MD Inc

What MD Inc does

MD Inc (エムディー株式会社) is a privately held Japanese consulting firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in Azabudai Hills, Minato-ku, Tokyo. The company operates a hybrid consulting model that combines human expertise with proprietary AI-powered location analysis to support site selection and business decisions for two primary customer segments: medical professionals (physicians and dentists) opening clinics, and multi-store expanding businesses across food service, retail, beauty, and wellness. Its core AI product, gleasin, performs trade area analysis, competitor mapping, and pre-opening sales forecasting using multi-dimensional datasets including foot traffic, GIS information, competitor distribution, 125m-mesh GPS dwell-time data, and consumer demographics segmented across 10 Geodemo categories.

The technology platform is built in-house and developed in collaboration with the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Yamamoto Laboratory, providing academic research backing. gleasin exposes predictive analytics with a claimed ~85% pre-opening sales prediction accuracy, optimization for nationwide candidate site scoring, and a recommendation engine that compares candidate sites and identifies competitive white spaces. The tool is delivered as web-based SaaS, accompanied by a 3-month freemium trial campaign, and is bundled with professional services engagements for clinic establishment and broader location strategy consulting.

MD Inc generates revenue through three streams: clinic consulting (professional services for medical professionals from property selection through management foundation), AI solution consulting (location strategy across food service, retail, and services), and gleasin SaaS subscriptions. Go-to-market is sales-led through direct enterprise engagement, supplemented by content marketing and SEO via an owned-media site. Named enterprise customers include Japan KFC, Fried Chicken, OWNDAYS, L-MARK (men's hair salon), and MirrorFit Corporation (HITORI WELLNESS), with a strategic partnership with EPG Corporation formalized in July 2026 and ongoing research collaboration with the University of Tokyo Yamamoto Laboratory.

Name

MD Inc

Legal name

エムディー株式会社

Website

https://emdi.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

MD Inc is a Tokyo-based hybrid consulting firm combining proprietary AI tool gleasin with human expertise for site selection and sales forecasting. It serves medical professionals opening clinics and multi-store expanding businesses across food service, retail, and services in Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Location Strategy Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Application Data Migration & Master Data Management Services (BPAEAGAJ)

Keywords

• Site selection consulting
• AI location analysis
• Clinic opening support
• Trade area analytics
• Franchise expansion strategy

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokio

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Clinic Consulting (コンサルティング事業): Consulting services for doctors and dentists opening medical clinics, covering site selection, management foundation building, and one-stop support from property selection through opening. This is the company's original consulting business.
2. AI Solution Consulting (AIソリューション事業): Location strategy consulting for a broad range of industries including F&B, retail, and services, utilizing proprietary AI location analysis and diverse project experience. Clients include restaurant chains, retailers, and wellness businesses expanding locations.
3. gleasin SaaS Subscription: AI trade area analysis and sales prediction tool offered as a subscription service. The gleasin Basic Plan is offered via a free 3-month trial campaign (0 yen start). Pricing details are quote-based after the trial period.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

MD Inc is a hybrid consulting firm that combines human expert consultants with a proprietary in-house AI location analysis tool called gleasin. The company provides clinic opening support for physicians and dentists (site selection through management foundation building) and location strategy consulting for diverse industries including F&B, retail, services, and fitness. The gleasin SaaS tool delivers AI-powered trade area analysis, foot traffic analysis, competitor benchmarking, and pre-opening sales forecasting with approximately 85% accuracy.

Product overview

MD Inc operates as a hybrid consulting firm combining human consultants with AI-powered solutions. The company's product portfolio centers on gleasin, an AI trade area analysis and sales forecasting tool, supported by consulting services for clinic establishment (Clinic Consulting Services) and AI-powered location analysis for diverse industries (AI Solutions Business). gleasin provides multi-faceted analysis using human flow data, commercial districts, and sales predictions, while the consulting services offer comprehensive support from property selection to management foundation construction for medical professionals establishing clinics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• gleasin: Self-developed AI location analysis tool for trade area analysis and sales prediction, used for store expansion and location strategy decisions.

Products and services

• gleasin (グリーシン) gleasin is an AI-powered location analysis and sales forecasting SaaS tool that provides high-precision commercial district analysis based on multi-faceted data including human flow, commercial districts, GIS information, competitor distribution, and sales predictions. It evaluates candidate store locations across Japan in real time, generates AI-driven site scoring and commentary, identifies competitor blank spots, and produces pre-opening sales forecasts with approximately 85% average accuracy.
• Clinic Consulting Services (クリニック事業) End-to-end consulting service supporting physicians and dentists with clinic establishment, from property selection and site analysis through opening preparation and management foundation building. Combines AI location analysis with 20+ years of clinic-opening consulting expertise to help medical professionals launch successful clinics.
• AI Solutions Business (AIソリューション事業) AI-powered location strategy consulting extending beyond the medical sector to support multi-store expansion for diverse industries including food service, retail, services, and wellness. Provides business growth-oriented location strategy proposals using proprietary AI location analysis and accumulated project expertise to help chains and franchises accelerate expansion with data-driven decisions.

Quantifiable outcome

• AI sales prediction accuracy rate averaging approximately 85%
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• EPG (株式会社EPG)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 July 2026Strategic partnership to evolve food service location strategy using data and AI. MD Inc will provide its AI location analysis capabilities to EPG's restaurant site selection process, advancing their operations from traditional experience-based decisions to data-driven approaches.
• University of Tokyo Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Yamamoto Laboratory (東京大学大学院情報理工学系研究科・山崎研究室)coreTechnology or IntegrationCollaborative research partnership for AI solution development. MD Inc conducts joint research with Yamamoto Laboratory to advance its proprietary AI location analysis technology (gleasin). This academic partnership provides research backing for the company's core AI technology.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Asobo System: Japanese GIS software and location analytics firm serving retail chains and real estate developers. Overlaps with MD Inc on trade area analysis and competitive landscape mapping.
• Increment P: Japanese location data platform providing people-flow data and analytics for commercial site selection and marketing. Competes with MD Inc's gleasin in the Japan retail site intelligence category.
• GeoTechnologies: Established Japanese GIS and digital map provider serving logistics, automotive, and retail site analysis. Comparable to MD Inc as a Japan-focused location data and analytics vendor with overlapping enterprise customers.
• LocationMind: Japanese location intelligence company offering population flow analytics and mobility data for retail site selection. Directly comparable to MD Inc's gleasin in providing AI-driven location insights to Japanese multi-store operators.

Broad incumbents

• Macnica Networks: Large Japanese technology distributor and AI solutions provider with location and mobility analytics offerings. Competes at the AI consulting layer with MD Inc's AI Solution Business for multi-store operators.
• Cross Marketing: Japanese market research firm with location analytics capabilities for retail and consumer insights. Adjacent competitor to MD Inc on data-driven retail and consumer analytics engagements.
• NielsenIQ Japan (Intage partnership): Major Japanese market research and consumer insights provider with broader retail analytics offerings. Competes indirectly with MD Inc on data-driven retail expansion decisions, though at much larger scale and broader scope.

Regional players

• Doconomy: Nordic-based sustainability and impact data platform operating outside MD Inc's core geography. Included as a thematic reference for vertical AI SaaS adjacencies rather than a direct competitor in Japanese location analytics.

Emerging players

• Ubicare: Japanese healthcare-focused location and marketing platform that helps clinics and hospitals attract patients. Overlaps with MD Inc's clinic consulting business in supporting physician site selection and patient acquisition.
• Medical System Network: Japanese medical support services company assisting clinics with operations, real estate, and management consulting. Comparable to MD Inc's clinic consulting practice in supporting physician clinic openings.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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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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