farspect LLC · Est. 2004
farspect LLC
IT Consulting Firm · Est. 2004
§ S-06 · New

"That material — where did I save it?"

AI organizes scattered documents into a single box.

Claude Code + Obsidian Document Management

AI Document Management for Professionals & Knowledge Workers

For professionals (lawyers, CPAs, tax advisors, labor & social-security attorneys, judicial / administrative scriveners) and knowledge workers. We combine Claude Code with Obsidian to automatically organize your firm's documents, matter records, minutes, and knowledge so they can be retrieved at any time. From your Mac, ask AI in plain language and pull out exactly what you need. We deploy the same setup we have run internally every day for over a year, tailored to your practice. The interface, shortcuts, and training are designed so even those uncomfortable with computers can start with email-and-web-level skills. For professionals licensed in Japan, a premium AI Statute Search & Amendment Monitoring option is available.

Our scope

What we cover

  • Vault structure and CLAUDE.md routing governance
  • Web Clipper integration for articles, PDFs, and reference materials
  • Per-matter / per-client / per-domain directories with auto-updated index
  • Multi-device sync across Mac / iPhone / iPad (Syncthing)
  • Custom slash commands tailored to your firm (summarize, citation formatting, contract-review aid, etc.)
  • REST API for integration with in-house systems (CRM, accounting, internal dashboards) — bound to 127.0.0.1 by default
  • Two training sessions + 30-day operational hands-on accompaniment
§ Before / After

Before / After

  • Before

    10+ minutes to find a similar past document

    After

    Ask AI — get the location and page number in 10 seconds

  • Before

    Drafting minutes takes as long as the meeting itself

    After

    Minutes draft generated in 1 minute from the recording

  • Before

    Same inquiries researched again and again

    After

    AI surfaces your prior answers — with citations — instantly

  • Before

    Open PDFs one by one, Cmd+F through each

    After

    Cross-search all documents — relevant pages listed at once

  • Before

    Manage documents separately on Mac / iPhone / iPad

    After

    One unified vault, synced across every device

  • Before

    Hand-aggregating annual reports per client

    After

    AI drafts the year-end report skeleton from aggregated topics

§ Why Us

Four reasons firms choose us

01

Choose to stay off the cloud

Client information and matter records can remain on your Mac. Designed with maximum regard for confidentiality — unlike generic cloud services.

02

Battle-tested — we've run it daily for over a year

We do not deliver what we do not run ourselves. Failure modes and operational pitfalls are already mapped, so post-deployment surprises do not happen.

03

Custom-built for your firm — not a generic AI service

Generic AI services like ChatGPT cannot reach your firm-specific folder structure, intake rules, and shortcuts. We build them to fit your practice.

04

Designed to prevent AI hallucination

Every AI answer is accompanied by the exact source in your vault (file name and page number). Answers without a source are not surfaced, so the output is reliable enough for business decisions. The premium statute-search option adds a strict mode that quotes official government data verbatim.

§ Capabilities

What Claude Code + Obsidian enables

  • AI cross-search across past matters, contracts, and minutes — surfaces similar prior cases instantly
  • Auto-summarization of PDFs, web articles, and YouTube videos into your knowledge base
  • Full-text cross-search by case number, person, or keyword (faster than Spotlight)
  • Meeting audio → transcript → minutes → key-point extraction in a single command
  • Annual topic aggregation per client and auto-drafted year-end report skeletons
  • REST API for integration with in-house systems (CRM, accounting, internal dashboards) — bound to 127.0.0.1 by default
  • Web Clipper that auto-tags and files articles/documents into your vault with one click
  • Per-matter / per-client / per-domain directories with auto-updated index
§ e-Gov API Integration

Premium-option use cases: per-profession × 10

When the AI Statute Search & Amendment Monitoring premium option is enabled, the e-Gov Laws API (Japan's official statute data API provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) unlocks the following representative use cases per profession (10 each).

  • Auto-fetch official text of every Japanese statute (Meiji-era to latest) in XML/JSON
  • Metadata included: statute name, statute number, promulgation date, effective date
  • Daily auto-check for new bills and newly promulgated statutes
  • API is free to use, including commercial use (subject to terms of service)
  • Pass the latest statutory text directly to AI (Claude) for instant matter-impact analysis
L

Lawyers

10 cases
  1. Auto-track Civil Code amendments — AI extracts impact on ongoing contract matters
  2. Tag Criminal Code / Code of Criminal Procedure precedents — auto-link to past matters
  3. Detect Land Lease and House Lease Act amendments — impact reports for landlord clients
  4. Continuous monitoring of the Personal Information Protection Act and amendments
  5. Monthly Labor Standards Act summary (for labor-focused client portfolio)
  6. Auto-intake of Consumer Contract Act and Specified Commercial Transactions Act circulars
  7. Commercial Code / Companies Act amendment tracking (board-meeting materials for corporate clients)
  8. Procedural amendment alerts for the Code of Civil Procedure
  9. Pass latest Copyright Act provisions to AI for contract review
  10. Link Private International Law / treaty provisions to specific matters
C

Certified Public Accountants

10 cases
  1. Companies Act and Accounting Calculation Rules amendment intake
  2. Continuous monitoring of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
  3. Internal Control Reporting (J-SOX) related provisions organization
  4. Auto-tracking of Consolidated Financial Statement Rules
  5. Detection of CPA Act amendments (registration / filing requirements)
  6. Version management of audit standards and audit-quality control standards
  7. ESG-related law and sustainability disclosure tracking
  8. Listed-company disclosure rule amendments — impact reports
  9. M&A-related law (Antimonopoly Act, corporate split rules) continuous learning
  10. Differential management between IFRS and Japanese GAAP
T

Tax Advisors

10 cases
  1. Auto-intake of annual Corporation Tax Act amendments (April effective dates)
  2. Consumption Tax Act, reduced-rate, and invoice-system circular tracking
  3. Income Tax Act preparation for year-end adjustment (annual amendments reflected)
  4. Continuous monitoring of Inheritance Tax and Gift Tax Acts
  5. Procedural amendment alerts for the Act on General Rules for National Taxes
  6. Amendment-history management of the Electronic Books Maintenance Act
  7. Annual special-measure tracking under the Special Taxation Measures Act (SME incentives, etc.)
  8. Per-client industry-specific statute dashboard (construction / medical / IT, etc.)
  9. International taxation (transfer pricing, CFC rules) continuous learning
  10. Per-prefecture monitoring of Local Tax Act revisions (resident tax, enterprise tax)
S

Labor & Social Security Attorneys

10 cases
  1. Auto-tracking of Labor Standards Act amendments (work-style reform compliance)
  2. Continuous monitoring of Labor Contract Act and Worker Dispatching Act
  3. Amendment history of Employment Insurance, Health Insurance, and Employees' Pension Insurance Acts
  4. Per-client impact reports on Childcare and Family Care Leave Act amendments
  5. Tracking of Elderly Persons Employment Stabilization Act and Persons with Disabilities Employment Promotion Act
  6. Industrial Safety and Health Act regulation amendment alerts (including industry-specific rules)
  7. Per-prefecture monitoring of Minimum Wage Act revisions
  8. Intake of harassment-prevention (Labor Policies Comprehensive Promotion Act) related circulars
  9. Per-client industry-specific statute summaries (construction, transport, healthcare, etc.)
  10. Tracking of social-insurance medical reimbursement and workers' compensation regulation changes
J

Judicial Scriveners

10 cases
  1. Auto-tracking of Real Property Registration Act amendments
  2. Continuous monitoring of Commercial Registration Act and Companies Act enforcement regulations
  3. Civil Code (inheritance) amendment history (compliance with mandatory inheritance registration)
  4. Real Property and Commercial Registration Rules amendment alerts
  5. Trust Act and Trust Business Act related provisions organization
  6. Latest provisions management for the Adult Guardianship Registration Act
  7. Detection of Judicial Scrivener Act and enforcement regulation amendments
  8. Intake of National Land Use Planning Act and City Planning Act related provisions
  9. Auto-linking of pledge/mortgage-related precedents and statutory provisions
  10. Intake of circulars related to the Legal Affairs Bureau online application system (Touki-Kyotaku Online)
A

Administrative Scriveners

10 cases
  1. Auto-tracking of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (visa / status of residence)
  2. Construction Business Act and licensing-criteria amendment detection (latest requirements for license applications)
  3. Continuous monitoring of the Waste Management Act and industrial-waste-related ordinances
  4. Road Transportation Act and Trucking Business Act amendment tracking (transport business permits)
  5. Antique Dealings Act and enforcement-rule amendment detection (antique dealer license)
  6. Tracking of the Act on Control and Improvement of Amusement Business
  7. Food Sanitation Act and Liquor Tax Act amendment monitoring (restaurant / liquor sales licenses)
  8. Agricultural Land Act and Agricultural Management Foundation Strengthening Promotion Act amendment tracking
  9. Latest provisions management for the Administrative Procedure Act and Administrative Appeal Act
  10. Auto-intake of subsidy and grant-related notifications and application guidelines for SMEs

Note: Use of the e-Gov Laws API requires agreement to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' terms of service. Commercial use permitted; no usage fee (as of 2026-04).

§ Our Commitments

Our commitments

  • Quote provided after NDA and review of sample data
  • Personal and confidential data processed in-house; external API transmission only within scope agreed in advance
  • Support by phone, email, and screen-sharing
  • No minimum commitment on monthly maintenance — cancel anytime
§ Pricing

Pricing

Setup
¥200,000
Monthly maintenance
¥10,000 / month
Annual maintenance contract
¥100,000 / year
(discount vs. monthly)
§ Options

Available options (+¥20,000 each)

  • Auto-generated daily work logs and summaries
  • Per-client dashboard
  • Confluence / Notion / Google Drive integration
  • Centralization on your own server (NAS / VPS)
  • Voice memo → minutes automation
§ Premium Option

Premium option: AI Statute Search & Amendment Monitoring (for licensed professionals)

Adds direct integration with Japan's official statute database on top of the Claude Code + Obsidian base.

Setup +¥80,000/Monthly +¥3,000

For lawyers, CPAs, tax advisors, labor & social-security attorneys, and judicial / administrative scriveners: integrates with the e-Gov Laws API (Japan's official statute data API provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) to add automatic monitoring, amendment detection, and verbatim citation of the statutes relevant to your practice.

  • Automated monitoring of 44 statutes relevant to your practice, from the 9,500 official Japanese statutes
  • Daily 06:00 amendment check → instant Slack / email notification when a monitored statute changes
  • Strict mode (verbatim quote of the official text) and red/blue before/after comparison of amended provisions
  • Clause-by-clause review of draft contracts, terms of use, and standard-form contracts — with relevant statutory provisions auto-cited in Obsidian (the same workflow we used to build our own Terms of Use and Commercial Transactions Act Notice)
  • Obsidian dashboard showing all 44 monitored statutes at a glance (color-coded by recency of change)
  • Daily morning briefing (summary of ministry updates, industry news, and new precedents)
  • Natural-language queries like 'Can I still recover money I lent five years ago?' — AI cites relevant articles across multiple statutes
  • Monthly usage report: which statutes you query most → auto-suggests adding them to monitoring
§ Data Ingestion

Data ingestion options

Cost to import existing firm data into the Vault. Calculated by combining three axes: volume, format complexity, and source-specific extraction effort (volume × format surcharge + per-source extraction).

Base rate (by volume) × Format surcharge (%) + Per-source extraction

Volume tiers (base rate)

TierRangePrice
Lightup to 500 files / 100MB¥30,000
Standardup to 2,000 files / 500MB¥80,000
Proup to 10,000 files / 2GB¥200,000
Enterprise10,000+ filesQuote on request

Format surcharges

FormatSurcharge
Plain text / Markdown / CSVBase (no surcharge)
Word / Excel / PowerPoint+20%
PDF (extractable text)+30%
Email (Gmail / Outlook / Thunderbird)+40%
Scanned PDF / images (OCR processing)+60%
Handwritten / archival documentsQuote on request

Extraction from no-API sources (per source)

SourcePrice
Apple Notes / native notebook appsfrom ¥40,000
Accounting software exports (Yayoi / freee / MF Cloud, etc.)from ¥60,000
Statute / case-law databases (TKC / LEX/DB / Westlaw, etc.)from ¥120,000
Legacy desktop apps (FileMaker / Access / Excel macros)from ¥150,000
Screen scraping / RPA constructionfrom ¥200,000
Other custom migrationsQuote on request

Note: After NDA, we review a sample of the target data and provide the final quote. Personal and confidential information is processed in-house; external LLM API transmission only within scope agreed in advance.

Note: The Claude Code subscription (provided by Anthropic) is at the customer's own expense. We provide setup, configuration, and operational support.

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