SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-005016 to Robot Consulting Co., Ltd. (LAWR)
Robot Consulting Co., Ltd.
Date: May 2, 2024 · CIK: 0002007599 · Accession: 0000000000-24-005016
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
May 2, 2024
Amit Takur
Chief Executive Officer
Robot Consulting Co., Ltd.
Le Graciel Building 2, 6th Floor
5-22-6 Shinbashi, Minato Ward
Tokyo, 105-0005, Japan
Re:Robot Consulting Co., Ltd.
Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1
Submitted April 5, 2024
CIK No. 0002007599
Dear Amit Takur:
We have reviewed your draft registration statement and have the following comments.
Please respond to this letter by providing the requested information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your registration statement on
EDGAR. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances or do not
believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing the information you provide in response to this letter and your amended
draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may have additional comments.
Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1
Prospectus Summary, page 1
1.You reference the metaverse here and throughout your prospectus. Please include your
definition of metaverse upon its first use and include a detailed discussion of how
your platform operates and interacts with the metaverse.
2.You state here and elsewhere that your products and services integrate artificial
intelligence. Please revise, where appropriate, to clarify which products or services
incorporate AI technology, the stage of development of these products or services and
whether the AI algorithms are your own or third-party AI algorithms.
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Risk Factors
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry, page 9
3.With respect to your use of artificial intelligence technologies, please update your risk
factors to reflect any material risks relating to the incorporation of AI technologies in your
products or services, including risks related to the use of any third-party or open source AI
technologies.
If our security measures are breached or unauthorized access to user data is otherwise obtained,
Labor Robot may be perceived..., page 11
4.On page 11, you state you have security measures in place to protect user information and
prevent data loss and other security breaches. On page 12, you state that since the cloud
server is located at your cloud storage service provider’s facilities, you fully rely on the
provider’s service support to maintain the server and its infrastructure, including
cybersecurity protection. In light of the aforementioned disclosures, please revise your
disclosure to clarify the extent and nature of the role of the board of directors in
overseeing cybersecurity risks, including in connection with the company’s supply chain,
suppliers, and/or service providers.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, page
38
5.You disclose your total number of "Labor Robot users." Please revise to include a
definition of this term upon its first use. Ensure you disclose this metric for each financial
statement period included in your registration statement.
6.You disclose that you have a distribution agreement with Nac pursuant to which you
receive 7% of the total sales price (including tax) of Labor Robot. You note that you
obtained 75 and 209 new Labor Robot users through your distribution agreement with Nac
in the six months ended September 30, 2023 and the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023,
respectively, and that revenue obtained from Nac accounted for 14.7% of the total revenue
in the six months ended September 30, 2023. To better understand how these Labor Robot
users derived from your distribution agreement with Nac impact your revenue, please
revise to: (1) discuss whether the amount of revenue per user from users derived from this
distribution agreement differs materially from revenue per user from users acquired via
different channels (2) disclose the total number of Labor Robot users derived from your
distribution agreement with Nac for each financial statement period; and (3) disclose the
percentage of your total revenue these users accounted for in each financial statement
period.
Research and Development, page 58
7.You disclose here that Robot Consulting entered into a development agreement with
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Argyle Inc., which provided it with chatbot API for Robot Lawyer to connect its Robot
Lawyer system with ChatGPT. Please file the agreement as an exhibit to the registration
statement. See Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K.
Market Opportunity, page 66
8.You reference here an online questionnaire survey conducted by MM Research Institute, a
third-party information and communication technology (ICT) market research consulting
firm based in Tokyo, Japan. Please amend your disclosure to clarify whether you
commissioned the survey referenced in this section. If so, please file the consent of MM
Research Institute as an exhibit to your registration statement or tell us why you believe
you are not required to do so. See Section 7 and Rule 436 of the Securities Act.
Financial Statements - September 30, 2023 and 2022
Note 14. Subsequent Events, page F-16
9.We note that on February 7, 2024 stock options to purchase 378,000 ordinary shares were
granted to directors, employees and consultants. Please expand the disclosure to include
the amount of unrecognized stock compensation expense related to this stock option
issuance and how the fair value was determined on the date of grant. Please expand the
disclosure on page F-34 accordingly.
Financial Statements - March 31, 2023 and 2022
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, page F-17
10.We note that your auditor, Grassi & Co., CPAs, P.C. is based in Jericho, New York. We
also note you operate primarily within Japan. Please have your auditor tell us the extent to
which they relied upon another accounting firm in their audits of fiscal 2022 and 2023.
Have them explain the basis for their belief that they are the principal auditor. Also tell us
if another auditor had a substantial role in the audits. Refer to the guidance in Rule 2-05 of
Regulation S-X and the definition of "substantial role” threshold defined in PCAOB Rule
1001(p)(ii) in the audit of the issuer. If Grassi & Co., CPAs, P.C. utilized the work of
another auditor which had a substantial role in the audit, the other auditor must register
with the PCAOB if it meets the “substantial role” threshold defined in PCAOB Rule
1001(p)(ii) in the audit of the issuer, regardless of whether Grassi & Co., CPAs, P.C. has
determined that they were the principal auditor or refers to the work of the other auditor.
Balance Sheets, page F-18
11.We note that the balance of Other Payables of $149,468 as of March 31, 2023 is material
to total current liabilities. Please describe in a note the nature of current liabilities in
excess of 5% of current liabilities pursuant to Rule 5-02 of Regulation S-X. Please
similarly revise the interim financial statements.
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Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue Recognition, page F-23
12.We note that your platform, Labor Robot, is a cloud-based human resource management
system launched in September 2022. Please expand the accounting policy for Software
sales to address continuing performance obligations such as providing access to the cloud,
updates or maintenance after the product keys are provided to customers. Please also
expand the disclosure on page F-7 accordingly, See ASC 606-10-50-12 for guidance.
Cost of Revenue, page F-26
13.We note in your Overview on page 1 that your platform, Labor Robot, is a cloud-based
human resource management systems launched in September 2022. Please expand the
accounting policy for Cost of Revenue to address your ongoing costs regarding access to
your platform in the cloud and revise the disclosure of disaggregation of cost of revenue in
Note 12 on page F-33 to separately disclose these costs. Please also revise the disclosure
on pages F-10 and F-15 accordingly.
Research and Development Costs, page F-26
14.We note on page 63 that in July 2023, you entered into an agreement with CJK Group to
pay a fee of $300,000 and profit share with CJK Group in all gross revenue earned from
the product in perpetuity. Please expand the accounting policy disclosure to address the
terms of this agreement, your recognition of the costs paid to CJK for the Junior Lawyer X
development, including the status of funding your $300,000 commitment, accounting for
expenses incurred during the periods presented and the status of prepayments of R&D
expense, if material.
General
15.Where appropriate, please include a discussion regarding the current state
of artificial intelligence regulation within the United States and your other potential
markets, the potential for new laws or rules to materially impact the company and whether
these risks were included in your discussions and analysis of your growth strategies
projections and valuation.
16.Please provide us with supplemental copies of all written communications, as defined in
Rule 405 under the Securities Act, that you, or anyone authorized to do so on your
behalf, have presented or expect to present to potential investors in reliance on Section
5(d) of the Securities Act, whether or not you retained, or intend to retain, copies of those
communications.
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Please contact Claire DeLabar at 202-551-3349 or Robert Littlepage at 202-551-3361 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Mariam Mansaray at 202-551-6356 or Mitchell Austin at 202-551-3574 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Technology
cc: Yung Li