AI Sales Automation "AI Apporo-kun" Enhanced — Achieving "Safe Sales Automation" with AI Duplicate Check, 3-Stage Confirmation Sending, and Speed Improvements

KASHIKA Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Ota-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Kenta Ozawa) has implemented a functional enhancement update for its AI automated sales system "AI Apporo-kun."

This update includes an AI duplicate sending prevention function and a 3-stage confirmation sending system, structurally eliminating the risks of mistaken or duplicate sending in sales automation. Furthermore, it features significant improvements in operational speed due to server optimization, enhanced area targeting, and a complete overhaul of the user guide.

Additionally, we announce that a beta version of the MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration function, which allows for the complete automation of sales processes from AI tools, is scheduled for release soon.

Service LP：https://aporo.ai/

Background of Functional Update — The "Automation Wall" Faced by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises' Sales

For SMEs facing severe labor shortages, acquiring new customers is the lifeline of their business. However, their sales process presents three structural challenges.

1. Time Consumed by List Creation

“An entire day is spent just creating a list of sales targets.” — Searching corporate databases, filtering by industry, area, and size, then investigating contact information and transcribing it into spreadsheets. This task alone consumes a significant portion of sales representatives' working hours.

2. Inability to Balance Approach Quality and Quantity

Form sales and email sales require crafting tailored messages for each target company. Increasing quantity leads to a decrease in quality, while improving quality limits quantity. This "dilemma of quality versus quantity" has constrained the sales productivity of SMEs for many years.

3. Risk of Duplicate and Mistaken Sending

As sales automation progresses, the risks of duplicate sending (sending to the same company multiple times) and mistaken sending (to unintended recipients) increase. "We want to automate, but we're afraid of accidents" — This anxiety has become a bottleneck hindering the DX promotion of SMEs.

This update to AI Apporo-kun specifically addresses this third challenge — "Automation...