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Laboro.AI operates primarily through custom AI development and implementation support for enterprises. The company's core business is its "Custom AI Solutions" division, where it works with clients end-to-end—from business planning and proof-of-concept through implementation and ongoing optimization. The company also offers semi-custom solutions leveraging generative AI, providing diverse service formats.

The company's main customers are large enterprises in research and development-driven industries such as semiconductors, automotive, industrial machinery, chemicals, and life sciences, as well as major companies in social infrastructure and consumer-facing sectors including consumer goods, distribution, transportation, and finance. Revenue is primarily project-based consulting fees. The business model ensures stable and continuous revenue by taking on important initiatives at scale and over extended periods.

Operations are divided into two main segments: the "Custom AI Solutions" division and the "System Development" division, operated by subsidiary CAGLE. The Custom AI division combines fully customized AI solution design with semi-custom agent transformation as its core offerings, supplemented by optimization solutions, generative AI agents, and specialized solutions for image inspection and text classification. These are integrated with technical foundations including AI cameras and development frameworks.

The company aims to achieve business growth by focusing on "Value-Up AI Solutions," which directly support customers in developing new products and services and transforming their business models. Specifically, the company is strengthening custom AI solutions that provide end-to-end support from tailored AI development through implementation and operation. By expanding high-value, long-term customer relationships, the company seeks to improve revenue growth rate and gross profit margin. Market projections show Japan's AI-related market expanding from approximately 1.14 trillion yen in 2023 to 2.17 trillion yen by 2026. The value-up construction services market, which is the company's primary focus, is expected to grow from approximately 150 billion yen in 2023 to 220-300 billion yen by 2026. The company is pursuing a strategy to capture this growth and expand its business scale.

Investment priorities are concentrated in two sectors: research and development-intensive industries (semiconductors, automotive, materials, chemicals, life sciences, etc.) and social infrastructure and consumer industries (consumer goods, distribution and retail, transportation and urban infrastructure, financial services, etc.). The company's competitive advantage lies in accumulated "solution design" expertise—deeply understanding customer business challenges and implementing cutting-edge technology. The company strengthens this position by developing advanced, academically-grounded methodologies in-house. This approach differs from generic, low-cost products with short deployment cycles, enabling the company to win long-term projects addressing core customer themes and secure collaborative projects with global leading companies.

For market expansion and business growth, the company plans to leverage knowledge gained from existing projects to expand its service lineup and strengthen system development and UI/UX capabilities through CAGL, a group subsidiary, to enhance offerings to manufacturing and other sectors. Building on over 400 implementation cases, the company will increase reusable technology assets to accelerate applications across industries, using new customer acquisition numbers and revenue growth from existing customers as key performance indicators. Growth investments will prioritize talent recruitment and development, marketing, and development infrastructure, funded through retained earnings and equity financing as needed.

For technological innovation, the company is establishing three reusable technology assets across projects: "solution development expertise," "hardware-integrated platforms," and "AI development frameworks" to achieve both development efficiency and quality. For talent development, the company cultivates "solution designers" and "agent transformation producers" through on-the-job and off-the-job training to deepen expertise. The company is advancing the use of generative AI and agent technologies while strengthening information management and internal controls. Through these initiatives, the company aims to build sustainable competitive advantage by linking technology with business strategy.