Customer story

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Itochu International is one of Japan's largest general trading houses. Its analysts used to spend most of their time gathering filings, market research and the firm's own documents, in English and Japanese, before the analysis started. Itochu Insight, built with NeuralSeek, does that gathering for them, inside Itochu's own Azure environment.

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What was built

What Itochu Insight does

Each of these is a configuration of the platform rather than bespoke software, which kept the build fast.

Hybrid retrieval across public filings and private material
Keyword and vector retrieval run together over regulatory filings, live web research and Itochu's own documents. A question about a counterparty draws on the public record and the firm's own history in the same answer, with the passage behind each claim cited.
A team of specialized agents
The work is split across narrow agents coordinated by orchestrators, one driving the research and another producing the reports. Each agent does a small, checkable job, so every intermediate step can be reviewed.
A structured financial history behind the prose
Reported financials are extracted from filings into a structured, year-over-year view beside the narrative. Each figure traces to the filing it came from, so the number in the summary matches the number in the table.
Finished reports, ready to share
Output arrives as finished slide decks and PDFs in the formats analysts circulate: a summary, a longitudinal view, a risk view and a peer comparison.

A single research paper took one of our analysts three weeks. Two and a half of those weeks weren't analysis. We built something here with the right partner and the right platform. What used to take three weeks now takes 13 minutes, and I signed off.

Tony ChangDirector, Digital Innovation, Enterprise AI & Security · Itochu International Inc.

Where it runs, and what it reaches.

The deployment characteristics a similar organization would want to know before asking anything else.

Deployment
Inside Itochu's existing Azure tenant
Identity
Microsoft Entra single sign-on, with validated session tokens
Isolation
Per-tenant document separation between business units
Sources
SEC filings, live web research, and Itochu's own private documents
Languages
English and Japanese, from one governed source instead of two separate ones
Delivered with
CPP Associates

Running in production

Itochu Insight runs in production inside Itochu's Azure environment. To see how a similar build would fit your organization, talk to us about your sources and where your data has to live.

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