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Kyoto Prefectural Government

ChatAI retrieval of internal administrative guidance

Kyoto made ChatAI available to about 8,000 staff to answer questions from internal administrative documents

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Problem

Staff searched extensive internal documents for accounting and document-administration guidance. Kyoto needed an AI tool that could refer to those materials when answering questions.

Approach

Kyoto deployed User Local ChatAI with retrieval-augmented generation. Staff loaded PDF materials, and the system displayed answers alongside the documents used to generate them. The platform was made available to about 8,000 staff.

Results

~8,000staff given access to ChatAI, according to User LocalVendor case study[1]

Takeaway

The deployment paired generated answers with their supporting documents. User Local reported substantially shorter searches without publishing a measured time reduction.

Categories

Innovation type
Process innovation
AI technology
Generative AI
Evidence
Vendor case study

Sources

Source summaries

[1]User Local9 Dec 2025

User Local announced ChatAI access for about 8,000 Kyoto staff. It described deployed retrieval over internal administrative PDFs and reported shorter research time.

Full details are in the original sources.

Added 1 Nov 2026 · Updated 1 Nov 2026
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