SOI Launches One-Business AI Trial for Small Firms
The service addresses the gap between AI adoption and actual use, which SOI attributes to four organizational barriers rather than AI performance, offering a low-cost entry point for SMEs.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Kyoto Sangyo University venture SOI has launched a new service, the One-Business AI Trial, which helps small and medium enterprises test AI use in a single business process over three to four weeks. The company is recruiting ten monitor companies for the service, which stems from its experience training over 1,000 people in AI.
SOI, the first venture certified by Kyoto Sangyo University, is offering a trial that focuses on a single business task, breaking it down into steps and sorting them into categories: delegate to AI, human judgment, discontinue, or consider outsourcing. The company says this approach avoids the common pitfall of implementing AI into disorganized workflows, which only accelerates the chaos.
The trial is designed for tasks like monthly data aggregation in spreadsheets, searching across multiple files, repetitive data entry, and creating reports or meeting minutes. SOI notes that in some cases, the optimal solution does not involve AI at all, citing an example where a project initially estimated at 3 million yen was resolved by reorganizing spreadsheet functions and operations.
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