Polimill Adds A Character To Its Government AI QommonsAI
Polimill Inc. announced a new original character for QommonsAI, the generative AI it develops and operates for local government work.
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Why it matters
Polimill is marketing QommonsAI around human time rather than AI capability, and it says the next full version will be unveiled at a second-anniversary summit on October 30, 2026, co-organized with Microsoft Japan, where ten municipalities present adoption cases.
Key Facts
- Polimill Inc. announced a new original character for its government generative AI QommonsAI in October 2026.
- The three candidate names on the ballot were Komomin, Komomaru, and Qomo (Komo), and Polimill says the winning name will be announced later.
- Polimill credits Chloe Adams with creating the QommonsAI character.
- Polimill says QommonsAI is expected to be used by about 1,200 local governments and about 650,000 users nationwide in December 2026.
The company held visitor votes on a name at two events: TOHOKU DX GATEWAY 2026 in Sendai on October 20, 2026, and the Local Government Informatization Promotion Fair 2026 at Makuhari Messe on October 27 and 28. Visitors picked from three candidates, Komomin, Komomaru, and Qomo (Komo). Polimill says the results and the official name will be announced later. The character is designed to embody the product's stated role: standing beside municipal staff and supporting research and document creation so employees have more time for work the company frames as only people can do, such as listening to residents and deciding what a locality should do. Character creation is credited to Chloe Adams. Polimill says QommonsAI is expected to reach about 1,200 local governments and about 650,000 users nationwide in December 2026.
Polimill frames the character as a companion rather than a decision-maker. The company states QommonsAI is "not responsible for final decision-making," and that judging the local situation, facing residents, and settling on a course of action belong to people.
Character creation is credited to Chloe Adams. Voting ran at the Polimill booth at both venues, where staff introduced the character's intended role alongside the ballot. The full exhibition details were posted separately at prtimes.jp.
- TOHOKU DX GATEWAY 2026: October 20, 2026, 10:00 to 17:00, Sendai International Center Exhibition Hall, organized by Sendai City.
- Local Government Informatization Promotion Fair 2026: October 27, 9:30 to 17:30 and October 28, 9:30 to 17:00, Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall, Halls 1 to 3, organized by the Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems (J-LIS).
The name will be settled later, and Polimill says it wants the character loved as a familiar presence by the local government staff who use QommonsAI and by people with an interest in administrative DX.
The same week, Polimill scheduled the Government AX National Summit 2026 for October 30 at Microsoft Japan's headquarters in Minato-ku, Tokyo, from 10:00 to 18:00, hybrid with online access for the afternoon only. The morning is a hackathon on the theme "This is the QommonsAI we want," with officials and Polimill staff building mockups from on-the-ground problems on PCs. The afternoon covers use case presentations, a panel discussion, a talk session by Polimill executives, and an announcement of a new QommonsAI version. Ten municipalities appear across the two sessions: Mie Prefecture, Shijonawate City, Osaki City, Ichihara City, the Chusan Wide-Area Administrative Association, and Tomakomai City present cases, while Hyogo Prefecture, Kato City, Nisshin City, Komaki City, and Tatebayashi City join the panel. In May 2026 QommonsAI adopted the domestic Azure region in Foundry Models for LLM inference and said it would provide GPT-5.4 to officials nationwide.
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