OpenEight to Provide "Video BRAIN" and "Open BRAIN" as a One-Stop Solution to Financial Consulting Firm Broadmind

OpenEight Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Yasukazu Takamatsu; hereinafter referred to as "OpenEight") has begun providing its AI business video editing cloud "Video BRAIN" and AI knowledge management system "Open BRAIN" to Broadmind Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President: Kiyoshi Ito; hereinafter referred to as "Broadmind"), a financial consulting firm.

Broadmind is a comprehensive financial consulting company that handles a wide range of financial products. The Education Department, responsible for acquiring the knowledge and skills of new and mid-career employees as Financial Planners (FPs), was promoting the in-house production of educational content using video, making the DX of employee training a critical issue.

To address the management challenges of "early development of new and young FPs into valuable assets" and "improving the productivity of the entire organization," Broadmind will leverage Video BRAIN's abundant templates to quickly produce high-quality videos of top FPs' know-how. Additionally, Open BRAIN will be used as a learning platform to ensure reliable course management. This will establish a system for standardizing FP quality that does not depend on individual skills. OpenEight will support the construction and operation of this learning foundation through both services, contributing to business expansion while controlling management costs.

Background of Implementation

At Broadmind, FPs with diverse expertise are the "most important assets (human capital)" embodying the company's value. The company's Education Department has the crucial mission of training new and mid-career consultants from the basics of FP knowledge, aiming for them to understand the overall business within six months and be fully assigned after one year. To further standardize FP quality across the organization and improve productivity, the company embarked on building a new, modern educational foundation. Since starting this initiative in 2023, they have been expanding content to meet diverse learning needs and advancing the operation of a centralized platform.

- Streamlining the production system and accelerating sharing Aiming to create an environment where anyone can produce and update videos in a timely manner, without relying on specialized skills, and to establish a system for quickly updating daily operational knowledge and information.

- Expanding diverse educational content Pursuing a mechanism to rapidly create and share educational content optimized for the learning phases and individual needs of both new and mid-career employees across the entire company.

- Building an integrated educational DX platform Promoting the construction of an integrated educational DX platform that centrally manages diverse educational content and allows for quantitative visualization and analysis of learning status and comprehension.

Reasons for Adopting Video BRAIN / Open BRAIN

The seamless integration of Video BRAIN, which allows even staff without specialized skills to mass-produce videos as immediate assets, and Open BRAIN, which enables advanced learning and training management, was highly valued as a platform that strongly promotes educational DX.

- Decoupling production from individuals and rapid in-house production with "Video BRAIN" By utilizing abundant templates, videos can be produced quickly with a consistent level of quality, even without specialized video editing skills. This establishes a system that does not depend on specific individuals, enabling timely content updates (in-house production) that reflect daily operational knowledge and information.

- Data-driven training management with "Open BRAIN" Beyond simple video viewing, a robust learning system including course learning, comprehension tests, and task management institutionalizes reliable skill acquisition. Furthermore, by analyzing viewing and usage by user and content, it enables precise, data-based training management.

Key Points of This Initiative

- Efficiently sharing "individual know-how" and maximizing the return on human investment Practical knowledge from high performers, which is difficult to convey through text, is produced and mass-produced as short video training materials. By establishing a system that does not rely on personalized face-to-face instruction (OJT), the ramp-up period for new and young FPs is significantly shortened.

- Significant reduction in training man-hours through the systematization of the education process Standardizing video production eliminates the concentration of work on specific individuals. Furthermore, by replacing the face-to-face time of managers for tasks such as "teaching" and "confirming" with a system, the overall labor productivity of the Education Department is enhanced.

- Data-based "visualization of growth" and homogenization of service quality Centralized management of learning logs and usage status enables objective training management that does not rely on intuition. This ensures consistent professionalism and service quality across the entire organization.

Comment from a Representative of Broadmind Inc.'s Education Department

"For the early development of consultants, streamlining video production, integrating the distribution platform, and systematizing the practical know-how of the field were major challenges in enhancing organizational productivity. By introducing both services as a one-stop solution, we have achieved efficient in-house video production that does not depend on editing skills, and objective training management based on learning data. In particular, the accumulation of practical content such as role-playing by managers, which has become a shared asset of the organization, is a significant achievement. As we have continued to work on this since its start in 2023, we feel that we have established a strong foundation for the early development of young talent and the standardization of service quality, while significantly reducing the workload for instructors.

Moving forward, we plan to leverage this internal education DX knowledge to expand into the production and distribution of information content for our customers. By enhancing the entire process from organizational input (education) to customer output (value provision), we aim to gain further customer trust and contribute to sustainable growth."

Company Overview of Broadmind Inc.

Company Name: Broadmind Inc. Representative: President Kiyoshi Ito

Head Office Location: 1-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-6233, Shibuya Sakura Stage Shibuya Tower 33F Established: 2002 Business Activities: Financial Partner Business, Real Estate Sales Business https://www.b-minded.com/

AI Business Video Editing Cloud "Video BRAIN"

Video BRAIN is an AI business video editing cloud that allows companies to produce and edit high-quality videos internally without specialized video editing skills. With intuitive operation similar to PowerPoint and abundant templates, it can be used for various purposes such as information dissemination for internal and external use, education and training, sales support, manuals, and public relations/recruitment.

It supports video production in line with each company's brand guidelines, as well as video production and operation by multiple departments, supporting the in-house production and continuous operation of video utilization in enterprise companies.

Official Website of AI Business Video Editing Cloud "Video BRAIN": https://video-b.com/

Company Overview of OpenEight Inc.

OpenEight is an AI solutions company that develops DX businesses utilizing generative AI technology for enterprises.

Through the provision of the "OPEN8 Platform," which consists of the AI business video editing cloud "Video BRAIN" and the AI knowledge management system "Open BRAIN," it provides one-stop support for enhancing the "quality" of information and the "distribution" of information in companies.

Approximately half of the companies listed in the Nikkei 225, as well as other major companies, totaling over 1,000 companies, have utilized the OPEN8 Platform to achieve human resource development, operational standardization, improved employee engagement, and effective new graduate recruitment.

OpenEight Inc.

Representative: President and CEO Yasukazu Takamatsu

Head Office Location: WeWork Hibiya Park Front, 2-1-6 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011

Established: April 10, 2015

Business Activities: DX business utilizing generative AI technology for enterprises

https://open8.com/