UPGEAR AI Brings Shadow AI Under Company Control
The launch converts the 64.9 percent of small and medium enterprises that leave AI use to individual judgment into a managed workflow, targeting the 39.7 percent of AI interactions that contain confidential data.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Copras launched UPGEAR AI on September 1, 2026, a business platform that puts ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity behind one screen with training-off settings applied by default. Data storage and logs stay in Japan through AWS Tokyo and Osaka regions, with an option for fully domestic inference. The launch follows surveys showing 39.7 percent of AI interactions contain confidential data and 64.9 percent of small and medium enterprises leave AI use to individual judgment.
Copras, a Yokohama firm that has delivered more than 200 AI training video themes to companies and taught over 3,000 people directly, built the platform from problems it saw in those sessions. Employees faced a choice between skipping AI entirely or feeding it unmasked confidential PDFs, often through personal accounts the company could not see.
UPGEAR AI is priced at 30,000 yen per month for the Light tier, with Standard at 50,000 yen and Premium at 100,000 yen, plus a 100,000 yen initial fee. Up to 50 users pay a flat rate with no per-seat billing. The platform does not replace redaction work; it gives companies a way to set rules for AI use.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.