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Find the right starting point for AI advice
Public business support across Japan’s 47 prefectures, alongside A&A’s External AI Strategy Department and External AI Delivery Department, delivered remotely. Choose a route based on your business question, scope and budget.
Public support can be a useful first step.
This directory helps you find local consultation resources. A&A operates from Tokyo and works remotely; it does not have offices in each prefecture. Listed public organizations are not partners or endorsers. Check their eligibility and appointment requirements when you need local programs or in-person advice.
Hokkaido
Tohoku
- Aomori How should I separate nearby advice in Hirosaki or Hachinohe from a workflow development project?
- Iwate Should I diagnose weak profitability before deciding to introduce AI?
- Miyagi Before booking at Kamisugi, should I prioritize sales or administrative workload?
- Akita What should an owner prepare in the week before an outreach consultation?
- Yamagata What should I put on the consultation form beyond wanting to use AI?
- Fukushima How can I carry the findings from a nearby satellite into an implementation discussion?
Kanto
- Ibaraki Before choosing Mito, Tsukuba or Koga, who should explain the workflow problem?
- Tochigi How can I narrow several improvement ideas to one decision in a 60-minute session?
- Gunma Which questions can be handled by phone, and which need screen sharing?
- Saitama How do I choose expertise suited to my problem rather than only the nearest venue?
- Chiba Before booking IT advice, how should I distinguish marketing improvements from internal workflow changes?
- Tokyo What should I compare between public advice in Shimbashi or Tachikawa and private development work?
- Kanagawa When seeking advice from Odawara, how should I check expertise and implementation scope first?
Chubu
- Niigata How should I share materials and objectives before travelling to Nagaoka or Joetsu?
- Toyama How should I distinguish a submitted booking request from a confirmed meeting when a decision is urgent?
- Ishikawa How should I sequence investment when considering business recovery and labor savings together?
- Fukui Should social media advice and systems advice be treated as the same digitalization problem?
- Yamanashi How should I choose Fujiyoshida in-person or online advice based on the materials I need to show?
- Nagano Am I ready to explain the actual workflow in a booked web meeting?
- Gifu How should I choose between Takayama and online specialist advice by issue and schedule?
- Shizuoka With several consultation venues available, how can I keep one owner and one decision record?
- Aichi Have I checked public consultation eligibility before contracting with A&A?
Kinki
- Mie Should I take task-time records, gross-margin records, or both to an outreach consultation?
- Shiga What decision should I aim to reach at a scheduled Nagahama consultation?
- Kyoto Before choosing a venue, how should I align the target workflow and decision maker?
- Osaka How should I separate rights and contract questions about AI input materials from development discussions?
- Hyogo Before cutting labor costs, could better cost visibility and pricing restore profit?
- Nara How can an after-work consultation help reveal gaps between the owner and workflow operator?
- Wakayama From outside Wakayama City, can I explain the issue remotely or is on-site observation needed?
Chugoku
- Tottori When public advisers already cover AI, what would justify commissioning private work?
- Shimane What conditions should be met before testing an improvement discussed at Hamada or another local venue?
- Okayama Before showing workflow screens in a web consultation, have I chosen data suitable for sharing?
- Hiroshima When consulting from Fukuyama, how should I distinguish tool adoption from workflow design?
- Yamaguchi Before commissioning development, could existing tools and process changes reduce the loss?
Shikoku
- Tokushima Should the workflow operator join a convenient consultation slot, such as Sunday?
- Kagawa Can I use Shodoshima consultations and remote discussions to test improvements without extra travel?
- Ehime Can I leave a 60-minute consultation knowing who will test which workflow during the next week?
- Kochi How should I measure manual workload before a consultation serving Muroto or the Hata area?
Kyushu & Okinawa
- Fukuoka Before checking the online connection, have I chosen the profit measure to discuss?
- Saga Are funding discussions and labor-saving investment discussions using the same financial assumptions?
- Nagasaki Could workplace organization or working-environment changes solve the problem before AI development?
- Kumamoto How can I turn multiple recommendations from support institutions into an execution sequence?
- Oita For a weekend consultation, how should I record the weekday workflow in advance?
- Miyazaki Can I narrow the example for a Nichinan consultation from a list of complaints to one process?
- Kagoshima From Amami or Osumi, can I distinguish remotely assessable processes from those requiring a site visit?
- Okinawa When seeking AI advice from an island, is the next need implementation or an operating-process change?
Choose a route for the decision in front of you.
Decide where AI belongs in the business
A&A’s External AI Strategy Department is JPY 50,000/month excluding tax. It focuses on the owner’s decisions, priorities and evidence. Implementation and development are not included.
Build a defined workflow
When the workflow, systems, inputs and exception handling can be scoped, move to requirements, design and implementation. A&A’s External AI Delivery Department starts at JPY 300,000/month excluding tax, including strategy team support plus development and improvements within an agreed scope.
Bring one real workflow to the conversation.
- A recent example: who received what, where work stopped, and who checked it. Remove personal information and customer names.
- The business consequence: missed work, rework or staffing pressure. Distinguish released time from real spending and revenue opportunities.
- Constraints: existing tools, budget, the internal reviewer and material that cannot be shared remotely. Explain any essential need for an on-site visit.