The AI Assistance

The Shop Assistant

Expand Market

Retail & Convenience Stores

Hotels

Shopping Malls

A shopkeeper for every aisle

Price Check & Promotion

Customers scan any item for instant pricing, while Yaichi-kun surfaces related offers at the moment of purchase intent.

Store Insight

Anonymous footfall, shopper mix, and peak-hour data help head office understand each store without extra camera rollout.

Multilingual Self-Checkout

Customers can scan, ask, and tap to pay in their own language, reducing cashier queues during busy hours.

Product Q&A

Yaichi-kun answers product, stock, location, and store questions across multiple languages.

How Global Parcel Delivery works with YAiCHi KUN

Choose the right box size and pack your items to the box.

Place the packed parcel within the marked measurement zone.

Tap the screen and step outside the zone to start automatic measurement.

Attach the printed label, then hand the parcel to the staff for shipment.

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See YAiCHi KUN in action!

One AI Agent,

Many Forms

Yaichi-kun is built as an IP-agnostic AI service platform. The character, UI, voice, and physical shell can be adapted for different brands or licensed IPs, while the same service core powers scanning, checkout, label printing, multilingual assistance, advertising, and customer insight.

The hardware is the touchpoint. The platform is the product.

CURRENT MARKET

The price of a checkout lane is climbing — FAST!

Japan is short on retail staff and raising the floor on what they cost. Every storefront hour is getting more expensive at the exact moment tourists demand more service in more languages.

Minimum wage, national weighted average

¥ per hour · the government's stated target is ¥1,500 by the late 2020s

0

600

1,100

1,500

¥1,055

¥1,121

¥1,500

FY2024

FY2025–26

Gov't target

A +42% climb from today's average to the target — before social-insurance

loading.

Four pressures hitting every retailer at once

¥1,121

/hr

2025-26 national minimum wage the largest single-year jump on record

¥1,226

/hr

Tokyo minimum wage, the highest in Japan

+15

%

Employer social-insurance load added on top of every wage

languages

Inbound tourists arriving faster than multilingual staff can be hired

CURRENT MARKET

The price of a checkout lane is climbing — FAST!

Japan is short on retail staff and raising the floor on what they cost. Every storefront hour is getting more expensive at the exact moment tourists demand more service in more languages.

Minimum wage, national weighted average

¥ per hour · the government's stated target is ¥1,500 by the late 2020s

0

600

1,100

1,500

¥1,055

¥1,121

¥1,500

FY2024

FY2025–26

Gov't target

A +42% climb from today's average to the target — before social-insurance

loading.

Four pressures hitting every retailer at once

¥1,121

/hr

2025-26 national minimum wage the largest single-year jump on record

¥1,226

/hr

Tokyo minimum wage, the highest in Japan

+15

%

Employer social-insurance load added on top of every wage

languages

Inbound tourists arriving faster than multilingual staff can be hired

RETURN ON INVESTMENT

We provide the same service.
Only about 2% of the cost.

A single staffed service position now runs close to ¥4 million a year once you load social insurance on top of the wage. Yaichi-kun does the front-of-house work for HK$300 (≈ ¥6,100) a month.

One service position, per year

One 8-hour shift daily · ¥1,200/hr +15% social insurance vs. one Yaichi-kun unit

¥3.97M

Human shift

¥0.073M

Yaichi-kun

54×

cheaper

Saving ≈ ¥3.9M per position, per year.

Customer wait time vs. monthly spend

Add service points to cut queues — staffed lanes vs. Yaichi-kun units

Staffed lanes

Yaichi-kun units

To hold queues under 2 minutes a staffed store spends ~¥1.3M/mo; Yaichi-kun, ~¥24k/mo.

Run your own numbers

Adjust the scenario for your estate the savings update live.

Stores / locations

10

Service positions replaced, each

1

Hourly wage

1,200 ¥

2025–26 minimum: ¥1,023 (Okinawa) ¥1,226 (Tokyo). A 15% employer social-

insurance load is added automatically.

Coverage per day

8 hrs

Yaichi-kun runs 24/7 regardless this sets only the human comparison.

You'd save about

¥39.01M

per year vs. staffing the same positions.

Staffing, monthly

¥3.31M

Yaichi-kun, monthly

¥61K

Units deployed

10 × HK$300

That's a 98.2% cut in front-of-house staffing cost and it

widens as Japan's minimum wage rises toward ¥1,500.

RETURN ON INVESTMENT

We provide the same service.
Only about 2% of the cost.

A single staffed service position now runs close to ¥4 million a year once you load social insurance on top of the wage. Yaichi-kun does the front-of-house work for HK$300 (≈ ¥6,100) a month.

One service position, per year

One 8-hour shift daily · ¥1,200/hr +15% social insurance vs. one Yaichi-kun unit

¥3.97M

Human shift

¥0.073M

Yaichi-kun

54×

cheaper

Saving ≈ ¥3.9M per position, per year.

Customer wait time vs. monthly spend

Add service points to cut queues — staffed lanes vs. Yaichi-kun units

Staffed lanes

Yaichi-kun units

To hold queues under 2 minutes a staffed store spends ~¥1.3M/mo; Yaichi-kun, ~¥24k/mo.

Run your own numbers

Adjust the scenario for your estate the savings update live.

Stores / locations

10

Service positions replaced, each

1

Hourly wage

1,200 ¥

2025–26 minimum: ¥1,023 (Okinawa) ¥1,226 (Tokyo). A 15% employer social-

insurance load is added automatically.

Coverage per day

8 hrs

Yaichi-kun runs 24/7 regardless this sets only the human comparison.

You'd save about

¥39.01M

per year vs. staffing the same positions.

Staffing, monthly

¥3.31M

Yaichi-kun, monthly

¥61K

Units deployed

10 × HK$300

That's a 98.2% cut in front-of-house staffing cost and it

widens as Japan's minimum wage rises toward ¥1,500.

YAiCHi KUN reduces the cost of every service point

Instead of adding another staffed shift, businesses can deploy Yaichi-kun to support price checks, customer questions, checkout, and label printing at a much lower monthly operating cost.

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