What Keywalker does

Keywalker (株式会社キーウォーカー) is a Tokyo-based private Japanese corporation founded in 2000 that provides big data solutions organized around three pillars: data collection, data visualization, and AI/machine learning. The data collection portfolio includes proprietary SaaS tools ShtockData (claimed No.1 in Japan's domestic web scraping market per Fuji Chimera Research Institute), ShtockData Pro, Pricewalker for price intelligence, Brandwalker for trademark/brand protection, and CERVN for website change monitoring, which received a major AI-augmented update in March 2026. The visualization layer is delivered through a Salesforce (Tableau) partnership covering dashboard development, training, and Tableau Doctor advisory, supplemented by a data analysis platform service and a review analytics dashboard.

The AI/ML pillar rests on Keywalker's role as a Dataiku consulting partner holding the largest concentration of Dataiku certified trainers in Japan (as of June 2024), complemented by AI development support, AI human resource development, and generative AI workshops. The company earned Dataiku's Excellence in Service Award 2026 and expanded its platform footprint in June 2026 by becoming an official certified Notion partner. Customers span manufacturing (DAIKIN, Kikkoman), real estate (Mitsui Fudosan, Daito Trust Partners), telecom (SoftBank), aviation (JAL), healthcare (SBC Medical Group), and facilities management (AEON DELIGHT), with 300+ cumulative ShtockData implementations and 99%+ retention cited.

The business model combines recurring SaaS subscriptions (ShtockData self-service and Pro tiers, CERVN) with project-based professional services for Dataiku, Tableau, and custom AI development, supported by training and workshops. Distribution is direct enterprise sales for large engagements, self-service web onboarding for ShtockData, and partner-led distribution through Dataiku, Salesforce/Tableau, and Notion networks. Geographic scope is Japan-domestic, with 51-100 employees, no disclosed revenue figures, and a private ownership structure with no institutional investors disclosed in available materials.

Name

Keywalker

Legal name

株式会社キーウォーカー

Website

https://keywalker.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Keywalker is a Tokyo-based big data solutions provider offering proprietary web scraping SaaS (ShtockData, Pricewalker, Brandwalker, CERVN), Tableau and Dataiku consulting, and AI development services to Japanese enterprises across manufacturing, real estate, telecom, and healthcare.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Big Data Analytics Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Monetization & Data Products Services (BPAEAHAL)

Keywords

• Web scraping services
• Data visualization
• AI implementation
• Price intelligence
• Brand monitoring

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, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Products: Subscription-based SaaS products including ShtockData, CERVN, Pricewalker, and Brandwalker. These services are offered with recurring subscription models for ongoing access.
2. Professional Services: Implementation, consulting, and training services for Dataiku, Tableau, and AI development. Includes on-boarding, accompaniment support, workshops, and project development.
3. Dataiku Implementation Support: Dataiku consulting partnership providing implementation, training, and ongoing support services for AI platform adoption.
4. Notion Implementation Services: Notion official partner providing implementation, design, and adoption support services for Notion platform deployment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Keywalker sells proprietary SaaS products for automated web data collection, web monitoring, price intelligence, and brand protection (ShtockData, Pricewalker, Brandwalker, CERVN), combined with consulting and implementation services for Tableau-based data visualization and Dataiku-based AI/ML platforms. Its offerings target Japanese enterprise customers needing to collect, normalize, visualize, and analyze large-scale web and business data for competitive intelligence and AI adoption.

Product overview

Keywalker is a big data solutions provider offering a portfolio of specialized SaaS tools and consulting services organized around three core pillars: data collection (ShtockData, ShtockData Pro, Pricewalker, Brandwalker, CERVN, CERVN for Webディレクター), data visualization and analysis (Tableau solutions, データ分析基盤サービス, レビュー分析ダッシュボード), and AI/machine learning (Dataiku導入・運用支援サービス, AI開発支援サービス, AI人材育成サービス, Notion導入・活用支援サービス, generative AI workshops). These products are sold both as standalone tools and as integrated solutions, often combined with Keywalker's professional services for implementation, training, and ongoing support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ShtockData: Web scraping and web crawling service for data collection - claimed as Japan's No.1 web scraping service by market share.
• Pricewalker
• Brandwalker
• CERVN
• Dataiku導入・運用支援サービス
• Notion導入・活用支援サービス
• AI人材育成サービス
• AI開発支援サービス
• Tableauソリューション

Products and services

• ShtockData Web scraping and web crawling service that automates structured data collection from websites for competitive intelligence, price research, and market research, offered as a self-service SaaS tool for Japanese enterprises.
• ShtockData Pro Fully managed web data collection service where Keywalker handles setup through maintenance with CSV, XML, and JSON output formats and API-based automated data delivery for enterprise customers.
• Pricewalker Price investigation and price optimization service that automatically collects and classifies price information, product details, and inventory data to support dynamic and competitive pricing decisions.
• Brandwalker Automatic brand damage detection service that extracts product images and information from the web to identify unauthorized use, trademark violations, and design infringements for brand protection.
• CERVN Web monitoring automation tool that detects website updates, sends alert notifications, archives page change history, and offers AI-powered importance scoring, summarization, and customizable AI analysis for competitive intelligence and web monitoring.
• Tableau Solutions Tableau-based data visualization and analysis solution provided as a Salesforce partner, supporting dashboard development, user training, Tableau Doctor advisory, and organization-wide data culture cultivation for enterprise customers.
• Data Analysis Platform Service Data analysis infrastructure service that centrally manages and organizes all data accumulated within an organization, delivering formatted data to members according to their needs for analytics and BI use cases.
• Dataiku Implementation and Operational Support Service Dataiku implementation and operational support service offering onboarding training, ML and generative AI courses, accompaniment support, QA support, AI vision workshops, and Dataiku Solution manualization for enterprises adopting the Dataiku AI platform.
• AI Development Support Service AI development support service covering use case selection, PoC, ML model building, and generative AI implementation using Dataiku and Dify, with structured PoC-to-production workflows for enterprise AI adoption.
• AI Human Resource Development Service AI human resource development service offering AI/ML hands-on sessions, use case creation workshops, practical ML building, MLOps training, AI/ML hackathons, and Dataiku certification training to build AI-ready organizations.
• Notion Implementation and Utilization Support Service Notion implementation and adoption support service provided as an official Notion-certified partner, including database design, workflow configuration, external API integrations, Notion AI workflow automation, and role-based training for enterprises.

Quantifiable outcome

• 83% of AI development projects reach operational implementation level within 3.5 months average
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability11 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NotioncoreTechnology or Integration · 4 June 2026Keywalker is an official certified partner of Notion, providing Notion implementation and utilization support services. The partnership leverages Keywalker's expertise in data structure design and database architecture to help clients optimize their Notion workspace implementation.
• Dataiku (データイク)coreTechnology or IntegrationKeywalker is a consulting partner of Dataiku, offering implementation, training, and ongoing support services for the Dataiku universal AI platform. The partnership provides Dataiku training with certified trainers, accompaniment support for AI projects, and AI vision workshops for use case creation. Keywalker has the most Dataiku certified trainers in Japan (as of June 2024).
• Tableau (Salesforce)coreTechnology or IntegrationKeywalker operates as a Tableau partner (Salesforce company), providing Tableau implementation, dashboard development, and training services. Offers Tableau Doctor support sessions and Tableau skills training programs.

Scale indicators6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Bright Data: Bright Data is a global leader in web data platforms offering proxy networks, scraping APIs, and pre-collected datasets. It directly competes with Keywalker's ShtockData and Pricewalker in the commercial web scraping and data collection space, with overlapping enterprise customers and similar SaaS-plus-managed-service delivery model.
• Apify: Apify is a web scraping and automation platform offering an actor marketplace and cloud-based crawlers. It competes directly with ShtockData on self-service web scraping, targeting developers and SMBs with similar pricing tiers, and overlaps with CERVN on monitoring/automation use cases.
• Octoparse: Octoparse provides no-code web scraping software targeting business users and enterprises. It is a direct functional competitor to ShtockData's self-service tier with similar point-and-click scraping interfaces and cloud execution model.
• Diffbot: Diffbot is a web data extraction platform using computer vision and NLP to extract structured data from any web page. It competes with Keywalker's structured extraction capabilities in ShtockData, Pricewalker, and Brandwalker, especially for enterprise-grade data-as-a-service use cases.
• import.io: import.io provides web data extraction and integration services for enterprises. It is a direct peer in the managed web scraping space, with comparable self-service and full-service tiers, and shares the same enterprise customer profile as ShtockData Pro.

Broad incumbents

• Dataiku: Dataiku is the universal AI/ML platform whose Japanese consulting franchise Keywalker leads. While Keywalker is Dataiku's top implementation partner in Japan, Dataiku itself competes for direct enterprise relationships and controls the underlying IP, making it both a critical partner and a structural platform risk.
• Tableau (Salesforce): Tableau is Salesforce's flagship BI and data visualization platform. Keywalker is a Salesforce partner implementing Tableau solutions, but Salesforce's own direct sales force and SI partner ecosystem compete for the same Japanese enterprise Tableau implementation spend.
• Alteryx: Alteryx is an analytics automation platform providing data preparation, blending, and advanced analytics. It overlaps with Keywalker's data analysis platform services and Tableau implementation practice, targeting similar enterprise data-driven transformation buyers.

Regional players

• NTT Data: NTT Data is Japan's largest domestic IT services and systems integrator, offering enterprise data and AI consulting at massive scale. It competes for the same enterprise digital transformation budgets as Keywalker's AI development and Dataiku implementation services, with significantly larger delivery capacity but less specialization in web data collection.

Emerging players

• ParseHub: ParseHub is a visual web scraper targeting non-technical business users with desktop and cloud deployment. It is a smaller direct peer to ShtockData's self-service offering, particularly for ad-hoc price and product data extraction use cases that overlap with Pricewalker.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/keywalkerinc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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