Peakwise

What Peakwise does

Peakwise, Inc. (株式会社ピークワイズ) is a Tokyo-based, privately held professional services firm founded on January 25, 2018, and rebranded from United Force Corporation in August 2025. The company operates a unified decision-support service brand called defacta (ディファクタ), built on a stated "data and fact-driven" methodology that helps individuals and organizations make decisions grounded in evidence.

The defacta platform comprises three integrated service lines. defacta agent provides research-based recruitment and career-transition support specialized for CxO executives, engineers, and HR professionals, operating under a valid Japanese Employment Placement Permit (有料職業紹介許可番号: 13-ユ-317914). defacta hands-on delivers hands-on consulting across the HR function, from strategy planning through execution. defacta data-driven provides implementation support for HR data infrastructure, including data cleansing, automation, integration, and visualization. Publicly disclosed customers include LayerX, enechain, SmartHR, Sansan, and Medpeer, spanning enterprise software, energy, HR technology, and healthcare verticals in Japan.

Peakwise is headquartered in Tokyo's Koto Ward, holds registered capital of ¥55.75 million (including capital reserve), operates with a 1-10 person team, and has not disclosed any external funding rounds. Its go-to-market is sales-led and direct: services are delivered through personalized consulting engagements initiated via corporate website inquiry forms, with distribution confined to the Kanto Region of Japan. Representative Director Hirochika Takeda (竹田裕哉) leads the company.

Name

Peakwise

Legal name

株式会社ピークワイズ

Website

https://gopeakwise.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Peakwise is a Tokyo-based boutique professional services firm operating the defacta brand, delivering research-based recruitment for CxO and technical talent, hands-on HR consulting, and HR data-driven implementation services to Japanese enterprise clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HR Consulting and Talent Services

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

HR Service Delivery, Case Management & Employee Self-Service (BPACAPAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Lead Generation & List Building Services (Prospecting, Data Sourcing) (BPAFAKAE)

Keywords

• HR consulting services
• Executive recruitment
• HR data infrastructure
• Decision support services
• Talent placement services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. defacta agent - Recruitment/Placement Services: CxO, engineer, and HR-specialized recruitment and job change support services. Provided as a fee-based placement service under licensed operation (有料職業紹介), indicating a transaction/fee-per-placement revenue model.
2. defacta hands-on - Consulting Services: Hands-on consulting services spanning strategy planning to execution in HR domains. Revenue generated from consulting engagement fees.
3. defacta data-driven - Implementation Support Services: Data-driven implementation support services including data infrastructure construction, cleansing, automation, integration, and visualization. Revenue from implementation project fees.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Peakwise delivers a data- and fact-driven decision support service brand called "defacta" (ディファクタ), providing research-based recruitment and career-change support specialized for CxO, engineer, and HR candidates; hands-on HR consulting from strategy to execution; and data-driven HR implementation support covering data infrastructure construction, cleansing, automation, integration, and visualization. Services are sold to enterprise clients in Japan under a licensed employment placement business model.

Product overview

Peakwise offers defacta（ディファクタ）, a unified decision support platform based on data and fact-driven methodology. The platform consists of three interconnected modules: defacta agent provides research-based recruitment and job placement services for CxO, engineers, and HR professionals; defacta hands-on delivers hands-on consulting for HR strategy planning through execution; and defacta data-driven offers implementation support for HR data infrastructure including construction, cleansing, automation, integration, and visualization. Together, these services help people and organizations make evidence-based decisions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• defacta（ディファクタ）: Decision-support service brand offering research-based recruitment support for CxO, engineers, and HR professionals; hands-on HR consulting; and data-driven implementation services including HR data infrastructure, cleansing, automation, integration, and visualization.

Products and services

• defacta (ディファクタ) Data- and fact-driven decision support service brand under which Peakwise helps people and organizations make evidence-based decisions, integrating recruitment support, HR consulting, and data implementation offerings for enterprise clients in Japan.
• defacta agent Research-based recruitment and career-change support service specialized for CxO, engineer, and HR professional candidates and the organizations seeking to hire them. Provided under Peakwise's licensed Japanese employment placement business.
• defacta hands-on Hands-on consulting service covering the full HR domain, spanning strategic planning through execution, providing direct advisory and operational support for enterprise HR initiatives.
• defacta data-driven Data-driven HR implementation support service encompassing construction of HR data infrastructure, data cleansing, automation, integration platform setup, and visualization for enterprise clients.

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Linkers: Japan-focused executive and management-level headhunting firm. Directly comparable to Peakwise's defacta agent for CxO and senior leader placements.
• Wantedly: Japanese recruitment and employer-branding platform with strong penetration among tech and startup employers. Overlaps with Peakwise on engineer-focused and HR/culture-focused placement work.
• BizReach: Japanese direct recruitment platform focused on experienced hires and executive-level job changes. Comparable to Peakwise's defacta agent in targeting senior and specialized talent with a research-driven placement model.
• Robert Walters Japan: Global professional recruitment firm with a substantial Japan practice covering mid-to-senior corporate roles. Comparable to Peakwise's specialized placement work for executives, engineers, and HR professionals.

Emerging players

• HRBrain: Japanese HR-tech vendor offering HR data, talent management, and evaluation SaaS. Overlaps with Peakwise's defacta data-driven module from a product-side perspective rather than consulting.

Broad incumbents

• Workday: Global enterprise HR and finance cloud platform. Adjacent to Peakwise's data-driven HR infrastructure work, but operates as a software vendor rather than implementation specialist.
• Persol Holdings: Major Japanese staffing and HR services group (Tempo Staffnet, doda). Competes with Peakwise across recruitment and HR outsourcing at much larger scale.
• Mercer Japan: Global HR consulting firm (part of Marsh McLennan) with deep Japan practice in compensation, benefits, and HR transformation. Comparable to Peakwise's defacta hands-on consulting engagements from a global-consultancy angle.
• A.T. Kearney Japan: Global management consultancy with an organizational/HR practice serving Japanese enterprises. Comparable to Peakwise at the strategic HR consulting layer, though at a much larger scale.
• Recruit Holdings: Japan's largest HR services conglomerate spanning staffing, recruitment, and HR technology (Indeed, Airwork). Operates across all of Peakwise's segments at massive scale, defining the competitive baseline.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gopeakwise

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

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