The AI & DX engineer who works on the floor at Kumamoto’s small businessesWhat should stay with people?
Automation that gives owners their time back.
The problem
Owners don’t have enough time.
The floor, sales, scheduling — before you know it, you’re doing all of it yourself.
65%
of a typical week is repetitive work that doesn’t need the owner (estimate)
Today
- Judgment, customers, floor know-how
- Copying and tallying
- Scheduling and checking
- First response to inquiries
- Work that stays with people
- Repetitive work the owner does today
What’s missing
You can’t hire.And it’s unclear what AI is even for.
66%
of Kumamoto City SMEs say they are short of staff1
~30%
of labor-saving investments by SMEs use AI2
#1
reason SMEs don’t use AI: “can’t picture which work to use it for”2
There are people who build.No one who comes in and decides.
Consultants stop at advice. Developers start once the spec is set.
- Go on sitefind the problem
- Decide what stays with peopledesign
- Buildimplement
- Embedkeep it in use
- Leave the substancewith the company
Consultants
Problem → recommendations and slides (stops at advice)
System integrators / outsourced development
Fixed spec → a system to spec → delivery
Forward Deployed Engineer (AI company)
Design around their product → implement → embed and expand the product
End to end
No one carries the work from the first visit to the hand-over
That’s why: Nexa Genba AIX
We go onto your floor. Everything stays with you.
Nexa Genba AIX is a monthly engagement in which we work on the floor at Kumamoto SMEs, decide with you what should stay with people, and replace the rest with AI and systems. Tiers differ by how many flows we replace.。The same person carries it from start to finish.
- Go on sitefind the problem
- Decide what stays with peopledesign
- Buildimplement
- Embedkeep it in use
- Leave the substancewith the company
Nexa Genba AIX
Half a day of real workDecide with the owner, on the spotAI builds itUntil it stays in useHand over the tools and the memory
Bands = the range each one carries. Hatched = the stretch where no one writes code by hand; AI builds it.
- People’s workJudgment, customers, floor ingenuity
- Your current toolsNothing gets thrown out
- Systems and dataHanded over in full if you leave
The person who comes in has sat in all three seats.
The one who listens, decides and builds is the same person.
10 yrs
The floorJapanese manufacturing
5 yrs
SystemsAdvanced plant in North America
Now
ManagementRunning a company on AI
The month after
Here’s how the owner’s week changes.
Repetition goes to systems. The time you get back goes to work only people can do.
Today
- Judgment, customers, floor know-how
- Copying and tallying
- Scheduling and checking
- First response to inquiries
After Genba AIX
- Judgment, customers, floor know-how (stays with people)
- Handled by systems
- Remaining checks
- Work that stays with people
- Handled by systems and AI
- Repetitive work the owner does today
Shares are estimates. We measure them against your own flows during the first visit.
Choose how deep we go.
Tiers differ by how many flows we replace. No minimum term.
Assessment
Decide the first flow
¥50,000/ mo
Half a day on site to start + monthly session
At once Up to 5
Rework
Replace flows one at a time, end to end
¥150,000/ mo
Biweekly–weekly sessions + build slot
At once Up to 3
Rebuild
Several flows in parallel — the whole business
from ¥300,000/ mo
Weekly sessions + priority build slot
At once Up to 2
Excl. tax. If you already know the area, you can start with a ready-made package.
Instead of a proposal deck, things we’ve built.
Nexa Engineering itself
AI runs the flows; what stays with the CEO is judgment and customers.
Parts we use every day
Hashira SFA and other parts we use every day are why we build fast and affordably.
100 apps challenge
Trying out “we can do this too” for myself is my life’s work.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is Nexa Genba AIX?
A monthly engagement in which we get onto your floor, decide with you what stays with people, and replace flows no one needs to touch with AI and software. Three tiers: Assessment (¥50,000/mo), Rework (¥150,000/mo) and Rebuild (from ¥300,000/mo), excl. tax, mainly for small companies in Kumamoto.
Where should an SME start with AI?
We start by spending half a day working on your floor to find the flows that eat the owner’s time. Then we separate the work that stays with people from the flows systems can take, and pick the first one. That is the Assessment tier (¥50,000/month, excl. tax).
How much does it cost?
Monthly: Assessment ¥50,000, Rework ¥150,000, Rebuild from ¥300,000 (excl. tax). Tiers differ by how many flows we replace. Larger builds are billed for the time they take. No minimum term.
What is a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)?
A role spreading through AI companies: an engineer who embeds with the customer and builds on site, from finding the problem to a working system in daily use. Most are sent by product companies to embed their product; what we connect is not a product but your management and your floor.
Is DX or AIX about automating part of the work?
No. Just as bookstores gave way to online retail, we see it as the shape of the business itself changing. Instead of automating tasks one by one, we first decide what stays with people, and replace everything else flow by flow.
Do we need to throw away our Excel sheets or LINE?
No. Familiar tools stay; we connect them behind the scenes into one flow. We keep the front that people touch, and rebuild the back that no one needs to.
How many clients do you take at once?
Because one engineer comes in directly, we cap each tier: Assessment 5, Rework 3, Rebuild 2. When a tier is full, you can start with Assessment and move up when a slot opens.
What happens to what you built if we cancel?
There’s no minimum term. If you cancel, we hand over everything we built and all the data. The data and the systems are yours.
Can you work with companies outside Kumamoto?
We’re based in Kumamoto and our approach involves being on site, so we mainly serve Kumamoto and Kyushu. Companies elsewhere are welcome to ask.
First, let us see where the work happens.
We don’t bring a proposal deck.
Because one engineer comes in directly, we cap the number of clients per tier (Assessment 5, Rework 3, Rebuild 2).