Adult Search

Name

Adult Search

Legal name

合同会社大人検索

Website

https://otonakensaku.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Adult Search (合同会社大人検索) is a Tsukuba, Japan-based IT services firm founded in 2022 that consults for enterprise clients on improving the search and recommendation functions of their digital services, covering system design, implementation, and offline evaluation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Search and Recommendation Technology Consulting

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Recommendation & Discovery Engines (content/product) (BPAMAAAG)

Keywords

• Search recommendation consulting
• Information retrieval systems
• Recommendation engine optimization
• Search algorithm consulting
• Relevance ranking services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tsukuba

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Search/Recommendation Consulting: Consulting services for improving search and recommendation functions. Provides solutions based on high expertise in information retrieval, including system design, feature implementation, and offline evaluation to optimize search and recommendation functions for client services.
2. Search/Recommendation Service Development and Operation: Development and operation of proprietary search and recommendation services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Adult Search provides consulting services for improving the search and recommendation functions of client digital services, grounded in deep expertise in information retrieval. Engagements cover the full lifecycle: system design, feature implementation, and offline evaluation to optimize search and recommendation performance. The company also engages in the development and operation of its own proprietary search and recommendation services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Search & Recommendation Improvement Service (検索・レコメンド改善サービス) Provides search and recommendation function optimization services tailored to enterprise client needs, including system design, feature implementation, and offline evaluation based on high expertise in information retrieval. Designed for enterprise clients operating digital services (websites, applications, e-commerce platforms) that need to improve their existing search and recommendation functionality.

Quantifiable outcome

• Recognized by University of Tsukuba as a certified startup venture (筑波大学発ベンチャー)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 株式会社しびっくぱわー (Shibikku Power)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 February 2023株式会社しびっくぱわー cooperated with the company to conduct demonstration experiments for the system selected in the FY2022 Tsukuba Society 5.0 Social Implementation Trial Support Program. This partnership enabled practical validation and development of the search/recommendation system in real-world conditions.

Scale indicators2 records

Regional players

• Ridge-i: Ridge-i is a Japanese AI consultancy providing custom machine learning and data solutions to enterprise customers. Like Adult Search, it sells bespoke AI expertise to Japanese enterprises, though its focus is broader and not specialized in search/recommendation.
• BrainPad: BrainPad is a Japanese data and AI consulting firm listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, serving enterprise clients with data analytics and machine learning solutions. It is a regional incumbent that competes with Adult Search for Japanese enterprise AI/search budgets.
• Hacarus: Hacarus is a Japanese AI/ML solutions provider offering consulting and bespoke model development for enterprise clients. It overlaps with Adult Search in selling AI engineering talent to Japanese enterprises, particularly in the Kansai/Kanto corridor.

Direct peers

• Coveo: Coveo is an enterprise AI search and recommendation platform with relevance tuning, analytics, and personalization features. It directly overlaps Adult Search's stated expertise in information retrieval, system design, and offline evaluation for client services.
• Algolia: Algolia is a search-as-a-service platform offering hosted search and recommendation APIs for digital businesses. It competes directly with Adult Search in the search/recommendation technology space, serving the same enterprise digital-services buyer with packaged tooling rather than custom consulting.
• Recombee: Recombee is a recommendation-as-a-service provider offering personalized content and product recommendations via APIs. It is closely comparable to the recommendation-engine capabilities Adult Search offers to enterprise clients.

Broad incumbents

• Accenture: Accenture is a global professional services firm with large data, AI, and search/recommendation practices serving enterprise clients. It is a broad incumbent that competes with Adult Search for enterprise consulting budgets but at vastly larger scale and scope.
• Elastic: Elastic is a large-scale search and analytics platform (Elasticsearch) with vector search and ML-based relevance. It addresses the same information-retrieval problem Adult Search targets but as part of a broad enterprise platform with much greater scale and ecosystem reach.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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