ALGO ARTIS

What ALGO ARTIS does

ALGO ARTIS (株式会社 ALGO ARTIS) is a Tokyo-based AI software company that develops optimization solutions for operational planning and decision-making in critical infrastructure industries. Founded in 2021 as a spin-off from DeNA, the company serves enterprise customers across energy, logistics, maritime, manufacturing, transportation, and public sectors in Japan. Its named customers include Kansai Electric Power, Tohoku Electric Power, Hokuriku Electric Power, Cosmo Oil, Nippon Shokubai, Daihachi Chemical, Honshu Chemical, Nippon Paper Industries, Sumitomo Osaka Cement, Kuribayashi Shosen, Meitetsu Bus, and JR East Group.

ALGO ARTIS's core technology combines heuristic optimization algorithms—specifically simulated annealing (焼きなまし法) and beam search (ビームサーチ)—with deep operational domain expertise. The company operates a dual-product portfolio: the OPTIUM Series (オプティウム), a suite of custom-developed AI planning solutions tailored to specific industry constraints in vessel scheduling, transportation, energy, manufacturing, and logistics; and Planium (プラニウム), a SaaS-type production planning solution specialized for chemical and process manufacturing. The technology handles highly complex combinatorial optimization problems with numerous real-world constraints, delivers feasible plans in minutes, and integrates with existing ERP and legacy systems.

The company's revenue model blends custom enterprise implementations (Optium) with standardized SaaS subscriptions (Planium), priced on a quote basis determined by solution scope, deployment footprint, and customization requirements, typically under multi-year contracts. Go-to-market is primarily direct enterprise field sales with long, consultative cycles involving assessment/proof of concept phases and agile implementation support. ALGO ARTIS pursues a multi-vertical strategy, applying a common technology platform across industries while developing vertical-specific solutions. Marketing channels include industry events (Sea Japan, Pharma IT & Digital Health Expo, Railway Technology Expo, MDX), technical content, AtCoder programming contests, webinars with partners such as Mitsubishi Corporation and JR West, and direct social engagement.

Name

ALGO ARTIS

Legal name

株式会社 ALGO ARTIS

Website

https://algo-artis.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ALGO ARTIS provides AI-powered planning optimization software for Japanese critical infrastructure operators. Using proprietary heuristic algorithms (simulated annealing, beam search), the OPTIUM Series and Planium products automate complex scheduling and decision-making in energy, maritime, manufacturing, and transportation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Operations Optimization Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Scenario Planning, Forecasting Platforms & Planning Intelligence (HDAAAHAL)

Keywords

• Planning optimization software
• Heuristic optimization algorithms
• Production scheduling solutions
• Supply chain planning AI
• Industrial decision support

Headquarters

HQ city

Toranomon

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Software/Solutions: ALGO ARTIS provides custom-tailored optimization solutions to enterprise customers in critical infrastructure industries. Revenue is generated through project-based implementations combined with ongoing support and maintenance. The company offers both bespoke solutions (Optium) and standardized SaaS products (Planium), with pricing based on scope, complexity, and number of plants/locations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ALGO ARTIS develops and sells AI-powered planning optimization software that uses proprietary heuristic algorithms (simulated annealing, beam search) to automate complex operational planning for critical infrastructure industries. Its product portfolio includes the OPTIUM Series of custom-tailored optimization solutions for vessel scheduling, production planning, energy operations, and transportation scheduling, as well as Planium, a standardized SaaS production planning platform for the chemical and process manufacturing sectors.

Product overview

ALGO ARTIS offers a dual-product portfolio centered on the OPTIUM Series (オプティウム) and Planium (プラニウム) brands. The OPTIUM Series is a suite of custom-developed AI-powered Planning DX solutions addressing complex operational planning challenges across critical infrastructure sectors including maritime logistics, energy, manufacturing, and transportation. These solutions use proprietary optimization algorithms to automatically generate feasible plans considering multiple constraints simultaneously. Planium is a chemical industry-specific SaaS production planning solution designed for batch production environments, offering pre-built functionality for production scheduling, testing planning, and inventory management. Together, these products enable organizations to transform from expert-dependent manual planning to AI-assisted standardized planning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OPTIUM Series: AI-powered Planning DX solution suite that uses AI and algorithm technologies to support complex planning and decision-making across social infrastructure domains including logistics, manufacturing, transportation, and energy.
• Optium (オプティウム)
• Planium (プラニウム)

Products and services

• OPTIUM Series Unified AI-powered Planning DX solution suite using optimization algorithms to support complex planning and decision-making across social infrastructure domains including logistics, manufacturing, transportation, and energy. Provided as custom-tailored solutions addressing industry-specific constraints.
• Optium - Vessel Scheduling Solution AI-powered vessel scheduling optimization for maritime operators that automatically generates efficient vessel allocation plans considering ship loading capacity, port berth availability, weather, charter conditions, and fuel prices, reducing fuel costs and CO2 emissions.
• Optium - Transportation Solution AI-powered planning optimization for public transportation including railway and bus operations, covering train timetabling, operation rescheduling, driver scheduling, maintenance planning, track work planning, and inspection planning.
• Optium - Energy Solution AI-powered energy supply chain optimization covering demand forecasting, generation planning, fuel procurement, power plant operations, and transmission/sales, cross-optimizing multiple power sources to suppress fuel costs and reduce CO2 emissions.
• Optium - Manufacturing Solution AI-powered production planning optimization for multi-product, multi-line manufacturing facilities that automatically generates feasible production plans considering equipment capacity, inventory conditions, material constraints, and delivery requirements.
• Optium - Logistics Solution AI-powered logistics and transportation planning optimization covering maritime, land, and air transport, including vessel scheduling, loading planning, inventory management, shipment planning, vehicle dispatching, warehouse allocation, and delivery planning.
• Planium SaaS-type production planning solution specialized for chemical and process manufacturing that automatically creates production plan drafts using proprietary AI algorithms, provides alert visualization for constraint violations, intuitive plan modification interfaces, and integrates with ERP/legacy systems for multi-plant deployment.
• Pharmaceutical Industry Planning DX Package Industry-specific Planning DX package for pharmaceutical manufacturers covering production planning and testing planning integration, with formal sales beginning in April 2026 after trials with OTC, OEM, and API manufacturers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Kansai Electric: Planning time reduced from 4 hours to 30 minutes, planning horizon extended from 2 weeks to 3 months
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• 株式会社メイテツコム (Meitetsu Com)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 7 April 2026Joint webinar for bus industry customers. Collaboration combining ALGO ARTIS AI scheduling with Meitetsu Com attendance management systems for bus operator workflow optimization.
• 住友大阪セメント株式会社 (Sumitomo Osaka Cement)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 31 March 2026Customer implementing Optium for cement transport vessel scheduling. Industry-first full-scale AI implementation for domestic cement shipping. Developed custom solution with Sumitomo Osaka Cement's specific constraints.
• 、一般社团法人制造DX协会 (Manufacturing DX Association)minorOthers · 26 March 2026ALGO ARTIS is a member company. CEO Nagata serves as a board member. Company featured on Manufacturing DX Startup Chaos Map 2026 in the Engineering Chain - Sales/Production/Material Planning category.
• 西日本旅客鉄道株式会社 (JR West)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 March 2026Co-host programming contest (AtCoder Heuristic Contest 064) on railway optimization themes. Collaborative technology development for railway planning DX including dispatch operations support system development through JR East Startup program.
• 三菱商事株式会社 (Mitsubishi Corporation)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 January 2026Co-host maritime DX webinar and collaborative promotion of shipping industry optimization solutions. Strategic partnership for maritime industry digital transformation.
• SGホールディングス株式会社 / 佐川急便株式会社minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 March 2025Selected for HIKYAKU LABO 2024 open innovation program. Joint proposal with Sagawa Express and Aline on sustainable logistics using empty space optimization for mixed cargo efficiency.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• o9 Solutions: o9 Solutions offers an AI-powered platform for integrated business planning, supply chain, and demand sensing. It competes in the same AI-driven planning category as ALGO ARTIS, particularly for enterprise customers seeking to replace expert-dependent manual planning with algorithmic decision-making.
• Kinaxis: Kinaxis provides concurrent supply chain planning software used by manufacturers and complex enterprise operations. Its Maestro platform addresses similar planning/scheduling optimization problems to those ALGO ARTIS solves with the OPTIUM Series.
• Aspen Technology: Aspen Technology is a publicly traded provider of industrial optimization software for process industries (chemicals, energy, utilities). It directly competes with ALGO ARTIS in applying advanced algorithms to plant operations, supply chain, and asset optimization for similar enterprise customers.
• OMP: OMP specializes in supply chain planning solutions using advanced optimization and AI for manufacturers, distributors, and consumer goods companies. It is comparable to ALGO ARTIS in applying combinatorial optimization to complex real-world planning problems across multi-enterprise supply chains.
• AIMMS: AIMMS provides a prescriptive analytics and optimization modeling platform for production planning, scheduling, and supply chain design. Comparable to ALGO ARTIS in delivering optimization-based planning software to enterprise operations teams.

Broad incumbents

• Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software) is a large end-to-end supply chain and planning platform serving global enterprises. It overlaps with ALGO ARTIS in planning and scheduling functionality but operates as a broad incumbent with a much larger portfolio and customer base.
• Dassault Systèmes: Dassault Systèmes (including the DELMIA and Quintiq brands) provides industrial planning, manufacturing optimization, and 3D design software to global enterprises. Its DELMIA/Quintiq offerings overlap with ALGO ARTIS's manufacturing and production-planning modules but are part of a much broader portfolio.
• Hexagon: Hexagon is a large industrial software and sensor vendor with significant presence in manufacturing and process-industry optimization. Its asset and operations optimization offerings overlap with ALGO ARTIS's customer base, though Hexagon serves as a broad incumbent across many industrial niches.

Others

• Gurobi Optimization: Gurobi is a leading commercial solver for mathematical optimization problems. It is comparable as an enabling technology provider in the same optimization ecosystem as ALGO ARTIS but is not a direct competitor for end-customer planning engagements.

Regional players

• PKSHA Technology: PKSHA Technology is a Japanese AI company building machine learning and algorithmic solutions for enterprise software applications. As a fellow Japan-based algorithmic AI firm, it serves as a regional comparable in talent, customer base, and market context, though its product focus differs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/algo_artis
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@algoartis6743/featured
• LinkedInjp.linkedin.com/company/algo-artis

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors7 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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