pluszero, Inc. (5132.T) provides, develops, maintains, operates and sells integrated solutions leveraging AI, natural language processing, IoT, robotics, software and hardware technologies; offers task-specific services including OCR+ for document and drawing recognition to automate business processes, chatbots for customer inquiries, CRM optimization for website and sales management, job ad checking via Shepherd HR SaaS, privacy-preserving data mining, electronic voting platforms, Nekonote for Japanese NLP data creation, and virtual staffing; supports university and corporate research administration; and delivers related consulting services. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tokyo's Setagaya-ku, the company primarily serves manufacturing, restaurant, automotive and professional sectors in Japan with around 138 employees. Recent developments include collaborations with Hori Food Service and Upsell Technologies to develop AI operator miraio for restaurant reservations, a partnership with Matsuo Industries to utilize AEI and generative AI in automotive parts production, a basic agreement for capital and business alliance with Acrite CustIntCo Pte Ltd. in Singapore, and share buyback initiatives up to 3.85% of issued shares.