Nexa Engineering

SERVICES

Services & Pricing

For small and midsize companies in Kumamoto: from Genba AIX to development and websites. Transparent pricing — monthly Genba AIX and time-and-materials — with real cases below.

Concept

Think of us as your "tech department," not an "outsourcer." An engineer who gets onto your floor, decides with you what stays with people, and replaces the rest with systems.

Nexa Engineering is not a dev shop that builds to spec and walks away. Drawing on 15 years of "floor sense" from manufacturing, we get into the flow of your work. We decide first what should stay with people, then replace the flows no one needs to touch, one by one.

What we don’t put on our sign, what we do, and what stays with you
  1. Not on our sign

    • Competing on build speed
    • Comparing the newest tools
    • Person-month estimates

    Build speed and the newest tools are things AI now makes ordinary. So we don’t put them on our sign.

  2. What we do

    • Get onto your floor (half a day of work first)
    • Decide what stays with people
    • Replace the rest with systems that stick

    The person who comes in is an engineer who runs their own company.

  3. What stays with you

    • The owner’s time, back
    • Tools, data and memory
    • Systems your team can fix

    If you cancel, we hand over everything we built and all the data.

The monthly fee pays for the owner’s time we create and the judgment behind it — not for volume or hours of building.

Price Policy

"No opaque estimates." We make "what cost what" fully transparent. Instead of a lump-sum quote padded with risk buffers, we offer two options — monthly Genba AIX and time-and-materials quasi-delegation — both grounded in actual work and technical value.

Nexa Genba AIX

A monthly engagement: we get onto your floor, decide what stays with people, and replace the rest with systems. Tiers differ in how many flows we replace. No minimum term; everything we build, and its data, is handed over on cancellation.

  • Assessment

    ¥50,000/ mo

    Half a day on site to start + monthly session

    Decide what stays with people

    We start with half a day on your floor, decide what stays with people and which flow to replace first, then support you with a monthly session and chat.

    At once Up to 5

  • Rework

    ¥150,000/ mo

    Biweekly–weekly sessions + build slot

    Replace flows one at a time

    Biweekly–weekly sessions with a build slot. We replace whole flows one at a time and stay with you until they stick.

    At once Up to 3

  • Rebuild

    from ¥300,000/ mo

    Weekly sessions + priority build slot

    Reshape the business

    Weekly sessions, a priority build slot, and priority response when urgent. We replace several flows in parallel and reshape how the business runs.

    At once Up to 2

* Prices exclude tax. Because one engineer comes in directly, each tier has a cap. When a tier is full, start with Assessment and move up when a slot opens. The build slot covers what’s decided in sessions; larger development runs under quasi-delegation (rates below).

Hourly rates

Three tiers by what you need done (excl. tax, per hour). Every estimate and invoice shows which rate applied, and for how many hours.

  • Fix & maintain

    Support

    ¥5,000/ hr

    "A small fix to what you built for us."

    Minor fixes, troubleshooting, and settings changes for systems we built (or took over). E.g. copy or field changes, restoring something that stopped working, settings updates when staff change.

    For ongoing monthly support and improvement, monthly Genba AIX is better value.

  • Build & automate

    Development & automation

    ¥10,000/ hr

    "Get rid of this manual work." "We need a system that fits how we operate."

    Apps, automation, and dashboards that make daily work easier — most requests land here. E.g. LINE/Slack reception and notification bots, automating Excel re-entry and tallying, an at-a-glance sales and inventory dashboard, moving in-house systems to the cloud.

  • Push the frontier

    Advanced AI development

    ¥15,000/ hr

    "Build a system where AI does the work itself."

    R&D with the latest AI — challenges without textbook answers yet. E.g. an AI assistant trained on your documents and data, mechanisms where AI operates your internal systems directly, demand and sales forecasting models.

* Excl. tax. You pay only rate × actual hours. AI-driven development compresses the work itself, so even at a higher hourly rate, the total usually comes in below conventional outsourcing.

Sales systemization (end-to-end)

We build a "sales mechanism that sells," starting from a free diagnosis. See sales systemization for details.

StagePrice (excl. tax)
Diagnosis (half-day interview)Free
Design & implementation (sales, CRM & marketing, end to end)By consultation (after the diagnosis we put the amount and its basis in writing; no fixed price tag)
Ongoing operationContinues as Genba AIX (above)

Seminars & training

Practical, hands-on topics: getting started with AI, AI-driven management, and DX on the shop floor.

OfferingPrice (excl. tax)
Lecture / seminar (60–90 min)from ¥50,000
Half-day AI workshop (up to ~20 people)from ¥150,000
In-house AI training (multi-session series)Let's talk
  • Lectures include material preparation. Travel expenses billed at cost.

Model Case

A manufacturer — year-round support, replacing one flow at a time toward set goals

A case on Genba AIX Rework (¥150,000/mo) throughout the year. We started on the floor, decided what stays with people, and set a goal for each flow to replace. When a goal is reached, we move on to the next flow — the monthly cost stays flat while replaced flows add up.

StageExample workMonthly cost (approx.)
StartOn the floor: decide what stays with people and the first flow to replaceapprox. ¥150,000
Flow 1Set a goal and replace manual copying and checking with one flowapprox. ¥150,000
Flow 2 onwardOnce a goal is met, move on — e.g. customer updates, progress checksapprox. ¥150,000

A real-estate sales company — step up for an intensive build, then step back down

A case that started on Genba AIX Rework, stepped up to Rebuild while development expanded, and returned to Rework to keep improving once the systems were in place. Tiers can move up and down with how many flows are being replaced at the time.

PhasePeriodExample workMonthly cost (approx.)
OnboardingMonth 1Foundation build & chatbot rolloutapprox. ¥150,000 (Rework)
ExpansionMonths 2–3Sales-support AI, management dashboard, feature expansion & automationapprox. ¥300,000–500,000 (Rebuild)
OperationMonth 4+Improvements, upkeep, deciding the next flow to replaceapprox. ¥150,000 (Rework)

A software development company — year-round support that flexes with demand

A case where we support development throughout the year as part of their tech team. Because the contract is quasi-delegation, the workload scales up in busy periods and narrows to maintenance in quiet ones — monthly cost moves between roughly ¥150,000 and ¥700,000 with demand.

PeriodExample workMonthly cost (approx.)
Peak developmentDesign & build of major featuresapprox. ¥500,000–700,000
Normal monthsFeature additions, improvements, reviewsapprox. ¥200,000–400,000
Quiet monthsMaintenance, small fixes, technical adviceapprox. ¥150,000
  • All are models based on actual billing (Genba AIX cases are mapped onto current tiers; the software company case is shown at time-and-materials rates). We adjust flexibly to your budget.

First, tell us about the challenge on the ground

We won’t bring a proposal deck. It’s fine if you don’t know what to change first. Just tell us about your floor.

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