Rapide Act

What Rapide Act does

Rapide Act Co., Ltd. (ラピードアクト株式会社) is a privately held Japanese IT services firm founded in 2015 in Fukuoka, with a secondary office in Tokyo. The company's core business is System Engineering Services (SES): the dispatch and embedding of system development and infrastructure engineers at client sites in finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, distribution, and other sectors. The firm differentiates from commodity SES competitors by maintaining an approximately 50/50 split between system development and infrastructure engineers, which it uses to deliver end-to-end proposals that account for both sides of the stack. Unit economics are typical of Japanese SES: an average dispatch charge of ¥31,768/day against an average worker wage of ¥14,431/day, yielding a reported margin rate of 54.6%.

Rapide Act generates revenue through three professional-services streams: SES (the core), an AI Business offering DX/AI support, development, IT education, and information systems management, and a Freelance Support business providing project matching, administrative consultation, and transparent compensation for independent engineers. The company layers an internally developed AI-Accelerated Development Methodology on top of its delivery, using generative AI tools to assist with code generation, test case creation, documentation, data migration, and knowledge retrieval, with a publicly cited 30→3 person-month compression for an internal system migration.

The firm operates with 63 employees (full-time and contract) as of August 2025, serving a mix of SMEs, large enterprises, public sector, and freelance engineers. Go-to-market is direct sales, with recruitment via leading Japanese job portals (Indeed, Mynavi, Women's Career Type) and brand investment through the Rapijo Channel women's empowerment PR site and STRATE media coverage. At present, approximately 4 dispatched workers and 4 client companies are disclosed in the current dispatch record, which is a notable scale signal for a 63-person firm. The company has grown organically without external funding, reorganized from LLC to kabushiki kaisha in April 2020, and holds PrivacyMark certification (since March 2024) and several Fukuoka workplace-culture certifications. President & CEO Sachio Kuboyama leads the company.

Name

Rapide Act

Legal name

ラピードアクト株式会社

Website

https://rapide-act.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rapide Act is a Fukuoka-based Japanese IT services firm providing embedded SES engineers, AI/DX consulting, and freelance support to Japanese SMEs and enterprises across finance, healthcare, energy, and public sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Engineering Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Training (611420)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Technical Enablement & Adoption Services (Change Management, Adoption, Champions) (BPAEANAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Software Engineering & Application Development Training (Languages, Frameworks, Testing) (BPAEANAI), DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering (CI/CD, IaC, Containers) (EDABAFAC)

Keywords

• IT engineer dispatch
• System engineering services
• AI consulting services
• Digital transformation support
• Freelance engineer support

Headquarters

HQ city

Fukuoka

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SES (System Engineering Services): Engineer dispatch and project-based system development and infrastructure construction services. The company dispatches programmers, system engineers, and infrastructure engineers to client sites with a reported margin rate of 54.6%.
2. AI Business / IT Services: DX/AI support services, promotion support, IT education, and information system support services for businesses.
3. Freelance Support: Support services for freelancers including project matching, administrative consultation, and transparent payment based on actual billing revenue with company percentage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Rapide Act provides System Engineering Services (SES) by dispatching system development and infrastructure engineers (roughly 50/50 mix) to client sites as long-term partners across finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and distribution. It also sells AI/DX consulting services that apply generative AI to document organization, code generation, test creation, migration, education, and back-office workflows, alongside IT education, outsourced information-systems support, and freelance engineer matching services to Japanese enterprises and SMEs.

Product overview

Rapide Act operates as an IT services company offering a unified portfolio centered on System Engineering Services (SES) and AI Business initiatives. The SES business provides partner-focused engineering services with both system development and infrastructure construction capabilities (approximately 50% each), while the AI Business offers AI+ services combining AI with DX support, development, education, and management processes. Supporting these core offerings are IT Services including DX/AI utilization, promotion support, IT education, and information systems support services, plus freelance support services. Together, these services enable the company to provide end-to-end IT solutions from talent deployment to AI-powered business transformation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Rapijo Channel (ラピー女channel): A PR/blog site run by the company featuring articles about female employees and company culture.

Products and services

• System Engineering Services (SES) Business Partner-focused engineer dispatch service that places system development and infrastructure engineers (roughly 50/50) into client teams across finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and distribution for long-term, on-site support from development through operations.
• AI Business / AI Initiatives AI utilization services combining generative AI with business operations, digital transformation, application development, employee training, and management process improvement, including DX support, AI-assisted development, education, and AI+ management services.
• DX/AI Utilization Service Business process analysis and AI implementation service that reviews client workflows, Excel management, inquiry handling, and document creation to identify areas where AI can reduce time and stabilize quality.
• Promotion Support Service Public relations and communications support for recruitment, sales, and corporate awareness, helping companies convey their appeal through information dissemination and promotional activities.
• IT Education Service IT and AI talent development covering programming, infrastructure, cloud, database, and AI education, providing progressive learning from basic knowledge to practical exercises for IT human resource development.
• Information Systems Support Service Outsourced information-systems department services handling PC setup, account management, system operations, inquiry response, authority management, and IT asset management to reduce dependence on specific personnel.
• Freelance Support Business Support services for freelance IT engineers and those interested in freelancing, including project matching, rate negotiation, and technical consultation, with transparent payment based on actual billing revenue.

Quantifiable outcome

• Development time reduced from 30 person-months to 3 person-months using AI-assisted methodology
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature2 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• QTnet: Kyushu-based telecom and IT services provider owned by Kyushu Electric Power group. Comparable as a regional (Kyushu) IT services and infrastructure player, with overlapping enterprise and SME client base in Rapide Act's home market.

Emerging players

• Lancers: Major Japanese freelance marketplace with significant IT engineer supply. Comparable on the freelance IT engineer matching and support service line, though operates as a two-sided platform rather than a services firm.
• Crowdtech: Tokyo-listed Japanese freelance IT engineer matching platform. Comparable on the freelance support and engineer matching motion that is one of Rapide Act's service lines.

Broad incumbents

• NTT Data: Japan's largest IT services firm with global operations. Comparable on full-lifecycle system development, infrastructure, and DX/AI for enterprise and government clients, though vastly larger.
• BIPROGY: Major Japanese IT services and systems integrator with broad enterprise and public-sector footprint. Overlaps with Rapide Act's regulated-industry system development and infrastructure work, but at substantially larger scale.
• Accenture Japan: Global consulting leader with a large Japan practice spanning technology, DX/AI, and managed services. Directly comparable on AI-enabled transformation services, but operates at entirely different scale.
• BayCurrent Consulting: Tokyo-listed strategy and IT/DX consulting firm. Comparable on DX and AI enablement for Japanese enterprises, but focused on higher-margin strategy work rather than engineer dispatch.
• Future Corporation: Mid-cap Japanese IT consulting and systems integrator with strong DX practice. Comparable on IT consulting, system development, and infrastructure services, though broader in scope and larger in scale.

Direct peers

• PE-BANK: Tokyo-listed Japanese IT engineer dispatch (SES) specialist focused on engineer placement and project-based software development. Highly comparable in business model — partner-style SES — though larger and publicly listed.
• Akkodis Japan (formerly Modis): Global engineering services and IT staffing firm with a substantial Japan presence. Directly comparable on SES/IT engineer dispatch and AI/DX enablement services, though at significantly larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

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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