At Shippinno, we strive to maximise personal value by individually reflecting upon “How our work can produce the greatest value”. I believe a working environment, encompassing the majority of our lives, that is relaxed and vibrant increases our drive to contribute value to society.

Working in a commute stress-free beach office that is close to houses, solving routine work by systematically automating tasks, maximising the value of time, devising ways to reduce unproductive meetings, involving and collaborating with other members to tackle new challenges. This is our approach to work that we constantly strive for.

In addition to developing and operating our shipping automation service ‘Shippinno’, currently exceeding 1000 e-commerce businesses users, we also operate an individual e-commerce business with monthly sales of over 15 million yen. Operational routine work for the business is streamlined to less than 50 hours a month, maximising efficient outputs.

With that in mind, we subsequently considered how we could help e-commerce vendors to maximise efficiency and create time for more valuable work. Through interviewing users about their businesses, we learnt about detailed operational tasks to the point where we could understand what to enter in each cell of an Excel spreadsheet.

I soon learnt that creating a web service with common functions for a vast majority of users is useless. As businesses are individually unique, the issues involved in operating each business becomes complicated and diverse. This may be due to individual ingenuity of the users, circumstances of products being handled, and differentiating purposes from other companies.

As an engineer, I felt that I could, within a month, provide some value by systematically automating various operations of the company. I questioned whether it was possible to create a system that allows users to easily design their own systems on the web. TETRA was created through time, trial and error, and discussions to address this question.

I would like TETRA to become a powerful tool that will assist you in automating individual tasks that cannot be solved through general software tools. In addition to automating existing operations, I would like you to enjoy the experimentation and discovery that TETRA provides when creating a new system.

I would be delighted if everyone’s working environment could become similarly relaxed and vibrant as it would mean that we have been able to provide great value to our users.