Shimizu Corporation’s NOVARE covered our joint work on site patrols in its official note

The official note of NOVARE, the innovation hub of Shimizu Corporation, has covered the work we have been doing together. It was published on 21 August 2026 as a conversation between two people from Shimizu Corporation and Shota Imamura, our Representative Director and CEO.

■ What the article covers

· How the collaboration began, from an introduction at Define Connects, a pitch event for NOVARE members

· What had been taking so much effort in site patrol work

· Trials on a training-facility mockup and on a construction site in Tokyo, and a development rhythm that fed results back every two weeks

· The path to PatrolGO, our patrol and inspection recording service

■ PatrolGO, our patrol and inspection recording service

What came out of this collaboration is PatrolGO, our patrol and inspection recording service. Scan a QR code to fix your position, then just walk. Stand where you want the record to live, drop a pin there, and leave a photo and the finding. Everything is managed together on the drawing, through to exporting the report.

■ About the article

· Publication: Shimizu Corporation ｜ NOVARE (note)

· Title: Changing site patrols: co-creating with a startup to remove the small sighs

· Published: 21 August 2026

· URL: https://note.com/novare/n/nb23fdeb3c232

■ About Nefront

Nefront uses AI and AR to make the information in a building easy to see and use.
Nefront Spatial Cloud, our spatial cloud, uses image recognition to work out where you are — even indoors, where GPS barely reaches. From there it can guide you, show you AR content, and keep track of information and equipment.
Built on that platform, we also offer PatrolGO, our patrol and inspection recording service. And Filefront, our AI drawing search service, finds the sheet you need out of a large set of PDF drawings, by drawing type or by keyword.

■ Company profile

· Company name: Nefront, Inc.

· Address: Shibuya Dogenzaka Tokyu Building 2F-C, 1-10-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

· Representative: Shota Imamura

· Founded: June 2021