# AXCXEPT Inc.

> AXCXEPT is a Sapporo-based AI consulting and LLM engineering company founded by Kazuya Hodatsu.
> We specialize in enterprise RAG implementation, custom LLM training, and AI strategy consulting.
> We are currently building RAGOps, an open-source RAG diagnostic engine.

## Company Overview

AXCXEPT Inc. was founded in 2023 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The company combines 22 years of enterprise IT experience with cutting-edge AI/LLM expertise to deliver end-to-end AI solutions for enterprises.

### Core Competencies
- Enterprise RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) implementation and optimization
- Custom LLM fine-tuning and deployment (EZO Series — 25+ models on HuggingFace)
- Cloud AI architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- AI strategy consulting for large enterprises

### Key Achievements
- ¥50M+ in enterprise AI research contracts within 6 months
- +15% precision improvement on a 2,819-page enterprise document corpus
- Featured in Alibaba Cloud Official Customer Case Study (2024)
- Speaker at JUMPSTARTER 2025, AsiaWorld-Expo Hong Kong
- EZO-70B: Surpassed GPT-4o-mini on ElyzaTasks-100 (Japanese LLM benchmark)
- 25+ open-source LLMs published on HuggingFace (AXCXEPT / HODACHI)

## Products

### RAGOps (Coming Soon — Spring 2026)
Open-source RAG diagnostic engine. Finds what's broken in RAG pipelines, shows WHY, prescribes HOW TO FIX, and proves it worked with before/after evidence. Features 5 RAGAS-aligned evaluation metrics, 6 deterministic root cause rules, prescriptive fix suggestions, and quantified improvement proof.

- [RAGOps Product Page](https://www.axcxept.com/#product)

### EZO LLM Series
Lightweight, high-performance Japanese LLMs. MT-Bench 9.08 / J-MT-Bench 8.87 — GPT-4o class performance on consumer hardware (24GB VRAM).

- [HuggingFace: AXCXEPT](https://huggingface.co/AXCXEPT)
- [HuggingFace: HODACHI](https://huggingface.co/HODACHI)

### SaaS Products
- [AI Kaiwa — AI English Conversation](https://aikaiwa.net)

## Services (Consulting Available)
Enterprise AI implementation consulting. We accept consulting engagements for RAG optimization, LLM deployment, cloud AI architecture, and AI strategy.

- [Contact](https://www.axcxept.com/#contact)

## Founder
Kazuya Hodatsu — CEO & Founder. 22 years of enterprise IT experience at leading global technology companies. Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CKA/CKAD certified. Published 25+ LLMs on HuggingFace. Alibaba Cloud official case study featured. Speaker at international AI conferences.

## Research & Publications
- "Pseudo GRPO/PPO approach for low-cost Japanese LLM performance improvement" (2025)
- "QwQ-32B-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-Alpha" — ultra-compact math reasoning LLM (2025)

## Contact
- Website: https://www.axcxept.com
- Email: info@axcxept.com
- Location: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- GitHub: https://github.com/axcxept
- HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/AXCXEPT