensive support for the utilization of subsidies and grants, business plan creation, financial analysis, sales support, recruitment support, and internal knowledge utilization, offering it as an accompanying AI that connects AI implementation to "results creation" rather than ending merely with "operational efficiency."

For SMEs, "achieving results" with AI is more difficult than "implementing" it
In recent years, while interest in AI utilization has increased, SMEs are facing apparent challenges such as "not knowing what to use it for," "not taking root even after implementation," and "not leading to results."
Otasuke AI was developed as a "company-wide AI partner" to comprehensively support everything from management strategy to front-line operations in response to these challenges.
"Lack of expertise" and the "absence of an accompanying partner" have been cited as factors hindering AI utilization in SMEs, with reports indicating that 97% of companies face challenges, and only 21% are able to produce results.
Otasuke AI aims to bridge this "gap between ideal and reality" by providing support that looks ahead to implementation, retention, and utilization, rather than merely providing a tool.

What is Otasuke AI?
Otasuke AI is neither an AI exclusively for management executives nor just a simple chat tool.
It is a company-wide AI partner that can be utilized across multiple areas of corporate activity, including corporate planning, sales, recruitment, and internal information sharing.
"Management," "Sales," and "Recruitment" are presented as three representative areas of utilization, structured to support trial balance analysis, business plan drafting, sales role-playing and talk script generation, job description creation, and interview sheet evaluation.
Furthermore, by consolidating internal knowledge and reducing routine work, it also supports the elimination of person-dependent tasks, rapid access to information, and the shift of employees to high value-added work. A key feature is that it encourages a shift from "partial optimization," where AI is used optimally but individually by department, to "total optimization" for the entire company.

Difference from general-purpose AI: Supporting actual business results beyond searching and summarizing
While general AI tools are used for purposes such as searching, summarizing, and generating text, there are many cases where they cannot step into the creation of deliverables necessary for actual management decisions and operational improvements.
Otasuke AI differentiates itself by leveraging internal data, front-line operations, and the consulting expertise cultivated by Nishikawa Management Center to support the creation of outputs directly linked to management and practical business.
The company positions this concept as a "National Growth Strategy Linked AI System."
This is an idea that connects the utilization of systems linked to national growth strategies, such as subsidies, grants, and investment promotion measures, to management reform, supporting SMEs in turning "usable systems" into "actions that lead to results."
Additionally, looking at the environment surrounding Japanese SMEs, while there are numerous national support systems, including subsidies and grants, challenges persist such as "not being able to reach information without searching for it themselves," "system contents being complex and difficult to understand," and "application procedures being complicated and underutilized."
As a result, there are many cases where support systems that could originally be utilized are not fully leveraged, leading to lost business opportunities.
To lower the hurdles of utilizing such systems, Otasuke AI provides consistent support ranging from matching diagnosis for subsidies and grants to business plan creation support and the preparation of documents required for application.