
1. Technology overview
LayerX Inc. was founded in August 2018 and is headquartered in Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, with the mission to digitise all economic activity. Its core business is Bakuraku, a back-office AI agent service, and in June 2024 it launched Ai Workforce, an enterprise AI platform combined with professional services for large companies.
Ai Workforce structures business files, including documents that are not machine-readable, so that people and AI can use them. It is built from four components, knowledge, skills, tools and UI, which are combined into AI agents tailored to each customer or industry. Its LLM workflow engine reads contracts, proposals, purchase orders and financial statements to extract, convert and organise information, with human-in-the-loop review whose feedback is used to refine prompts and models. Features include AI masking, and engineers support deployment in customer environments.
2. Highlighted features & specifications
- Document structuring: converts files, including non-machine-readable ones, into usable data.
- Four building blocks: knowledge, skills, tools and UI combined into custom agents.
- LLM workflow engine: extraction, conversion and organisation of business documents.
- Human in the loop: reviewer feedback used to optimise prompts and fine-tune models.
- AI masking: masking of sensitive information in documents.
- Professional services: engineers work with customers to deploy in their environments.
3. Potential application
A Vietnamese bank can extract key figures from corporate financial statements for credit appraisal with officer review. A trading or manufacturing group can process purchase orders and supplier contracts into its ERP. A Japanese-invested firm's shared service centre in Vietnam can automate proposal and contract summarisation for head office.
4. Benefits
Turns unstructured contracts, proposals and financial statements into data that agents and staff can search and act on. Human review feedback steadily improves accuracy instead of relying on fixed rules. Agents are tailored per customer from reusable knowledge, skills and tools, and professional services shorten adoption. LayerX's AI agent businesses drove the company to 10 billion JPY ARR by January 2026.
5. Market trends & opportunities
Large enterprises are moving from pilot chatbots to agents embedded in document-heavy processes such as contract review, credit analysis and procurement. Japanese corporations with Vietnamese subsidiaries and shared service centres, and Vietnamese banks and conglomerates digitising paper-based workflows, create demand for document-centric agent platforms with human review.
6. Other information
LayerX Inc. is led by CEO Yoshinori Fukushima and CTO Yuki Matsumoto, and its Bakuraku line started with an invoice-receipt service in January 2021. The company has raised a Series B and reported 10 billion JPY ARR at the end of January 2026. The Ai Workforce business head lists overseas expansion as a future goal.
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