JR West's mall-development arm and KDDI launch an AI tool that compresses four months of trade-area analysis into one day
JR West SC Development, the developer behind LUCUA Osaka, and KDDI have launched a jointly built AI service that the companies say turns roughly four months of commercial-site trade-area and tenant-strategy analysis into as little as a day — less a story about one project than about a shopping-centre operator productising its own planning know-how.

JR West SC Development, the shopping-centre development arm of the JR West group, and KDDI have launched an AI-based analysis service for commercial-property development called "KDDI Market Compass," the companies said in a joint release distributed 20 August via PR TIMES.