Kokuyo's Office Style AI named top-8 finalist in Google Cloud Japan awards

Kokuyo developed Office Style AI by combining image-generation AI with its own office design expertise, and the version submitted to the award added a Google Cloud-based capability to reflect the precise shapes and colors of Kokuyo-made furniture. That addition is what changes the sales conversation: where a 3D perspective drawing once took several days, the tool now produces a visual in tens of seconds, allowing direction to be aligned with a client early and agreement to form on the spot.

The tool also ships with 37 spatial style templates distilled from Kokuyo's design knowledge, which the company says lets it generate design options quickly. The award entry was judged on both the in-house technical work built on Google Cloud and its actual use in operations, and Kokuyo frames the recognition as validation of an internal team's repeated trial and error against real frontline problems.

The award itself is run by Google Cloud Japan, with criteria covering technical innovation (particularly AI agent use), practicality and feasibility, and social and economic impact. Kokuyo's selection places it among eight finalists, alongside a single Grand Prize and three Excellence Awards.