PUENTE Inc. (Head office: Tokorozawa, Saitama; President and CEO: Kazuo Hoshina) has decided to shift its business policy as of May 12, 2026, to become a comprehensive AI consultancy that integrates real-time collaborative AI into business operations. The company will establish a new position focused on designing and implementing collaborative AI that works alongside business processes based on multimodal AI, and will redesign its three core pillars as AI agent development, SaaS-based new business development, and MCP server development. The new direction will be reflected gradually in new consultations and new projects. The axis of AI evolution is clearly shifting from the previous focus on increasing intelligence, or improving IQ, toward increasing the density of collaboration with humans. As multimodal AI, which handles images, audio, and text simultaneously, becomes commoditized, leading companies are moving toward interaction models that do not process listening, seeing, speaking, thinking, and acting sequentially, but instead carry them out in parallel. PUENTE sees this trend as the rise of AI that accompanies humans in their work. Based on multimodal AI, the company will provide comprehensive AI consulting services for designing, implementing, and operationally integrating collaborative AI that works alongside corporate business processes. PUENTE’s three axes of value are as follows. First, AI that sees, hears, and senses context. Multimodal AI will be embedded into business operations to understand screens, audio, and situations simultaneously, intervening at the necessary moment. Second, business integration through MCP. Starting from Puente MCP Hub (puentemcp.com), AI will be able to directly operate internal systems, public APIs, and SaaS. Third, automated AI agent implementation with human-review quality assurance. Multi-agent systems using Claude, Codex, and Gemini will rapidly design and implement AI agents, while the development team ensures quality t