Scuti JSC

Scuti is a Vietnam-based software development company founded in 2015 by Tomohide Kakeya, a Japanese engineer who moved to Hanoi in 2012. The company operates as a two-entity structure with Scuti Inc. registered in Okayama, Japan and Scuti Ai Co., Ltd. in Hanoi. The team spans four core members in Vietnam (Tran Dinh Trung as GM, Enokuma Hiroki as PM, Nguyen Cong Tinh as R&D Team Leader) and the wider group has 400+ members across six offices. Scuti specializes in generative AI systems, particularly RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), AI-OCR, and AI agents. They target Japanese and Vietnamese companies, positioning themselves as a bridge between "the speed of Vietnam and the quality of Japan."

Kakeya has worked on over 100 offshore development projects and won an ASEAN Award for Top 50 High-Quality Brand Companies in Southeast Asia in 2020. The company claims to serve 100+ businesses and has delivered 300+ projects.

Services and capabilities

Scuti's service menu clusters around three areas: generative AI consulting, automation, and traditional software outsourcing.

On the AI side, they offer Secure GAI—a RAG-based internal document search tool that lets organizations share proprietary knowledge with AI in a controlled environment. They claim this reduces unproductive information-search time by over 90%. Their AI-OCR service reads handwritten documents and unconventional formats (not just scanned images) and extracts structured data into CSV, Excel, or APIs. The company states this reduces labor costs for data-entry tasks by more than 60%. They also support Dify implementation—building, developing, operating, and training on Dify environments. A third offering is AI article production, generating large volumes of content quickly and inexpensively.

They provide software outsourcing in the classical sense: building dedicated engineering teams for clients, plus IT freelancer introduction (described as meeting urgent staffing needs exclusively in Vietnam). Gen AI consulting is positioned as drawing on their internal expertise in generative AI systems and prototypes.

Pricing on the AI-OCR side runs roughly $5,000/month for tuning and evaluation (1–2 months) and $20,000–$50,000 for system development, depending on scale. They offer free consultations and demos lasting 1–2 weeks.

Notable work

The company names five client testimonials with measurable outcomes. AXEL ENTERMEDIA (a Japanese media company) released a fan club site at "more than five times the speed" and "less than 70% of the cost" using Scuti's offshore team. R09 Inc., a venture company, used Scuti to hire engineers "whose skill levels are extremely difficult to hire in Japan." IROKOTO Inc. reduced development costs by about 50% and praised flexibility in tool-functionality work. Yett Inc. credited Scuti with overturning concerns about offshore development; the company now calls the partnership "indispensable" for innovation work. SKT Inc. used Scuti for "comprehensive assistance in marketing, sales, and application development" to expand into Vietnam.

These testimonials are not anonymized case studies but attributed to named decision-makers (Natsumi Takamura, Ryo Nagai, Kensuke Hokari, Kota Takahashi, Koshiro Tomoeda).

How they work

For AI-OCR projects, Scuti follows a four-step workflow: hearing (requirements and document-format review), tuning/evaluation (accuracy testing, then a go/no-go decision), quotation (cost proposal including operational functions), and system development (build and delivery). The hearing and evaluation phases are free and take 1–2 weeks; development runs 1–2 months. For software outsourcing, the model is to build a dedicated team of Vietnamese engineers. Communication is via regular meetings where the team makes development proposals. The company emphasizes its role as a co-creator with clients, not a pure vendor.

Team and credentials

Tomohide Kakeya holds a Master's in Systems and Information Science from Kyushu University (2005) and completed Harvard Business School Online's Organizational Leadership Program in 2022. He has 10+ years of system development experience and has worked as a developer, bridge engineer, project manager, and executive across 100+ offshore projects. Tran Dinh Trung serves as General Manager in Vietnam; Enokuma Hiroki is a Project Manager; Nguyen Cong Tinh leads R&D. The broader group has 400+ members. No SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other third-party security certifications are mentioned. The company does not list AWS, Microsoft, Google, or Shopify partnership credentials.