C3reve Develops Internal AI Platform "C3-COMPASS" to Support Upstream Processes in AI Contract Development

C3reve Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Masaki Sorano; hereinafter referred to as "C3reve") is pleased to announce the development of its internal AI platform, "C3-COMPASS (C3-Compass)," designed to support the entire upstream process of AI contract development, from meeting minutes to requirements definition, feature lists, quality checks, and design document creation, with the aim of improving quality.

By instantly generating requirements definitions, feature lists, and designs, and creating a state where all stakeholders share the same information early on, C3-COMPASS minimizes differences in understanding, prevents rework and failures during development, and ultimately increases the probability of business success.

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Internal AI Platform "C3-COMPASS" to Support Upstream Processes in AI Contract Development

Background of C3-COMPASS Development

The widespread adoption of generative AI has led to a rapid increase in corporate demand for AI utilization. On the other hand, in the fields of AI development and SaaS development, while consultations for "creating something with AI" are increasing, it is not uncommon for development consultations to begin without clear business objectives, operational challenges, or success metrics.

The most crucial part of contract development is the upstream process before writing any code.

Simply translating customer requests directly into features will not result in a system that truly contributes to business outcomes.

Ideally, it is necessary to organize the customer's desired business objectives, operational flows, and operational structures, and then determine "what features should truly be built" and "what features should not be built at this time."

However, this upstream process tends to rely on the tacit knowledge of experienced Project Managers (PMs) and directors, making it an area where quality can easily vary.

C3reve developed C3-COMPASS to achieve more reproducible AI contract development by leveraging AI within the contract development process itself.

Six Main Functions of C3-COMPASS

C3-COMPASS is an AI platform that supports everything from structuring meeting content and minutes to creating design documents based on customer discussions and meeting records.

1. Structuring Meeting Minutes and Hearing Content

Organizes business objectives, customer challenges, requests, constraints, and undecided items based on meeting content.

Visualizes AI development-specific points such as "What do you want to achieve with AI?" and "Which data will be used?" early on, reducing initial project misunderstandings.

2. Designing Customer Proposal Catalogs

Works backward from business objectives to classify necessary features, high-priority features, and features for future consideration, creating a draft proposal (e.g., AI chatbot, internal knowledge search, data analysis dashboard, etc.).

Enables speedy proposals tailored to the customer's business objectives, rather than just passively accepting requests.

Internal AI Platform "C3-COMPASS" to Support Upstream Processes in AI Contract Development

3. Generating Requirements Definitions

Organizes not only functional requirements but also aspects necessary for development, such as users, operational flows, permissions, and operational considerations. It also includes AI development-specific items like "prompt design," "response accuracy," and "human verification flow" to clarify necessary checks before development.

4. Generating Feature Lists

Based on the requirements definition, it lists feature names, descriptions, target users, priorities, etc., converting them into a format suitable for estimation and development planning. This significantly speeds up the process from proposal to development commencement.

Internal AI Platform "C3-COMPASS" to Support Upstream Processes in AI Contract Development Feature List

5. AI-Powered Quality Checks

AI automatically checks generated requirements definitions and feature lists for omissions, inconsistencies, ambiguous expressions, and discrepancies.

Are necessary management screens missing?

Are there any inconsistencies between input and output data?

Are operational functions such as notifications, approvals, and log management missing?

Are the customer's objectives connected to the developed features?

6. Design Document Creation Support

Assists in creating necessary development design documents, such as ER diagrams, screen transition diagrams, business flowcharts, and data structures, based on requirements and feature lists.

Visualizes the information AI refers to and the flow of its responses, promoting common understanding between engineers and customers.

Internal AI Platform "C3-COMPASS" to Support Upstream Processes in AI Contract Development Design Document Creation

Value Aimed for by C3-COMPASS

At C3reve, AI is positioned not as a "substitute for human judgment" but as a "means to enhance the quality of human judgment."

By visualizing information organization and identifying missing points through AI, PMs and directors can focus on more essential judgments.

Reduction of misunderstandings with clients

Standardization of quality for requirements definition and feature organization

Increased efficiency in proposal and estimate creation

Support for training junior PMs and directors

Strengthening of AI development-specific point organization and proposals

[Also utilized as a knowledge base for AI to explain service details]

By accumulating project information in a format that AI can reference, new team members can quickly catch up on past discussions and the background of specifications by asking AI questions. This maintains a certain level of quality across the entire team.

Integrated Support from Consultation to Development with "AI Utilization Consulting Service"

C3reve also offers an "AI Utilization Consulting Service (Monthly AI Advisor)" that provides monthly support for companies' AI utilization. When challenges identified through this service cannot be resolved with existing tools, C3reve supports systemization through AI contract development. By utilizing C3-COMPASS in such cases, the company strengthens its ability to provide integrated support from AI utilization consultation to development, smoothly transitioning consultation content into requirements definitions and design documents.

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Future Developments

C3-COMPASS will be progressively utilized in internal projects to standardize upstream processes.

Furthermore, C3reve is building internal AI platforms such as "C3-Persona AI" to support customer understanding, "C3-Strategy AI" to support business plan structuring, and "C3-Kaizen" to support post-release improvement proposals. The company aims to strengthen its integrated support system from business design and requirements definition to development and improvement proposals.

Representative's Comment

Masaki Sorano, Representative Director, C3reve Inc.

"The truly important part of contract development lies in the stage before writing code. If development proceeds with ambiguous understanding of what the customer wants to achieve or which issues need to be resolved, rework and misunderstandings will occur regardless of technical skill.

C3-COMPASS is an internal platform that uses AI to accelerate the organization of upstream processes, allowing humans to focus on more essential judgments. We believe this will enable us to standardize proposal and development quality at a higher level. We aspire to be a company that not only develops with AI but also evolves the development process itself through AI. C3-COMPASS is the first step in this endeavor."

About C3reve Inc.

C3reve Inc. is a development company that supports AI contract development, SaaS development, web system development, and no-code/low-code development. By providing integrated support from planning, requirements definition, development, and operational improvement tailored to the customer's business objectives and challenges, C3reve realizes AI utilization that leads to business growth, rather than just system delivery.

[Company Overview]

Company Name: C3reve Inc.

Representative: Masaki Sorano, Representative Director

Location: 3F, Dai-ni Toranomon Bldg., 1-5-12 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Business Activities: AI development, SaaS development, Web system development, No-code/Low-code development, Business improvement support

URL: https://www.c3reve.co.jp/

[Inquiries Regarding This Matter]

C3reve Inc.

Contact Form: https://www.c3reve.co.jp/contact

AI Utilization Consulting Service: https://www.c3reve.co.jp/training/aitrainingforcompanies

AI Contract Development Service: https://www.c3reve.co.jp/services/ai