Ignition Point Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President: Takafumi Suemune; hereinafter referred to as "Ignition Point") has launched "IXP VECTOR"*1, a new business development transformation service utilizing AI agents. This service is designed for companies facing challenges in new business promotion, providing comprehensive support through AI agents infused with Ignition Point's new business expertise and new business development consultants at each stage of business promotion. This service aims to accelerate decision-making in new business development and enhance business creation capabilities. ■ Background: Expansion of New Business Development Initiatives and Stagnation Factors In recent years, efforts in new business development have rapidly expanded to achieve sustainable growth and innovation in rapidly changing market environments. However, challenges such as stagnation in deliberations and low commercialization rates from the business concept stage after ideation, through PoC, and subsequent release and business scaling, persist. This is due to complex factors arising at various points in internal promotion and consensus building after ideation, including the accuracy of deliberations after starting business plan construction and the gap in evaluation perspectives between existing businesses and new businesses. To overcome these challenges, Ignition Point has structured its new business expertise, primarily from its Strategy & Innovation unit, and implemented it as an AI agent. By combining AI and consultants, we have developed the new service "IXP VECTOR" to redefine the new business development process. ■ Service Overview: Transforming the New Business Development Process with Specialized AI Agents and Consultants "IXP VECTOR" is a service that strongly promotes new business development by combining objective evaluation, issue extraction, and hypothesis building by AI agents with the practical expertise and individualized support capabilities of