Human experience × AI · Research & Prototyping
A place to research and prototype ways of solving social problems by combining expertise, human experience, and AI.The first theme is corporate indirect procurement. For now, rather than commissioned work, the focus is on prototyping, learning, and sharing — using public information and fictional data.
Purpose
AI can gather, organize, and compare information, and generate new options. People can understand another person’s situation, share experience, and make decisions responsibly.
CrossPath Works does not aim to replace either people or AI with the other. By combining the strengths of both, it takes on problems that have been hard to solve. Through small prototypes and dialogue, we want to grow useful systems together with companies, experts, developers, and people across regions and countries.
Purpose
Solve social problems through human–AI collaboration
First Mission
Solve corporate procurement problems
Future
Extend to learning, AI help, and global collaboration
Projects
If you live and work in Japan from another country, Learning & Community is where this site is most likely to be useful to you. Procurement Lab is the first concrete theme, and it is where the prototypes and articles are today.
Learning, work and everyday life in Japan — across countries and generations
Learning with AI, and the parts of working and living in Japan that are hard to read from the outside. Not a launched service, and not advice: a place to write down what I notice and to hear how it looks different from where you stand.
Researching and prototyping corporate procurement
Indirect procurement, RFPs, data analysis. Combining human procurement experience with AI to research how companies can use the purchasing capability they need, when they need it.
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Not a tool only for those who already know AI
Using Claude / ChatGPT, organizing information, writing, and learning. Rather than just handing over answers, we think about genuinely useful support by trying things together.
First Mission · Procurement Lab
In many companies, indirect procurement is scattered across departments and sites, and information on prices, specifications, suppliers, and contracts is underused. At the same time, placing specialists in every category and building a separate system for each is unrealistic for most companies.
Procurement Lab researches ways to combine human procurement experience with AI so that companies can use the purchasing capability they need, when they need it. Topics include visualizing spend data, standardizing specifications, creating / distributing RFPs and analyzing responses, organizing supplier information, and — in the future — joint purchasing across multiple companies. We start small, with public information and fictional data, and look for what is genuinely useful through dialogue with people who face these problems.
Future Workflow (concept)
AI never makes the final purchasing decision automatically. It strengthens human judgment by organizing information, standardizing processes, and presenting comparable options.
Current Activity Notice
CrossPath Works is a personal, preparatory project that researches new forms of support combining AI with domain expertise. It currently does not conduct sales, take on commissioned work, or provide services; its activities center on prototyping, learning, and sharing using fictional data and public information. Around themes such as indirect procurement, using generative AI, and learning support, it explores what kinds of systems might be useful to society in the future. The content reflects research and concepts, and does not guarantee that any service will be offered or realized.
Connect
We welcome your impressions, exchange with others working on similar problems, connections with experts and developers overseas, opinions on the articles, and dialogue about possible joint research in the future.
Email [email protected]* Currently not accepting commissioned work, service applications, or consultations.