Why Customers Choose Merci
Move Ahead with Marketing and Recruitment Without Giving Up Speed, Cost or Quality
It's natural to wonder, "If it's fast and cheap, surely the quality is so-so?" In the world of production, it has long been said that "speed, low cost and quality can't all be had at once." Rush, and the result is rough; insist on the finish, and it costs time and money.
What matters most to Merci in facing this conventional wisdom is the Omi merchants' "Sanpo-yoshi" (good for the seller, the buyer and society). I'm not an Omi merchant but a Totomi merchant, yet I hold this philosophy dear. Thinking about what makes good business for our customers, for us and for society in today's world, the answer we arrived at was collaboration between people and AI.
So why can human-AI collaboration deliver all three? Because we divide the work in two. Tasks that demand accuracy and speed, such as coding and number-crunching, go to AI. The ideas, words and design that move your prospects' hearts are work only people can do, so they go to our creators. This collaboration is what produces the strengths described below.
Speed|Turn ideas into reality in no time with the power of AI
Website coding, programming, compiling ad results: everything AI can do, we leave to AI.
As a result, website production that used to take weeks or months can now be completed in as little as one day.
Your design proposal arrives as soon as the next business day after you apply
When you're comparing production companies, waiting weeks for a proposal means the best time to sell may pass in the meantime. With our AI-led plan, we deliver a design proposal of the actual screens within 3 business days of your application, and as early as the next business day. You can look, compare and decide right away.
Publish your website the moment you decide to start selling
Even if you come up with a new product or campaign, waiting months for a page to introduce it lets competitors get ahead. At Merci, AI handles the coding, so with the AI-led plan your website can go live in as little as 1 day. You'll have a place where prospects can find you within the same week you had the idea.
Start running your business systems without a long wait for development
System development is often thought to take months. Because Merci uses AI for design and programming, we build systems such as reservation management, order management and customer management in less time than conventional development. The shorter the period of manual work, the sooner you feel the benefit.
Stop pouring ad budget into ads that aren't working
If ads are reviewed only once a month, a full month of ad spend keeps flowing into an ad that isn't performing. Merci checks the number of clicks, the rate of people who go on to apply, and the cost per inquiry every day, and then refines the ad copy, the audience and the landing page that receives the visitors. The more often we refine, the more inquiries you can generate from the same ad budget.
Low Cost|Labor saved with AI keeps your costs down
By automating with AI much of the work that used to be done by hand, we have brought costs down.
In one case, for example, we delivered at a fraction of the budget what another company had quoted at several million yen.
Put what you save on production into your next marketing, such as ads and flyers
Simply building a website doesn't bring prospects to it. By putting what you save on production toward online ads and flyer distribution, you can create more opportunities to meet prospects on the same budget.
Choose how you pay to fit your business plan
For websites, we offer a plan with an initial production fee of ¥0 (initial setup fee ¥30,000, or ¥33,000 incl. tax) and from ¥7,000 per month (excl. tax), and a plan with an initial cost from ¥250,000 (for about 5 pages) and from ¥3,000 per month. If you want to start right away, choose the plan with the lower initial cost; if you plan to use the site for a long time, choose the plan with the lower monthly cost.
Fixed monthly costs after launch make it easy to plan your annual budget
Backups, WordPress updates, display monitoring, and text and photo edits are all covered by the monthly fee. You never need to get a quote for each edit or pay an unexpected repair bill after something goes wrong.
Focus your flyer printing and distribution spending on households likely to respond
The more flyers you distribute, the more it costs. Merci chooses the areas with the most people likely to want your products or services before distributing, so the same budget reaches households likely to respond.
Use subsidies to take your plans a step further than you had expected
If you ask us to carry out marketing or production projects that use a subsidy, we handle the application support for ¥0 and charge a success fee of ¥0. Our approval rate so far is over 85%, and we have supported more than 300 companies. With less out-of-pocket cost, you can expand your efforts, for example adding flyers and videos to your website.
Quality|Ideas, copywriting and design are done by people
The parts that move people need human hands. With some help from AI, our creators craft your work with care.
Even the parts AI handled are checked by human eyes in the end, so we deliver work whose quality we can stand behind.
Get chosen for your company's own strengths, not for your price
What seems ordinary to you is often the deciding factor for prospects. Our creators listen to you in the meeting, turn your strengths into words that reach prospects, and then write the copy. You don't need to prepare anything for the writing.
Prevent the "this isn't what I expected" failure before you order
For websites and landing pages, we prepare a professional-quality design proposal at the proposal stage. You can see the finished look before deciding, and sharing the design proposal inside your company makes it easier to get agreement from your boss or family.
People who become interested through an ad can go on to apply without hesitation
If what you said in the ad doesn't match the page people land on, prospects leave right away. Merci builds and refines online ads together with the landing pages that receive visitors, so people who click an ad can go on to apply without hesitation.
Video conveys the atmosphere of the workplace that words and photos can't
The expressions of the people at work and the fine detail of their skills can't be fully conveyed by text and photos alone. With videos filmed by drone and DSLR camera and finished with CG and animation, applicants can see your workplace before they apply, which also reduces the "this isn't what I expected" feeling after hiring.
Make your company's name more likely to appear when people search or ask AI
Today, prospects don't just search on Google; they ask AI "Which company do you recommend?" to find who to hire. The websites Merci builds are structured so that their content is conveyed accurately to both search and AI search (SEO, GEO, LLMO), so the chances of meeting prospects without spending on ads continue even after launch.
Ease|Keep up updates and daily operations without the hassle
A website is chosen by prospects only when its information keeps being refreshed after it's built. So that even people with no time to sit at a computer can keep up with updates and operations, Merci provides a system that fits the flow of your daily work.
Just tell us what to fix by chat or LINE and it's reflected
A change in business hours, a new job opening, a campaign announcement. Just tell us "please fix XX" by chat or LINE, and Merci will reflect it on your website. We check the display in a separate environment from the live site before applying it, and we can also roll back one change at a time. With the monthly plans, there is no limit on the number of edits.
Posting news and project case studies, and touching up photos, are also yours to hand off
We take care of posting news and project case studies, and adjusting photo brightness and orientation, with no limit on the number of times. If you don't have a photo you want to use, we can create an image with AI (up to 10 per month). You don't need to learn how to use the admin screen.
Leave backups and updates entirely to us
Merci takes care of daily backups (30 days kept), weekly updates of WordPress itself and its plugins, a check of the display and server every morning, and automatic checks of your contact form (on the 10th, 20th and last day of every month). Results arrive in a monthly report, so you can see what's happening without effort.
Reservations and orders from your website flow straight into your business systems
We build systems such as reservation management, order management, customer management and LINE integration, connected to your website's application forms and member pages. When a prospect makes a reservation or application on your website, it is reflected directly in your internal system, so there's no need to copy down details from phone calls or emails.
Just refine your Japanese pages and your content reaches overseas visitors too
We build your website so it can be automatically translated into English and other languages, so you don't need to create and keep fixing separate pages for each language.
We can take over a website built by another company as it is
Without rebuilding the website you use now, Merci can take over its updates and maintenance.
Just pick a date and time and your meeting is set
When you choose a meeting date and time on the contact page, a Zoom link reaches you right away. There's no need for phone calls or emails to arrange a schedule.
Something We Want to Be Honest About
What we leave to AI is only the task work. The meetings where we find your strengths and the time spent thinking about design will continue to be done by people. For that reason, a website handled by our creators from interviews through design takes about 1 to 2 months from inquiry to launch. If speed is your top priority, we'll guide you to the AI-led plan.
Merci Ltd. by the Numbers
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Founded | February 2001 |
| Published Work | 62 projects (websites, videos, flyers, live streaming) |
| Subsidy Approval Rate | 85% or higher |
| Companies Supported with Subsidy Applications | 300+ companies |
| Time Until the Design Proposal Arrives | AI-led plan: within 3 business days (as early as the next business day) |
| Time Until Your Website Goes Live | AI-led plan: as little as 1 day; creator-led plan: about 1 to 2 months |
FAQ About Why Choose Us
We are not lowering quality. We cut costs by using AI to automate coding, programming and ad result tallying, work that used to take a lot of human effort. Ideas, copywriting and design are still done by people, as before.
No problem. There are plans you can start with an initial production fee of ¥0, and if you use a subsidy, we handle the application support for ¥0.
There is no charge if you only consult with us. You can look at our design proposal first and then consider whether to sign a contract.
Yes. Just tell us what you want fixed by chat or LINE and Merci will make the change. You don't need to learn how to use the admin screen.
You only need to tell us about your business and its strengths in a meeting. We prepare any photos and videos you need through filming.
Just Choose a Meeting Time and You’re Ready to Consult
Choose a meeting time and your Zoom link arrives right away. There is no charge even if you only consult with us.