Fraim

What Fraim does

FRAIM is a Tokyo-based AI software company, founded in April 2018 (originally as 株式会社日本法務システム研究所, rebranded FRAIM株式会社 in October 2021), that builds AI-powered document processing tools for the Japanese legal and business-document market. Its flagship product, LAWGUE, is a cloud document workspace that combines a proprietary browser-based editor (FRAIM Rich Editor), an NLP-driven paragraph-suggestion engine (FRAIM Paragraph Suggest), a contract-focused data extraction engine (FRAIM Data Extraction), and a Japanese/English OCR scanner (FRAIM Scan Parser, including handwritten character recognition and seal-mark removal). FRAIM monetizes through enterprise subscriptions on LAWGUE (quote-based), freemium upsell via the Microsoft Word add-in SuguRaku (スグラク), technology licensing of its four core engines to other vendors, and custom professional services for government and enterprise deployments.

The company serves Japanese enterprises (corporate legal, general affairs, and compliance teams), law firms and legal professionals, central and municipal governments (including LGWAN-compatible deployment), and SMB/individual professionals via SuguRaku. Distribution is multi-channel: direct enterprise field sales for LAWGUE, self-serve PLG for SuguRaku, capital-and-business-aligned reseller channels through Japan's first-tier legal publishers (第一法規, 新日本法規出版), and distribution partners (SB C&S, Marubeni Information Systems). The platform is differentiated by deep integration with D1-Law.com's 360,000+ case precedents database and a uniquely Japanese document-AI capability stack spanning notation-variation detection, clause-level search, generative AI assistance, and (as of March 2026) an agentic AI platform for autonomous document-task execution.

FRAIM's strategic posture is shifting from a single-product legal-tech SaaS toward an AI agent platform for document work: the 2024 GA of LAWGUE Generative AI Collaboration Option, the November 2025 FRAIM AI Agent launch, and the March 2026 FRAIM Agentic Platform (patent pending) mark an explicit move from assistive AI to autonomous, workflow-executing AI agents. Cumulative disclosed funding (~¥380M / ~$2.5M USD across a December 2019 third-party allocation and a September 2020 seed round) is modest relative to the company's strategic ambition, and headcount of 11-50 indicates FRAIM is still in the scaling-up phase, with revenue undisclosed.

Name

Fraim

Legal name

FRAIM株式会社

Website

https://fraim.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

FRAIM is a Tokyo-based AI company that provides LAWGUE, a cloud document workspace using proprietary NLP to automate legal and business document creation, review, and knowledge management for Japanese enterprises, government agencies, and legal professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Document Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Document Creation & Office Suites (BPAMAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

eSignature, Forms & Digital Workflow Platforms (HDAEAHAJ)

Keywords

• Legal tech software
• Document automation
• Contract management AI
• Cloud document workspace
• Enterprise document management

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

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, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. LAWGUE Subscription: AI-powered cloud document workspace subscription model providing document creation, editing, collaboration, and AI-assisted features on a recurring subscription basis.
2. Technology Licensing: Licensing of proprietary AI algorithms, editor technology, and NLP capabilities to third-party systems and partners for integration into existing products and new product development.
3. Solution Services: Custom solution development and technical integration services for enterprise and government customers requiring tailored document automation implementations.
4. Premium Add-on Features: スグラク premium paid plugins such as document search/comparison and new-old document comparison features with 14-day free trials, generating additional upsell revenue from freemium users.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FRAIM develops and sells AI-powered cloud document workspace software (headlined by LAWGUE) that automates the creation, editing, review, and knowledge management of legal and business documents such as contracts, regulations, disclosure filings, specifications, and patents. The portfolio includes a Word add-in (スグラク/SuguRaku) on a freemium model, D1-LAWGUE for government/municipal documents, the FRAIM AI Agent and FRAIM Agentic Platform for autonomous document workflows, and licensable core technology engines (FRAIM Rich Editor, FRAIM Paragraph Suggest, FRAIM Data Extraction, FRAIM Scan Parser).

Product overview

FRAIM operates a platform-plus-modules architecture organized around AI-powered document processing. The core platform is LAWGUE, an AI cloud document workspace providing clause-level editing, collaborative review, knowledge management, and generative AI assistance for business documents (contracts, regulations, disclosure filings, specifications, patents). Around LAWGUE, FRAIM offers specialized add-on modules: the FRAIM AI Agent and FRAIM Agentic Platform for autonomous document-task agents; the Microsoft Word add-in スグラク (free basic tier) for Word-native document support; D1-LAWGUE for government/administrative documents (jointly with 第一法規); and スマート規程管理 for labor-attorney regulation management. Beneath these product layers, FRAIM licenses four core patented technology components — FRAIM Rich Editor, FRAIM Paragraph Suggest, FRAIM Data Extraction, and FRAIM Scan Parser — which serve as the underlying AI and editor engine powering LAWGUE and all derivative products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• LAWGUE AI-powered cloud document workspace for clause-level search, auto-formatting, collaborative editing, and knowledge management of contracts, regulations, disclosure filings, specifications, and patents. Targeted at enterprise legal, general affairs, compliance, and government teams.
• LAWGUE Generative AI Collaboration Option Paid add-on for LAWGUE providing RAG-based generative AI for document drafting, reviews, and grounded Q&A. Uses proprietary retrieval on Elasticsearch to reduce hallucinations.
• FRAIM AI Agent Document-task-specialized AI agent for autonomous document drafting, review, and knowledge workflows, operating as a team member with limited human intervention.
• FRAIM Agentic Platform AI agent infrastructure platform that understands internal knowledge, business context, and organizational structures to autonomously handle multi-step document tasks including contract drafting, regulatory updates, and organizational workflow orchestration. Patent pending.
• スグラク (SuguRaku) Microsoft Word add-in for document creation and review support with a free basic tier and optional paid premium plugins (document comparison/new-old version diff tables). Features include definition/reference clause checking, correction assist, batch indent setting, notation unification, corner-bracket listing/deletion, and D1-Law.com integration.
• D1-LAWGUE Administrative-document-specialized DX tool jointly developed with 第一法規 (Daiichi Hoki) for municipal and government users. Includes government-document-specific formatting, LGWAN-environment deployment, and a generative AI option.
• スマート規程管理 by LAWGUE AI-equipped regulation management tool for social insurance labor attorneys, integrating 新日本法規出版 template regulations with LAWGUE's editing and template-revision alert features.
• FRAIM Technology Solutions (License) Bundle licensing offering of FRAIM's four core patented technologies (FRAIM Rich Editor, FRAIM Paragraph Suggest, FRAIM Data Extraction, FRAIM Scan Parser) for integration into customers' existing systems or new product development. Positioned as the foundational AI and editor technology powering LAWGUE.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2-second discovery of past reference documents
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability8 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered major, supporting and core.

• GVA TECH株式会社majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 2026Business partnership for lawyer document creation combining GVA TECH's AI document creation (ベンパル), FRAIM's Word editing support (スグラク), and first法規's case precedent database (D1-Law.com) for integrated legal document workflow from research to creation.
• SB C&S株式会社supportingChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 18 October 2023Dealer contract for LAWGUE distribution and service provision through SB C&S's channel network.
• 丸紅情報システムズ株式会社supportingChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 30 July 2023Dealer contract for distribution of FRAIM products and services.
• 静岡大学（狩野研究室）supportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 July 2022Joint research partnership for government document solution development. University team ranked 1st in COLIEE 2022 international legal AI competition. FRAIM collaborates with university on AI for legal document processing.
• 株式会社プロネクサスcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 March 2022Capital and business partnership for disclosure and IR document solutions. Both companies contribute capital and collaborate on combining FRAIM's document creation technology with Pronexus's disclosure document expertise for customer value enhancement.
• 鈴与株式会社supportingChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 30 August 2020System partnership for document management system integration. Suzuyo provides document management systems while integrating FRAIM's LAWGUE technology for enhanced document creation capabilities.
• 第一法規株式会社coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 April 2020Capital and business partnership for legal document solutions. First法規 provides legal publishing expertise and customer access while FRAIM provides AI editing technology. Jointly developed D1-LAWGUE for government documents and integrated LAWGUE Lite into first法規's legal formatting databases.
• 新日本法規出版株式会社coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 April 2020Business partnership in regulations management field. Jointly developed スマート規程管理 by LAWGUE for social insurance professionals and integrated legal content templates into LAWGUE platform. First法規出版 provides regulations templates and expertise to FRAIM's technology platform.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• GVA TECH: Japanese legal AI company offering AI-powered legal document creation (ベンナビ). FRAIM recently announced a partnership with GVA TECH combining ベンナビ with スクワク and D1-Law.com for an integrated lawyer document workflow, making GVA TECH both a partner and the closest direct competitor in AI legal document creation.
• LegalForce: Japanese legal-tech company offering AI-powered contract review and management (LegalForce, Nowze). Targets the same in-house legal and law firm buyer for contract-related AI workflow, directly overlapping with FRAIM's LAWGUE customer base in corporate legal departments.
• LegalOn Technologies: Japanese AI contract review platform (formerly LegalForce) competing in the same corporate legal AI workflow market. Offers contract review and management capabilities that overlap with FRAIM's LAWGUE and スクワク for Japanese enterprise and law firm customers.
• MNTSQ: Japan-based legal AI company focused on contract review and management for in-house legal teams using NLP. Directly comparable product offering to FRAIM's LAWGUE in the Japanese enterprise legal-tech market with overlapping customer profiles.

Broad incumbents

• AI inside: Japanese AI vendor providing OCR and document AI platform services. AI inside is both an investor in FRAIM (Sept 2020 funding round) and a broader market peer offering AI document processing at the platform level, with a wider portfolio that includes the AI inside Cube platform.
• CloudSign (Lawyer.com): Japan's leading e-signature platform and a strategic investor in FRAIM. CloudSign and LAWGUE are integrated for end-to-end contract creation-to-execution workflows, positioning CloudSign as a complementary incumbent rather than a direct competitor in document authoring.
• Ricoh: Large Japanese document workflow and digital transformation incumbent offering document management, OCR, and workflow automation products. Represents the broader incumbent threat with significant Japanese enterprise distribution and resources FRAIM does not match.
• Microsoft (Copilot for Word): Microsoft Office with Copilot offers AI-assisted document creation directly in Word, the primary authoring environment FRAIM's スクワク add-in targets. FRAIM is a Microsoft for Startups Scale tier partner, but Microsoft represents the broadest incumbent threat to FRAIM's core authoring workflow.

Emerging players

• HotDoc (Legal AI Hotdoc): Japanese AI contract review startup targeting law firms and corporate legal teams. Focuses on contract-specific AI review, partially overlapping with FRAIM's LAWGUE AI Agent capabilities and competing for similar early-adopter Japanese legal customers.

Others

• 第一法規 (Daiichi Hoki): Japan's largest legal publisher and FRAIM's capital alliance partner. Provides D1-Law.com (360,000+ case precedents) and jointly developed D1-LAWGUE. Acts as both distribution channel and content supplier for FRAIM's legal document products rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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