Knowledge for Working AI

Your knowledge, the world’s data —assets AI and people can use

An AI-native lab that puts your organization’s knowledge and public data to work — for your AI and your team alike.

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Knowledge connected to AI

  • Documents, images, PDFs
  • Public data, expert sources
  • Workflows and procedures
  • Decision criteria and rules
  • Customer interactions
  • Engineering know-how
Services

What we do

Nihonbashi AI Lab turns documents, data, decision criteria, and workflows into knowledge assets AI can reference — through in-house system development, AI operational memory, an AI lead on a monthly retainer, and our own AI products.

Direction 01

In-house business systems, built with AI-driven development

For work that off-the-shelf software never quite fits, we build applications shaped around how your team actually works and decides. AI-driven development compresses design, implementation, and iteration, so a working system arrives in weeks, not quarters.

  • What we doprocess mapping, requirements design, custom application builds
  • Typical targetsquoting, daily reports, approvals, project tracking
  • How we workstart small with AI-driven development, improve in production
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Direction 02

AI operational memory

Using memory infrastructure such as Hindsight, we organize decision criteria, procedures, customer history, and project context into a form AI agents can recall. Knowledge that used to depend on one person becomes operational memory, and AI picks up where the last conversation ended.

  • What we domemory design, setup, and operating rules
  • What it coversdecision criteria, procedures, customer and project history
  • How we workstart with a small memory bank, refine it in daily use
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Direction 03

Your company's AI lead on a monthly retainer

We act as your outside AI lead on a monthly plan — choosing the right tools, building them into real work, training your team to use them, and fixing what isn't working. One online meeting a month, chat in between, and the scope matched to where your company is today.

  • Feefrom ¥100,000/month per company
  • What we dotool selection, building AI into your work, team training, fixing what isn't working
  • How we workmeet online once a month, with chat whenever questions come up
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Direction 04

Our AI products

GoOCR, Bismo, Jobsy and News2AI support document processing, business research, job search and working with news. The design and operations lessons we learn from running our own products flow back into every client engagement.

  • LineupGoOCR, Bismo, Jobsy, News2AI
  • Domainsdocument processing, business research, job search and news
  • Valuea knowledge base AI can read and cite
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Products

Our AI products

GoOCR makes documents usable as text. Bismo brings business research to the AI you already use. Jobsy helps people search for work through conversation, and News2AI brings daily news to the AI they already use.

Our product
GoOCR

Text, tables, figures, photos — all extracted

GoOCR opens up documents locked in PDFs and images, turning them into text you can copy, search, and download. It handles vertical Japanese text, handwriting, and chart-heavy documents while preserving structure.

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Works with
Contracts, invoicesPapers, reportsChart-heavy documentsVertical Japanese textHandwriting, scansTables, forms
What it does
Full-document text extraction
Text, tables, figures, and photos — ready to copy and search
Tables to Excel and CSV
Turn tables in PDFs and images into data you can analyze
Our product
Bismo

Business research in the AI you use

Bismo helps you research Japanese companies, subsidies, laws and trade. Check sources and retrieval dates in the web app, or connect it to ChatGPT or Claude over MCP. Trade tools include product classification (HS code) candidate lookup and batch queries for product lists.

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Research tools
Company informationSubsidiesCorporate disclosuresLawsHS code candidatesTariffs
How to connect
Connect via MCP
Use information and tools within your own AI assistant
Web app
Research, run batch queries and review results
Our product
Jobsy

A job search that starts with a conversation

Jobsy is a free job-search service in Japan. Describe the work you want in your own words, and Jobsy reads your preferences and ranks openings gathered from company career pages by how closely they match. You can start without signing in. The service is in Japanese.

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Ways to start
List what you needNot sure yetWork you want to avoid
What it does
Search by talking it through
Say what you are looking for, and the closest matches come first
One search across career pages
Openings gathered from company career pages, in one place
Our product
News2AI

News for you and your own AI

A news publication for people and their AI. Read announcements and updates with sources, dates and conditions of use, then bring them to the AI you already use to explore what they mean for your work and everyday life. Current coverage focuses on AI, in Japanese.

Visit news2ai.com
What you will find
Announcements and updatesFeatures and use casesSources and conditions
How to use it
Read on the web
Follow links to original sources and check what changed.
Think it through with your AI
Use MCP or Markdown to bring articles into your own AI conversations.
Tech Stack

The stack that connects AI, data, and operations

  • Lovable
  • Vertex AI
  • Google Cloud
  • OpenAI
  • Claude
  • AWS
  • GitHub
  • Azure AI
  • ElevenLabs
  • Cursor
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Gemini
  • Hindsight
Why Nihonbashi

Lasting wisdom, a new way of working

Nihonbashi, the historic heart of Tokyo commerce, is a district where centuries-old merchant houses and new ventures share the same streets. Preserve what matters, adopt what works — that attitude is what we bring to building in the AI era.

We keep the wisdom that people and organizations have accumulated, and recast it in a form AI can work with. Deciding what to change and what to keep, we shape what work and learning look like next. That idea is written into the name Nihonbashi AI Lab.

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Put your dormant knowledge to work with AI

Business documents, decision criteria, customer history, field expertise, past proposals. We turn the knowledge sitting idle in your organization into assets AI can reference, reason over, and act on.

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