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INTLOOP is a company that operates primarily through professional talent matching and business-creation-focused consulting. The company connects freelance consultants and IT engineers with client projects, and works alongside these professionals using hybrid teams composed of its own consultants to address management challenges and support digital transformation initiatives.

Its main customers include major corporations in manufacturing and other industries, as well as system integrators and consulting firms. Projects are characterized by high-value, long-term engagements. The company's revenue streams consist of service fees from assigning freelancers to projects, success-based fees from recruitment support, and subscription and advertising fees from web services.

The business is structured around three core pillars: professional talent solutions, consulting, and web services. INTLOOP operates multiple job placement websites, recruitment support services, and web-based benefits platforms for freelancers, providing one-stop support across a wide range of areas from strategy planning and business process improvement to IT implementation.

Under its medium- to long-term management plan "INTLOOP "VISION2030"," the company aims to achieve revenue of 100 billion yen and operating profit of 15 billion yen by July 2030. The plan begins in July 2025 and pursues two parallel strategies: accelerating growth in existing businesses and creating new business domains. Specifically, the company will expand sales while improving operating profit margins, targeting an operating profit margin of approximately 15% by 2030 to build a highly profitable business foundation.

Priority investment areas include professional talent solutions and consulting, as well as DX solutions (particularly AI-related). The company is strengthening its business of supplying freelance consultants and IT engineers to large-scale, long-term projects while differentiating itself through "hybrid teams" that combine in-house consultants with external talent. Additionally, the company leverages web services including career transition support, freelancer benefits, and multiple project referral sites to acquire and retain talent. Its competitive advantage lies in providing services that go beyond simple intermediation to "accompany clients through business creation."

For new market development and business expansion, the company has clearly outlined strategies including partnerships and investments with startups, external investments through funds, and the use of M&A and joint ventures. In the short term, it will focus on investments in AI-related areas and acquiring new customers. In the medium to long term, it plans to incorporate new solution domains through venture capital investments and collaborative ventures. On the talent front, the company is diversifying recruitment channels by combining web advertising, various media, and benefits service promotion to strengthen new graduate hiring and attract professional registrations.

Technology innovation efforts focus on expanding AI-centered solution portfolios and strengthening internal technical and data operational capabilities. Specifically, the company will invest in developing AI-powered operational efficiency tools and customer-facing services while ensuring reliability through enhanced personal information protection (such as Privacy Mark certification) and improved information management systems. This approach will enable one-stop support combining technological expertise and talent supply capabilities to drive customer DX initiatives and improve operating profit margins.