Teachme Biz Rebrands as 'AI Manual,' AI Usage Surges 2.6-Fold Year-on-Year

Studist Co., Ltd., a company dedicated to supporting lean operations, has announced the rebranding of its flagship product, Teachme Biz, to the new concept of 'AI Manual.' Alongside this rebranding, the company has released the 'Teachme Biz AI Function Usage Trend Report 2026,' which details the adoption of AI features in the workplace.

The 'AI Manual' Teachme Biz aims to create an environment where anyone can perform tasks without confusion, generating capacity for frontline teams by entrusting the entire manual lifecycle—from creation and utilization to updates—to AI. Studist will continue to address workplace challenges such as knowledge transfer and labor shortages by further enhancing its AI capabilities to support lean operations.

Since its launch in 2013, Teachme Biz has supported business standardization and has become the top-selling manual creation tool by market share. It is currently used by over 2,300 companies in Japan and abroad, managing approximately 2.1 million manuals as of February 2026. Starting in 2024, the company began expanding its AI-powered features, making them standard in March 2026. This new concept accurately reflects this evolution.

Japan's industrial sector is facing a major transition with the retirement of skilled veterans and their replacement by less experienced young people and foreign workers. For busy frontline teams, creating and maintaining manuals is a significant burden, creating a dilemma between daily operational demands and the need for standardization. Teachme Biz aims to solve this problem with AI.

The 'Teachme Biz AI Function Usage Trend Report 2026' analyzes AI adoption based on operational data from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. The report shows that the use of AI functions has grown approximately 2.6-fold year-on-year, with the 'Writing Assist' feature showing the highest growth at 4.1-fold. The percentage of new manuals created with AI has doubled from 9.8% to 20.5%. About 88% of these were generated from existing assets like videos and PDFs, suggesting that the ability to create manuals without specialized skills has driven adoption. Furthermore, AI manual creation from videos increased 2.4-fold on a weekly average over six months.

In Q1 2026, total manual views exceeded 24 million (a 6.6% YoY increase), indicating a virtuous cycle where an 'increase in creation' by AI leads to an 'increase in utilization.' These figures confirm that AI is reducing the burden of manual maintenance and fostering an environment where anyone can perform tasks reliably.

The vision for the 'AI Manual' is to delegate tasks from creation to updates to AI, creating spare capacity for frontline teams and enabling a cycle of continuous improvement. In the future, Studist aims to achieve 'autonomous manual operation,' where AI proactively manages and delivers optimal information at the right time, building a system that actively promotes utilization.