Shannon Forms Sales Partnership with Pepacomi to Support AI-Powered Sales Promotion in Construction and Real Estate with "kintone × Shakī~n"

Shannon Inc. (CEO: Hirofumi Yamazaki, Securities Code: 3976, hereinafter Shannon) announces the signing of a sales partner agreement with Pepacomi Inc. (CEO: Yoshinori Ogawa, hereinafter Pepacomi) for Shannon's marketing automation (MA) tool "Shakī~n," which is tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the construction and real estate industries, SMEs face urgent management challenges due to a lack of human resources and systems. While numerous DX and AI solutions exist, selecting the optimal tool and achieving a return on investment requires specialized knowledge and time, creating a dilemma where high implementation hurdles and poor cost-effectiveness make continuation difficult. Amid this situation, Shannon's "Shakī~n," a no-code, AI-assisted tool that enables anyone to easily conduct sales support and promotion, is offered at a monthly fee of 30,000 yen. It can be easily integrated with "kintone," a no-code/low-code tool provided by Cybozu, Inc., allowing SME users to build a foundation for creating business opportunities and expanding sales affordably and easily. Through this partnership agreement, Pepacomi, which has a significant track record in the kintone business, especially in the construction and real estate sectors, will offer comprehensive proposals that include "Shakī~n" as part of the kintone-centric ecosystem. This will enable both companies to strongly promote DX and AI utilization for SMEs in these industries. ■ Endorsements Mr. Yoshinori Ogawa, CEO, Pepacomi Inc.: "We are very pleased to be able to further accelerate our kintone business through this collaboration with Shannon. As we propose and provide ongoing support to help our clients become self-sufficient with kintone, we have always aimed to shift kintone's use from a defensive to an offensive, sales-generating role. In this context, we believe 'Shakī~n' is a service that truly makes this offensive use of kintone accessible, and we have high expectations that it will significantly contribute to expanding our existing clients' sales and the kintone market." Mr. Kazumi Tamada, Executive Officer, Head of Sales, Cybozu, Inc.: "Cybozu, Inc. sincerely welcomes the sales partnership agreement between Shannon Inc. and Pepacomi Inc. By linking Shannon MA and kintone through 'Shakī~n,' business processes can be easily improved without specialized IT knowledge. We expect this will contribute to resolving labor shortages in the construction and real estate industries and strengthening sales activities. We will continue to deepen our collaborative system to provide valuable support to our customers." ■ About Pepacomi Inc. Pepacomi specializes in kintone implementation support, construction, and ongoing consulting. We go beyond mere construction, providing proposals and support with the GOAL of nurturing kintone specialists within the client's company who can modify kintone themselves. We delve into the root causes of issues rather than just responding to requests, offering fundamental proposals. https://pepacomi.com/ ■ About Shannon Inc. Shannon provides products, solutions, and services that solve corporate marketing challenges, with cloud technology at its core. Achieving 'Digi-Ana Marketing' that combines digital and analog, Shannon's marketing cloud—which offers everything from events and seminars to marketing automation and CMS—is used in a wide variety of scenes, from large-scale to small-scale, across industries such as manufacturing, finance, real estate, IT services, trading companies, and public organizations. Company Name: Shannon Inc. Securities Code: 3976 (TSE Growth) Representative: CEO Hirofumi Yamazaki Location: 7F JEI Hamamatsucho Building, 2-2-12 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku, Tokyo Business: Planning, development, sales, and support of cloud-based marketing solutions; consulting and services related to marketing. URL: https://www.shanon.co.jp/