KAOPIZ SOFTWARE

Kaopiz is a Vietnamese offshore development firm founded in 2014 and wholly focused on Japanese clients. Headquarters are in Hanoi, with a Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo's Toshima ward. The group employs 800+ people across Vietnam and Japan—600 in Kaopiz Software, 70 in the Tokyo office—with a median age of 27. Over half the engineering staff graduated from Hanoi University of Technology. The company touts a 98% project success rate and claims 250+ satisfied clients across 1,000+ projects.

Unlike many offshore shops, Kaopiz operates under Japanese law for contracts and conducts all business in Japanese. The firm employs 35 bridge SEs (business analysts/translators) minimum, all certified at JLPT N2 level or higher. Crucially, the source notes these are engineers, not just interpreters—they propose solutions during client calls rather than relay messages. The founding team studied in Japan and explicitly built the company to internalize "Japanese mindset" (accountability, quality).

Services and capabilities

Kaopiz offers six main service lines. Offshore development runs fixed-price and time-and-materials contracts for web systems, mobile apps, business systems, and game development. The firm pairs upstream work (requirements, design) with Japanese engineers or bridge SEs to avoid communication drift, then hands execution to Vietnam-based teams. Lab-type development provides a dedicated team on monthly retainer, billed for agile work and research in parallel.

24/7 monitoring is a separate division. The firm monitors AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premise servers, and IoT devices for 100+ clients. SLAs promise 99.9% uptime, 5-minute initial response, and AI-assisted log analysis for early anomaly detection. Cost claims are specific: 40–60% cheaper than building equivalent domestic teams. AWS consulting leverages partner status (Advanced Partner, not Select). AI and image recognition commercialize OCR and object-detection engines developed in-house; the source mentions character-recognition systems deployed with several unnamed partners for business card and license-plate data extraction. DX consulting packages legacy system modernization, cloud migration, and automation.

The company explicitly commits to a "1-hour rule": if engineers hit a blocker, team leads or managers respond within 60 minutes to unblock work. The source lists this as their speed edge.

Notable work

Client testimonials are abundant but vague on metrics. MiniStop (convenience store chain) used Kaopiz for core system replacement testing and agile sprints. Comsys Information Systems (a systems integrator) partners on AI/web UI codevelopment; their CTO said Kaopiz is "essential" to scaling. Sprix, Aclet, Geotechnologies, and others appear as references with quotes praising coordination and quality—but no project names, budgets, or delivery dates are disclosed. The source names two more concrete projects: an education SNS (Laravel, AWS) that became Japan's #1 in its category, and a solar-panel drone-inspection system using computer vision. Neither includes results or client names beyond sector hints.