What 株式会社アフロ does

株式会社アフロ (Aflo Co., Ltd.) is a privately held Tokyo-based IT services company founded in May 2007 by CEO Kazuhiro Ōba, operating from its Taito-ku headquarters with a workforce of 24 employees including contract staff. The company delivers three integrated service lines: IT consulting (system development management and cloud environment support), custom web system development (client-server and web applications), and SES (System Engineering Service) personnel dispatch under a general worker dispatching license (派 13-312183). Technical delivery spans a broad polyglot stack — Java, C, C++, .NET, Objective-C, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby — backed by database expertise in Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL, with recent hires indicating adoption of React, TypeScript, Node.js, and CakePHP.

The company's revenue model is pure professional services: project-based fees for IT consulting and custom development engagements, supplemented by SES staffing fees where Aflo matches engineers to client projects or introduces partner companies to take on primary delivery responsibility. Recruitment materials disclose an engineer monthly salary band of ¥190,000-450,000 (annual from ¥3,600,000), positioning Aflo's pricing in line with Tokyo SME IT services norms; project pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is direct sales-led, with all inbound originating from the corporate website (a-flo.co.jp) inquiry form, no third-party channel partners, and no disclosed marketing automation.

Aflo serves enterprise customers across travel/transportation (booking systems), financial services (credit management systems), staffing/HR (talent management platforms), and telecommunications (carrier core systems and customer-facing web apps), with newer reference projects including care-facility management systems. The firm holds registered capital of ¥10,000,000, has no subsidiaries, no disclosed funding rounds, and no patents, awards, or partnerships on record. Distribution is single-country domestic (Japan, Kanto region) with no global footprint claim.

Name

株式会社アフロ

Legal name

株式会社アフロ (Aflo Co., Ltd.)

Website

https://a-flo.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

株式会社アフロ (Aflo Co., Ltd.) is a Tokyo-based IT services firm offering IT consulting, custom web system development, and SES engineer dispatch to Japanese enterprise clients across travel, finance, telecom, staffing, and healthcare verticals, operating with 24 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo (台東区)

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. IT Consulting Services: Professional IT consulting services providing system development management, cloud environment introduction support, and project risk assessment
2. Web System Development: Custom software development including client-server systems, web applications, design, development, and maintenance services
3. SES (System Engineering Service): Staffing and personnel matching services connecting development projects with appropriate personnel, including introduction of partner companies for project execution

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

株式会社アフロ provides three integrated IT services for business clients: (1) IT Consulting supporting system development management and cloud environment introduction; (2) WEB System Development covering design, development, and maintenance of client-server systems and web applications in multiple programming languages (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, C/C++, .NET, etc.) and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL); and (3) SES (System Engineering Service) dispatching skilled engineers and partner-company teams to client projects under a General Worker Dispatching license.

Product overview

株式会社アフロ operates as an IT services company offering three core service lines: IT Consulting, WEB System Development, and SES (System Engineering Service). The company provides system development and maintenance services, IT consulting, and IT infrastructure design and construction. The three services work together to address customer needs from consulting through to implementation and staffing support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• IT Consulting (ITコンサルティング)

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Quest Co., Ltd. Mid-sized Japanese SI focused on enterprise software development, infrastructure, and IT consulting — comparable as a similarly-sized domestic IT services peer competing for the same mid-market enterprise development work.
• Meitec Corporation: Listed Japanese engineering-services firm specializing in contract/SES-style staffing of design and development engineers to client projects — directly comparable to Aflo's SES pillar and multi-disciplinary engineer deployment model.
• System Support Co., Ltd. Japan-listed independent IT services firm providing consulting, system development, and outsourced IT support — comparable on the consulting-plus-development pillar mix Aflo runs.
• Pasona Tech: Japanese IT staffing and SES firm dispatching engineers across languages and stacks to enterprise clients — comparable on the SES line, technology breadth, and enterprise customer target.
• PERSOL Crosstecnology: Large Japanese SES and engineering-staffing provider under the PERSOL Group, offering dispatched engineers and outsourced development — directly comparable on the personnel-matching and project-delivery services Aflo bundles with consulting.
• Sky Corporation: Japan-listed independent IT services company focused on embedded and business-system development with strong in-house engineer base — comparable as a similarly-structured mid-sized custom-development peer competing for Japanese enterprise projects.

Broad incumbents

• BIPROGY Inc. Major Japanese system integrator (formerly Nihon Unisys) offering broad IT consulting, system development, and managed services — comparable as a much larger incumbent that competes for the same enterprise custom-development and consulting budgets.
• Nomura Research Institute (NRI): Major Japanese consulting-led SI with strong financial-services and IT consulting practices — comparable as a broad incumbent whose consulting-plus-development model mirrors the bundling Aflo attempts at much smaller scale.
• NTT DATA: Largest Japanese IT services and consulting incumbent with full system-integration capabilities across finance, telecom, and public sector — comparable as a broad incumbent that absorbs enterprise IT modernization spend Aflo targets.
• Fujitsu Limited: Global Japanese-headquartered IT services and system-integration giant offering consulting, custom development, and managed services — comparable as a broad incumbent whose enterprise modernization pipeline competes head-on with mid-market players.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/%E6%A0%AA%E5%BC%8F%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%95%E3%83%AD

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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